$3.99 Archives

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool pointed out that the price of Todd McFarlane's Spawn comics, set at $2.99 for a decade, was jumping to $3.99 First with titles shipping in June, then with Rat City at the end of the month, then with Spawn #363 out today, with the printed cover price of $3.99 different from the[...]

The original article follows: Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on Todd McFarlane dropping that $2.99 price point on his comic book line that he had maintained for the last fifteen years as the industry norm jumped to $3.99 and then $4.99 We then noted that, rather than titles shipping in June, that it was being retrofitted[...]

Here is the cover from Lunar Distribution for Rat City #13 out this month, one with $2.99 from the listing and the other $3.99 for the preview The changes are rolling out UPDATEx2: A Image Comics representative has reached out to say 'We've been discussing raising the price on SPAWN for some time—which has been[...]

When reporting on the ComicsPro Summit in Pittsburgh earlier in the year, we heard that Dan Buckley, President Of Marvel Entertainment stated that Marvel Comics would be emphasizing the $3.99 comic price point for most issues, going forward Which represents quite a change Though, of course, it's still not quite Todd McFarlane's Spawn titles, all still at[...]

And a number of books jumped up from September solicitations when they were listed as $3.99 for 32-page comic books to being $4.99 And that included the twice-monthly lead title Amazing Spider-Man, alongside Avangers, Thor and Scarlet Witch All the regular Star Wars comics also jumped from $3.99 to $4.99 as well. Amazing Spider-Man #33 and[...]

DC Comics solicited The Joker #3 for $5.99 for the standard 40-page comic book, and the same for The Joker #4 in June. They then increased the price for

$3.99 as a 32-page comic book which actually has 20 comic book story pages in it $4.99 gets a 40-page comic but that will bring you around 30 story pages And a card-stock cover adds another dollar onto the top of that. With Infinite Frontier, DC Comics launched and reformatted a number of their comics with[...]

In that they more than usual are priced at $3.99 not the DC Rebirthed price of $2.99. Over so soon? The listings so far have Trinity, Superwoman, Supergirl, New Super Man, Cyborg and Super Sons on $3.99, when they were previously on $2.99 These are all monthly titles. While Action Comics, Superman, Harley Quinn, Aquaman, Deathstroke are on $2.99[...]

Photos taken in the wild by Bleeding Cool reader Travis Pelkie… DC Comics newsstand issues of Detective Comics #39, Justice League United #9, Batman/Superman #19 and Batman #38. The comics are all $3.99 in comic stores, but $4.99 on the newsstand. It's not the first time that the newsstand price has been higher than the[...]

Jim Lee during the DC retailer meeting at Burbank, yesterday. There has been some concern regarding the eventual creep of the $3.99 comic book, with Marvel currently only having one remaining $2.99 Marvel Universe title. With all the Convergence titles moving to $3.99 for April and May, it was assumed by some that this would be it,[...]

And that's even with the bestseller, The Walking Dead selling $2.99. That's four at $4.99, one at $2.99, one at $5.99 and four at $3.99. In comparison, the average price of a top ten comic in October 2004 was $2.69, A 66% increase in price in ten years. In that time, the USA has experienced only 26% inflation[...]

Which has just announced that Diamond Previews is dropping in price from January to $3.99. The cost of the Diamond Previews catalogue has often been cause of contention Now that cause will be a little… less.     Hannah Means-Shannon is currently liveblogging the Diamond Retailer Breakfast at New York Comic Con Which has just announced that Diamond[...]

Really, thank you so much — Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) October 7, 2014 UPDATE: DC has sent the below to retailers, DC ENTERTAINMENT TO PUBLISH BATMAN #36 AND 37 WITH A COVER PRICE OF $3.99 US Following the amazing start of the “Endgame” storyline in BATMAN #35, DC Entertainment announces that BATMAN #36 and 37 – chapters two and three[...]

Currently, Scott Snyder is in battle with DC Comics to get them to bring the price of Batman down from its newly announced price of $4.99 to its previous price of $3.99. But there are other options. Such as this subscription deal with twelve issues of Batman for $15.90, or $1.32 and a half cent each. That's whether[...]

To thirty pages of story each issue. And, as a result, the price of Batman by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, will be increasing from $3.99 to $4.99 (or $5.99 for the combo pack which includes a digital download code.) While superhero comics have jumped to that price point or beyond, for individual issues, this will be the[...]

But $3.99 on US news stands… a bit like Marvel's used to be. You know, when they were on news stands But it is worth applauding DC Comics for having, in comic stores at least, more $2.99 comics than – every other $2.99 comic on sale put together. Let's do the sums from December's solicits. DC Comics[...]