Disney Comics Released Today.....(DCML Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7)

Tony Leopold tonyleopold at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 04:19:05 CEST 2010


I'm sorry. I meant to say that Darkwing Duck #1 is 26 pages, if you  
count the inside covers.

Sent from my iPhone.

On Jun 19, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Tony Leopold <tonyleopold at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just checked and Darkwing Duck #1 is 27 pages.
>
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On Jun 19, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Chuck Munson <chuckm_1962 at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Shad, Tony & Kneon for responding to my question  
>> regarding the incresed price for Darkwing.  It does now make some  
>> sense that in that format and general range of page amounts, there  
>> seems to be a formula of $1 per 8 pages, but I'm certain that that  
>> changes at a certain point (e.g., the four-issue compilations at  
>> $10 rather than $12).
>>
>> Kneon also has a good point that may well be a premium involved  
>> since this is wholly original art.  However, with doemstically  
>> produced, there wouldn't be additional translation (if that  
>> particular story doesn't come with a basic English-language  
>> storyline and scripting costs.
>>
>> Happy Saturday, everyone,
>>
>> Chuck Munson
>> Herndon, Virginia, USA
>>
>>
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>>  1. BOOM (Gary Leach)
>>  2. Re: Disney Comics Released Today.... (Shad Daly)
>>  3. Re: Disney Comics Released Today....(DCML Digest, Vol 88,
>>      Issue 5) (Tony Leopold)
>>  4. $3.99 vs. $2.99 (Kneon Transitt)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:39:22 -0700
>> From: Gary Leach <bangfish at cableone.net>
>> Subject: BOOM
>> To: dcml at nafsk.se
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>> Shad:
>>
>> Count me in!
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>> Would anybody be interested in seeing this email every week?
>>>
>>> Disney Comics scheduled to be released to comic book stores in USA  
>>> and
>>> Canada today (June 16 2010):
>>>
>>> BOOM! STUDIOS
>>> Darkwing Duck #1  $3.99
>>> Donald Duck And Friends #355  $2.99
>>> WALL-E #7  $2.99
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:16:28 -0600
>> From: Shad Daly <shadslists at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Disney Comics Released Today....
>> To: dcml at nafsk.se
>> Message-ID:
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>>
>> OK, I will send this info out weekly, probably on Monday or Tuesday
>>
>> The Darkwing Duck title is 32 pages, as opposed to the 24 pages that
>> is standard for Boom's Disney comics
>>
>> -- 
>> Shad Z.                      ^Q^
>> My Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/~shadzane/
>> My Web Site: http://shadz.homestead.com/files/
>>
>>
>>> From:?Chuck Munson <chuckm_1962 at yahoo.com>
>>> To:?dcml at nafsk.se
>>> Date:?Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:01:09 -0700 (PDT)
>>> Subject:?Re: Disney Comics Released Today....(DCML Digest, Vol 88,  
>>> Issue 5)
>>> Given that we actually do now have a plethora of new titles of all  
>>> sorts of Disney and Pixar lineage, I would hope that an update  
>>> like that would be of interest to our overseas friends (and also  
>>> to us over-worked and over-stressed US-based fans who have a  
>>> tendency to continually be behind the eight ball on keeping up!).
>>> Thanks for proposing it!
>>>
>>> Chuck Munson
>>> Herndon, Virginia, USA
>>>
>>> PS Does anyone have any idea why Boom is putting a one-dollar  
>>> premium on the new Darkwing Duck title ($3.99 versus $2.99).? More  
>>> pages, or just because they can??
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:49:56 -0500
>> From: Tony Leopold <tonyleopold at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Disney Comics Released Today....(DCML Digest, Vol 88,
>>    Issue 5)
>> To: Chuck Munson <chuckm_1962 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: dcml at nafsk.se
>> Message-ID:
>>    <AANLkTikvdGtH7LI_vGE22vpNqSkE6IO3L4rQHpw3Lixu at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>> I'm not sure about the price increase for Darkwing. Is it excellent  
>> quality
>> though.
>>
>> BOOM is very active on Twitter. If you don't like the 3.99 price,  
>> you should
>> let them know about it there. I already have. :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Chuck Munson  
>> <chuckm_1962 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Given that we actually do now have a plethora of new titles of all  
>>> sorts of
>>> Disney and Pixar lineage, I would hope that an update like that  
>>> would be of
>>> interest to our overseas friends (and also to us over-worked and
>>> over-stressed US-based fans who have a tendency to continually be  
>>> behind the
>>> eight ball on keeping up!).
>>> Thanks for proposing it!
>>>
>>> Chuck Munson
>>> Herndon, Virginia, USA
>>>
>>> PS Does anyone have any idea why Boom is putting a one-dollar  
>>> premium on
>>> the new Darkwing Duck title ($3.99 versus $2.99).  More pages, or  
>>> just
>>> because they can??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:18:08 -0400
>> From: Kneon Transitt <hey.kneon at gmail.com>
>> Subject: $3.99 vs. $2.99
>> To: dcml at nafsk.se
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>> I'd guess the reason Darkwing Duck is selling for $1 more than the  
>> other
>> Disney books is simply due to production costs. It's all new  
>> material,
>> versus translated foreign reprints. It ain't cheap to commission  
>> new art,
>> and is no doubt costing Boom! thousands more to print that title  
>> than the
>> others in the line.
>>
>> -- Kneon
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