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Anthony Frail
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Posted: 08 October 2008 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | 1  
While I'd agree that value for price was good on Smith's Captain Marvel, the
average price of a comic is still $2.99.

And I think that a lot of people don't think of page numbers when they
make purchases. I've heard several people say they stayed away from New
Frontier because of the price, despite that per page, you were paying less
for those comics.

And again, Shazam! was, theoretically, aimed at kids while Secret Invasion is
aimed at adults, sadly. For a book aimed at kids, I'd try to get the price per
issue down rather than up.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Most kids never even saw the four bookshelf issues of Smith's comic,
unless their parents or older relatives bought it for them in the first
place. There's a decent chance that they've seen it at Borders, though,
especially if conscientious staffers thought to rack the Shazam book with
Bone.

If Smith's comic had been half the cover price and were released as an
eight-issue series, I don't think it would have gotten any more copies
into the hands of kids, at least not with comics distribution the way it is.
If it were an ongoing series that sold for a buck a pop, I don't think it
would have necessarily brought more young readers to the series (or to
comic shops).

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You're probably right.

BTW, I just remembered something I thought was inappropriate for an all-
ages book in there; when Marvel tells the reporter his name is "Captain
Marvel", she looks down at his package and says, "I can see why."

Unneccessary and really, not that clever or funny.
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Cap is one of those heroes I think should be drawn "on-model".
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I think they all should!
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Andrew W. Farago
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Most kids (and probably a fair number of adults) would read the "I can see
why" line as referring to Cap's costume, I think. I'll have to give it another
look and see if the reporter's line-of-sight leaves much room to
interpretation.
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Anthony Frail
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Andrew, I have coincidently brought the hardcover collection with me to campus today. If you drew a straight line from her pupils, they would go directly to Marvel's crotch.
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Michael Andrew Gonoude
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Steranko's History of the Comics Vol II has an interesting observation about the way the good Captain was drawn - specifically, the distinct lack of a bulge in the groin area, which led to the artists' bullpen singing this song:

"No balls, no balls, no balls at all

Cap-i-tan (sic) Marvel has no balls at all

No balls, no balls, no balls, at all!"

I believe that's how it went; I'm at work, and don't have the book handy now.
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Anthony Frail
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Sounds like those guys spent their time wisely.
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Eric Joseph Hernandez
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i like the character, always have, though I'm not too familar with the character's history.  Is the TPB the greatest Shazam stories ever told worth a pick up?

I just DLed the character for mugen.  Whoever made him has Captain Marvel when he punches, have a small burst of lightining at the end of his fist.  Has he ever done that anywhere in his comics history?   I do like his super he has so far, he yells shazam and gets out of the way and lightining hits who he's fighting against, 48 hit combo indeed. 
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