Amazon Strikes Again

Uncle Scrooge has been having something of a Renaissance of late. He's appeared under the Marvel Comics banner (the one-shot Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime, the four issue miniseries Uncle Scrooge: Earth's Mightiest Duck), under Dynamite's (DuckTales), and Fantagraphics' Uncle Scrooge (which is double numbered, with one of those numbers being the Legacy Number which runs through ten different comic book publishers(!). 

I'm not a fan of what Marvel has done to the character, so I dropped them after Infinity Dime, but I've been with the Dynamite and Fantagraphics books from the get-go. Unfortunately, I neglected to put the Fantagraphics version on my hold list, though, and I missed issue #3. 😩

I asked Krystal at The Great Escape if she could order #3 and she said she'd see what she could do, but JiC, I also took a look around the Internets. I found this on Amazon:

Then I thought to check Fantagraphics' website and found this:

 

Fantagraphics also charged $4.47 for shipping.

Now riddle me this: why does Amazon charge $3 more for the book...and 52¢ more for shipping (for a total of $3.52 up charge)?

Answer: because they can.

Fuckers.

Oh, by the way, in case you're interested...

• Dell Comics: 1952–1962 (Four Color Comics issues 386, 456 and 495; issues 4–39)
• Gold Key Comics: 1962–1984 (issues 40–173 as Gold Key, 174–209 as Whitman)
• Gladstone Publishing: 1986–1990 (issues 210–242)
• Disney Comics: 1990–1993 (issues 243–280)
• Gladstone Publishing: 1993–1998 (issues 281–318)
• Gemstone Publishing: 2003–2008 (issues 319–383)
• Boom! Kids (Boom! Studios): 2009–2011 (issues 384–404)
• IDW Publishing: 2015–2020 (IDW #1-56, with "legacy" issue numbers 405–460 in brackets)^[1]
• Fantagraphics: 2025- (Fantagraphics #1-, with "legacy" issue numbers 461- in brackets)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Scrooge)