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Milestone, paradox press, piranha press, tangent comics, vertigo, wildstorm. From pennies to millions, a true story about how a childhood. Welcome to the best website for bronze age, silver age and golden age collectible comic books and original comic book art. Every book will make money, but thats before getting into stuff like dcs wider marketing costs and personal costs untied to any specific book. Comic books arent the only kidfriendly way to teach financial literacy. Now some comics that contain first appearances from a less know characters at the time, that were not pushed had by marvel or dc, can actually get more on auction if they are in mint condition and there are very few copies going around.
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