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04-22-2008, 05:21 PM
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Free Comic Book Day
Saturday, May 3rd is Free Comic Book Day at your local comic book shop for those who are interested.
You can find out what titles at Free Comic Book Day May 3rd 2008.
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04-22-2008, 09:27 PM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
I'll be getting that EC Sampler and the Simpsons book.
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04-23-2008, 08:47 AM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
I can't wait! I did this for the first time last year and it was great. I went to Midtown Comics in NYC and got a big bag with pretty much all of the comics.
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05-02-2008, 02:09 PM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
Tomorrow is the day!
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05-04-2008, 03:56 AM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
The comic shop I went into only gave away 1 book per person. I told them never mind.
"What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes."
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05-04-2008, 08:07 AM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
Midtown Comics again gave out all of them (44 or 45).
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05-04-2008, 02:11 PM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
The books aren't free to the retailers money so I don't blame them for putting a limit on people (especially when every year, I see people grabbing everything whether they're interested in it or not). Of course, when they limit the number of books or don't carry them, the store looks bad and it pisses off its customers. In the end, Free Comic Book Day is designed as a promotion for the industry but it's a waste of money for the retailers because they 'have' to particpate and spend money to keep their customers happy but they get little or no new customers.
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05-05-2008, 08:39 AM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
At Newbury Comics in Burlington I took my 4 1/2 year old daughter who loves Spider-Man. They had the books behind the counter, so I just asked if it would be greedy to just ask for one of everything. The girl was very friendly and said no problem, I wouldn't be the first.
Looking through the books at home, I was very happy to see about 10 titles that were kid-friendly, so my daughter could have her own 'stash,' and wandering around, I bought her a few more books that she picked to put some cash Newbury's way.
She was thrilled with her pile of comics - I think they've made a future comics reader of her!
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05-05-2008, 12:04 PM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
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Originally Posted by TravisR
The books aren't free to the retailers money so I don't blame them for putting a limit on people (especially when every year, I see people grabbing everything whether they're interested in it or not).
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How does it cost the retailers money? Aren't these all promotional editions that are provided to the stores for free?
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05-05-2008, 01:16 PM
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Re: Free Comic Book Day
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How does it cost the retailers money? Aren't these all promotional editions that are provided to the stores for free?
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Nope! I'll try to get an average cost by my local comic book retailer this week. The publishers do provides these comics at a substantially lower cost/issue than the usual fare, but the retailers do incur costs during this promotion.
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