The Value of Infinity?

Infinity #1 has a $4.99 cover price, and includes 45 story pages–10 of those previously available (to customers, at least) “free” in the 2013 Free Comic Book Day Infinity issue.

The day that I paid cover price for the issue, I also snagged a number of 25-cent bin issues.

Which means that Infinity #1 was an especially poor value to issue quantity and page count!

For less than the price of Infinity #1, I was able to purchase:

• single issues of Batman: Year One (Batman #404-407)
• the 1989 Catwoman mini-series (I believe this was later collected/reissued as Catwoman: Her Sister’s Keeper)
• Invisibles #1
• Spider-Man #1
• an extra-sized, foil-enhanced Incredible Hulk issue
• the original first printing of the first Gen13 mini
• both prestige-format History of the DC Universe issues
• the foil-enhanced anniversary issues Spectacular Spider-Man #200 and Web of Spider-Man #100
• the chromium Valiant #0 issues for both Shadowman and Bloodshot

Yet another reason my enjoyment of older/’90s (and even ’80s!) comics is increasing while my enjoyment and interest in current comics continues to wane.