>>77576110Are comics even returnable anymore? Because judging by the longboxes at my local LCS, they either aren't returnable or nobody bothers to return them.
Also, I found the second time that Marvel tried it. It was for unsold "Flashpoint" tie-in comics, and it was for a variant cover of "Fear Itself" #6 by Ed McGuinness.
Pic related; it's the "Siege" #3 Deadpool variant for which retailers could trade in "Blackest Night" issues. It went on to sell for ~$400; looking on eBay right now shows the cover selling for ~$1000 now. Someone did the math and it would have cost a retailer ~$500 for the variant itself, seeing as you had to trade in 50 copies of "Blackest Night" books.
I dunno what the details were for the "Fear Itself" cover.