When It Was Cool Retro Network Feed

We pick back up our on-going series: 100 darkest moments in pop culture history and we travel back to the early 1990s. Comic books and trading cards were booming. Speculators were buying both in bulk with hopes of one day owning something valuable. The bubble was ready to burst when along came DC Comics with a publicity stunt that almost killed the comic book industry - The Death of Superman.