Tag Archives: $2.99

DC Comics – Contrasting One Point With Another

There’s a very mean thing The Daily Show does. Where they take a comment someone once said and contrast it with something they, or their association says now, that completely contradicts the original statement. It’s mean, it’s out of context, …

So, How To Buy, Sell And Trade Those Marvel Digital Codes

Yesterday we ran an article highlighting the practice of people selling their free digital codes with $3.99 Marvel Comics on eBay, but there is apparently a probloem. eBay isn’t too happy about selling digital codes, as it is hard to …

How To Make Marvel Hold The Line On $2.99

Did you buy a Marvel comic book today? A $3.99 one? Was it around twenty pages long? Did you get annoyed paying an extra dollar than you would have from DC Comics? Did you use the digital code you get …

New Augmented Reality Content For Marvel’s AVX Hardcover And The Future Of $3.99

You know how some collections of comics like to add forewords, afterwords, sketches, deleted scenes, script, commentary and the like? Well, now Marvel will be adding extra virtual material as well. The recent AR material has been such a hit, …

What’s In Your Wallet? Choices Made At The Cash Register…

Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool; I started in the comic book world in 1982 (12 years young) and the magic cover price for an issue was .60 cents. Coolness, .60 whole cents for full pages of excitement, thrills and …

All Marvel $2.99 Comics Go Self-Cover From April

Marvel have recently been experimenting with a new publishing format that’s been more recently associated with Image or Dark Horse comics. Traditionally, comic books covers have has a thicker stock than the insides of the comics, and are printed separately. …

It’s Okay Sabrewulf, X-Factor Is Still $2.99

From the CBR boards, posted by Sabrewulf. I just feel like dropping everything Marvel right now. I guess this will be the first of many to get the price raise. The argument will be if we want the book to …

What Will Join Batman And Detective Comics Together At $3.99? (UPDATE)

In an interview with Vaneta Rogers at Newsarama, Senior DC VPs Bob Wayne and John Rood announced that both Batman and Detective Comics would become $3.99 books in 2012, joining Action Comics, Men Of War, Justice League and All Star …

$3.99 And $2.99 – Marvel In September

We have September’s figures in for page counts versus price for Marvel titles. It’s been noted that more and more Marvel titles have dropped to 20 pages, even those marked at $3.99 instead of $2.99. But with DC challenging Marvel …

The Incredible Shrinking Marvel $3.99 Comic

Once upon a time Marvel and DC sold 22 story page comic books for $2.99. Then they started selling some of them for $3.99 and the people thought “blimey that’s a bit steep”. So the companies added extra story pages, …

Will DC Comics Drop Their UK Print Prices To Match Digital?

In the UK, there’s no real thing as a fixed price for an American comic book. Diamond UK sell comics to shops depending on the discount they qualify for and shops price accordingly, but unlike the US where you’ll pay …

Smallville Finale Plugs Hold The Line At $2.99

Smallville had its series finale on Friday, after ten years on the box. And it continued to play the teasing game ith the audience over what Superman aspects to show with the character, even to the very end. And also …

A Campaign For An Accurate Page Count In Solicitations

For years we knew the rules. A solicitation for a comic book that was 32 pages long, meant 22 pages of story, the rest taken up by advertising, editorial, that kind of thing. While a 40 page book meant 30 …

Other People Notice $2.99 Marvel Comics Are Slipping To Twenty Pages

Back in January, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel were to move a number of books to the DC price point of twenty pages for $2.99, and that it would start in May. But there would also be $2.99 books with …

Numbercrunching DC May 2011 Solicitations

Your regular statistical look at the DC Universe and DC character books for May 2011, not including the Warner Bros,  Vertigo, creator-owned or licensed titles. The lack of higher priced but mega sized new books in May has hit DC’s …

Marvel To Follow DC With Twenty Page $2.99 Price Point

This is what I’m hearing from a number of sources right now. That Marvel is to follow DC’s move to a twenty page/$2.99 price point on a number of its books. Right now, Marvel publish pretty much equal copies of …