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In October 2014 when IDW announced the new Disney comics, their website included a link enabling fans to subscribe to their newletter, IDWeekly. On the submission form, we can mark our interests...but "Disney" is not on the list. *Sigh*
http://idwpublishing.us1.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=5792cac24346d164eb0cf6ad2&id=9953d39781
I, too, hope subscriptions will be offered, but I remember when Kaboom had the publishing license and a subscription to any of their Disney titles cost several dollars more than it would cost to buy the issues at the local comics shop. In the 1940s-50s, each Disney comic was 54 pages---no advertising---and cost ten cents. A twelve-issue subscription cost one dollar. When Gemstone published Uncle Scrooge on heavier paper and with better coloring, an issue sold for $7.99 but a year's subscription was $83.40, which was a savings of $12.48 for twelve issues. It was an ever bigger savings here in Los Angeles County, where the sales-tax rate is 9%. Comics, newspapers and magazines are taxed but subscriptions from out-of-state are not. If IDW offers subscriptions, I hope they will be discounted or, at the very least, not more expensive than buying the comics locally.
As for those 54-page comics, they eventually gave way to 32-page comics. Now several companies, including Marvel, are publishing 28-page comics and a few are even doing 24-page comics. When we paid ten cents for a 54-page comic, we got 5.4 pages for each penny. With a 24-page comic selling for $3.99, a penny now gets us only one six-hundredths of a page. That's like a billion percent inflation!

GeoX, I observe that of the covers they've advertized so far, I *way* prefer the regular covers over the subscription covers. Maybe you could get someone to just buy copies for you at their friendly neighborhood comic book store, and save them for you till you return stateside?

Quote from user: Baar Baar JinxQuote from user: Thomps2525If IDW offers subscriptions, I hope they will be discounted or, at the very least, not more expensive than buying the comics locally.
Remember the good old days when a US comic book subscription meant 13 issues for the price of 12, with free shipping? Back when comic books were mainstream and bookstores and supermarkets had spinning racks, subscriptions used to be a way for publishers to ensure their product got sold, and they were willing to offer discounts as part of the trade-off. Now subscriptions have become one of the only avenues left for collectors who don't have access to specialty comic shops to get the issues they want in a niche market. Any discount on cover price gets nullified by high shipping costs. As far as the IDW Disney books go, the TPB option which will presumably collect individual issues (probably two) and all the variant covers after a minimal lag time may turn out to be most practical, even if it doesn't wholly satisfy our completist instincts.
When I started collecting subscriptions were $1.00 per year for 12 issues. So, at 10¢ a book, 2 issues were free.

Quote from user: Thomps2525I remember in the early 1980s when Disney comics (along with Popeye, Woody Woodpecker and other titles) were published under the Whitman imprint. The comics were just reprints but they contained no advertising. They were packaged in clear plastic, three comics per bag. They were available in racks at certain toy stores and drug stores. The covers of two of the comics faced outward but there was no way to tell which comic was in between.
I remember those. I think they used to be sold at malls at the now-defunct K-B toys. If I recall, there was a way you could sort of get an idea of what the middle comic was by manipulating the ones facing outwards, but it wasn't easy. I still have a stack somewhere of Whitman Winnie the Poohs, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Junior Woodchucks, Super Goofs, Chip N' Dales and Daisy and Donalds that I could only have gotten that way. No Barks reprints. Didn't they also sell Marvel Star Comics (Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, Royal Roy etc.) in packs like that?

To get this thread somewhat back on topic, I hope IDW is planning to print The Duck Who Came to Dinner at some point, as well as the new story that reveals Della's fate (or at least one version of it). Also, we haven't heard yet what the plans for WDC&S are, but I'm hoping we'll get to see the few remaining William Van Horn stories that haven't yet been published in the US. They'd be perfect openers, if IDW is planning to stick to the traditional format of the title. I'm under no illusion that these stories are anything extraordinary, but it would be nice to finally read them.

Quote from user: Baar Baar JinxDidn't they also sell Marvel Star Comics (Muppet Babies, Fraggle Rock, Royal Roy etc.) in packs like that?
Yup! Two or three times in the mid-to-late '80s, I got my parents to buy me one of those Star three-packs at the mom-'n'-pop grocery store in my hometown. I'm not sure now if they had their own display stand or if they were with the magazines in the checkout line

Also, it might be interesting to note that in December of 1993, during our second family vacation to Orlando in the '50's-style "drug store", replete with soda fountain, at the Old Town attraction, they had a bunch of three-packs made up of Gladstone I comics and early '90's Harvey comics. (I'm not sure if there were comics from other lines, as well.) That's how I got a copy of Gladstone's Donald Duck #250, reprinting "Pirate Gold", which I'd never read until then, so I was pretty excited to find it. I always assumed that store had put those thee-packs together themselves, but I was never sure.

...and it turns out that US 179 is just a reprint of "The Lemming with the Locket." My mind boggles when I try to imagine the sort of person who would be so fixated on completeness that they'd pay seven hundred dollars for that.

Is there going to be any kind of subscription for the titles through IDW?

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This is where I get mine.
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