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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 11:29:02 GMT -5
Interesting article. Not sure if it will be successful. I like the look of the old DC 100 page Super Spectaculars.
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Edit: didn't realize mrp had posted this in another thread. Here is his post: mrp's post |
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Post by rberman on Jun 22, 2018 12:03:32 GMT -5
Interesting article. Not sure if it will be successful. I like the look of the old DC 100 page Super Spectaculars.
link Cheap reprints of old material are a smart way to attract a younger audience that wants a lot of pages for their money. I was the beneficiary of that strategy in the old "52 pages for 25 cents" DC volumes. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 22, 2018 13:07:16 GMT -5
IF anything is going to work in a big box type store to the general audience, I think this sorta thing is it... 100 pages for $4.99 is alot better than 24 pages for $3.99.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 14:04:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that this will do well -- like wildfire2099, stated for $4.99 for 100 pages is pretty nifty and it would attract attention and sales will be brisk at Walmart -- md62 and I believe that they should expand this even further to get more buyers interested. Heck, I don't even shop at Walmart ... but, I have a friend that goes there all the time and he can get them for me easily. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2018 17:11:17 GMT -5
I don't buy much print copies anymore, but I'll be checking these out.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 23, 2018 7:14:58 GMT -5
This is exactly what I thought they should've gone back to doing like they did years ago.
The first superhero comics I ever got was Justice League of America # 115, a 100 page giant for $.60.
I'll be very surprised if this isn't a success.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 23, 2018 9:26:55 GMT -5
*I* like them because they're a good value, but have these bigger-comics-for-more-money type of books ever succeeded in the American market in the last 50 years?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 10:39:39 GMT -5
*I* like them because they're a good value, but have these bigger-comics-for-more-money type of books ever succeeded in the American market in the last 50 years? Sure. DC did 100 page Super Spectaculars before in the 70's & the beloved Dollar Comics format in the 80's. Both DC & Marvel had many Giant Sized (64 & 80 pages) titles through the 60's- 80's.
I do agree this style of comic hasn't really been used much since the 90's. So no they haven't been used/been a success in the last 30 years.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 10:53:25 GMT -5
Some more info about creators and a confirmation that the new material will be collected for comic shops later.This is getting better all the time. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 23, 2018 11:21:51 GMT -5
*I* like them because they're a good value, but have these bigger-comics-for-more-money type of books ever succeeded in the American market in the last 50 years? Sure. DC did 100 page Super Spectaculars before in the 70's & the beloved Dollar Comics format in the 80's. Both DC & Marvel had many Giant Sized (64 & 80 pages) titles through the 60's- 80's.
I do agree this style of comic hasn't really been used much since the 90's. So no they haven't been used/been a success in the last 30 years.
Short lived or sporadically released and never top sellers. Giant-Size Spider-man, for instance, only one of two titles to feature Marvel's most popular character in the title lasted a whopping six issues. It might seem like their were a lot of 100 Page DC comics, but no individual title spawned more than 8 issues of 100 pages. The earlier attempt to increased DC's page count at a higher price point in the early '70s was a colossal failure that (legend has it) made them lose to Marvel in market share for the first time. I grantcha the dollar comic format worked for a while but it was lots of all-new material. (And, frankly, *nothing* from DC was selling particularly well in the dollar comics hey-day.) Sure, there were a lot of these - The comic companies kept trying to sell them, they kept failing, the comic companies re-jiggered the fomat and tried to sell them again. And they failed again, rinse and repeat. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 11:29:41 GMT -5
Short lived or sporadically released and never top sellers. Giant-Size Spider-man, for instance, only one of two titles to feature Marvel's most popular character in the title lasted a whopping six issues. It might seem like their were a lot of 100 Page DC comics, but no individual title spawned more than 8 issues of 100 pages. The earlier attempt to increased DC's page count at a higher price point in the early '70s was a colossal failure that (legend has it) made them lose to Marvel in market share for the first time. I grantcha the dollar comic format worked for a while but it was lots of all-new material. All good points. It seemed to me that there were a lot of Giant Sized & 100 pagers since I really liked those formats & probably bought every issue that I could find in those formats. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2018 3:13:31 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 26, 2018 6:08:38 GMT -5
 -M Somewhere Alan Moore is screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! |
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Post by rberman on Jun 26, 2018 6:39:45 GMT -5
-M Somewhere Alan Moore is screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I had the same thought. That's not a panel I like to see recontextualized in this manner. |
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Post by brutalis on Jun 26, 2018 8:57:40 GMT -5
This may actually have me reading some of the newer DC stuff since there will be different series in each 100 page Giant that I normally ignore based on cost. Fairly ambitious running a 12 part new story in these. Question is will they do well enough for DC to finish out a full year? And will they be able to go into a 2nd or 3rd year or is the selling point just for 1 year? Will folks wait until DC collect the 12 parts into a TPB in the end?
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