With this kind of case it's impossible to read the comic book, and it doesn't protect it from UV light. I prefer using covers that block UV light. This both protects it and allows you to read it.
The cost of the reading copy would end up being less than the negative impact to the condition (and therefore value) of your mint copy from reading it a single time.
https://youtu.be/zw220bx88WA?si=vArVS22Oac02uNK5
I’d forgotten about prank monkey Homer.
With a little effort and research someone could come up with a reasonable estimate that read something like, “a typical 15-year-old reading through this comic once in a typical way would have cost the family X dollars”, and X might literally be $100k. Certainly well over $10k.
https://www.zipcomic.com/superman-1939-issue-1
And I dare say, someone spending 9 million clams on this comic book is more than likely going to have it sitting in a very UV-protected vault somewhere ..
EDIT: Sorry - I didn’t realize that zipcomic.com is infringing the copyright - adding this note to point that out, but I will maintain my original link as intended. Better to read it on DC Universe Infinite, if you have access, or maybe it’s available through Libby or Hoopla library apps.
While you could store your collectable in a vault, many people enjoy displaying their collectables.
[0] It’s still copyrighted, although it seems that will expire in a decade or so, though. I guess I’ll read it then.
>"I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more)."
>"I think it's immoral"
King Herod makes the Kill Babies Act and now you consider it immoral not to kill babies?
You justified copyright by suggesting it was about supporting creators. So you at least consider the moral justification to end at the creators death?
It just really interests me how copyright terms which were grown purely to support corporations so they wouldn't have to be creative (read that as would but need to employ people, or pay people for creativity) can have people figuratively clutching pearls.
But .. I just didn't want to encourage piracy among our community, is all.
It’s a bit hyperbolic. It’s a webpage of a comic book.
If you were just passing by when a friend did it and read their computer screen I think you'd have a stronger argument.
Until they pass away and somebody finds it then puts it for sale, and so on...
If I was lucky enough to have to defend say a billion dollars from diluting over decades, a priceless comic sounds like a decent acquisition
I have a feeling this was scanned a while back, where resolution was a balance between even being able to store it digitally due to size.