Comics For Halloween

October 26th, 2007

Filed under: Comics

Squasha has been promoting an excellent idea: instead of candy, hand out comics to Trick-or-Treaters.

I think this is a brilliant concept. I’ve always stood behind clever ideas for getting comic books into new reader’s hands, and this fits the bill perfectly. So this weekend, swing by your local comic shop and pick up a bunch of quarter books to hand out on Halloween.

And let’s face it, dentists make enough money already — we don’t need to give them any more business.

Comics For Halloween

4 Responses to “ Comics For Halloween ”

  1. Sleestak
    October 27th, 2007 at 4:00 am

    Just don’t hand out a copy of Eightball…

  2. Squashua
    October 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    Thanks, for helping spread the word, Scott!

  3. Sarah
    October 28th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

    My husband has a dentist’s appointment *on* Hallowe’en. He asked them if that was legal.

  4. SanctumSanctorumComix
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    For years I would give away little Halloween-themed toys and whatnot (from various dollar-stores & party shoppes) until Marvel & Archie started making special Halloween issue mini “ashcan” comics.

    Then I bought cases of those and gave them out to the Trick-or-Treaters.

    Oddly enough, when given a choice between “SPIDEY & the MINI MARVELS” or an ARCHIE themed comic, the majority of kids wanted ARCHIE.

    That blew me away.

    Sadly, Marvel started to get greedy and turned the Halloween ashcans into marketing tools with short snippets from their publishing catalog and that’s when I dropped buying them for this purpose.

    I then stocked up on any special priced comics (Batman 9cent Adventure, Superman 10cent Adventure, Fantastic Four 10cent issue, various 25cent new comics, etc…) and gave THOSE out too!

    I still have some of each left over from previous years, but now, due to the fact that my wife and I bought a house deep in the woods, NO KIDS have come to trick-or-treat in our 3 years here.

    As for quarter comics from the local comic shoppe… sadly, that’s more of a TRICK than a TREAT, since chances are these 25cent issues are from some glorious 1970’s or 1980’s era of comic book greatness that doesn’t exist today.
    So any kid who gets one, reads it and wants MORE will be stymied by what’s available on the rack.

    SURE there are some good titles out there still, but the characters are barely recognizable to what they’d have in their hands (and a LOT more expensive).

    But if it gets kids reading more, then I guess it’s all good.

    :-)

    ~P~
    P-TOR

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