DC's Villain Month 3D Covers

[TJ325]

The shop owner told me that people were lined up outside his store before he even opened up and did the store's pull list. Another store owner sent all of his customers to this guy's shop because he didn't order enough 3D covers for his subscribers. So next week I am going to have to leave work early in order to get in line for the last shipment of 3D covers. It's going to be chaos.

[G.A.tor]

This has been a blast. I know the shops are loving it as they have had the busiest Wed in YEARS!

agreed... the first week Wed was my best comic sales wednesday in 2 years....

[G.A.tor]

The shop owner told me that people were lined up outside his store before he even opened up and did the store's pull list. Another store owner sent all of his customers to this guy's shop because he didn't order enough 3D covers for his subscribers. So next week I am going to have to leave work early in order to get in line for the last shipment of 3D covers. It's going to be chaos.

I had a dozen folks lined up 30 minutes before we opened too...first time that has happened in a while.......

 

 

[TJ325]

Well, these past few weeks have definitely made me want to become a subscriber at a brick and mortar shop and start using previews to make sure I don't miss out on big event issues.

[ranx]

The strange thing is that the resell market drops on Wednesday...must be people thinking they might still get copies elsewhere heats up thurs to monday...

[natevegas]

Even stranger when are people going to snag bins that are cheaper than bid auctions.

[CJ]

Any way yet to tell actual print run numbers?

 

Or an educated guess by a store owner on the harder to find issues

 

IE Lobo, Harley, Dial E, Poison Ivy, Jokers Daughter?

[the authority]

Even stranger when are people going to snag bins that are cheaper than bid auctions.

 

This has happened for a long time. The only reasons I can imagine this happens is that a person is buying a ton of stuff from the same seller and just get caught up thinking they are stealing something and the table turns or they have purchased from a seller and received a condition better than advertised more than once. If thats not the case, they are just good old dummies

[TJ325]

Based on the past weeks high sales of The Ventriloquist and Mr. Freeze I was told that people were going for the Batman books. Plenty of Penguin covers but Clayface was the first to sell out at the three stores I went to. Followed by Arcane/Swamp Thing and Dial E. I thought Wonder Woman would be a low volume copy but there were plenty of Cheetah covers available.

[krighton]

Most everything sold out here, all I was seeing was 2D covers after the initial rush....some people were shying about from the $4.99 price tag one store put on its Batman covers.

[fastballspecial]

Everything is just about sold out locally. There are a couple of Superman and Riddler covers left and thats it.

 

[ranx]

yes extrapolate....

 

most comic store owners ordered according to their sales on the issues...so whatever batman was before...they might have upped their orders a little but remember this was months ago, and comic shops hate being left with a ton of back issues...

 

but allocations happened cause they ran out of the cover material...so my guess is that whatever the print run prior, it will be even less now...

 

If this gets press at any point, I mean national press...that will be the ballgame...

[realitytrip]

I have to say, as exciting and as fun as the chase has been, DC could have spent more effort on the actual books themselves. From what I gather, most of these books do not have the actual regular creative teams working on them, correct? Just very lackluster to me. Not much in here to make me come back after the event to buy a new DC book....

[TJ325]

You have a point. I will stick with Aquaman and all the Batman related titles. That's about it.

[krighton]

:baiting:it's all about the covers

[natevegas]

Again its not that DC ran out of paper stock they just didn't print enough. They thought it wouldn't sell yet isn't it a BIG coincidence that they printed plenty of the 2d ones?

[Iceman399]

11 of 12 sold out at midtown online for next week.

[darkstar]

Again its not that DC ran out of paper stock they just didn't print enough.

 

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/08/14/dc-comics-state-3d-cover-shortage-down-to-limited-paper-stock/

[krighton]

the demand has outpaced the available copies, and their lack of materials have kept them from printing more.

 

I find that refreshing.

 

And so it IS all about the covers.

[Flatliner1313]

It's too bad most of the books have been junk on the inside. With all this extra attention, it would have been a great opportunity to hook readers who don't typically buy DC books and just got sucked in by the hype or the coolness of the covers.