Any comic book fan could tell you why comic books went up in price. It has to do with 1) the collapse of the newsstand market and the decrease in readership, and 2) having to give creators better pay/royalties. (It sometimes gets blamed on the paper stock, which isn't really true).
(And you probably didn't mean to say 100 pages. There were 100 page comics then and there still are now, but they cost 50 cents. Typical size of a comic book is 32 pages.)
It's also pretty obvious that gasoline has gone up in price for reasons that are not just general increase in prices.
The typical size comic books were $0.12 when I started buying them. I have no idea what they cost now.
It's also pretty obvious that gasoline has gone up in price for reasons that are not just general increase in prices.
And yet despite its uniqueness, it doesn't really deviate from the trend that everything else follows. Go figure.
I could have thrown in college tuition, about $2870 in 1974 when I started at Swarthmore College, currently $44,368. You still get a professor standing in front of the room for the same number of hours per semester.
Rationality quotes time!
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