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We want to make it consistent for you and for your customers.  The bulk of the line will be $3.99, with new #1's and 8 to 10 core titles with top talent and top characters being priced at $4.99.  There will be exceptions for event books, one-shots, and anniversary books, but you will also see[...]

In Marvel's May 2024 solicits and solicitations, they have the following 32 pages comics (with between 20 and 22 pages of story) for $4.99 instead. Blood Hunt #2 Union Jack The Ripper #1 Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #5 Amazing Spider-Man #49 Ultimate Black Panther #4 Ultimate Spider-Man #5 Ultimate X-Men #3 Superior Spider-Man #7 Spider-Boy #7 What If Venom #4 Carnage #7 GODS #8 Wolverine #49 Fall Of[...]

Last month, Bleeding Cool reported that Marvel titles Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Wolverine, Immortal Thor, Captain America, Daredevil, Star Wars: Dark Droids, Star Wars, Darth Vader, Bounty Hunters, Doctor Aphra, and Obi-Wan were all making the jump from $3.99 32 page comics to $4.99 32 page comics in October. Well, they are doing it again in November[...]

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[...]

The new Superman #1 for 2023 had a thirty-page comic book story and cost $4.99 or $5.99 for a cardstock cover That's the standard price at DC Comics for an oversized comic book However, Superman #2, out next week, is also $4.99 or $5.99, but for a 22-page story And that seems to be the[...]

They then increased the price for The Joker #2 from $4.99 to $5.99. Previously DC Comics had been sticking to $4.99 for their 40-page comics with $5.99 for cardstock cover versions It looked like an across-the-board price change might be being trialled – or at least for the Batbooks Because in June, Batman #109 was also[...]

$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 increased page counts Batman #106 and Joker #1 had comics with 22-page lead stories and an[...]

But how much are you willing to pay? The $4.99 comic book price point is causing ructions… The Daily Lying In The Gutters, remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Comic by me. $4.99 – and the ten most-read stories on[...]

This is how Empyre #3, published today, was solicited, at $4.99. EMPYRE #3 (Of 6) AL EWING & DAN SLOTT (W) • VALERIO SCHITI (A) • Cover by JIM CHEUNG The tag-team action comes home! Wakanda is the battleground – as the Avengers and the FF unite to prevent a Vibranium-powered threat to all life as we know it! A[...]

Ah, it's like Silver Surfer #50 all over again. Or maybe Turok #1. or possible X-Men Prime. Civil War II has, it seemed, reached its stretch goal, and

But note that Darth Vader is now a $4.99 comic book… CAPTAIN AMERICA: STEVE ROGERS #1 NICK SPENCER (W) • JESUS SAIZ (A/C) Cover by JESUS SAIZ VARIANT COVER BY STEVE EPTING ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER YOUNG VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG AGE OF APOCALYPSE VARIANT COVER BY Paul Renaud HIP-HOP VARIANT COVER BY TBA CAPTAIN AMERICA 75TH ANNIVERSARY VARIANT[...]

In December there are ten titles from Marvel Comics priced at $4.99 Some are those are for overlong stories such as Secret Wars #9 and Totally Awesome Hulk #1 and an Annual of two. But some are the standard size comic with a back-up strip included, such as Guardians Of Infinity, and Howard The Duck. Everything else is[...]

Secret Wars #1 was solicited by Marvel Comics as a 40 page comic for $4.99 You can usually knock off 12 pages for covers, ads, backmatter and "previously seen on Buffy The Vampire Slayer" intros to find the full comic book page count So a 32 page Marvel comic gives you bout 20 pages and[...]

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[...]

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[...]

That was already printed. But as we reported, Scott Snyder went to bat over the price of the monthly Batman comic, announced by DC Comics as going up from $3.9 to $4.99. And now he tells us, And more great news – @DCComics has agreed to return the price of BATMAN to 3.99 following #35! VERY grateful Go[...]

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[...]

The word has come down that his final issue with David Aja is jumping from the original $2.99 price point of the series, past its current $3.99 to a whopping $4.99. Well, "El Dorado" does mean the golden one And it didn't do last week's Superior Spider-Man any harm, did it? But I'd expect quite a lot of[...]

These were the rather bare solicitations for September's The Death Of Wolverine from Marvel Comics. DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 CLASSIFIED Variant and sketch covers by Joe Quesada and Alex Ross, covers by Skottie Young, Deadpool variant 9/3/2014 $4.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 CLASSIFIED 9/10/2014 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 CLASSIFIED 9/17/201 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 CLASSIFIED 9/24/2014 $3.99 Well, we know the creators are Charles Soule and Steve McNiven[...]

VARIANT BY PHANTOM CITY CREATIVE ORIGINAL SIN tie-in! • Xavier's greatest secret has been revealed! • Against such overwhelming power, will the X-Men succeed in holding the line? • Or will Xavier's final "gift" to his children be their undoing. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 But just for those watching every penny, it's now been changed to a $4.99 comic… and another[...]

So it was a nice surprise for X-Men Legacy, renamed Nightcrawler, to return at a $2.99 price point. Which lasted all of a week. Now retailers have been told that it will actually be $3.99. Original Sin #0, originally solicited at $3.99 will be $4.99. And the final issue of Wolverine And The X-Men #42 will also rise from[...]

And the best selling books for both DC and Marvel are $3.99. It can't have escaped anyone's notice that the $7.99 editions of Detective Comics, Amazing Spider-Man and the like topped the charts, with extra content. DC's digital-only titles have been shifting from 99 cents to $1.99 and still does well. And the All New Marvel NOW[...]

With books such as Marvel's Wolverine And The X-Men HC collecting four issues of 20 page comics (rather than the seven issues on the Amazon's listing), shipping yesterday for a whopping $19.99, some readers are in revolt. Not so much the $3.99 twenty page comic, but four $4.99 twenty page comic in a stiff binder That's[...]