{"id":5472,"date":"2010-04-13T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:21:39","slug":"399-now-most-common-cover-price-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/399-now-most-common-cover-price-for\/","title":{"rendered":"$3.99 now the most common cover price for comic books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Throughout the last few years, we’ve been reporting the slow and steady climb of comic-book cover prices \u2014 but we’ve always also been able to say that the most common cover price for comic books offered by Diamond Comic Distributors<\/b> has remained $2.99, even in months when the average cover price was climbing as much as 55\u00a2 more. No more. In March 2010<\/b><\/a> \u2014 a month that is looking to be a very good month for comics sales, for which our sales estimates will be along soon \u2014 the record was broken. More comic books in Diamond’s Top 300 were priced at $3.99 than $2.99.<\/p>\n

It’s still close: 130 comic books were priced at $3.99, with 124 priced at $2.99. The intermediary step, $3.50, continues to be bypassed with only 16 comics at that level.<\/p>\n

It is mainly a psychological barrier, as the average price of comic books offered was $3.55 \u2014 and the average price of all comics retailers ordered was $3.52. The average price will not be $3.99 until a lot more comics are priced higher still \u2014 and that does not look likely any time soon. Only eight comics were priced at $4.99 in the March Top 300. It’s also possible the most common price might drop back to $2.99 in some later month. But it is a noteworthy moment, right back with the first time most comics were priced at 15\u00a2, 50\u00a2 or a dollar. Four bucks is the new four bits, kids…<\/p>\n

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Throughout the last few years, we’ve been reporting the slow and steady climb of comic-book cover prices \u2014 but we’ve always also been able to say that the most common cover price for comic books offered by Diamond Comic Distributors has remained $2.99, even in months when the average cover price was climbing as much … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,17],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-prices","tag-diamond-monthly-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6626,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}