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[QUOTE=Digifiend;4443960]I have to wonder what Marvel would do in that situation? DC being gone would be bad news for them as well. Would Disney want to buy DC Comics?[/QUOTE]
I doubt AT&T would sell it, just so they wouldn't lose one of their main counters to Disney's Marvel IP.
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[QUOTE=Starter Set;4440836]Haha, that's a good way to look at it.[/QUOTE]
Indeed it is. :D
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[QUOTE=Buried Alien;4440756]This is madness. MADNESS!
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Madness that even Muse would not be too fond of.
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[QUOTE=Digifiend;4443960]I have to wonder what Marvel would do in that situation? DC being gone would be bad news for them as well. Would Disney want to buy DC Comics?[/QUOTE]
Why would that be bad news to them? That is more market for them. I would say it’s bad news for stores this would force them to look at other companies and might get them to be more selective in how much they order.
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[QUOTE=skyvolt2000;4453625]Why would that be bad news to them? That is more market for them. I would say it’s bad news for stores this would force them to look at other companies and might get them to be more selective in how much they order.[/QUOTE]
If DC went out of business, it wouldn't surprise me if many, perhaps even most, comic book stores would go out of business in a domino effect. Then Marvel would have no brick and mortar venues. I mean, that might not be a bad thing, but I'm sure it would to many people.
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It's too bad. So many great artists over the years and such a hugely influential book. I saw the Jim Jarmusch movie the "Dead Don't Die" and it plays exactly like a Mort Drucker movie parody from back in the seventies. Choose any of those great movie parodies like the "Odd-Father" or "True-Fat" (The Godfather/True-Grit) and act them out word for word, that's what that movie felt like. I always pick up old issues whenever I find them in a thrift shop.
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[QUOTE=Vampire Savior;4453903]If DC went out of business, it wouldn't surprise me if many, perhaps even most, comic book stores would go out of business in a domino effect. Then Marvel would have no brick and mortar venues. I mean, that might not be a bad thing, but I'm sure it would to many people.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, Marvel wouldn't gain sales, they'd lose sales due to store closures. Either Marvel or DC going away would kill the direct market.
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How many units was this magazine selling at the time of its demise, anybody know?
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Bleeding Cool: [URL="https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/07/19/rumours-dc-comics-closure-mad-magazine-san-diego-comic-con-presentation/"]Rumours About DC Comics’ Closure Of MAD Magazine, After San Diego Comic-Con Presentation[/URL]
Reading it, Rich Johnston basically says that he is trying to look into the period between Bill Morrison being fired from DC and MAD being closed down, and I [I]guess[/I] he thinks that there is a connection between the two events.
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Sad, I like MAD Magazine since I was a kid.
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The article says that, after its new material inventory is exhausted, Mad will continue to publish a few issues of reprints in order to fulfill subscription obligations then shut down completely.
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I think after Comic Con, that may not necessarily be the case anymore. [url]https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/07/19/rumours-dc-comics-closure-mad-magazine-san-diego-comic-con-presentation/[/url]