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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7871731" data-attributes="member: 4348">I'm not saying nobody is buying comics, I'm saying the comic books sales are far lower now than in their prime.Of course, that prime was decades and decades ago.  However, in my opinions it was the MOVIE industry that actually SAVED comicbooks.  Prior to Spiderman, Marvel was in BAD shape.DC has been limping along with it's comic book properties. Those two are the big kids on the block.  There are tons of other comicbooks out there, but those two define the big kids and most of their lines don't even break 100K these days, whereas they were known for 5-10 times that amount of copies sold in their heyday.This is NOT unexpected, all print media is down for the most part, especially magazine and news print items.Digital has made up for some of it, but most younger individuals (whom comics have traditionally been focused on, not meaning to offend the older readers here) are more interested in items they can read for free rather than paying 5 or 6 bucks for 32 pages of illustrated story.  This applies to news sites and many other sites, hence why advertising is more of a key to success for many of these traditional venues when being used on the internet via their websites rather than number of issues sold these days.</blockquote>