F+W ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF COMICS BUYER’S GUIDE

[Korvac Saga]

I've been a subscriber for a bunch of years. I never bought it for the price guide, just for the reviews, humorous cartoons, articles and fan letters. Sad to see it go.

[HouseofComics.Com]

It was dirt cheap but I finally let my sub lapse about a year ago. I didn't fully intend to stop subscribing but I also didn't notice for months when the issues stopped coming, so that says something about the publication right there.

 

I always considered the price guide wasted space and the market reports in there seemed fairly pointless too.

[Silver]

I have been a continuous subscriber since 1984. Even though it has not been the magazine it used to be for a long time, I will miss it.

[HouseofComics.Com]

Good stuff with further links to other CBG writers on the closing:

 

http://www.cbgxtra.com/reviews-and-retroviews/rays-reviews-a-comics-buyers-guide-coda

[DiceX]

I didn't know it was still in print. I probably would have been buying it.

 

Me either. I thought it folded years ago.

 

I could have sworn there was a thread 4 or 5 years ago that it was ending.

 

 

[bronze johnny]

Could they have survived with an online site/publication?

[paperheart]

end of an era. i will miss Peter David's column.

[shadroch]

I didn't know it was still in print. I probably would have been buying it.

 

Me either. I thought it folded years ago.

 

I could have sworn there was a thread 4 or 5 years ago that it was ending.

 

 

Thats about the time it went from a weekly newspaper to a monthly slick magazine.

[Korvac Saga]

end of an era. i will miss Peter David's column.

+1 Hope he gets better soon.

[Tony S]

Too bad. I purchased lots of books out of the old TBG in the late 70's. Sold much of my collection following my divorce in 1981 there. And got started as a mail order dealer in their pages. I subscribed regularly until it went to magazine size. Then I was hit and miss. Subscribe for a year, then let it lapse. Then get a "please come back" and resubscribe.

 

A lot of fond memories.

[Thermal]

end of an era. i will miss Peter David's column.

+1 Hope he gets better soon.

 

+2

 

Kind of ironic too, first thing I thought when I heard of his stroke was the fate of "But I Digress.....",

[Designer Toast]

I didn't know it was still in print. I probably would have been buying it.

 

 

Great, Dice brought about the downfall. That single issue you didn't buy was the tipping point.

 

It really isn't a surprise to see this happen. As others have noted, the magazine really wasn't very modernized. I was subscribing to it when it went from slick page to newsprint and mostly black and white. That was the first sign readership was down.

[Ken Aldred]

We had an even worse example in the UK, a news magazine called Comics International, which shifted to quarterly publication while in competition with online news sites. Very astute. (thumbs u Finished in no time, one or two issues.

[chrisco37]

It used to be great. It started declining before it went monthly. Once it went monthly, it was awful. I didn't renew my subscription at that point.

 

It was pretty entertaining when they did the whole Comic Keys / eBay article. Good threads came out of that.

 

 

[ThreeSeas]

I have been a continuous subscriber since 1984. Even though it has not been the magazine it used to be for a long time, I will miss it.

 

Me too. I also discovered it in 1984 and had been getting it ever since.

 

I feel that a part of our hobby now has disappeared.

[miraclemet]

Print is Dead!

 

now lets get back to talking about what comic books we buy

 

wait....