http://www.comicbookblogger.com/comicbookblogger/is-comic-book-issue-collecting-becoming-extinct?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-comic-book-issue-collecting-becoming-extinct Comic Book and Related Topics Pop Culture Blog Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:52:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.comicbookblogger.com/comicbookblogger/is-comic-book-issue-collecting-becoming-extinct#comment-24606 Alex Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:35:19 +0000 http://www.comicbookblogger.com/uncategorized/is-comic-book-issue-collecting-becoming-extinct#comment-24606 What killed comic book collecting in my view is the whole "slabbing" trend. Aside from the fact doing so permanently makes the comics inaccessible (you might as well just be buying the cover), it also completely disenfranchised casual and beginning collectors who could afford boards and mylar bags but can't afford - nor do they want to pay - the fee to slab. It wrecked it for me. If I came across the real Action #1 (not the faker that's going to replace it this fall according to DC), OK I'd slab that. But I'm seeing people slabbing comics right off the rack from today. They won't have any collector value. When modern comics go all-digital, which I sadly foresee, collecting of real, permanent comics might spike for a bit. But they need to do something about the whole slabbing thing. What killed comic book collecting in my view is the whole “slabbing” trend. Aside from the fact doing so permanently makes the comics inaccessible (you might as well just be buying the cover), it also completely disenfranchised casual and beginning collectors who could afford boards and mylar bags but can’t afford – nor do they want to pay – the fee to slab. It wrecked it for me. If I came across the real Action #1 (not the faker that’s going to replace it this fall according to DC), OK I’d slab that. But I’m seeing people slabbing comics right off the rack from today. They won’t have any collector value. When modern comics go all-digital, which I sadly foresee, collecting of real, permanent comics might spike for a bit. But they need to do something about the whole slabbing thing.

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