Why are comic books collected?

Why are comic books collected?

Mark Zaid (Owner of Esquire Comics) gives expert video advice on: When did comic book collecting become popular?; How do you become a comic book collector?; Should I insure my comic books? and more...

Well, comics are collected today because of what they represent. They bring you back not only into your childhood, but also deal with topics of adulthood. It is the gamut, and in many ways you can find yourself lost in a science fiction universe, a fantasy world, or up in space, or down in adventures with the elves and the dwarves, or fighting crime as a superhero. This offers not only the reality to some extent of what you might see in baseball cards, which is obviously real life, but it also brings into play real life events that you might see discussed in comic books, coupled with something that is fantasy at the same time. You, in comic books, can run the gamut of just about anything that you have an interest in and that you love, for whether it's a personal issue or you want to actually try and maintain an investment quality to it as well.