I know folks who collecting and selling have made six and seven figures from those "silly" comic books.
You're absolutely correct abut the lessons taught to generations of kids - and adults - who have sat hours with Marvel, etc.
The same can be said about the Harry Potter Septology. You can always tell the ones who denigrate so-called 'fantasy', (fantasy, fiction or both?) they are the clumplumpers who never read them.
