Comments on: Marvel: Point One (X 2)

By: vernon wiley

vernon wiley — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:25:29 +0000

I believe the retail price for this book is $5.99, not $5. Looks like it’s going to be a winner.

By: Jason1749

Jason1749 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:34:42 +0000

Yeah, while there may be some good stuff here, I just can’t drop $5 on a book full of 8 page previews for coming series. If Marvel was really interested in getting these into readers’ hands they would have followed DC’s lead from a few years ago and priced them at $1. Will probably pick one of these up when they’re sitting on the shelves at FCBD next May.

By: NB

NB — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:11:08 +0000

You might have a point here.

By: ~kill @ll marvel zombie's~

~kill @ll marvel zombie's~ — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:20:05 +0000

maybe people are finaly starting to stop leting marvel uping the price on the consumer.kind of a shame that marvel admit’s to increseing there price’s just to see if people will still buy them.(my basic point is if you don’t they will lower the price by there own word’s lol)

By: Barry Convex

Barry Convex — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:51:11 +0000

“The more relevant question is: Would they even need to overship if they had priced it appropriately as a promotional comic (like DC did with Brave New World and Countdown a few years back) in the first place?”

Nailed it, just about. 64 pages of new story for six bucks wouldn’t be so bad if there were an actual story there (like Countdown), but when it’s just a series of eight-page teasers for storylines that will play out elsewhere? Absurd.

By: Ginger

Ginger — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:33:09 +0000

at 5$ buck’s im surprised it sold that many I mean come on.

By: Matt Rower

Matt Rower — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:34:36 +0000

The more relevant question is: Would they even need to overship if they had priced it appropriately as a promotional comic (like DC did with Brave New World and Countdown a few years back) in the first place?

By: Marc-Oliver Frisch

Marc-Oliver Frisch — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:32:43 +0000

Marvel are nuts.

A brief look at the credits tells you that the book is a glorified trailer. If they were offering this for free, I might be inclined to take a look.

At five bucks? Zero interest.

By: Kyle Garret

Kyle Garret — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:58:26 +0000

They’d have to sell it at full price, because there’s no reason to believe that they could sell twice as many at half the price if the order was so low to begin with.

I’d love to see something like, “Buy any issue of the Sixth Gun and get Point One free,” which they could spin pretty easily since Cullen Bunn is a Marvel writer now.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:22:34 +0000

Comic Suite has been very buggy recently. At one point, I was unable to add Point One as a special order for one of the store’s biggest customers.
Maybe this is part of the issue?