Ask a collector twenty years ago why they bought an issue and you'd get an answer about the story. A first appearance. A run they were completing. A writer they followed. Ask a certain kind of collector today and the answer is simpler: look at it. They don't know what happens inside. Often they don't intend to find out. The book is bought, bagged, boarded and displayed — and the story it contains is, to them, roughly as relevant as the text on the back of a framed poster. The