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Re: Older Marvel trading cards
Y'know what I think part of the problem was?
Back in the day, we had no internet. We had no eBay.
The only way to find out whether or not a card/set/comic/whatever was "rare" and "valuable" was through word of mouth. And everyone pretty much said that everything would be(come) "rare". Especially the buddies that you traded and collected with, and the guys at the hobby stores selling you the damn things.
Either that, or buy those expensive (at the time) magazines that listed the prices and value of each card/issue... (But seriously, in early highschool on a very limited budget, would I spend $7+ on a magazine to find out whether or not my cards are rare, or spend the $7 on another 2-3 packs of the said cards in question?)
To this day, I wonder how accurate those magazines are... seeing as how I once saw a listing in one of these magazines for a comic book that I had that I thought was valuable (Sensational Spider-Man #0 with lenticular cover) that I paid about $7 for when it came out back in 1996. That magazine from 10 years ago (about 5 years after the comic's release) said it was "worth" $30. I can now find about 20 copies of it for sale online, ranging from $0.99 to $5.75... Geez...
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