Marvel takes back the newstands?

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Can it work?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to be able to get Marvel comics in the newsagent like I did when I was a kid. That'd be kinda cool, as I only get to the comic stores now and agin.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Jel you can! Except they're British reprints and about 3 year old reprints at that. Oh well. But they're quite good VFM - 2 or 3 stories for a couple of quid.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

There are a lot of Marvel comics in the grocery store where I shop, next to the magazines. I think some of them are kiddie-oriented, but Bendis' Daredevil is always there as well.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

That's cool & all, but I dunno that kids nowadays go to the 7-11 that often anymore (unless they're in high school or college and looking for a come-down snack). Also, selling wee lil' 32-page pamphlets for upwards of $3 in a store where most of the goods are priced lower than that seems a bit off. The Barnes & Noble's thing, however, is a definite step in the right direction - if you're gonna target the kids in the US, you target the malls & superstores.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I could definitely see mom or dad grabbing a comic off the spinner to shut up junior during a cross-country road trip to see the folks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

are they not in barnes & noble already? i know i see them in borders, at all the local newsstands, and at most grocery stores and drugstores, or at least the ones big enough to stock paperbacks and mags. i see them occasionally in gas stations/convenience stores but nothing in comparison to when i was a kid.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

The all-night pharmacy/electronics/convenience story down the street from me keeps their handful of comics--a few Archies, some kiddy books like Powerpuff Girls, the odd Superman and a bunch of X-Men titles, parallel to the floor at the bottom of a paperback rack.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

My Target has X-Men and Teen Titans comics in the kid's books section.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, the British reprints, I should check them out. The comic rockist in me has always balked at the concept of the reprint, how silly.

I remember buying some Marvel comics in a 7/11 when I was about 17, and the guy at the counter started asking me if they were for kids, and if they were any good...I think I gave up comics after this incident.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

It was the whole being interogated about buying comics thing that put me off, plus the whole needing to spend my disposable Y on any random Sub Pop CD.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, I remember the guy at the 7-11 saying something about how he didn't know why the called them "comic" books anymore, they aren't funny dangnabit, when I was a kid.

― Occam, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Haha.

When I worked in a bookstore with a comics spinner, I think the only ones that ever sold were Simpsons and Star Wars comics. In fact when I missed some issue of Batman: Hush that had sold out, I called there because I knew no one would have bought it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

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