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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 752735" data-attributes="member: 704">Not sure how this relates to the thread...But I used to be a fairly enthusiatic comic book collector in the 6th to 8th grade (Entirly marvel based though, I really like the idea of the Incredible Hulk).  I really liked the stories.  And as a side note, could not tell you who was drawing what at the time I collected.  I never cared to know.  I bought my comics so I could read them, not collect them.At the time, I just could not afford to do both.  At about that time, Marvel was coming out with their more elaborate foil covers for special issues and what not.  I stopped collecting at about the same time as I began collecting Dragonlance Novels.A few years later, I read an article that said that the comic book companies priced themselves out of their own market.  Inflation and rising costs aside, I must say I agree with that.  When I started collecting, I paid $1.25 an issue.  When I quit, it was at about $2.25.I wonder how many people quit reading comics for the same reasons?END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>