Scott Snyder: DC Comics Considering the Case Against a Batman Price Increase For Endgame Storyline

It's possible that DC Comics's Batman, one of the industry's top sellers nearly every month, will [...]

By Russ Burlingame

It's possible that DC Comics's Batman, one of the industry's top sellers nearly every month, will be the first ongoing, monthly title from the Big Two to have a standard (rather than one-time) price of $4.99.

That's because the comic, regularly $3.99, will add a backup feature starting with next week's Batman #35 that will increase the cover price by a dollar. The plans were apparently revealed to retailers fairly late in the game, but DC may not have considered the possibility of a backlash considering that adding $1 for 10-page backup features has been standard practice there for about a decade.

Once they made their way public, though, fans weren't happy -- and superstar writer Scott Snyder heard them, and swooped into action:

He seemed to suggest that, even if they cannot reverse the policy, the change would be temporary, not permanent, with the storyline restricted to six issues.

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