Collecting Bronze Age Comics

Collecting Bronze Age Comics
For those who grew up in the 1970's and early 80's, bronze age comics is sure to always have a place in their hearts.
Comic books were popular during that time because TV's only have 3 to 4 channels and video game systems were just started to enter into homes. With no home computers or DVD players and today's high tech computer games, you ought to find something else to do, and reading comics were a common way to entertain yourself for at least an hour or two.
Kids who grew up in small towns may have fond memories of running down to the corner newsstand or convenience store and checking out the latest comics that arrives. For kids who grew up in larger cities, they may be lucky to have one or two comic specialty stores that were just emerging.
I can still remember going to some earlier comic convention held in Singapore and buying old comics that were wrapped with saran wrap, because at that time, the modern comic bag and board hadn't been marketed yet. Before that, the common method of protecting comics was to wrap them up individually in the newspaper.
Today, like 1960s comics, many 1970's comics' value have gone through the roof, especially over the last 10-15 years. In the 80's and 90's many 1970's comics sat in four-for-a-dollar boxes in comic shops and at comic conventions. Yet today, in a recent online auction, a graded copy of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire #1 sold for over $650.00! This would have been impossible to believe 10 years ago. A copy of Star Wars #1 from Marvel Comics recently sold for $670.00!
Original comic book art from this era has also become highly sought-after. Works from bronze age artists like Frank Miller, George Perez, Neal Adams, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum and Gene Colan tend to run anywhere from $400-$2,500 for each page. I've had customers tell me that they can recall seeing pages of original art from some of these artists on comic shop walls with $25 price tags 25 years ago.
With the popularity of the internet and major comic conventions happening so often, it has become relatively simple for fans of bronze age comics to put recreate their childhood comic collections. Lower grade copies of most of these books can be had at reasonable prices, so if you are looking to increase your bronze age comic collection, visit some comic conventions this summer or surf the internet and give a bronze age comic a new home today!
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