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They use to sell comics to kids at your typical local stores.

I well remember peddling my bike to the quikie-mart with my grass cutting money to buy Batman and Superman comic books. I wasn't an avid collector, but liked to buy the double bonus $1 issues.

Wish I had those today.

Wish I had those today.

I DID buy them. They didn't appreciate so much, especially if you actually read them. The comics that are worth money are the ones that were created BEFORE collectors started buying them (golden to early silver age, 1933-1967 or so) with few exceptions. Some of the oversized comics that were new stories (e.g. Superman vs. Spiderman, Superman vs. Muhammad Ali) appreciated some, but not as much as you'd think, and very little if you read them the way a 12 year old boy reads comics. I was also DC, and in the early '70s, the comics went from 15 cents to 25 cents with more pages, but mostly reprints.

I LOVED reprints from golden age and very early silver age, particular the Jay Garrick Flash. Collectors consider them worthless. They are collectors. I thought I was collector, but I was really just a kid who liked reading comics of nearly every type (heck, I was okay with picking up "Richie Rich" [Harvey], "Little Lulu" [Gold Key], "Dino" [Charlton], "Archie", "Strange Sports Stories" [DC] and "Dennis the Menace"[Fawcett] except for the romance and war comics.

If you also just want to read them, go to the big used comics stores in the medium sized and larger cities, and you can pick up well-used 1970s comics at a reasonable price if the store is any good.