Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 18, 2022

I hope they are municipal bonds, which are triple tax free — depending on where you live.

But are the books rare? That would make them worth more. Like when I saw that someone on Ebay tried to sell Metroid Prime Trilogy for 5 grand for that same reason.

Committable offences

Well there are quite a few issues of Captain Marvel #1, but no one wants to buy them. Captain Marvel has been rebooted about 12 times now.

Do you think I could get a dollar or two for my copy of Action Comics #1 ?

Peter Gabriel had three albums simply titled Peter Gabriel, with the title in the same font and size on the same part of the cover.

Aka Bill Watterson utterly nails the 90’s comics industry to the wall. And it’s sad when reality really wasn’t that far off. I suspect the only reason he didn’t comment on the art is that Rob Liefiled and others following him’s work was so rediculous he coudln’t compete. That and further down the road in the 90’s Leifield would lapse into self parody. Seriously he was so behind work that in order to get a crossover with valiant comics done on time, one of the writers came to his house and WATCHED him sketch it.

There’s a reason for those old comic books being sealed in plastic—take them out, and they immediately turn into confetti!!

Decades ago I returned home from military service to find Mom had cleared out the attic. She canned years of #1 issues of all the comics I had gathered in the ’40’s. Worth a ton of bucks even then. BUT she kept my old report cards. Somehow there was very little market for those.

Do you know “The Comic Strip That Has A Finale Every Day”? https://www.gocomics.com/the-comic-strip-that-has-a-finale-every-day/2022/07/18?ct=v&cti=494537

Is it the usual gang of idiots?

I invested lot’s of my hard earned money in Bonds too…

Sean, David, George, Roger, Timothy, Pierce and Daniel

There’s a committee that draws comics? Watterson did pretty well on his own.

Just make sure that the plastic bags don’t end up being worth more than the comic book, Calvin!

heh, good ol’ Bill calling that particular bubble bursting

I sure wish I’d a saved those Terminator trading cards I bought. I had all of them in the original package. I’ll be their worth a small fortune today.

War bonds???

Yup, they started doing this crap long about the mid eighties, or 5 different covers for the same issue…

I bet each first edition comes with its own NFT as well. Ooooo, talking big bucks now

I have a stash of about 300 comics from my youth back in the 1960s in my garage. They’re not in very good shape – wet, mildewed, and so on, but I still like to look at them when I’m cleaning out the garage.

I personally hate issue #0. It never made sense to me. All comic books need to go in bags. Some people insist on backer boards as well. Some comic books are created by committee.

Just wait for the debut issue of Capt. Bitcoin!

His word is his bond. Not very good returns on it, though.

For a while, there was a fashion in comic books to “spin off” a new series rather frequently, apparently to generate a lot of “first issues”, because very few lasted. (Please don’t provide a list of those that did.)

If Hobbes is getting residuals on these cartoons like an actor does for a TV series, he’s got a really nice retirement.

If he purchased at least a few shares of Apple stock back then, he would be getting an incredible return!

Do they still print comic books or are they strictly digital? I never see them at drug stores

That’s gonna cause a LOT of confusion in comic book price guides, with so many Captain Steroid issue #1s!

I got several big boxes of comics that I saved over 50 years not worth billions but hard to ditch them. 95 percent are military kind, kept the wrong titles and toss the originals Marvels.

Wonder what bonds will Hobbes be referring to. Tuna and salmon enterprises.

Yah, bad news too for all the hoarders keeping Barbie dolls in Collector Edition boxes….

Over on Doonesbury they’re rerunning a story arc from 1997 about the collectibility of Beanie Babies.

Ah, the speculator boom… the 90s were a weird time for comics.

Poor Calvin – does not realize it is the true issue number that makes it valuable. If all issues are No. 1, they all are worthless.