Breaking Comic Book News

I was just settling in to make my list of This Week's Comics, which I usually do by (1) going through the New Releases & then (2) going through the Recently Reduced Releases on Comixology. And it was looking like a pretty small week at The Great Escape with just two DC books, Action Comics #977 &; Super Powers #6 (of 6, alas, as I truly love Franco and Art Baltazar). But it was looking like a pretty big Comixology week, with 7 titles I was interested in perusing:  Injustice 2 #1, Eclipse #5, Hyperion, #1, Mirror #6, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #737, Warhammer 40,000:Revelations #5, and Donald and Mickey: The Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 75th Anniversary Collection all on the cheap. $14.47 . . . which includes the tax. 

And that should have been enough, of course, but when I spotted the cover of Captain America Masterworks Vol. 9--a lovely Gil Kane drawing--I had to pause. It was $16.99, which is quite high for me, but it was also 343 pages of Primo Cap, much or all of which I once owned and read (in the days before The Purge). And that book lists for $75 in hardcover ($51.99 on Amazon), so $16.99 was actually quite a good deal.  And we're talking about creators Steve Englehart, Tony Isabella, Bill Mantlo, John Warner, Marv Wolfman, Sal Buscema, Frank Robbins, Herb Trimpe, and that little bit of Gil Kane, too. I was seriously thinking about putting that $17 down for this one. 

But . . . HOLY FUCK! I flipped over to Amazon to check on the list price and the Amazon price (since--despite the unfashionability of such a concept--I still try to check my facts), and happened to see this little bit of honey-sweet heaven: 

Kindle Price: $8.50 

Now, this has GOT to be some kind of mistake. I mean . . . that's less than 2 1/2 ¢ per page. 9¢ per page is a GREAT price, for gosh sakes. 

But I just threw $8.50 at Amazon, and look what I found in my pudding:

I am going to do me some serious remembrancing of things past. 17 plus issues of sweet, sweet comic books . . . from when Marvel still produced sweet, sweet comic books. 

If you're interested, do it do it do it do it do it now, because once the Masters find out about this immense price fuck up, it is going to disappear! Surely it must be so!

(Reminds me of a time back in the day when Netflix sold off old dvds, and I saw one listed for $0.00. So I "bought" it. And they sent it to me. But next time I looked on the website, that price had changed, you can betcha.)