Comic companies sure choose the
weirdest things to boast about sometimes. For example:

Say
what?!?
Yes, they're actually
proud of having the first comic book that cost a dollar each month. "
Yay, look at us, we're charging two and a half times what regular comics cost!!"
Of course, back in 1980, they gave you
a lot of extra content for the extra coin. Today, you're going to pay
four times that dollar, for
a third of the story pages.
So, I guess they really
did have something to boast about. You rock on,
1980 Detective Comics. You rock on...
House ad from April 1980 issues of DC
1 comment:
Oh boy, those first Dollar Comics were such a bargain, weren't they four times the comic for less than three times the price. 72 pages out of 80, if memory serves - though I think the proportions had shrunk by this time. Still ... And sigh.
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