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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 February 2026 at 2:49pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

Cost of Living

The only time I ever knew what my father earned was 1962. $660 per month.

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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 22 February 2026 at 7:15pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Comics were 12 cents in 1965. Based on the US inflation rate, they should be $1.24 today. Something went wrong somewhere.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 February 2026 at 7:44pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Greed.

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James Woodcock
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Posted: 22 February 2026 at 10:36pm \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

To be fair, after seeing so many of the creators that I grew up with end their
life desperate and in borderline or even actual poverty, I would say comics
were underpriced.

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Michael Penn
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Posted: 22 February 2026 at 10:57pm \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

I flash back to the astonished reaction in 1967's IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT when the southern cops learn that the black cop in Philly earns a whopping... $162.39 per week.

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