If it's anything like "art", it'll probably take a couple of hundred years before the stuff fetches millions. Assuming culture hasn't gotten fickle and everyone is all onto holodecks and whatnot.
First Comic Book Featuring Superman Sells for $317,200
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You kidding that'll make actual printed fiction really rare.
You kidding that'll make actual printed fiction really rare.
Yeah, but I mean ultimately it comes down to nerds who want to own shit.
I think at some point our fundamental understanding of an "original" is going to completely change. When you can make exact copies of books, music, movies, games, etc., the value of the "original" is going to be completely lost and the idea of something being "more original" is not going to hold any intrinsic meaning except to a small group of nerds.
Think about music. I'm sure that LPs or whatever are worth money, but most people buy music on iTunes or Amazon or wherever nowadays. Each copy is exactly the same whether you buy it on the first day or 10 years after the last band member dies of a coke overdose. The value of owning an original is just something that won't exist anymore.
Add a few generations of evolution and the idea of owning a physical original copy is going to be as foreign as... watching black and white TV or sitting around the radio for family time.
I think at some point our fundamental understanding of an "original" is going to completely change. When you can make exact copies of books, music, movies, games, etc., the value of the "original" is going to be completely lost and the idea of something being "more original" is not going to hold any intrinsic meaning except to a small group of nerds.
Think about music. I'm sure that LPs or whatever are worth money, but most people buy music on iTunes or Amazon or wherever nowadays. Each copy is exactly the same whether you buy it on the first day or 10 years after the last band member dies of a coke overdose. The value of owning an original is just something that won't exist anymore.
Add a few generations of evolution and the idea of owning a physical original copy is going to be as foreign as... watching black and white TV or sitting around the radio for family time.
I have a few rare comics myself, nothing like the first Superman (I do have the second Daredevil though) and it has been a tough time for comic prices, and it has for a while now, ever since Wizard stopped printing comic book prices...but i digress, that IS a little low for an original Action Comics #1 in even recognizeable condition
I also think the CGC rating system has ruined some of the value of prices. Not to mention collecting and selling.
I really dislike the CGC system. If it worked like it should I wouldnt' have a problem with it.
Take a book that is NM by Overstreet standards(the standard for decades) that is worth $15 suddenly slab it and put 9.8 on it and it'll go for $75 on Ebay. Which then trickles down into shows.
Its a $15 book, the pretty plastic does not make it more valuable.
Near Mint is now in the CGC world varying degress of a '9'.
So, my original 1979 copy of part 1 in Marvel's 4-part mini-series of Star Trek: The Motion Picture isn't worth much?
Damn, now I can't sell it for quick cash since I already have a digital copy of every Trek comic from July, 1967 through October, 2002.
Good thing I collect various items to entertain me rather than to re-sell them.
Damn, now I can't sell it for quick cash since I already have a digital copy of every Trek comic from July, 1967 through October, 2002.
Good thing I collect various items to entertain me rather than to re-sell them.
