With this wildly irrational attack on comic book industry and many congressional leaders jumping on bandwagon, comic books were gaining a bad reputation. The comic book industry publishers at this point, could have banded together and declared that comic books, like movies, were not "just for kids". It should have been stated that wide range of comic book genres represented was target to as wide a range of readers. All but one of publishers (William Gaines, publisher of EC Comics) buckled under to this Congressional Investigation and Comic Code Authority was created. This governed content of comic books and ensured that for next 15 years or so, literary content would not rise much above that of pablum for mind. Therefore another slide into incredibility for comic book industry took place. Can comic book industry be saved? Very possibly, but when individuals in charge of saving are as eager as ever to make same mistakes all over again, what will outcome be? They don't even appear to be cleaver enough to make new mistakes.

Are there big bucks in comic book genre? Just look at what Hollywood has been up to for last few decades. As far as I can tell, really big blockbusters started back in 1978 with release of Superman, The Movie. And since then there has been comic book hero after comic book hero to hit silver screen. And they all make tons of money. The Hollywood moguls may or may not be "into" genre, but can smell large profits. And these kinds of profits aren't harvested from a small out of touch with reality niche. It take large numbers of individuals forking out 5 to 10 dollars a pop, to accumulate astronomical profits that Hollywood is seeing these days. Individuals who may or may not want to admit their avid interest in comic book characters. I will stand up and say, I enjoy watching these movies and have even started my own collection of comic book character DVDs. Who knows, maybe some day my DVDs will become as valuable as comic books. Probably not.

Although, not every individual's collection has magazines worth thousands of dollars, there are a sizable amount of collections that can be worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. These are not people that have lost touch with reality. A while back, actor, Nicholas Cage, put his comic book collection of about 400 magazines up for auction. Word was that he might have realized a value into seven figures. That ain't chicken feed.

It is not uncommon for single additions to be worth several hundred to several thousand dollars. Some comic books can enter realm of several hundred thousand dollars for one magazine. Now owners have to be some pretty rich economically savvy geeks. Are these types of small niche individuals who have lost touch with reality or don't want to confess they like comic books? So next time you hear someone profess, yeah I collect comic books, you may want to look inside yourself and say, how do I release my hidden passion and start collecting myself?