The Great Price Increase of 1961

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The Great Price Increase of 1961

For most of their history, comic books had been priced at a dime. Oh, there were Nickel Comics, and the annuals were generally priced at a quarter, but these were definitely exceptions to the rule. Not that there hadn't been inflation anyway; that dime bought you a 68-page

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[sketchington]

And now they're three bucks at least because even the crappiest comic is printed on non-yellowing magazine paper.