Rotting Pulp's a Good Investment
There are hundreds, of Scrooge-type souls who horde new comics as they come out, counting on inflated dealers’ rates to turn them a nice profit in a year’s time. Twenty cents for a current Swamp Thing will net you a five hundred per cent return in one year.
Rotting Pulp's a Good Investment
UTTER TRASH
by
Mike Baron
There are hundreds, of Scrooge-type souls who horde new comics as they come out, counting on inflated dealers’ rates to turn them a nice profit in a year’s time. Twenty cents for a current Swamp Thing will net you a five hundred per cent return in one year.
This is a rotten condition caused by comics’ status as periodicals, which must be routinely removed from the stands ,and trashed. If comics were published as perennials, the amateurism would disappear since comics would truly .have to get by in a somewhat longer-lasting format, Comics are a lowprofit enterprise and they are printed on crummy paper. So the^ tend to rot. Most of them may be trash, artistically speaking,, but it doesn’t help their case to have them circulated as trash at twenty cents a copy. The twenty cent comic will probably die in 1974, but comics will still be printed on the same pulp paper.