Comics Speculation Coming Back?

This will end in tears and multiple variant embossed, foil, die-cut covers. [Link]

Some investors are selling off their stock and buying up vintage comic books, believing that the timelessness of comics offers a more secure long-term investment than stocks have of late:

Mark Craddock, manager of Comic Book World, in Florence, Ky., says stock-market investors also are turning to superheroes. "There's kind of a buying frenzy" in vintage comic books, he says.

This kind of thing nearly killed comics in the 90s.