When I first read this thread and still after reading it again I expect it to be about someone dieing from the Spider-Man musical.
It's ironic in that if a lot of people think a largely available collectable, in comics or pretty much any other type of collectable, is going to be worth a lot of money it's almost never going to be the case for just that reason.
It's also just another reason people should collect things because they like them and not because they think they will make a lot of money in the future. I know I enjoy having my comics now just as much if they are worth ten cents or fifty dollars. I don't even know what any of them are worth and it doesn't really matter to me that much.
I agree; just people got crazy when they saw how much people were paying for first issues of Superman and Spider-Man etc...
Their flawed logic lead them to think that first issues of things is what made them worth that much. When it's a combination of rarity and early unpopularity coupled with modern interest and demand.
Comic makers also fooled people with reprints with "special" foil covers and a lot of tie in series like DC vs. Marvel.
My parents bought a bunch of the death of superman issues...I was just happy I could beg them to go to the comic shop and they'd let me stay more than 5min.
