AW: Prices of American Disney comic magazines?

[Cord Wiljes]

Steven Rowe wrote:

> If they have them boarded and bagged: probably $3.
> Oddly enough you can get 1950s disney dells for $3-4

Could this be a question of print runs? All the Gladstones had a
pretty low print run I believe. Wasn't Uncle Scrooge around
60.000? And I think they were direct sales only, so they were
distributed only to comic shops and not to newsstands. The Dells
in contrast probably had a much higher print run so there might
be more Dells in existence now than Gladstones.
On the other hand comics' prices are just like stocks: You
cannot rationalize them. Anybody remember those X-Men with a
print run of a quadrizillion (6.000.000 if  memory serves)
copies ten years ago going up to $20 in just a few days? Now you
can find them in the same dollar bins as the Gladstones. and
believe me, ten years from now everybody will be glad who gets
hold of one of those beautiful Gladstones while the X-Men will
still fight their hopeless fight in the dollar bins. Which does
not mean that I consider these X-Men to be unreadable comics
(which I do, but that's another argument) but there remains the
simple fact that for each issue of Uncle Scrooge not less that
one hundred issues of X-Men were printed.

Cord