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Brian Tait
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| Posted: 14 January 2010 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | 1
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Is it legal? Ripping off covers and sending them back as unsold issomething fairly common in the publishing world, but they typically getsent back to the company that produced the book and/or to the companythat distributed the book.
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These are direct market books. There are no returns.
The retailer bought them, he owns them. Give 'em away, sell 'em for twenty five cents
or two hundred dollars they're his (or her) books to do whatever they want with.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Are there really people willing to pay more than $100 for the third issue of another "earth-shattering" mini-series? For an issue that hasn't hit the stands yet? I don't care how many copies are printed, but I'm not paying 25 times what the regular comic shop version costs just so I have a rarer cover.
And if comic shops are still counting on people to pay inflated prices for slightly different covers of current books? And who the heck are these people? I'm always scaling back the number of books that I buy, and my $20 a week comic budget gives me a smaller and smaller stack every year. Are there really people dropping $1000 a month and buying all these variant covers?
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Arc Carlton
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Is it? Fans may be talking about it, but some are also talking about dropping Marvel because of it. (The straw that broke the camel's back basically.) It's knee-jerk reaction to be sure, but I see this hurting them more than helping them. ________________________ No one is going to stop buying Marvel comics because of this. Sure, they won't buy the Deadpool variant cover but that will be about it. And the fact that people will falsely say "I'll never buy a Marvel comic again" will provide enough fuel to the publicity stunt. "Oh what a controversial cover, fans are abandoning Marvel because of it". Yeah, right.
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Kevin Brown
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No one is going to stop buying Marvel comics because of this. ********************************** Well, if you can prove it, go ahead. People have dropped titles for dumber things. All I know is what people have said. Hence the reason I said, "people are talking about...." Not that they have.
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Dwayne Gassmann
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ns tweeted, "A Deadpool variant is anything but rare. Trust me. I own a store."
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Brad Krawchuk
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I'd consider dropping Marvel over this, if I hadn't dropped them for other reasons. It's not a great reason-reason, but it's a half-way-decent-straw that broke the camels back-reason.
Remember back in the day when DC stood for Distinguish Competition?
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Andrew W. Farago
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It's like the Cola Wars all over again.
Would people really consider dropping an entire company's output based on a not-even-all-that-dickish publicity department stunt? The guys making the books have nothing to do with that move, and if you enjoyed Iron Man last month, it's not suddenly a different book next month just because of a half-baked, unrelated PR stunt.
Of all the people who still buy Marvel's books who are claiming that they'll stop buying Marvel books because of this, exactly ZERO of them will. ZERO.
People might skip the rest of the Siege crossover, or they might try an extra Blackest Night tie-in book to spite Marvel, but I'd bet money that no one actually walks away from Marvel because of this.
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Mike Benson
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I'd send them every copy of Blackest Night I own if they'd send me a copy of a brand new FF Forever #1 by John Byrne. Okay, I own zero copies of Blackest Night. But if I had a lot, I'd send them all.
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Randy Lahey
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I think this is short sighted on Marvel's part. Marvel should care about the entire comic book market, not just their piece of it. Marvel should not encourage the removal of comic books from comic book shelves, even if they are from another company. The less books sold is bad for the entire comic book market, not just the company that is selling less.
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Lee Painter
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Lee Painter, I love Deadpool and Wolverine so much, I spend at least 400-500$ a week on them! 9__6 If I had 400 or 500 bucks each week I would give it all to Marvel.
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Brad Krawchuk
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I don't even buy Marvel comics anymore. I just ship money to them directly, for nothing in return. Then, I steal DC books to read them.
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Ian Moss
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A true twist to this would be for MARVEL to offer the same incentive cover to customers -- if they sent in all 8 of the rings collected from Blackest Night comics.
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