{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about how the comic book collecting boom of the 80s, which our current comic book store infrastructure was built out on...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/690838771595395072/", "html": "<p>Thinking about how the comic book collecting boom of the 80s, which our current comic book store infrastructure was built out on and inspired the whole &lsquo;90s endless variant cover issue #1s era, was <i>in part</i> about some golden age fans now being old and wealthy enough to invest in now-rare reminders of their youth, sure, but a lot of it was just the same as the contemporary baseball card boom \u2013 which <b>also</b> helped build out later product lines and memorabilia stores \u2013 a textbook reaction to early '80s inflation with a flight to nontraditional assets whose appreciation might conceivably outpace inflation, creating a bubble</p>"}