Spider-Man
03-17-2005, 07:25 AM
This disappointing news is from Newsarama (http://www.newsarama.com/Marvel/MvlPriceIncrease.htm):
Today Diamond Comics Distributors has released a text version of their April 2005 Previews (Vol. XV #6) Order Form (http://previews.diamondcomics.com/support/previews_docs/orderforms/cof.txt) for titles shipping to the Direct Market in June, and as some eagle-eyed readers have already noticed that June apparently marks a raise in price for Marvel Comics’ lowest priced books from $2.25 to $2.50. According to the Diamond order form, the titles that retailed for $2.25 as of May 2005 and are seemingly affected include:
Ultimate Spider-Man #78
Ultimate Fantastic Four #20
Ultimate X-Men #60
Amazing Spider-Man #521
Wolverine #29
New Avengers #8
X-Men #171 & 172
Uncanny X-Men #460 & 461
Marvel Team-Up #9
Additionally, the Marvel Adventures books (including Marvel Adventures Spider-Man) that had previously retailed for $2.25 also had their price raised to $2.50 effective titles shipping in May 2005.
Marvel's last significant price increase came in April 2003 (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=708), when the publisher raised the price of 13 titles (including Iron Man, Exiles and Thor) from $2.25 to $2.99, which at the time corresponded to titles selling at #30 or below in Diamond's Top 300 sales chart. That's not the case in this instance, as, aside from Marvel Team-Up, all of the books seeing a price increase are Marvel's best sellers, consistently ranking in the Top 10 monthly.
Marvel has not yet officially announced any price change.
The move effectively ends all $2.25 pricing at Marvel. DC still has six superhero titles priced at $2.25 (Nightwing, Robin, Batman, Flash, JLA and Wonder Woman), and their "Johnny DC" line (made of Cartoon Network and animated series tie-ins) is still priced at $2.25.
Newsarama is following this story and will bring you more information and confirmation and comments from Marvel when available.
Also information on Marvel Comics for June without the cover art:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=48022
Today Diamond Comics Distributors has released a text version of their April 2005 Previews (Vol. XV #6) Order Form (http://previews.diamondcomics.com/support/previews_docs/orderforms/cof.txt) for titles shipping to the Direct Market in June, and as some eagle-eyed readers have already noticed that June apparently marks a raise in price for Marvel Comics’ lowest priced books from $2.25 to $2.50. According to the Diamond order form, the titles that retailed for $2.25 as of May 2005 and are seemingly affected include:
Ultimate Spider-Man #78
Ultimate Fantastic Four #20
Ultimate X-Men #60
Amazing Spider-Man #521
Wolverine #29
New Avengers #8
X-Men #171 & 172
Uncanny X-Men #460 & 461
Marvel Team-Up #9
Additionally, the Marvel Adventures books (including Marvel Adventures Spider-Man) that had previously retailed for $2.25 also had their price raised to $2.50 effective titles shipping in May 2005.
Marvel's last significant price increase came in April 2003 (http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=708), when the publisher raised the price of 13 titles (including Iron Man, Exiles and Thor) from $2.25 to $2.99, which at the time corresponded to titles selling at #30 or below in Diamond's Top 300 sales chart. That's not the case in this instance, as, aside from Marvel Team-Up, all of the books seeing a price increase are Marvel's best sellers, consistently ranking in the Top 10 monthly.
Marvel has not yet officially announced any price change.
The move effectively ends all $2.25 pricing at Marvel. DC still has six superhero titles priced at $2.25 (Nightwing, Robin, Batman, Flash, JLA and Wonder Woman), and their "Johnny DC" line (made of Cartoon Network and animated series tie-ins) is still priced at $2.25.
Newsarama is following this story and will bring you more information and confirmation and comments from Marvel when available.
Also information on Marvel Comics for June without the cover art:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=48022