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As a retailer myself, quite a bit of the topics covered are of interest, but the current thinking behind Marvel's TPB pricing caught my eye They were asked about the collection pricing by a retailer, and here is his response: Another topic that wasn't on the formal agenda was pricing for Marvel graphic novels "To use[...]

Whatever 'Death Of X' is, Marvel Comics wants to clear out their warehouse of X-Men related titles, it seems. With every X-related trade paperbacks and hardcovers getting a very large discount for retailers who want to help Marvel in that endeavour. So why do Marvel, seemingly, want to clear their warehouse of any X-Men title? […]

But now that Amazon owns ComiXology, maybe it will become more common?All-New Ultimates TPB Vol 1 is listed on ComiXology at the rather low price of $1.99 or £1.49 A promotional price? Possibly.But then when All-New Ultimates #1 is listed at £7.49 or $11.99 you think that maybe, just maybe, someone may have got the[...]

which of these are hiding on a bookshelf somewhere and could be flipped to pay for next week's comics? Next month's comics even? Let's have a look...Civil War: Spider-Man HC $600Bone One Anniversary Edition $360Dan Dare - Pilot Of The Future, Prisoner Of Space HC $300DC Archive Editions Batman Vol 7 HC $300Gargoyles Vol 1:[...]

Many comic book publishers print their trades, hardcovers, and other collections overseas due to lower printing costs. The trade off is that it can double or even triple the production timeline needed to produce them due to transit time by boat. Often publishers have to set print runs before they have their final orders. Typically […]

Diamond Comic Distrubutors and Marvel Comics are giving retailers massive discounts on the following collections, anywhere from an 80% to a 50% reduction on the already discounted prices that comic stores pay.What that means is that a) stores may have some very nice prices on these books soon b) if they don't you may be[...]

From Amazon, Hachette and others, a few discoveries for upcoming Marvel collections. We already mentioned Fantastic Fourever of course… The Marvel Masterworks: Not Brand Echh Volume 1 will be made available separately from the big box, out in June 2015. Skrulls Must Die!: The Complete Skrull Kill Krew collecting the Morrison/Millar/Yeowell Skrull Kill Krew series as well as […]

DC Comics has informed retailers that the following trade paperback collections have a few copies left in the warehouse but will be going out of print very shortly. And that DC Comics have no intention of republishing them. Okay which isn't quite forever, but it's as close as you'll get. So, if you were thinking […]

UPDATE: Marvel's David Gabriel gets in touch to tell us that Comic Shop News misquoted him, and that he never said that the Essentials program was ending.  The original story follows below. The most recent issue of freebie comics newsletter Comic Shop News confirms what some had been expecting. The end of the Marvel Comics Essential […]

Did you buy The Walking Dead Vol 17 in trade paperback this week? You might want to check you got all you were expecting. There are a number of reports of misprinted volumes with the last chapter, 102, replaced with a repeat of chapter 101. Now, 101 is a very good issue of the comic. […]

Old Batman, that is... -I had half a dozen people looking for OOP Dixon Nightwing trades.-almost as many were looking for Baman: Contagion and Cataclysm, the two events leading into No Man's Land (which DC is rereleasing)-a couple of people looking for Knightquest: the Search because of DC leaving leaving it out of the Knightquest TPB-Sold[...]

The only way in which you'd have saved money by tradewaiting this series is if you'd have waited for the regular TPBs rather than the hardcovers -- and due to the notorious slowness of DC's trades programme, you'd still be waiting for the final volume to come out if you did!The hardcover editions would, somewhat[...]

Dapper Dan writes for Bleeding Cool; Episode 4 (Ok, there's not really been 3 earlier ones, but you might pay more attention if you think this is an established article…) Welcome to the first, hopefully, in a series of articles focusing on a particular character or team and my suggested trade paperback reading for them. […]

And the same goes for the forthcoming Absolute Sinestro Corps volume, which has apparently chosen to collect some--but not all--of the standalone character-focused one-shot tie-in issues alongside the main series, despite purporting to be the ultimate version of the storyline.Ultimately, in cases like this, it's up to the reader to decide what they feel is[...]

(To pluck an example from the top of my head, fans who have tradewaited Ed Brubaker's Captain America have had to deal with Marvel putting out “premiere” hardcovers for certain arcs before switching to straight TPBs for others, only to go back to hardcovers for later storylines).   And DC is even more unpredictable: not[...]

I had originally planned to use this second column to compile a list of those uncollected runs for which comics fans were crying out for collected editions, but it seems that asking BleedingCool's hive-mind of readers for suggestions at the end of last week's column was opening a real can of worms.It turns out that[...]

Each week, I'm going to be picking out a handful of the most interesting new TPBs and hardcovers going on sale, as well as reviewing a couple of recent (and sometimes not-so-recent) collected editions that are well worth your time and money.I'll also try and keep abreast of what collections are coming up a little[...]

Consider this a call to action for trade waiters. Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island, out in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Press tomorrow. Here's the solicits… From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate […]