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Todd McFarlane's Knights Vs Samurai, She-Spawn, Bloodletter & Spawn 77
And Knights versus Samurai… will be… knights versus samurai. As for the $2.99 price point common across the Spawn line, that will be the same for these books as well Todd McFarlane states that he "remains COMMITTED to providing fans with the LOWEST prices on comics in the industry All titles, including the NEW U[...]
Marvel Comics Commits To The $3.99 Price Point
Though of course it's not quite Todd McFarlane's Spawn titles, all still at $2.99. Dan Buckley told comic shop retailers at ComicsPro that it is Marvel's plan to be a partner with comic stores not only now, but for the future That included the free Marvel Must Haves editions, re-establishing creator/editorial retreats post-pandemic to create new[...]
$4.99 Vs. $3.99 Vs. $2.99 At Marvel In December
Some are those are for overlong stories such as Secret Wars #9 and Totally Awesome Hulk #1 and an Annual of two. But some are the standard size comic with a back-up strip included, such as Guardians Of Infinity, and Howard The Duck. Everything else is $3.99, aside from some titles aimed at the younger kids, which maintain[...]
DC Comics Move To $4.99 On The Newsstand
DC Comics still has a large number of comic store price points of $2.99 and a rise to $4.99 for Batman was recently dropped in the light of complaints from its creative team. In comic stores at least As this a one-off, a trial, a different model or the shape of things to come? Photos taken[...]
Half Of The June DC Mini-Relaunch Titles Will Still Be $2.99
Jim Lee during the DC retailer meeting at Burbank, yesterday. There has been some concern regarding the eventual creep of the $3.99 comic book, with Marvel currently only having one remaining $2.99 Marvel Universe title. With all the Convergence titles moving to $3.99 for April and May, it was assumed by some that this would be it,[...]
In October 2014, The Average Price Of A Top Ten Comic Book Is $4.50
And that's even with the bestseller, The Walking Dead selling $2.99. That's four at $4.99, one at $2.99, one at $5.99 and four at $3.99. In comparison, the average price of a top ten comic in October 2004 was $2.69, A 66% increase in price in ten years. In that time, the USA has experienced only 26% inflation[...]
DC Comics Holding The Line At…$3.99 Newsstand?
It is a $2.99 comic book in comic stores and the readers are grateful for that. But on the newsstand as these photos demonstrate, it is instead a $3.99 comic. This appears to be the same trick Marvel played with their newsstand comics, making them all $3.99 even when they were $2.99 instore – before withdrawing them[...]
Hawkeye #22 Jumps To $4.99 For Final Issue – Maybe It's Made Of Gold?
The word has come down that his final issue with David Aja is jumping from the original $2.99 price point of the series, past its current $3.99 to a whopping $4.99. Well, "El Dorado" does mean the golden one And it didn't do last week's Superior Spider-Man any harm, did it? But I'd expect quite a lot of[...]
The Perils Of Keeping A Comic Priced At $2.99
The simple answer is because it keeps them in business and allows them to put out books at a $2.99 cover price It's not just Zenescope though, publisher like Valiant, Boom, IDW and Dynamite use variant covers all the time. The truth is that retailers order more copies of a book when there are multiple covers[...]
The Death Of Wolverine #2, #3 And #4 Join The $4.99 Creep
But the price? Bleeding Cool has been told that the prices of issues 2 to 4 will join issue 1 in the $4.99 stakes. As DC Comics sees more and more titles slip from $2.99 to $3.99, and Marvel makes a $2.99 price point the exception rather than the rule, we are also seeing more and[...]