I’ve noticed for a while now that Marvel has been steadily raising the prices on their trade paperbacks. Where a collection of a 5-issues used to run you around $13-14, it’ll now run you anywhere from $15-20 these days, depending on how well the series sold in single issue form. While I’d say that the best way to get them to lower their prices would be to stop buying these trades, that’s just not an option. Instead, I just look for better deals. So instead of shopping at my local comic shop, more and more of my business these days has been going to Amazon.com. And for those titles that are too expensive even with Amazon’s generous discount? There’s my “List of books to find for 50% off at Comic-Con this year.” Shop smarter, not harder fellow readers.
That being said, I only paid full price for one of the following books. See if you can guess which one it was:
