A look at comic prices and price inflation over the years
I take a look at comic prices, including how they’ve gone up in recent years, plus the advantages of buying comics as trade paperbacks.
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DC Comics raises its newsstand books to $5
Bleeding Cool reported a few days ago that DC Comics is raising the price of its newsstand comics to $5. Not a rumor, but true. I saw on a trip to Barnes and Noble earlier today that their issues of “Superman/Wonder Woman,” “Batman,” and “Detective Comics” all cost $5 each. While “Looney Tunes” and “Scooby-Doo” were still $3, I’d … Read more
DC to raise the price of “Batman” to $4.99 (update: DC’s holding the line at $3.99)
A few days ago, DC Comics announced that starting with this month’s “Batman” (vol. 2) #35 and its “Endgame” storyline, it’s raising the price on Batman’s book by a dollar. With the price increase will come a page count increase to 30 pages of story per issue (up from 22 or so). A far cry … Read more