Comic Book Talk

And this is why it doesn't have value, even today.

I see it all of the times at cons I go to. People digging through what are typically $1 bins scavenging for #1 issues of anything just because. They're marks for vendors who know just how to talk them out of their money.
I never collected just for the possibility of a book growing in value. I was all about the stories. However, there were a few books I bought multiples of just on the chance they would go up in value. After the speculator crash in the mid to late 90's, I gave up on that. Now, I usually will just grab a trade.