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Well, if you compare comic books, paperbacks have become a huge relative steal. I started buying comics in 1974 when they had just gone up to $0.20 each. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $0.97 today.
Most new comics now cost $3.99, with one publisher (DC) trying to bring them back to $2.99. Admittedly, the industry has changed a lot since then, moving from cheap mass publications to more of a boutique/specialty model, but it's a huge relative increase from the perspective of someone buying them just to read about superheroes.
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