Are monthly comics on their way out of the market?
Dirk Deppy at Journalista! says "No."
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When I began to seriously read comics in the 1980s, the Canadian cover price was just 75 cents and the U.S. price was just 60 cents. That’s pretty cheap.
Contrast that with today’s prices. The recently published Superman No. 678 carries a cover price of $2.99. And that’s a cheap title. Do the math and you’ll see that 20 comics in 1983 would set you back $15. Today those same 20 titles are going to cost $59.80 — before taxes....
In fact most monthly comics today are written in convenient four- or six-issue arcs, which make it easier to collect as a single published edition with the original issues serving as chapters....
So what does it all mean? Eventually I think we will see floppies go by the wayside. There are simply too many factors working against it to make it viable in the long run. But we will lose something which I will talk about next week.
