More inflation: "Regular" sized comics going to $3.99!

[villager]

Alarming Prices in the February Solicitations

* by Brian Cronin
* in Comic Industry News & Gossip

Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 6:42 AM EST

For Hulk #10…

32 PGS./Rated A …$3.99

For Dark Avengers #2

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Regular page counts, irregular prices.

This is ungood


http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/11/21/alarming-prices-in-the-february-solicitations/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. 35-40 years ago, Comics were 10 cents and 25 cents. Mad Magazine was 40 cents.

[Auggie]

7. .40¢ -- why, that's Highway Robbery!

[jmowreader]

21. No, it was Cheap!

MAD Magazine was always Cheap! Said so right on the cover!

[Winterblues]

9. I remember when they went to ten cents and then twelve cents..

God I'm old. dirt is younger than I am I think..

[Donnachaidh]

11. weren't they actually 12 and a half cents?

I seem to recall that price was around for awhile. Probably trying to convince comic book lovers to buy 2 at a time for convenience?

[Javaman]

15. I remember when they were a dime. :( nt

[eleny]

12. I paid a dime in the early 50s

It was a real splurge to get the giant ones that came out once in a while for a quarter.

[msongs]

2. easy call - comics are completely unnecessary luxury items are they not? nt

[villager]

3. yup -- "market pressure" will react to those prices pretty fast, I think...

n/t

[Occam Bandage]

BitTorrent remains $0.

[onehandle]

5. Shh. nt

[Javaman]

16. Comics on torrent? nt

[Cheap_Trick]

17. Look for .cbr files

and the CDisplay program......

[Occam Bandage]

18. Yessir. Every bit of media you can imagine is on torrent. nt

[onehandle]

4. Surging prices and too many X-Men titles ended my interest in comic books.

I've got 20 long boxes and that stopped accumulating a long time ago.

[Occam Bandage]

6. They're becoming more and more nichey every year.

The hardcore fans will stay on for just about anything, so as the publishers raise prices they issue more lines that appeal to only the obsessive. Of course, the net result of this is that fewer people get into comics, being overwhelmed by the number and price, so the publishers have to raise prices and target the hardcore fans even more...

[villager]

10. on the other hand, graphic novels are becoming a separate sensibility and market...

...with, seemingly, more reasonably price points, compare to what's happening to single issues...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Superman cost 75¢ circa 1989. It was the last "regular" size comic to go to $1.

And they stood at $1 for a very LONG time.

[Raschel]

13. Shouldn't the price be going down? Consumer prices had the biggest drop in fifty years due to the

bad economy.

[villager]

19. give it time, and let those $3.99 stay stacked up on shop shelves...

n/t

[rucky]

20. Plus, technology has made color printing way cheaper.

[jobycom]

14. Damn. How much must Louis Anderson be worth, then?