[hanamizu]

It was only a matter of time that history and morality would be learned through comic books.

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Do many actually buy/read comic books anymore? When I was a lad, you could buy them just about anywhere for a dime or twelve cents and they had say 25 pages. (When I was really young the standard was 52 pages). Now aren’t they kind of a niche item?

[pfflier]

We have a store in town trying to be like the one in The Big Bang Theory. The clientele looks about the same too.

I see the old Archies and lightweight stuff by the checkout counters at local grocery stores. Nothing like the old Sgt Rock or Classics Illustrated comics like I used to buy in the 60's.

[SES1066]

Now aren’t they kind of a niche item?

Good point and valid history. However, 'niche items' do not have massive conventions, movie arcs that bring in millions of dollars and massive corporate take-overs. Comics have morphed from our youth to a longer format young adult/millennial -oriented illustrated episodic novel. Their cost now exceeds what I, in my youth, used to pay for a Heinlein or L'Amour paperback that was in the next rack over!