Of course, some of those record profits do result from inflation.

Other than that, I should note that if you compared the circulation figures from comic books in the 1980's to those in the 1960's, one would notice a steep difference.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwik...Main/PopCultureIsolation
Comics sold quite well during the rise of television in the 50s (crime comics, etc.) and 60s (the Silver Age of superhero comics). They only began to fall off in sales in the 70s and 80s, for various reasons.

Again, I find it odd that attempts to produce prolific film franchises based on prose adventure fiction written for adults has not panned out that well in recent, post-1950's, decades (e.g. only two Dirk Pitt films [PG and PG-13 at that, a compromise], no Tom Clancy films in theaters in the last ten years or so), yet these comic book based films have come out and produced sequels. (If anyone brings up Rambo as a counterexample, the makers of First Blood had no initial intent for a sequel.) 

(Of course, the above mostly applies to the Occidental situation; the Condor Heroes and other Wuxia novels may have had many adaptations. Also, in Japan, Manga has a wide audience.)

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