I went to a Barnes & Noble the other day (and again to-day) , my first time in a while . They did have a , pretty decent in size , comics section/corner .
I have bought a few , six total , in those two visits . Does DC now do what Marvel has done for some years ~ Price newsstand copies at a dollar more than the comics-shop version , I guess on the theory that that gives (what ones there are) newsstand accounts the greater profit per copy they were supposedly screaming for , to make them willing to carry funnybooks ?
SUPERMAN #25 , for instance , was $3.99 . SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN TEAMUP #001 (WTF ? The third part of a 3-parter - I bought it BECAUSE it was a conclusion - and it's " 001 " ? Is cover numbering purely an inbred joke these days ???????) was $4.99 !!!!!!!!!
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...It should be said that SS-MT-U had a 40-pager's worth of story material (Actually , 36 interior pages but 28-31 pages of story material .) , so it would've been $3.99 in a comics shop , I guess...You know , mightn't this practice of making newsstand copies more expensive REALLY lead to " sticker shock " amongst " mundanes/normals " who pick up a funnybook to see what they're like during a visit to a B&N ? " $4.99 !!!!!!!!! WHA' ???????????..." !!!!!!!!!!
Another comic still there was that Warren-sized (roughly) , square-bound , $9.99 DISNEY COMICS ZONE (with Mickey and a Lone Ranger blurb - really !!!!!!!!! - on te cover) that I think that I've brought up here before...........
Newsstand copies might be sold on a returnable basis. If so, the publisher has to bear part of the cost of unsold issues, and that could be the reason for the higher price.
I know the newsstand comics are returnable just like Time Magazine, etc, and probably all of the books in B&N.
Luke Blanchard said:
...But the companies had newsstand copies , even into the " modern " (comics-shop) era , w-out making the newsstanders a buck more !!!!!!!!!
Luke Blanchard said: