MASSIVE Marvel Sale: And I Said, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, What a Feeling

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You know what stingy bastards those Marvel folks are, right? I mean, every one of their titles is at least $3.99 while DC manages to keep most of their titles at $2.99, and on Comixology most comics go down to $1.99 in price after the next issue comes out, but not Marvel, nope. So seeing a Marvel Comixology sale is a big deal, and this one is a really big deal: up to 75% off a whole buncha good stuff (until 1/2/2017 @ 11 pm, when it all ends.

And that includes stuff that is pretty much hot off of the presses (like a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther) as well as a shit load of Marvel Masterworks collections for less than 1/3rd of the regular price.

But what caught my eye and made me put it back was this thing of beauty:

Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin: The Complete Collection
$19.99 $6.99 

And just to give you some perspective on that, the Amazon price is  $34.99 $31.49.

That's 332 Pages of Jim Starlin Captain Marvel . . . from 
Captain Marvel (1968) #25-34, Iron Man (1968) #55, Marvel Feature (1971) #12, Marvel Graphic Novel #1 and material From Daredevil (1964) #105 and Life Of Captain Marvel #1-5.

And you know, I was just looking at this on the stands at The Great Escape and thinking that it was totally worth the price ($26.24, cause TGE is cool like that). And this is almost $20 cheaper. Yikes.

I know what I have to do. 


ADDENDUM: Whilst looking about at some of the other Marvel deals--and feeling a bit Captain Marvel-ly--I fixed my peepers on Captain Marvel: Marvel Masterworks Vol. 6 (which was NOT on sale, and thus featured a $16.99 price tag, which was a no-go for me) and perused its contents, which were as follows:

Captain Marvel (1968) #58-62; 

Marvel Spotlight (1979) #1-4, 8; 

Marvel Super-Heroes (1992) #3; 

Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) #1; 

and material from Logan's Run (1977) #6.

Which has a bit of overlap with--DID YOU SAY LOGAN'S RUN??? Surely a typo, right? So I went Googling and found that it was not a typo, and that while Captain Marvel himself was absent from the pages of Logan's Run, Thanos and Drax the Destroyer actually do appear in a 5 page story entitled "The Final Flower." So of course I had to investigate further. I even took a look at eBay and found that I could indeed have the 7 issue run of Logan delivered to my door for a mere $46. And then I reminded myself that it was the 21st century and found the story in its entirety online for free. I won't reproduce it here since it's not mine to mishandle, but I will say that if you Google marvel the final flower in an image search you shouldn't have a very hard time locating all five pages. Don't get too hopped up: it's a pretty bad story, and the art is wannabe Starlin that doesn't be. Still, it was a nice little adventure into a previously unknown cul-de-sac of comics history, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.