>>303768
>the stories were always jewish propaganda. Once people noticed that, they can never un-see it.
Naw, because that would mean they couldn't enjoy the old ones. They can. There certainly was some political stuff in comics, but it's very overstated in most cases. Captain America and the similar characters who are now forgotten, sure, but Superman and Batman were not often actually involved in that stuff in their stories. They did do WWII stuff on their covers (which are a form of advertising for the comic. Doing stuff about the current war on the cover was meant to make people buy it), but in the actual stories, no. By the '70s there started being a little more political shit, but even Green Arrow, the poster boy for leftist soapboxing, was shown to be very flawed and hypocritical, and though you can tell where the author stands, it was nothing like today. By the '80s there were things like Dark Knight Returns, very much a criticism of leftism. And there's the Punisher, who Marvel keeps trying to ruin now because he is conceptually something that doesn't work with leftism. I was reading through all of Punisher's earliest stories recently, the ones from the '70s and '80s, before he got his own solo series. There was one notable instance where some SJW writer made Frank into a strawman who went around shooting kids for littering and stuff. It was bullshit. The very next time Frank appeared, though, the story was about how some crime boss had drugged him, which explained why he was acting so out of character, and he was now out for revenge on that guy. The point is, they tried to reel in the SJWs that did get into the system and only wanted to use the characters as a soapbox.
>>303770
This is a huge fucking problem with trying to read monthly comics. If you're pirating it's a bit more manageable, but it's still ridiculous. It's cool when you do understand enough to get these huge scoped wide reaching stories, but it's ridiculous to expect readers to actually do that. It's no wonder their audience shrank to almost nothing even before the SJWs really ruined things.
>>303753
The actual answer to what happened to magazine rack comics was that in the 1990s, there was a massive boom in comic sales, so Marvel decided to become not just a publisher, but a distributor. They'd be in charge of not just creating and printing, but actually getting them to the stands. However, the massive boom was fuelled by a speculator bubble after people heard that Action Comics #1 was worth a million dollars, so everyone started buying comics thinking they'd be worth a million dollars some day. A couple years later, everyone realized that was stupid and sales shrank to nothing. A lot of comics business, including tons of comic book stores, and Marvel Comics themselves, went bankrupt.
Marvel realized they never should have tried to get into distributing, but they had already left their old distributors, and now that they needed a new distribution company, they went with the same one DC had, Diamond Comics Distributors. This meant Diamond had a monopoly over the industry, but when taken to court, the courts ruled it wasn't a monopoly because other magazines still had other distributors, because the courts were pretending comics were the same market as regular magazines. While they're technically magazines, we all know that's bullshit.
The boom had already caused sales to shift toward comic book stores and a bit away from magazine racks, but Diamond had a deal with comic book stores that they would get different prices for their bulk orders and whatnot, but they couldn't return unsold copies, which newsstands (magazine racks) could do. This is why you see some books say that if they're sold without a cover, they're stolen. Unsold copies aren't literally shipped back to the distributor, instead just the covers are taken off and sent back, for less shipping fees. But comic book stores can't do that, as per the deal Diamond has with them. And if they don't want to take that deal, Diamond doesn't distribute them. And what's a comic book store gonna do? Not sell DC or Marvel?
With the coronavirus fucking up the comic book (and comic book store) industry, both DC and Marvel finally took a bit of a chance and no longer exclusively distribute through Diamond, but they had already spent almost 25 years effectively never being sold in places that normal people go. 25 years of never being on newsstands, and only being sold in shops that people only go to if they're already fans. So getting places like Wal-Mart and your local grocery stores to stock them again is difficult. When they do, they frequently don't stock them in the prime spaces up near the register. So nobody sees them, then they don't sell.
But it's even worse, because being sold only in nerd stores for fans means that the writing became catered to those fans. That's why they expected readers to understand 90 years of continuity and follow crossovers that run through dozens of different series per month, because they were selling only to established fans and not to casuals. They used to realize that "every comic is someone's first comic." They stopped giving a shit about that. So now (and frankly, even since the '90s), whenever someone does actually find a comic and try to read it, they end up baffled, and almost never become a long time returning customer, because they only got a tiny part of a story, and probably didn't even understand that one tiny part.
Meanwhile, they also don't do digital distribution properly because they're afraid of offending the comic book stores, so they sell digital copies for the same prices as physical copies, and when they have subscription services, they only have selected back issues instead of every comic they have the rights to, which is what they should obviously do. So these things make no money, so they don't bother investing into actually giving them good readability or sorting systems or anything like that, and especially with how autistic things have been for decades, that's extremely necessary.
Meanwhile, Archie never dealt with any of this and continued doing things the way they'd been doing them forever. Therefore, they sell so much more than Marvel, DC, and every other comic, that they aren't even considered to be competition. They're literally in their own league. You don't hear people talking about them as much because they aren't as autistic, but Archie sells gangbusters every month. And this is despite their own terrible management, which any fan of their Sonic the Hedgehog comic (which ran for 25 years, and only stopped being sold because Archie made Sega mad) will be acutely aware of. But just doing things the way they'd always been done has kept Archie way more successful than everyone else. Marvel and DC, and more specifically their distribution company, Diamond Comics Distributors, fucked everything up due to short sighted economic policies.
>tl;dr: a single company took over distribution of nearly all western comics (except Archie) and didn't like that copies that went to magazine racks and weren't sold could be sent back, so they decided to sell only through comic book stores, which can't do that.