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Fifty five years of attrition. Longer, really. The comic book “industry” has been on a march to self-destruction since long before I joined the ranks. Back before my earliest days as a reader/fan. When the printers raised their prices, magazines in general did the same. But not comics. In a move that surely must have seemed suicidal (to some) at the time, comic publishers elected to hold onto that 10¢ cover price. That led to two things: the production itself began to shrink, physically, losing pages, and comics effectively ghettoized themselves as other magazines continued to go up in price, and vendors became less willing to carry a product with a shrinking profit margin. When I bought my first American comic off the newsstand, BATMAN 127 in 1959, the price was a dime, but there were only 32 pages, where once there had been 64.
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