Disney Comics - long periode prices

[Simo Malinen]

Because of the reasons such as inflation 
the value of money alternates. However 
there are ways to visualize how currences 
of different times corresponds by each 
other. By using different kind of 
correlation tables of currencies it is 
easy to calculate things such as: "If 
Uncle Scrooge had a dollar in year 1900, 
how much that dollar would be in today's 
money?" 
This is cheap fun, tables can be found 
from pocket calenders or from the internet.


Now (back to the Disney comics) the list 
there below views:
1) the cover prices of the Finnish Disney 
comic weekly Aku Ankka 1951-2001.
2) the same cover price transformed into 
today's currency.

All prices are in Finnish marks. Prices 
are from the first basic/standard issue 
of every year (Issues having expensive 
supplements are not counted) 

E.g. In 1951 the 1st issue costed 50 
marks and that would correspond 7.75 
(FIM) in today's money. (some 1.30 euros)

Finnish weekly Aku Ankka 1951-2001:
year: the cover price = in today's currency
1951: 50.00 mk = 7.75 mk (monthly)
1952: 50.00 mk = 7.45 mk
1953: 50.00 mk = 7.30 mk
1954: 50.00 mk = 7.30 mk
1955: 50.00 mk = 7.50 mk
1956: 50.00 mk = 6.75 mk ("bi-weekly")
1957: 50.00 mk = 6.05 mk
1958: 60.00 mk = 6.84 mk
1959: 60.00 mk = 6.72 mk
1960: 60.00 mk = 6.54 mk
1961: 60.00 mk = 6.36 mk (weekly)
1962: 60.00 mk = 6.12 mk
1963: 0.60 mk = 5.84 mk (zeroes removed)
1964: 0.70 mk = 6.18 mk
1965: 0.70 mk = 5.90 mk
1966: 0.70 mk = 5.68 mk
1967: 0.70 mk = 5.38 mk
1968: 0.80 mk = 5.66 mk
1969: 0.80 mk = 5.53 mk
1970: 0.80 mk = 5.38 mk
1971: 0.80 mk = 5.06 mk
1972: 0.80 mk = 4.73 mk
1973: 0.80 mk = 4.22 mk
1974: 0.80 mk = 3.61 mk
1975: 1.00 mk = 3.83 mk
1976: 1.50 mk = 5.01 mk
1977: 1.50 mk = 4.46 mk
1978: 1.80 mk = 4.97 mk
1979: 2.10 mk = 5.40 mk
1980: 2.40 mk = 5.52 mk
1981: 2.60 mk = 5.36 mk
1982: 3.10 mk = 5.83 mk
1983: 3.50 mk = 6.06 mk
1984: 3.90 mk = 6.32 mk
1985: 4.40 mk = 6.73 mk
1986: 4.80 mk = 7.10 mk
1987: 5.10 mk = 7.29 mk
1988: 5.40 mk = 7.34 mk
1989: 5.70 mk = 7.24 mk
1990: 6.00 mk = 7.20 mk
1991: 6.40 mk = 7.36 mk
1992: 6.70 mk = 7.57 mk
1993: 6.90 mk = 7.59 mk
1994: 7.50 mk = 8.18 mk
1995: 7.90 mk = 8.53 mk
1996: 8.50 mk = 9.10 mk (pages 32 -> 36)
1997: 8.50 mk = 9.01 mk
1998: 8.50 mk = 8.93 mk
1999: 8.90 mk = 9.17 mk
2000: 8.90 mk = 8.90 mk
2001: 9.50 mk 

At first sight it looks like the cover 
prices of the Finnish weeklies in the 
50's and the 60's were quite stabile and 
started to raise heavily just after the 
mid-70's. 
But if comparing the prices in today's 
currency it turns out that actually the 
price lowered steadily from the 1950's 
until in 1975 it started to raise at 
moderate speed. At lowest state in 1974 
the price was almost only one third of 
the weekly's price today. Sad but true: 
nowadays the price of the Finnish weekly 
Aku Ankka is highest ever.  :(

(- and what has changed since 1975? The 
32-pager weekly has got advertisements 
four pages more and it is still being 
printed same kind of mid-quality-toilet 
paper as it was in 25 years ago)

BTW - When Carl Barks created his famous 
stories in the 1940 - 60's all great US 
titles like WDC&S, US, DD, MM,... costed 
only 10 - 15 US cents a copy. How much 
that would be in today's currencies?


 - Simo




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