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Aug 3 13 3:54 AM
Fin Fang Foom wrote:I would venture a completely off-the-top-of-my-head guess that, for the earliest volumes, it might have been somewhere between 500-750 copies -- though it's obviously much less now.
Aug 3 13 4:19 AM
Fin Fang Foom wrote:Most of the costs of printing the "variants" (and this applies to the hardcovers, as well) is in printing the bookblock -- and that's identical over both editions. Paying to do a short run of dust jacket or covers, yeah, that's going to be increasingly expensive as the quantities get smaller (not to mention the time spent preparing them), but probably not to the point where it completely erodes the margins -- yet. (To be honest, I'm surprised they are still doing them at this point, but who knows how long that will last.)
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Aug 3 13 5:56 AM
Batty Bilson wrote:But as a consumer, I shouldn't have to care about such things. If a publisher puts out something I like, that I can readily find, then I buy it. Excuses for their failures, or the "illogic" of their successes, don't concern me, only the comics themselves do. When you go to, say, the optometrist, do you pay them to hear someone tell you how tough their job is or how hard it is for them to find customers? No, you pay them for a service. And if they can't run their business and are gone one day, well that just leaves you just find another one to go to.
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wildlele wrote:Batty were you drunk when you posted that? Marvel is the prime example of publishers who refuse to take a loss. If the comics business has been in the red for decades now Marvel would have closed the doors. I donno man that post was pretty wacky, lots of incorrect, inaccurate and inane comments. You might want to go back and edit it before the rest of the board comes on.
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iamotdeadyet wrote:And Captain America is not the 1st avenger.
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Aug 4 13 6:54 AM
wildlele wrote:And you totally gloss over your statement "All comic business has been in the red for decades now" which is incorrect, inaccurate and inane. Have some coffee, wake the brain cells up and please explain.
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Aug 4 13 7:10 AM
eyes4u6666 wrote:Hate to hijack things and take them back to this thread's actual topic, but...An earlier comment said that Theakston did the art reconstruction on the All-Winners softcover. Since he is also credited in the hardcover, I'm assuming there was no additional work done on this new edition to improve the quality previously available, the same as the GA Torch volume.Anyone have both editions so that they can do a comparison?
Aug 4 13 8:27 AM
An earlier comment said that Theakston did the art reconstruction on the All-Winners softcover. Since he is also credited in the hardcover, I'm assuming there was no additional work done on this new edition to improve the quality previously available, the same as the GA Torch volume.
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Heathenson wrote:Another great line up next year! 61) X-Men 6 (#54-66)
Aug 5 13 1:13 PM
Phonics Monkey Vol 2 wrote:Once we get to the material that has been Masterworked since 2006-2007, additional work won't be necessary except for maybe one or two odd things. By that point they had things down pat and up to the current high standard. I'm not going to rebuy All-Winners just for better restoration on four cover pages, though. Even my anal-retentive OCD has it's limits...
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