In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, we dip into the underworld of unannounced sales and find Cyberpunk 2077 and Cullen Bunn’s Dark Horse catalog getting discounts.
Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?
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Housekeeping: This is an unusually slow week for newly discounted sales. All 8 of Marvel’s sales from last week are still running (see here for the breakdowns). We’ve seen a lot of debate over whether DC was going to just be having a sale for the second half of a given month or was only participating in multi-channel event pushes (film releases, Batman Day, etc.). We’re not seeing a DC sale today, so if we had to place a wager, we’d be wagering on event tie-ins only. DC, of course, hasn’t been commenting on this any place we’ve seen.
Unannounced Sales
As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:
Looks like there’s an unannounced sale on Dark Horse’s Cyberpunk 2077. A video game adaptation with an interesting award to its credit.
After which, the property went to the album format Dark Horse sometimes uses for titles with a higher bookstore profile, which are listed with the single issues:
Additionally, it looks like much of the Ultimates, Hawkeye, Nova and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.
Housekeeping: Much like last week, Marvel appears to be standing pat with the sales unleashed at the beginning of the month. They’re still hanging around. Meanwhile, DC returns to the fold.
Yes, it ends on a Tuesday. (You were expecting a regular schedule in ’25? No, we didn’t think so.)
This is not quite as expansive as previous Batman Day sales. It’s by no means an across the board discount as we’re used to seeing. Whoever set up the sale seems to have something against Detective Comics, because not much of that is discounted. The thicker volumes are at higher price points, this time around. The “Legends”/”Tales of” volumes that are HC in print are excluded this time around. Hey, it’s not like we’re seeing DC sales every week — but we want to orient you to this new reality before diving in.
(Note: they only have the “deluxe” edition of Long Halloween in the sale and it’s still more expensive than the “regular” edition, so we won’t be linking it. Truth, Justice and the American Way!)
Let’s break down some of the highlights by series/volume.
Your classic / pre-New 52 material is largely going to be in:
The Brave & The Bold – Batman team-ups. Bob Haney, Neal Adams and Jim Aparo were notable creators here. Haney/Aparo was the team on a LOT of comics. (Now if we could get a Nemesis collection…)
Money Shot – Tim Seely / Sarah Beattie / Rebekah Issacs / Caroline Leigh Layne / Gisèle Lagacé; For some reason this isn’t all on the same page, so Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4
Additionally, it looks like many of the Superman and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.
In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Dark Horse issues discounts on Star Wars: The High Republic Adventures, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy-adjacent titles and the EC Archives. Plus, Octavia Butler adaptations.
Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?
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Housekeeping: Last week, we were wondering if that carpet bombing of Marvel sales meant we weren’t go to have fresh ones for the rest of the month? Right now, that looks like a real possibility and all the Marvel and Kodansha material from last week is still on sale.
What’s new this week:
Unannounced Sales
As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:
Dark Horse Discounts Present:
There seems to be quite a bit of unannounced discount activity with Dark Horse this week.
Like horror? The EC Archives (or at least the vast majority of them) are on sale. Must be a coincidence that it lines up with the release of a new volume (The Complete Moon Girl which is not discounted… yet.) This is a good excuse to get a little Wally Wood and Johnny Craig in your life or stalk stock up on Tales From the Crypt ahead of spooky season.
Additionally, it looks like many of the Superman and Red Sonja material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.
Housekeeping note: With the exception of the Kodansha sale that’s going on, all of the usual suspects have unannounced sales this week. If you hadn’t heard, there were some irregularities with the Amazon/Comixology New Releases page this week. We suspect this is a “formal” Wolverine sale and the sale page never got linked to the deals page in the ensuing chaos. If so, this sale probably runs through Monday or a week from Monday. Which is to say, we REALLY don’t know when any of these sales are ending! (And yes, we did turn up some randomly better-priced DC volumes.)
Invisible Killer
As we type this early on Friday morning, there’s no link yet… but we can see the lowered prices. If an overall sale link becomes available, we’ll update the page.
This is the sale on the “main” Wolverine titles. Let’s start out by listing the various titles involved. This time out, the Epic Collections are on sale, but Wolverine Classic does not. These days, you never know about the Epics and Masterworks from sale to sale… except there aren’t any Wolverine Masterworks. And pay attention, because not every volume in a given series is discounted. (Yes, it’s been that kind of week.)
Wolverine(’82) – Chris Claremont / Frank Miller / Paul Smith; The miniseries that kicked off the solo stories and an X-Men 2-parter that’s a sort of follow-up
Wolverine (’88-’03) – The original ongoing solo title. Yes, it took six years after the mini… it was a different time
Wolverine(’03-’09) – Greg Rucka / Darick Robertson; Mark Millar / John Romita, Jr.; Jason Aaron/Ron Garney… among others (mostly Millar getting discounts)
Old Man Logan(’16-’18) – Jeff Lemire / Andrea Sorrentino; While Logan is “dead,” his future dystopian self journeys to the present day. (And it’s actually pretty good, despite the wonky premise.)
Return of Wolverine (’18-’19) – Charles Soule / Steve McNiven; “They always come back”
Wolverine(’20-’24) – Ben Percy / Adam Kubert; The Krakoan era Logan. The first link is the “omnibus” page, here’s the individual collections page, which are discounted a little further into the series.
With the original series, you’re pretty good from the beginning through the end of the Larry Hama run (a bit after #100), though towards the end of that, the X-Events get annoying. We’re particularly fond of the Archie Goodwin / John Byrne arc from #17-23.
Mark Millar did two great runs:
Enemy of the State w/ John Romita, JR introduces Gorgan and has Wolverine up against an unholy alliance of the Hand and Hydra
Old Man Loganw/ Steve McNiven has an aging Logan trying to keep to himself in a dystopian future when trouble comes looking. Yes, this should sound an awful lot like one of the films!
The Krakoan era, while it almost merged with X-Force (kind of like the triangle era Superman line), was quite enjoyable.
“Normal” Unannounced Sales
It’s last call for Dark Horse’s “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues. Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book. Our understanding is that this will run through August 4th.
Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America and Deadpool material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
Housekeeping note: For those of you wondering if the Superman sale at the beginning of the month meant that DC was back to offering regular sales: as of Friday afternoon, the answer would appear to be no. We found a couple minor price drops that we’ve thrown into the unannounced section, but the Superman sale currently looks like a one-off corporate synergy promotion. If you’re thinking this is a small number of sales for Comic-Con week, you’re correct. There’s a possibility most of the usual suspects are distracted by all the shenanigans in the Diamond Bankruptcy saga. (Something that doesn’t directly affect you as a digital reader, but is a seismic problem in the print world.)
Deadpool is… oddly collected. There have been a lot of titles and lot of relaunches. Most of these (except Cable/Deadpool and the Daniel Way era) are absorbed into the Deadpool Classics line of collected editions. Some, but not all, of the series, have omnibus editions and those are the cheaper way to collect those runs… which means, if you’re a completist and you’re cheap, you’re going to want to be wanting to fill in the Classics volumes around the omnibuses. And Deadpool Classics V. 1 collects the various miniseries that kicked things off. In a sense, the easiest way (but perhaps not cheapest – and certainly not the most current) to keep things chronological is to follow the Classics line.
Hey, when was getting Marvel collected editions in the proper order ever easy?
She-Hulk(’14-’15) – Charles Soule & Javier Pulido in one omnibus
She-Hulk(’16-’18) – Mariko Tamaki / Nico Leon in one omnibus
She-Hulk(’22-’23) – Rainbow Rowell / Roge Antonio / Luca Maresca
If you’re coming into She-Hulk through the TV show, the legal angle for the character really started getting emphasized with the Dan Slott era and then was followed up on by Charles Soule (who just might be a lawyer in his secret identity). Rainbow Rowell’s also picking up a pretty dedicated following with her current runs.
Unannounced Sales
Dark Horse is still having a “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues. Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book. Our understanding is that this will run through August 4th.
Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America and Wolverine material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel celebrates the Fantastic Four movie with some discounts. Plus, slashed prices on Loki and Ms. Marvel, should you be in a cinematic mindset. For dessert, Dark Horse has a line-wide sale for Comic-Con.
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Fantastic Four ’12-’14 – The Matt Fraction / Mark Bagley era
Fantastic Four ’14-’15 – The James Robinson/Leonard Kirk run
Fantastic Four: Fate of the Four (Marvel Two-in-One) ’17-’18 – Chip Zdarsky / Jim Cheung; Zdarsky’s MTIO run has been rebranded as FF… which is probably fair – not in this sale, but included for the sake of completeness
Fantastic Four ’18-’22 – The Dan Slott run with a rotating cast of artists
Fantastic Four’22 – Ryan North / Iban Coello / Carlos Gomez
Yes, Fantastic Four has been relaunched less than other Marvel titles. As to what’s good, the gold standard has always been the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby run. (And yes, we do think you can draw a straight line from Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown at DC to Fantastic Four.) We’d say they start to hit their stride a few issues before Galactus shows up – V.3 of the Epic Collections (“The Coming of Galactus“) or V.4/5 of the Masterworks editions and you can ride a very fun train from there to the end of Lee/Kirby.
And at this point, we should talk about the “pick your poison” of Epic vs. Masterworks. The Masterworks are built out straight into the Byrne era. We think the $6.99 Epic Collections are the best value here, though some of the newer ones are priced higher. The discounted Epics are now a little past the Lee/Kirby era, but stop with #191 and then pick up again after Byrne’s run. Pick the format that works for you and has the issues you’re looking for.
Speaking of Byrne’s run, that’s the next highpoint that everyone agrees on. How to read Byrne? Well, there are 7 volumes of Masterworks on sale (V. 21-27) or you can hop on to Fantastic Four Visionaires: John Byrne. These comics really ought to be in an Epic Collections, but Marvel doesn’t seem in any hurry to roll the Visionaires up into a more economical package. (Or should we say, economical when it’s on sale?)
Move ahead a bit and Walt Simonson had a stint that may be a little more notable for being an early appearance of the Time Variance Authority (which actually debuted in his Thor run). This is most easily grabbed across Epic Collections V.20 and V.21.
Fast forward a bit to the Heroes Reborn era and there is a LOT to love about the Mark Waid / Mike Wieringo run. They brought back the “explorer” vibe from Lee/Kirby era that isn’t always there and upped the sense of wonder. You’d want the four Ultimate Collection volumes that start here. The “regular” collections don’t go all the way to the end.
And then, of course, there’s the the Hickman era. A long storyline that laid the groundwork for his Avengers run and you can certainly argue that his Secret Wars endcap to that is a Fantastic Four / Doctor Doom story. The omnibus editions we highlighted above include his FF spin-off comic that frequently crossed over with Fantastic Four, much like the Avengers titles flowed together. That packaging will be a better experience.
Thank goodness they’re not calling this “The Marvel Ms. Marvel Sale!” This would be Ms. Marvel as in Kamala Khan, not the current Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers. Let’s break this down by volume, since there have been relaunches.
Ms. Marvel ’14-15 – The original run with G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona as the primary artist
Ms. Marvel ’15-’19 – How silly is this relaunch? The collected edition number doesn’t even reset! It’s still Wilson and Alphona, although the artist rotate a bit as it goes on.
Magnificent Ms. Marvel ’91-’21 – Relaunched after Wilson’s departure, this is written by Saladin Ahmed with Minkyu Jung and Joey Vazquez as the lead artists
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant – Iman Vellani / Sabir Pirzada / Carlos Gomez; Yes, that’s right, the actress who plays Ms. Marvel is co-writing this with the show’s supervising producer
Recommendations? We thought Ms. Marvel was at its best early in the run, before it got too integrated into the Marvel universe, but that’s just us. Definitely start with Wilson’s run, though. It made quite the mainstream splash.
The interesting thing about a Loki sale? These days you have “post-TV” Loki, which is to say Loki as the lead and not the villain (as in Thor or something like X-Men / Alpha Flight).
If you’re looking for Loki as the lead, the closest you’re likely to get to the TV show (thus far) is probably looking for either Loki, Agent of Asgard by Al Ewing, Lee Garbett and Jorge Coelho or the Loki run in the revived Journey Into Mysteryby Kieron Gillen, Doug Braithwaite, Richard Elson (and a few more artists).
Unannounced Sales
Dark Horse is having a “Comic-Con @Home digital sale” and has most of their collected editions discounted, but not the newest material and not the single issues. Here’s a link that will *eventually* get you through their catalog in a very laborious way and with the single issues mixed in. (It’s not perfect, but we’re trying.) Figure this will be around 50% off, but it might vary a little from book to book.
Additionally, it looks like most of the Captain America, Wolverine and Ghost Rider material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel slaps a discount on Ghost Rider, Ultron and the Skottie Young catalog. Plus, The Magic Order and Manor Black.
Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?
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Oh, sure… you’ve got Chat GPT and you’ve got Google Gemini and you’ve got Microsoft Co-Pilot… but Marvel has Ultron, the AI that Microsoft and Google probably would rather you didn’t have in the front of your mind while thinking about such things. Which probably means it’s a good time for the sale.
Let’s hit some highlights:
The first Ultron arc, which culminates in the debut of The Vision, is a highlight of the original Roy Thomas / John Buscema Avengers run and is actually split across two Epic Collections: Masters of Evilhas Ultron debuting near the end and Behold… The Visionfinishes off his first arc and contains his second arc several issues later.
The Bride of Ultronis largely by Jim Shooter, with George Perez and John Byrne tagging in and out for most of it. The runup to the titular Ultron tale is the re-introduction of Wonder Man, which plays into the whole Vision/Simon Williams/Ultron triangle of intrigue.
Avengers: Rage of Ultron – by Rick Remender / Jerome Opena / Pepe Larraz; An OGN that… shall we say, reset the dynamic between Hank Pym and Ultron?
Ultron Foreveris primarily by Al Ewing and Alan Davis, with a few older issues included for background. Avengers of various eras are plucked out of the timestream and brought to the future to face down a triumphant Ultron. (If you think this sounds like Ewing’s Ant-Man sequence, there are similarities.)
The title Marvel would probably like you to purchase here is Age of Ultron, with the core by Brian Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Brandon Peterson and Carlos Pacheco. We’d put this one towards the bottom of the Ultron pile, but that’s just us.
Strange Academy(’20-’23) – Skottie Young / Humberto Ramos; Doctor Strange establishes a magical academy (definitely not Hogwarts, should the lawyers be asking) with Doctor Voodoo, Damien Hellstrom and the Scarlet Witch amongst the instructors
Unannounced Sales
As always, we see discounts, but we don’t know how long they’ll last.
Additionally, it looks like most of the Iron Man, Black Widow and Old Man Logan material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
Yes, the Old Man Logan storyline has spawned a series of miniseries set in “The Wasteland” setting from the original… and that before they brought back the Old Man Logan character after Wolverine’s “death.”
Old Man Loganis the ongoing series, initially by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino.
That’s what the real spread is here with the rest of the sale being side attractions you may or may not be into. The original storyline of a cranky, aged (“Old Man”) version of Wolverine living in a dystopic future came off as a sort of Elseworlds tale and is fairly well regarded as a standalone tale.
It was popular enough that the “Old Man Logan” version of the character was contrived to appear in the present (his past… before the disaster that spawned a dystopia) in the period when Wolverine was supposed to be “dead.” It even lasted 50 issues. We’d say give the Jeff Lemire issues a look if it sounds interesting, particularly the Lemire/Sorrentino issues. This was one of their pre-Image collaborations and it’s much more entertaining than the editorial premise sounds.
Past Logan, there have been a couple other attempts to spin-off new titles in this settings, notably:
Yeah, there was an Emma Frost series from Karl Bollers / Randy Green, but the emphasis here is a little more on the X-Men.
The Grant Morrison X-Men run (with an artist rotation including Frank Quitely, Igor Kordey, Phil Jimenez and Marc Silvestri) is probably the centerpiece. The “Ultimate Collections” are here. There’s also an that appears to be the first Ultimate Collection with a different trade dress, so it looks like you can mix and match if you like?
While the entirety of Astonishing X-Menis on sale, this title is most remembered for the opening arcs by Joss Wheedon / John Cassaday and you can get their full run a little more cheaply in this set of Double Volumes.
Finally, there’s Generation X, which was sort of Scott Lobdell’s take on New Mutants. Most remember it most for the Lobdell/Chris Bachalo team that opened the series.
Unannounced Sales
As always, we see discounts, but we don’t know how long they’ll last.
Additionally, it looks like most of the Black Widow and Strange Academy material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, nearly the entire run of Iron Man gets a discount. So does Strange Academy. DC may or may not be having unlisted sales. Plus, Umbrella Academy, Dark Crystal and Dark Horse manga.
Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?
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Housekeeping: The Mystery of the Missing Masterworks
You will recall it’s been hit and miss whether Marvel Masterworks are included in Marvel sales for… perhaps a bit over a year? We might have a clue.
The Near Mint Condition live stream claims to have some inside information that the (print) Masterworks line is on indefinite hiatus and is asking people who want more to write David Gabriel at Marvel and ask for it.
See for yourself:
Has a phasing out been planned for quite some time and that’s why the digital versions aren’t always in sales? We can’t say for certain, but we’re awfully suspicious. Moreover, the Epic Collections haven’t quite duplicated the depth of the Masterworks. We understand how Marvel likes to reissue new editions in print, but it usually just makes things more confusing in the digital world.
This would be one of those sales where most of the hero’s run is on sale, so we’re going to follow our usual protocol and start out by breaking out the primary titles and volumes. Iron Man isn’t as goofy to follow as, say, Spider-Gwen… but there are “quirks.” As is frequently the case (as discussed above), no Masterworks this time out.
Tales of Suspense – Iron Man debuted here in what was a split book with Captain America for most of the run.
Iron Man’68-’96 – The original solo run in the era before constant relaunch gimmicks
OK, sit tight. The ’98 -’04 run is collected in VERY odd ways and poorly cataloged for browsing. The truly excellent Kurt Busiek/Sean Chen/Patrick Zircher run lasts from 1-25. We can’t find 15-25 collected? (That entire run should be!) You can catch 1-14 in cheap omnibus form here. (No idea why the Mike Grell omnibus isn’t on sale.) You can catch Joe Quesada’s scripting run (26-32) and the Avengers: Disassembled tie-in late in this run in single volumes here. (But get the omnibus version for Busiek.)
Iron Man ’04-07 – Best known for launching with the “Extremis” storyline
Iron Man ’12-’14 – The Kieron Gillen run with Greg Land as initial artist
Superior Iron Man ’14-’15 by Tom Taylor / Yildiray Cinar / Laura Braga
Invincible Iron Man ’15-’16 – Brian Bendis and David Marquez/Mike Deodato, Jr. start out with Tony Stark in the armor
International Iron Man ’16 – Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev (And yes, we’re in the thick of the relaunches now)
Infamous Iron Man ’16-’17 – Brian Bendis / Alex Maleev; Victor Von Doom steps in as Iron Man… hey, dude is familiar with wearing armor
Invincible Iron Man ’16-’18 – Brian Bendis and Stefano Caselli with Riri Williams/Ironheart filling Tony Stark’s shoes (yes, parallel substitute Iron Man runs)
Tony Stark: Iron Man ’18-’19 – The Dan Slott era with Valerio Schiti as the principle artist in the rotation.
Iron Man ’20-’22 – The Christopher Cantwell / Cafu run.
So what’s good? We haven’t read ALL the Iron Man out there, but we’ve read a lot of them.
In our opinion Iron Man starts hitting it’s stride when Archie Goodwin arrives toward the end of the Tales of Suspense run and then is pure gold through issue 28 of the ’68 Iron Man series. Artists for this run include Gene Colan and George Tuska. (That’s collected in both Masterworks and Epic formats, but only the Epic is discounted right now..)
The next “all-star” run is #116-157 of the original Iron Man, that’s the David Michelinie / John Romita, Jr. / Bob Layton run that’s most famous for the “Demon in a Bottle” alcoholism arc, but there’s more to the run than just that arc. The Denny O’Neil / Luke McDonnell run that follows is solid (make sure you get a collection that includes #200!!!), but Michelinie & Layton return for #215-250 with a few artists, including Mark Bright and Jackson Guice… with Layton even switching to penciller, instead of his usual inking post, for parts of it. This second run is most famous for “Armor Wars” (originally known as Stark Wars).
When Heroes Return hits, Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen are pop in for the excellent 1998 run, of which only 1-14 are currently collected.
The ’08 – ’12 run by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is particularly good. You know how modern Marvel titles can get sidetracked by Events? Fraction and Larroca lean into it and produce a lengthy and self-contained arc with Tony Stark on the run and attempting to overwrite his brain to keep everyone’s secrets out of the hands of Norman Osborn. Yes, an honest to goodness great Event tie-in arc. It’s a rare thing.
We were quite happy with the Christopher Cantwell/Cafu run. Tony Stark chases Korvac into outer space and meditates on the nature of godhood, good intentions and addictions. Lots of character work and action.
We’re not sure if this is Marvel making a play for the “Dark Academia” literary sub-genre, but we’ve got a few different flavors of young adults in various forms of learning institutions for those with super powers or magical powers. Strange Academy is probably the most “Dark Academia” of the bunch.
Avengers Academy– Christos Gage / Mike McKone / Sean Chen; Hank Pym runs an Avengers training program
Avengers Arena – Dennis Hopeless / Christos Gage / Kev Walker / Alessandro Vitti; Arcade sets up Murder World on an island and tries to recreate Lord of the Flies with the Runaways and Avengers Academy
New X-Men – Nunzio DeFilippis / Christina Weir / Randy Green / Staz Johnson / Michael Ryan; It’s easier to describe this as the ’04 rebranding of New Mutants
Strange Academy(’20-’23) – Skottie Young / Humberto Ramos; Doctor Strange establishes a magical academy (definitely not Hogwarts, should the lawyers be asking) with Doctor Voodoo, Damien Hellstrom and the Scarlet Witch amongst the instructors
The DC Sorta/Kinda Discount Shuffle
We have noticed a few DC titles popping up with “Best Price in 30 Days” tags on them. They aren’t necessarily on sale.
Example #1: Absolute Powerby Mark Waid and Dan Mora. The last big Event. It’s now $9.99, marked as being down from a digital list price of $19.99. A digital list price based on it having been a hardcover release in print, we hasten to add.
Is that really a discount? Maybe not. Here’s the thing: when they stopped having the weekly sales, a lot of the slightly older digital collections dropped to $9.99. (Is the calculus to slightly lower the line-wide price and see if they make more money with that and no sales? We have questions…)
Example #2: Batman: Urban Legends V.6 is also listed at $9.99 with that “Best Price in 30 Days” tag. It does not list what the previous price was. HOWEVER, should one look at the Batman: Urban Legendsseries page, one would find everything is $9.99. Everything except V.2, which is $6.99. Strangely, V.2 is not showing the “Best Price in 30 Days” tag, so while it looks like it might be the one sporting a discount, but it apparently isn’t.
And DC may have some of their signature broken prices floating around. Batman by Doug Moench & Kelley Jones Vol. 2 is listed at $19.24 as we type this. To paraphrase Ghostbusters, that price point is as unnatural as dogs and cats living together and it’s not the only book priced like that.
We have a lot more questions than answers when it comes to DC’s current pricing philosophy (and their ability to fill out Amazon pricing forms). Now you know what we know.
Unannounced Sales
As always, we have no idea how long these will last:
Speaking of academies, Dark Horse wants a piece of that action and is discounting Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba.
It also appears Dark Horse is having a manga sale. Some titles we noticed:
Additionally, it looks like most of the Hulk and Doctor Strange material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes. Go back a couple columns for the links to find the Epic Collections.
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Marketing cookies are used to follow visitors to websites. The intention is to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.
A video-sharing platform for users to upload, view, and share videos across various genres and topics.
Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
179 days
LOGIN_INFO
This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website.
2 years
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie
180 days
GPS
Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
1 day
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing
179 days
PREF
This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
10 years from set/ update
YSC
Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
