American Update: Scooby-Doo Team-Up with the Gotham Girls
*DC: It’s a funny business this comic business. As you know, being a vintage comics specialist, we rarely feature modern comics here, let alone one that’s just been published this week, but we have a point to make. Scooby-Doo Team-Up #12, released on Wednesday 23rd September, was already changing hands on that date on eBay for between £20 and £25. We assume it must have been under-ordered, that enough subscribers and retailers didn’t spot that the issue guest-starred the Gotham Girls, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Catwoman & Batgirl. Consequently, there must be more demand than there are copies to go round, hence the inflated eBay price. So, what’s a retailer to do? If we put it on sale at our regular price (£2.25), speculators will attempt to buy up all our copies and sell them on eBay for £20-£25. So, having made sure our regulars got it at the regular price, we’re putting a copy on sale at £15 in the hope that it will be bought by someone who actually wants to read it rather than speculate on it. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.