Thank You, Skrulls

[mabfan]

I can't help but be amused to note that in the midst of this horrible financial crisis, my Marvel stock is up 1.18%.

Comments

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Admittedly this past weekend I caught myself thinking of my 1930's-1950's SF magazine collection as more investment than reading material...

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I try not to think of my comics as investments. I bought them for me, darn it. :-)

And yet, I keep trying to think of ways to sign copies of I Remember the Future that will make them valuable on the collectors' market.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

When you sign them, stitch a Krugerrand into the spine.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Riiiight....

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Well, it would help their resale value. I'm just keeping an eye on your stated goal. :-)

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Make them out "To my good friend eBay". : -)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Associational copies tend to do better; I think I'll make one out to Stephen King. :-)

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Back in the early 80's, I sold off most of my comics collection (a near complete run of early X-men) to pay for the first year of grad school.

I'm pretty sure it was the right choice.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

I suspect you should be thanking Tony Stark instead; the Iron Man movie performance (and probably reports that Raimi and Maguire will be doing Spider-Man 4 and 5) probably had a lot more to do with the stock price than the publishing unit.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do appreciate everything that Stark Industries has done; but it's the Skrulls who control the economy. :-)

[sdelmonte]

If the Skrulls ran the economy, do you think they would be doing as bad a job as the GOP?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

The point is that the Skrulls are protecting their own...

[sethg]

Movies are countercyclical, right? And from an investor's point of view, Marvel and DC are effectively farm teams for Hollywood at this point, right?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

DC is owned by Warner Bros., and is generally considered part of R&D.

Marvel is its own entity, and their business model is to keep their characters valuable so they can produce movies and make money through licensing.

[alexotica.livejournal.com]

Heh. I noticed MVL's performance, too.

Alex.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

As of right now, it's sadly down 0.4%. But my original time-stamped post still holds...

[alexotica.livejournal.com]

I think if I checked my stocks (including a pittance in MVL) more than once per day (usually less often) I'd go insane. Especially since I got my first post-college job, opened up my Roth IRA a few months after Bush II took office. Thankfully we're running out of bubbles to burst.

Alex.

[klingonguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, life's just skittles and beer for the Skrull, but what about the Kree? Huh? What about the Kree?!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Aren't they having problems with the Shi'ar?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks!