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Why are comics shops closing as superheroes make a mint?
- gnat 8y ago> One of the unique challenges in comics is the monthly gamble on what will sell. Comics released every few weeks, as opposed to the collected editions available in bookshops or on Amazon, aren’t returnable; with 600 to 1,000 such items published every month, stores must make educated guesses or be stuck with their mistakes. At OK Comics, 90% of what Myland gets in are pre-orders, with the rest put on shelves for casual customers. “Smart retailers would rather under- than over-order,” he says Ouch. Returns make things hard for the publishers, so I understand removing them for a diverse catalog of small cheap publications which will be replaced by a collection in a known period of time. But yeah, that really does make them very unattractive for retailers.
- Cheyana 8y agoThere are too many comics, all the stories have been done, it could be any number of reasons. Price is also probably a consideration for a consumer. When I started collecting as a kid in the 70s, I could get a pile of comics with my weekly allowance. A pile of comics now (each of which have less pages) will run you anywhere from 20 to 30 dollars or more, and I don't know of too many 10 year olds that have that kind of weekly disposable income.