Tag Archives: $3.99

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

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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How To Make Marvel Hold The Line On $2.99

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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, …

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Marvel, The $4.99 20 Page Comic And Amazon

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

With books such as Marvel’s Wolverine And The X-Men HC collecting four issues of 20 page comics (rather than the seven issues on the Amazon’s listing), shipping yesterday for a whopping $19.99, some readers are in revolt. Not so much …

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

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Will Avengers Vs X-Men #1 Be A Free Comic Book Day For Retailers?

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s an interesting comparison. When ordering comic books for Free Comic Book Day, although customers and passers by get the comics for free, the retailers have to pay for them, often around twenty-five cents each. They are there for outreach, …

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Titan Creates Super PAC Ad For Clint 2.0 Relaunch

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I’m… not sure if the folk at Titan Magazines actually get what a Super PAC ad entails. In this parody of American political advertising to relaunch CLiNT Magazine as CLiNT 2.0 that you may have read about at Bleeding Cool …

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

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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$3.99 And $2.99 – Marvel In September

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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The Incredible Shrinking Marvel $3.99 Comic

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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, …

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A Campaign For An Accurate Page Count In Solicitations

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Numbercrunching DC May 2011 Solicitations

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Marvel To Follow DC With Twenty Page $2.99 Price Point

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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FF Vs $3.99

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Marvel solicitations for March’s FF #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Steve Epting and Paul Mounts at Newsarama and CBR were missing one little aspect – the price and page count!  So important in this day and age. Marvel tell me that …

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Numbercrunching Marvel March 2011 Solicitations

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March. At NYCC, Marvel announced they would be reducing the amount of monthly comics they would publish in 2011. And for January and February that was true, dropping from …

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The DC/Marvel Battle For Marketshare

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Rich Johnston

The following is based on a combination of bar and party talk in and around the blocks of Manhattan that separate DC from Marvel. Use your own judgement, sprinkle plenty of salt and knock back with a slice of lemon. …

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Numbercrunching DC February 2011 Solicitations

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the headlines, based on DC Comics solicitation information for new monthly comics for February (minus the licensed, creator-owned and Vertigo titles). Despite the drop of $2.99 titles to 20 pages, the price per page for collecting the DC Universe …

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