Direct Market

Podcast: Why can’t Marvel’s superheroes cure cancer? (The Death of Captain Marvel)

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In this episode we dive into Marvel’s first graphic novel: The Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin. We discuss: – How this kicked off the character death trend during the Dark Age of Comics – The birth of the direct market – The roots of Cosmic Marvel – Why Michigan punches above its weight … Read more

Comic book speculators weren’t the problem, it was how the industry reacted to them

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Death of Superman bagged

Comic book speculators are back in a big way. Enough for the topic to be recurring theme on the Comic Book Industry Insiders podcast, and the subject of an entire recent episode. But I think everyone’s talking about the wrong thing. It’s not that the speculators caused the comic book industry collapse in the 1990s. … Read more