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<blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 2728406" data-attributes="member: 1013">An average Marvel comics then cost $0.40 so you could get 30 comics for the price of a PHB.&nbsp; Now an average comic costs $2.50-$2.99 and a PHB costs $29.95 so you can a measley 10-12 comics for that amount.&nbsp; If the ratio of inflation was the same and you could still buy 30 comics for the price of PHB we would need .99 cent comics.&nbsp; Something that we have not seen since the early 1990's. So compared to comics I suppose RPG's are doing quite well in terms of inflation.&nbsp; However comics inflation is insane compared to other things and sales reflect that with top titles selling a fraction of what they did in 1979.&nbsp; In October only 4 books broke the 100k mark and two of them were big hyped &quot;special event&quot; books linked into company wide crossovers and another was a big Super-Friends miniseries painted by Alex Ross.&nbsp; Heck the X-Men was cancelled in the early 70's for selling 100k a month, now that is an amazing sales level that most books never see. What does this have to do with everything?&nbsp; Hell I dunno...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flexor the Mighty!, post: 2728406, member: 1013"] An average Marvel comics then cost $0.40 so you could get 30 comics for the price of a PHB. Now an average comic costs $2.50-$2.99 and a PHB costs $29.95 so you can a measley 10-12 comics for that amount. If the ratio of inflation was the same and you could still buy 30 comics for the price of PHB we would need .99 cent comics. Something that we have not seen since the early 1990's. So compared to comics I suppose RPG's are doing quite well in terms of inflation. However comics inflation is insane compared to other things and sales reflect that with top titles selling a fraction of what they did in 1979. In October only 4 books broke the 100k mark and two of them were big hyped "special event" books linked into company wide crossovers and another was a big Super-Friends miniseries painted by Alex Ross. Heck the X-Men was cancelled in the early 70's for selling 100k a month, now that is an amazing sales level that most books never see. What does this have to do with everything? Hell I dunno... [/QUOTE]

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