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52Q | #60: Sight Unseen, Buying Blind?

Comic Book Daily Staff
December 23, 2011
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It's a '90s flashback: Marvel is poly bagging all their comics that include a digital code. Plus they shrink wrap every hardcover, with DC joining in for books over $50. This week's 52Q (#60): do you buy poly bagged comics or shrink wrapped books? Is it important to you to have a look through a comic before buying? Does that matter anymore with online previews?

DC to stop shrink wrapping "most" hardcovers

Scott VanderPloeg
September 15, 2010
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DC Comics announced yesterday in its retailer newsletter Direct Channel #104 that it will stop shrink wrapping most hardcovers beginning in December. Here’s the blurb: Please note that starting with books arriving in stores in December, DC Comics will no…