tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post398934210957307419..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART FOUR OF SUPER DC TEXT STORIES...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-32456070632543914122015-01-09T15:15:01.924+00:002015-01-09T15:15:01.924+00:00Yeah, but Fantastic was only two years before, and...Yeah, but Fantastic was only two years before, and most other comics hadn't raised their prices in that time, if I recall correctly. Also, for the first 50 issues or so, Fantastic had new material alongside the reprints (Missing Link/Johnny Future). I suspect Super DC was a monthly for the sole purpose of justifying its higher cover price. Had it been a weekly, it would probably have been about 9d or 10d. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-64891780708547101622015-01-09T15:06:09.434+00:002015-01-09T15:06:09.434+00:00Which shows just how little I know about the busin...Which shows just how little I know about the business! I had this mental image of him furiously beavering away over the presses, sweat flying off his forehead underneath his skipper's cap, like a Reid/Ditko drawing, desperately trying to get it finished all by himself!<br />I was comparing the 1/- price to the 9d of Fantastic/Terrific. Coming a couple of Yeats later and with more panels crammed into it, you would expect to pay 3d more. But putting it in the spinner racks wouldn't have helped as kids much preferred full colour US comics for that same shilling (or were they still only 10d in '69? )John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-6080040685722885362015-01-09T14:06:49.960+00:002015-01-09T14:06:49.960+00:00Thing is, JP, at a shilling (or 5p) it was more ex...Thing is, JP, at a shilling (or 5p) it was more expensive than weeklies with mostly all new material. (The licence for DC characters couldn't have been that high, surely.) Weekly comics sold for around 7d (3 & half p) so that might've put some readers off. Most weekly comics are prepared about 8 weeks ahead, monthlies longer than that, I'd guess, so Mick should've had more than enough time. I doubt he slapped them together the day before going to the printers.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-53798657233098262972015-01-09T13:51:14.496+00:002015-01-09T13:51:14.496+00:00I reckon you're spot on as to the reason for S...I reckon you're spot on as to the reason for Super DC's short-lived success. It was certainly cheap enough to be a weekly, but as there was so much crammed into it, perhaps Mick couldn't get it ready in 7 days?<br />The ONLY text story I remembered before you started showing them was A Is For Acid in TV Tornado.<br />Anyway many thanks for sharing this batch so soon ( you know I was after them! ) and look forward to the rest!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.com