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Advance Sales of Batman #89 for $45 and Hell Arisen #3 For $28


Okay, so. The next two weeks are going to be insane in comic book stores. That's when Batman #89 goes on sale featuring the first appearance of the Joker's new girlfriend, Punchline, followed by Year Of The Villain: Hell Arisen #3 the week after, This was first mentioned in Batman writer James Tynion IV's newsletter. But he was very vague. Announcement only came after retailers had made their Final Order Cut-Off numbers, Some retailers tried to get additional copies anyway, and the print run for the comic rapidly sold out, leading DC Comics to send both issues to second printings before the first printings arrived in stores, a great rarity for DC Comics. And now advance sales are jumping up in price on eBay – and people are paying them. One seller sold 3 copies of Batman #89 in advance for $45 each.

This, remember, is a $3.99 comic that hasn't got to comic stores yet. Copies have been flying off eBay – the cheapest I can find right now for the main cover is $20 – let's see how long that lasts after I link to it. While for Year of The Villain: Hell Arisen #3, one seller has sold 16 copies in advance for $22 each.

While another sold 5 copies for $28 each.

The lowest I can find copies available right now is $20 – but there do seem to be more advance copies of this around. For now. Good luck on Wednesday…

Batman #89
(W) James Tynion IV (A) Guillem March (CA) Tony S. Daniel
Batman must stop Deathstroke from killing the mayor of Gotham City! But to do so he has to figure out who ordered the hit in the first place. If his four main suspects aren't 'fessing up to the crime, then is there someone even more sinister lurking in the shadows waiting to deliver the coup de grâce? Whoever it is, one victim will fall under their attack!

Price Gouging on Variants


Okay so i know this is going to go both ways by point of view but i think this is ridiculous. I have tried in the past to buy variants and after today i remember why i stopped. Lets use an example. Wonder Woman 600 was released today and i attempted to buy the variant. The cover price says 4.99 and the shop wants to charge me twenty dollars! They claim its because of how many they have to order. So if they are buying it for 5 dollars and charging me 20 then isnt that price gouging? Are the stores being charged higher for the variants by the distributor? This is idiotic! I am not paying 15 more dollars for a cover that has the same comic inside it. If this a nationwide practice then all the comic publishers need to print 20 dollars on these variants and not the 4.99 that was on the comic i saw today.

Our economy is never going to recover because we have a habit towards idiocracy. The consumer has an easy choice to choose what comic to buy. Half the reason i feel that the prices on comics gets higher and higher is because of the extra cost to print these variants alongside the other thousands and then only a fraction of us have the pockets or desire to buy at that outrageous price.

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