Seventy-two years ago today, the superhero comic was born.  Action Comics #1 introduced the world to a guy named Superman.  Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster probably never dreamed that a little over seventy years later, collectors would be shelling out a million dollars for their little comic book.

So here is my question for all the comic fans reading this post:  what book coming out this year will be worth a million dollars someday?  Or have we reached the stage where NO comic produced today will ever be worth that kind of money?  Independent comics and ‘zines might have a shot, I suppose, if they manage to create something truly iconic.

Will the digital age of comics, which I think has finally arrived thanks to the rise of tablets and mobile media, create a situation in which the actual paper copies of comics begin to dwindle… and therefore create a collectible market?

By Sci-Guy-Mike