What made comics attractive to me were their investment potential and beautiful artwork , in some cases , combined with great stories.
They haven't been any superstar artists in the last 20 years except maybe for greg capullo.
Before then carl barks , neal adams , frank frazetta , jeff jones , walt kelly , bill woggins , wally wood , barry smith etc. etc.
I read about a dealer who traded and bought 10,000 copies of x-men 129 for 10 cents each back then. You can't do that now. X-men 129 is 135.00 in overstreet. I think the value of 10,000 copies of x-men 139 in mint exceeds one milllion dollars.
Its ironic you're spenting all that time and money going to college thinking it will secure your future and a few blocks away is a fortune which could have gotten for pennies. The only others investments are stocks and houses which require capital in most cases.
The classic runs since the 70s.
Conan 1-24 Maybe the greatest artist of the last 50 years barry smith. Cgc 9.8 copies are selling for over 2,000 in some cases.
Swanp Thing 1-10 berni wrightson { he didn't stick around very long too }
Miracleman { currently reprints are on sale }
Daredevil 158-188 frank miller
X-men 94-143 DC { average artwork } and JB from 108 on in his classic run
Walking Dead { don't understand it } WD 1 1,000.00
Green Lantern 76-89.batman with neal adams
Sandman relatively inexpensive but ended at the the author's request {neil gaiman}
And joining this elite group is the new batman 52 with scott snyder and greg capullo.
Overstreet is behind on this book. They sell for much higher prices on ebay and other online sites. What is interesting is that the runs on the great titles were short lived. SS and GC have committed for the long run.