Coffee table books may be even more expensive than regular hardcovers
Published by Avi Green on Monday, December 03, 2007 at 5:25 AM.
As much as I wish I could appreciate the production of Marvel Omnibus publications, the price given here is very expensive:
Two years ago, David Gabriel, a senior vice president at Marvel Comics, publisher of Spider-Man and the X-Men, was sitting in the company’s Fifth Avenue offices with a few colleagues trying to come up with a product tie-in for the Fantastic Four film to be released that summer - “something to get the extreme collector excited,” he said.There may have been people who bought it, but for me, the price is scary. I'd learned a couple years ago that the difference between paperbacks and hardcovers is that the former usually just costs up to $30, which is okay for me, while the latter can be more than $50, which is quite a lot, more than I can gather up the courage to buy. An Omnibus collection's price at $100 is really whopping, and much more than I'll ever be up to getting, sadly.
The result was “The Fantastic Four Omnibus, Volume 1,” which would seem to be the opposite of a disposable comic book costing a few dollars or less. The oversize coffee table-style 848-page book reprinted the first 30 issues of the original Fantastic Four, the comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961. The book, which weighs 5.4 pounds, would retail for $99.99.
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