Unfollow comic book price guide to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Below is the price of comics every halfdecade since 1960. The number 1 free online comic book community featuring a comic book price guide database, friends, lists, blogs, and more. What does it cost on average to produce a comic book the. Labor day and the cost of doing business in comics. Transparency is a reproduction of the artwork used in the production of a comic book. There is nothing original about it, there may have been multiples of each produced. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. Thats the final year comics stayed at 10 cents, the price theyd been since the modern comic book dawned in the 30s. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database.
The premier online comics price guide free comic book values. Comics price guide was the first online price guide for comic books back in 1995. Production cost funny cartoons from cartoonstock directory the worlds largest online collection of cartoons and comics. From there, youd have any production costs i do prepress, tooputting the comic book together for the printera comic book is 36 pagesso you have 4 covers and another 8 pages to fill with noncomics content. However, since american comic book page lengths stabilized at what they are now in the 50s, they finally decided to start raising comic prices. Tracing the evolution of comic books by looking at the pictures, panels, and text that brought them to. Salaries posted anonymously by dc comics employees. Only very minute printing and bindery defects or the most barely noticeable handling defects present. It is very rare, especially in older vintage comic books, to discover a comic in these grades as they are virtually nonexistent. Production cost cartoons and comics funny pictures from.
Thats about how much it costs for an average page of comic book art, in terms of labor. Does anyone know anything about producing independent comic books. More than just for your comic book cover but can be used for a variety of merchandising as well. The marvel comics movies are notorious for their high production budgets, but the highest on record is the staggering 356 million u. I want to produce my own comics but before i start doing any fundraising i want to figure out what kind of goal to set for myself. The 100 most influential pages in comic book history. Luckily, the film performed impressively at the box office, earning over 2. Comic books were first popularized in the united states and the united kingdom during the 1930s.
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