Dollar Tree has DC Comics

[MRP]

If you are in Dollar Tree looking for cheap materials for customizing or crafting, keep an eye out for their DC Comics display. It's a large, freestanding blue cardboard standee with the DC logo on the sides. It has a wide variety of polybagged DC Comics for $1,25 each. These are a new printing/edition of first issues from the new52, Rebirth and Dawn of DC eras of comics, plus kids books like the Batman & Scooby Doo Mysteries. All of them have the same back cover ad, which is new (and I have been told they have new, contemporary ads inside but I haven't had time to open one up yet to look. These make great stocking stuffers (I fondly remember getting those polybag three-packs of comics in my stocking each year as a kid in the 70s) or as an intro to kids or folks who might never otherwise see comics because they don't go to specialized comic shops to have the opportunity to find them.

I grabbed one of each they had, and will likely give away most as gifts but there's a few I might keep...

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I've heard rumblings they might be going to Five Below as well, but our local Five Below did not have them the day I found these one of our Dollar Trees in town. We have 3, and only 1 had them that day (but the other 2 had lots of stock to put out yet so they might get them too). The standee was located behind the registers in front of the store's front window (near the helium station for their balloons), but I saw others post pics of the standee in other Dollar Trees in near the toys or near the books/puzzle magazines sections, so it may vary from store to store.

-M

[TrekStar]

There’s a Dollar Tree store near me so I’ll definitely check this out, appreciate the info.

[Jorge Galvan]

Yeah, Bleeding cool did a feature on this a while back,

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-at-dollar-tree-for-a-dollar-twenty-five-cents/

I just wonder of they will use quality paper or NEWPRINT!

I dunno, funny enough, I have bought from dollar.25 store some MARVEL and DC (BLACK ADAM/JSA) coloring books and the art work was very nice in them.

It is interesting over the years the stuff I bought over the years.

[MRP]

Yeah, Bleeding cool did a feature on this a while back,

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-at-dollar-tree-for-a-dollar-twenty-five-cents/

I just wonder of they will use quality paper or NEWPRINT!

I dunno, funny enough, I have bought from dollar.25 store some MARVEL and DC (BLACK ADAM/JSA) coloring books and the art work was very nice in them.

It is interesting over the years the stuff I bought over the years.

Since printing on newsprint is more expensive than than quality paper these days because newsprint paper is in short supply because of years of lack of demand and only producing enough to meet the demand of existing newspapers (which is in itself a shrinking makret) and the shuttering and dismantling of a large number of the printing presses to be replaced by more modern printers because there wasn't enough work to keep the presses running, the quality paper is the default, and these are of the same paper type and quality as standard DC comics.

I've opened up the ones I got, they are new printings, outside of the interior front cover, interior back cover and the back cover itself, they had no ads. Those 3 cover ads are the same on every book, and the indicia read 2024 Edition after the title and issue number of every issue.

From what I have seen there are 37 different issues available (I found 26 at my local Dollar Tree). The ad on the inside cover is for a website called Heroic Deals that offers all 37 (and other things) for sale, but they are priced $3.99 each, not $1.25. The inside back cover is a standard DC House ad for their Graphic Novel line, and the back cover is a group shot of DC heroes urging customers to seek other print comics and graphic novels a their local comic shop and advertising digital comics and the DC Universe Infinite subscription service with a QR code for that site.

-M

[KnightDetective]

These are new print runs? Cool! A buck twenty-five is a great price for reprints! Lowering the barrier of entry and restoring wide availability might begin to rescue the comic book industry from its self-imposed obscurity. Comic shops are important (oh, I have stories...), but near complete exclusivity limits exposure and discovery.

Now reprint the 1960s and 1970s run of everything while I'm still kickin', please!

(Side note: Oh, how I hated Baxter paper! Look at it too hard and it got those wavy vertical rolls. Somehow my newsprint comics remain flat, clean and pristine, save for an occasional bit of slight yellowing. Always wanted someone to try the Little Golden Book format. Durable and no need to bag and board!)