Despite DC Comics’ request that retailers destroy copies of All-Star Batman & Robin #10, many readers here and elsewhere report they were able to purchase the issue at cover price.
They made out like bandits, apparently, as bidding on eBay for the offending issue has climbed as high as $102.50. A package of the regular cover and the variant is going for as much as $152.50 (another has a “Buy It Now” price of $199.99). They’re among about 160 auctions, many of which hover in the $15 range.
Heidi MacDonald notes that some retailers are selling the book using their personal eBay accounts “to avoid whatever steps DC or Diamond may take to shut down the sales.”
Retailer-oriented website ICv2.com, meanwhile, considers the expense to DC of the destruction of a print run and the presumed reprinting. The previous issue sold more than 93,000 copies in the direct market.
Update: Newsarama has more
September 11th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Don’t beat around the bush. It sold over 100,000+ copies.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
And in a couple of weeks it’ll be worth about as much as Wolverine #131…
September 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
LOL… I still have a stack of Wolvie 131 from when I worked on the book. Yeah. Goofy interest in misprints never lasts.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
How would selling them through personal accounts stop DC/Warners/Diamond/Whoever from shutting down the sale?
I recently saw Warners shut down a bunch of custom Joker action figures auctions over the summer is why I ask, and would like to know how to sidestep that in the future
September 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
My guess is they can’t shut it down because this wasn’t a demanded, recall. They asked sellers not to sell them. With custom action figures it’s a non-sanctioned reproduction of their character being sold for profit. This book was authorized, they just screwed it up.