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.

:-)

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P-TOR