A comic book was 10 cents in 1960.

$3.00 in 2026 for the cheap ones.

$1.13 after inflation.

I love how the mermaids are also wearing 1950s housewife dresses. Like, obviously Superman would never be attracted to some seashell-wearing trollop.

You are going to have to explain your thought process to me.

Look at the actual prices. In 1960 a dime would buy two cups of coffee, a glass of beer, or a cheap trinket like a toy or a comb.

You can't buy any of those things for $1.13.

But instead of thinking the inflation indicator you're using is off, you decide that it's reality's fault.

Not sure what the fish tail is for that he couldn't do already. Maybe it makes him compatible wink wink

So you're saying comics today are comparatively cheaper?

Woke Superman had gender reassignment surgery. Looks like he'll be happy now.

In 1960, Federal minimum wage was $1.00 and hour. At 10 cents a comic, one hour of labor would buy ten comic books.

Today, the Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour and the most expensive comic book's cover price is $7.99.

She's in the ocean. How is her hair dry?

Silver Age DC water ain't wettin' them hair, eh.

Can Superman breathe underwater? Does he even need to breathe in the first place?

It's silver age DC so the answer is probably "yes, unless it is no"

it is for clarity.

unlike that weirdo Aquaman

What's astounding is that 10 cents per issue back then was enough to keep the business rolling. these days 5 bucks barely keep the lights on.

Reading single issues is such a weird experience. The old ones that stick to self-contained stories are great but the modern ones with long running storylines - yeeesh. We don't even have the single issue imported anymore - just TPB and hardcovers with complete storylines and it is always overpriced as fuck.

Don't forget the 5 title crossover events with the 1 off stories in random books that belong in the event.

because she's a salty bitch.

10 kilogram of hairspray

Watch "How To Marry A Millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe.

At one point she walks into a Manhattan penthouse apartment. It has two floors, overlooks Central Park, and has 24/7 concierge service. "Holy Toledo! This place must cost $1,000.00 a month!"

My thought process is that I went to an inflation calculator and entered a dime in 1960 and it told me it would be 1.13 now. Here's a link: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/. According to Duck Duck Go AI, a cup of coffee in 1960 cost about 34 cents, and a beer was anywhere between 10 and 25 cents. Coors was on the 20cent end, because it was considered premium.

his shirt is tucked into his...belt?

That federal minimum wage didn't apply to majority of US workers:

https://legalclarity.org/what-was-minimum-wage-in-1960-the-1-00-rate-and-coverage/

Federal income tax was pretty high on top of that :
https://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Federal Tax Brackets.pdf

don't ask. it's a long story.

per month

Silver Age DC, eh. I think Batman had a storyline in which Joker turned him into a woman for literally shits and giggles. it was the 60s...

damn

Rewatch 'The Rockford Files.'

Jimmy talks about actual prices all the time. Media made since around 2000 AD avoids that because inflation makes it sound weird.

Remember the $5.00 milkshake from Pulp Fiction?

Thanks for proving that AI doesn't work.

Good ol someone's barely disguised fetish. That or the wife divorced him

it doesn't mean much to me because i'm from another country and we had some wild inflation swings over the years. Purchasing power dynamics is weird all the time.

i guess that's what happened

American here [like you didn't know!]

The US economy was pretty stable from the end of WW2 until President Lyndon Johnson started his Vietnam war build-up. He thought that he could win with one big knockout blow, but that turned into a long slog. Neither Johnson or Nixon after him wanted to raise taxes, so they just printed money to pay for it. That's a quick lesson in how America ruined its own economy

[slaps head]

Now that you mention it, I can't unsee it. Pretty much every undersea comic has that problem.

got it. thx.