{"id":677293,"date":"2010-02-24T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23266"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:16:02","slug":"the-new-bubble-superman-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/677293","title":{"rendered":"The New Bubble: Superman Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23267\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Superman-Comic-184x300.gif?resize=166%2C270\" alt=\"Superman Comic\" width=\"166\" height=\"270\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-superman-asset-bubble-is-here-2010-02-23\">MarketWatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Forget gold, Chinese real estate or Greek debt derivatives. A new champion in the asset-bubble wars has emerged: Superman comics.<\/p>\n<p>A sale of the first Action Comics issue, from 1938, drew a winning bid of $1 million, according to an auction site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicconnect.com\/\">ComicConnect.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s three times what a copy of the premiere comic cost just last year. To be fair, last year&#8217;s sale was of a slightly lower-quality copy, so the appreciation over the past 12 months may be somewhat less &#8212; say, double. Still, compared with a lot of other investments over the past year, that&#8217;s not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p>Returns over the longer term are only slightly less dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>For a buy-and-hold purist who put money into the comic 70 years ago, the return works out to an annual compounded rate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MarketWatch: Forget gold, Chinese real estate or Greek debt derivatives. A new champion in the asset-bubble wars has emerged: Superman comics. A sale of the first Action Comics issue, from 1938, drew a winning bid of $1 million, according to an auction site called ComicConnect.com. That&#8217;s three times what a copy of the premiere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qc5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}