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![]() ![]() “Something like that still sells really, really well,” says Mir. Crisis on Infinite Earths is dense and beloved, in no small part because of comics legend George Perez putting out some of the best art of his career. Good stories are the ones that have legs in the collector’s market regardless of covers. “It doesn’t matter what the storyline is it still ends up going up in price.” Despite the quality of the interiors being iffy, the cover of this issue – with Spider-Man looking puzzled at his new black outfit – has pushed its value up into the three figure range.īut quality matters. “If there’s a really good cover, those will stand the test of time,” says Ali Mir of AnZ Comics. Some of the changes were long-term-Spider-Man’s black costume, which would eventually become Venom, debuted on the cover of Secret Wars #8, and things like that have a marked effect on collectability. That’s exactly what Marvel did, beaming a group of heroes and villains to BATTLEWORLD, putting them in new costumes, and making everyone fight. Secret Wars was a blatant multimedia cash grab – Mattel, a toy company, licensed Marvel’s heroes for action figures on the condition that there was a story that would give kids an excuse to mash their toys together. The dawn of the “event” crossover as a product came in the mid-1980s, first with Marvel’s first Secret Wars in 1984 and shortly thereafter with DC’s first full reboot, Crisis on Infinite Earths. DC Comics alone has had three massive continuity overhauls in the last 15 years alone- Flashpoint/ The New 52 in 2011 Rebirth in 2018 and Infinite Frontier in 2021-along with several line-wide shifts and new initiatives, and Marvel, while they have never technically rebooted their continuity, completely destroyed the multiverse in 2016’s Secret Wars, and has had a similar number of new initiatives. “Nowadays, it’s about pushing the customer into multiple products.”Īnd push they do. “Back then, the idea was just to further a storyline,” says Brent Moeshlin of Alabama’s Quality Comix, one of the biggest vintage comics dealers in the United States. ![]() Right before Marvel had Spider-Man swinging through the world outside the Fantastic Four’s windows, the folks at DC decided to put all of their Flashes in the same book with The Flash #123, “The Flash of Two Worlds.” And since then, audiences couldn’t get enough- Amazing Spider-Man #1 in 1963 had Spidey trying to get a gig with the Fantastic Four, and later that year, the Justice League met their Justice Society counterparts in Justice League #21’s “Crisis on Earth-One.” And that one might be, if you squint hard enough, the first superhero comic summer crossover, an event that would change the world of comics collecting. Roughly speaking, comic book shared universe continuity didn’t really take hold until 1961. ![]()
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