The 1991 comic boom bust still skews every back issue price I see

I was reading an Overstreet guide from 1993 and found out that X-Men #1 from 1991 actually outsold Batman's first issue in raw numbers, like 8 million copies to under a million. That blew my mind because people still ask $50 for a 9.8 slab of it, while a Detective Comics #27 can hit 6 figures. Half the hobby treats the 90s speculator crash as ancient history, but it literally sets the floor for every modern variant run. Are we still pricing based on rarity or just repeating what the first dealer we met told us back in the day?

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pat71912d ago

And it's the same with anything that people collect, not just comics. Once a market gets flooded with something, the price tag sticks around way longer than the actual supply does. Most folks just look at what the last guy paid and assume that's the truth, without ever checking if there's a real reason behind it.