[Velvet_Jones]

Yup. It wasn’t DC that lost on the death of Superman. It was all the idiots who bought multiple copies—and I mean MANY, some people bought hundreds of copies, hoping to sell them later for big bucks. Problem is that they sold so many the Death of Superman comics are virtually worthless.

Wolverine is already established in Marvel storylines set in the future. So any death is going to be temporary. Or figurative.

[a fool in paradise]

Bill Clinton's pal almost bankrupted the entire comic book industry in the 1990s when he (A)bought the leading distributor for all publishers, and (B)flooded the channel with "variant" covers and required stores to buy the full Marvel line of titles in order to be eligible to order to limited speculator variant covers, etc.

Stores were stuck with a glut of "high priced" but worthless shiny books that no one was reading ("these are for resaale later!"). Quite a few doors closed up in the wake of that monopoly.