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Is there someone I can subscribe to the new IDW series without having to pay shipping all the time?

"Azure Blue"? That name sounds awfully familiar. Are you asking about "Hocus pocus subscribus"? I imagine that IDW will wait to offer subscriptions until they see how well each of the four titles sells at comic shops. And each issue will have at least three different covers. Will subscribers be able to receive all the variants...or will the variants be sold only at comic shops? "Stinkum thinkum questus." That means "We'll have to wait and see." The ICV2 website gives details:
"The first issues of each of the four IDW Disney comic book series will all be 48 pages long and retail for $3.99. Subsequent issues will be 40 pages long with the same cover price. In a move designed to appeal directly to Disney collectors, each issue will have two regular covers along with variants depicting the characters in one of the Disney theme park attractions. April??s Uncle Scrooge variant will feature an Adventureland theme, while the May books will have Tomorrowland themed variants, July will see Fantasyland covers and August??s theme will be Epcot. (June??s is so special IDW isn??t revealing it yet)."
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/30696/idw-to-publish-disney-comics

Well, the first---or 405th---issue of Uncle Scrooge is now available and the inside of the front cover includes all the publishing information but nothing about subscriptions. *Sigh* If IDW was planning to offer subscriptions, I would think the details would be in their first title. It appears that we'll have to go to local comics shops or order from online dealers.

Quote from user: ramapithI asked my management, and they said:

The IDW "subscription cover" variant is called "subscription" not because we're selling subscriptions ourselves (we're not!)??but because, if you go to your retailer and "subscribe" to the comic through them (i. e. they add it to your "pull list"), the retailer is supposed to specifically order you a copy of that version every month.

So to reiterate: IDW's "regular cover" is what IDW imagines comic shops will put out on their shelves, while the "subscription cover" is what IDW imagines comic shops will order for the shop's pull list "subscribers."

(In reality, though, the retailers can order as many of each version as they want, so if you "subscribe" at your retailer, you can ask them to order whichever of the two you like best. But the "subscription cover" is supposed to be the default.)
Why is IDW not offering subscriptions direct to the publishing company?

The Disney titles will be available through Comic Book Discount Service...but anyone who does not already have Uncle Scrooge #1 will have to search elsewhere. The issue with the variant cover showing Scrooge and the nephews rafting down a river of money is sold out. CBDS was selling it for only $2.59 and had a limit of five issues per customer. I don't know how many copies were available but the fact that it sold out is encouraging. It means that the new Disney titles will likely be so popular that they will continue to be published for many many years.
https://www.dcbservice.com/product/feb150310/uncle-scrooge-1-subscription-var-special-discount

Quote from user: ramapithI asked my management, and they said:

The IDW "subscription cover" variant is called "subscription" not because we're selling subscriptions ourselves (we're not!)??but because, if you go to your retailer and "subscribe" to the comic through them (i. e. they add it to your "pull list"), the retailer is supposed to specifically order you a copy of that version every month.

So to reiterate: IDW's "regular cover" is what IDW imagines comic shops will put out on their shelves, while the "subscription cover" is what IDW imagines comic shops will order for the shop's pull list "subscribers."

(In reality, though, the retailers can order as many of each version as they want, so if you "subscribe" at your retailer, you can ask them to order whichever of the two you like best. But the "subscription cover" is supposed to be the default.)
To be honest, I would rather have the "regular" cover, as it is the one that actually illustrates the story in the issue (although I did buy both this time...I gave the extra to my stepdaughter who loved watching my DuckTales DVDs when she was younger).

Here in Los Angeles County, our sales tax rate is an outrageous 9%. When I was born---last century---it was only 4%. It keeps going higher and higher and the County never seems to have enough money. (I could go into the reasons but they have nothing to do with Disney comics.) Another half-cent sales tax hike will likely be on the next ballot. The sales tax has always applied to books but in the 1980s it was extended to newspapers, magazines and comics. When Gladstone and Gemstone published Disney comics, I subscribed and therefore did not have to pay sales tax. When BOOM Kids had the license, a subscription cost much more than just buying the issues locally and paying the tax. With IDW, well, I have no choice. That's okay, though---I'm just happy that Disney comics are back.
Now how about that Fluffy and Mervin?

Legacy Comics in Glendale, California, ordered only one copy of the Joe Books Darkwing Duck anthology, only one copy of the Disney Princess Comics Treasury and only one copy of the Disney-Pixar Comics Treasury. When I asked the clerk why he ordered only one of each, he told me, "I knew you'd buy them. I replied, "Other people might want a copy too, y'know." But he ordered 45 copies of Uncle Scrooge #1. I asked, "Why so many?" He explained that he had to order a certain number of issues in order to be able to get two copies with the comparatively rare "Adventureland" cover. And before anyone asks: I bought just two different issues, not all 47.