ARE they ??? To-night , I went to one of Sam's castles of the common man (allegedy) .
Since moving , I've been closer to WMs , and have gone some .
This is the 2nd one I've gone to .
The first one had no comics stuff that I could see (Not that I was really expecting any .) ~ Not even Archie digests at the check-out ! (well , with their obvious financial problems lately , and a lovely lawsuit ~ hoo boy ~ within a FAMILY-OWNED company...:--Uh...I did get an Archie digest and an area Safeway recently , howevs , and saw other ishes on chec k-out sale:-) !!!!!!!!!!!!)
This one had a Marvel-branded (plus Walt's shop ?) display of Sidey and GOtG books (Plus , in the kid's section of the actual magazine rack they had that MARVEL SUPERHEROES magazine of (when I bought it before , in the Santa Cruz CVS) mostly games wrapped by one two-part Adventures-style comics story of 11 pages or so but (If I DID post about it than??) no-one here was interested in discussing it then when IO posted about the MSH mag and I didn't even pick it up now but - I picked up an " Exclusive Complete Graphic Novel ! " of Spidey titled BIG TIME , by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos , for five smackerinos !!!!!!!!!!! $5 . Its' UPC price (That apostrophe correct there ?) . I first picked it up thinking it might be some sort of Adventures-style " other " Spider-Man , but the 2014-dated book reprints 2011 material from ASM #648-651 . None of the other books on the stand appeared to be " true " books of comics but I didn't open any . ISBN 978-0-7851-9210-7 . Was this a standard TPB in exactly this format ? I guess the complete " Big Time " story plus two quickies with other pencilers (I've yet to start actually reading it yet ~ Flash Thompson is still a double amputee) . I thought so first , then noticed a comicbookresources.com quote on baccover , but still maybe an earlier edition might've been longer ~ Or shorter , minus the two quickies ? ~ making this edition different from a previous one , therefore making it even more justifiable to any aggrieved LCS owner that they're so underrselling him ~ A different edition of relatively old material , would seem doubly " S'alright ! " to me . Seriously , I don't care that deeply about aggrieved LCS HFICs , and if there is going to be Walmart , I would think that it is wise to get " real " comics material in there ~ DC ? BTW , since "(later)
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I've seen an Avengers magazine at Ralph's supermarket after the movie came out. Not very good, and either it was a one shot or Ralph's quickly dropped it. Ralph's is getting "real" comics out there, but just Archie digests. Since Marvel has always copied everything popular I'm surprised there are no Marvel digests of old comics showing up at Ralph's or K-Mart, which also sells Archie digests. I'd be willing to spend five bucks for a hundred digest pages of, say, Marvel Team-Up or Skull the Slayer.
...Was this Ralphs' magazine some " Facts behind the movie ! " thing , mebbe a text/stills adaptation , of actual comics material ?
It seems the digest format has been type-cast as " ONLY fo little-kiddish stuff " , I remember in the late Eighties Mazrvel had some digests...which reprinted Star material , G.I. Joe , Transformers...and the umpteenth reprint of early Spider-Man material (Including what I think was the only ever reprint of that MARVEL SUPER-HEROES Ross Andru?? " rubber robot/voodoo puppet in New Orleans " story .
I went to the other Wal-Mart I mentioned and found another five dollar TPB of a movie-recent Marvel property , a Guardians Of ThGalaxy one reprinting the first few Bendis issus . Decent !:-)
It had been advertised in the Spidey one .
It also advertsed Avengers (Bendis/JRJR material) and Cap (Vol 1. opf the Winter Soldier) ones .
The GOtG one blurbed " New York Times bestseller ! " , was it then the exact same package tht had been aTPB before ?
ARE the standard tpbS STILL IN PRINT ? rEPLACED BY " ultimate " hcS , SAY , TO CLEAR THE ROad for these cheapos ?
I commented a ways back about this unauthorized (I presume) " Life Story " mAGazine's superer-hero movie cash-in stuff .
Note: I am typing under bizarre circumstances and I can't correct the capitalization errors , I'm sorry .
I was in a "Super" Walmart just yesterday and saw nothing like that, just a coloring book or something for the Avengers movie and a couple of DVDs of the cartoons they've been putting out the last few years. The only books they had were romances and Harry Potter clones with fairies and Alice in Wonderland rip offs and coloring books and a Percy Jackson book on Greek mythology.
...I'm presuming the Wal-Marts I've been in were " Normal " ones neither " Super " nor " " Boutique/Mini ' .
Do " Super " WMs have a esignating sign ?
Just to make myself clear if I didn't sufficiently before , I got " Exclusive "=marked five-doller - $5.00 - -pricedTBBs , re WM , as I outlined above .
Ron M. said:
Super Walmarts are generally twice the size of standard ones, and have a big part of the store (approximately half) devoted to groceries. Standard Walmarts have very small food sections. There are now smaller stores here and there that are primarily or entirely grocery stores. I haven't visited the grocery stores.
I've been in one of the grocery stores: they're called Neighborhood Markets. They closely resemble the grocery area of the Super stores, with an additional area for toiletries, housewares, pet food and such.
...Okay , I suppose that these were " Supers ", the groceries took up 1/3 to 1/2? of the store .
These had afairish number of adult-market MMPBs , NEW ones with stickers on them selling for mebbe 2 dollars less than the cover price Like , the Sue Grafton mystery that I posted about recently , sellingfor IIRC $5.99 rather than its $799 cover .
Also some kinda " Middle American "-ish seeming , in appeal , books among the MMPBs of a rather old-fashioned type that " you (I) don't seem to see anymore ~ like a book of Louis La'mour Western short stories .