Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:57PM3 comments ›
Thu Jan 15, 2009 — by Glenn Hauman
Sales on Spider-Man/Obama bring new meaning to 'brisk'
How brisk, you ask? This was the scene at Midtown Comics Times Square yesterday, with a man at the door keeping people waiting online outside in 22 degree weather.
That's brisk.
At the time in the mid-afternoon, there were about 15 people waiting to get in so they could get upstairs and wait on another line to purchase the rapidly dwindling stock of Amazing Spider-Man #583. Cashiers kept all copies behind the register and were running at full tilt yesterday to handle the crowd.
Midtown wouldn't give me a number for attribution, but said they'd moved "hundreds" of copies.
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Comments (3)
MARK WHEATLEY (1:14 PM on Thu Jan 15, 2009)
What they really need to do is get them on sale at the three local airports around here, Dulles International Airport, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. I've got to fly out tomorrow and we're getting warnings that traffic and crowds at BWI will be massive.
Delmo Walters Jr. (2:28 PM on Thu Jan 15, 2009)
I wonder how many non-comic book buyers bought this because they think they can put their kids through college with it in 10 years time, the way many thought the same of Superman #75? What fools these mortals be.
Glenn Hauman (3:29 PM on Thu Jan 15, 2009)
Most stores had a one copy per buyer limit, so I doubt it. I think this is much more a case of the people who went out and bought newspapers on November 5th.