Thanks BenLurkin.
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I remember a sci-fi comic book where a poor, down-on-his-luck guy gets a hold of a liquid that causes whoever takes it to fall into a long-lasting deep sleep and acts as a preservative. He takes it and wakes up after 50 years. The small amount he deposited in his bank has made a tidy sum.
He re-invests it into a long-term account and takes a larger drink of the liquid. He wakes up after 100 years and he is rich beyond his wildest dreams. After living a life of luxury for a couple weeks, he decides that he wants to be richer than everyone. So, he buys all the gold in the world at the time and takes the last bit of the liquid, thinking he will be insanely rich when he awakens. He takes the liquid....
After he wakes up 100 years later, he finds everything is made of gold. Kids riding anti-gravity bikes made of gold. Buildings made of gold. EVERYTHING made of gold. He gets angry, wondering why people are using HIS gold. He finds out from a bystander that 20 years earlier, the Earth flew through a comet’s tail that turned all the metal in the world into gold.
Because of this, he was worth absolutely nothing.
