Star Wars Micro Comics and Cards

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This is interesting.  IDW Publishing is trying something new in the collectible market with the Star Wars license.  They are producing blind packs for Star Wars Marvel minicomics, 3-D posters, 3-D glass, and trading cards that are puzzle pieces to form comic covers.  All this for $3.99.  Sounds good until you look at the break down of what’s in the packet.  You have a chance to get one of the six mini comics, a chance to get one of the six 3-D posters, a pair of 3-D glass.  Doesn’t sound to bad yet, but then you get to the trading cards.  You get a chance of getting 1 of 36 cards.  That’s going to be a lot of duplicates to get a full set of the 36 trading cards.

Don’t get me wrong everything looks neat and all and there will be collectors that love this, but for my wallet it’s just beyond my means.

Liberty Cards Available

Here is a way that your patrons, that enjoy comic books and manga, can support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF).  Cryptozoic Entertainment is releasing the CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards this week.  This Fund helps store owners and individuals that have been arrested for selling or owning comic books or manga that some find objectionable.  While some of the titles you yourself might not like the Funds mission is one that library’s should support.  The Fund helps defend challenges to the United States First Amendment.  The packs have five cards per pack with a suggested price of $3.50 per pack.  Inserts within the packs are randomly packed autograph and sketch cards.  This could be a program where libraries could purchase some packages for giveaways at their library or purchase a box and sell the packs for $1.00 and then forward that money on to the CBLDF as an additional donation to the Fund.  This is a way to show your patrons that not just novels are challenged, but also something they enjoy.

http://cbldf.org/homepage/cbldf-liberty-trading-cards-in-stores-this-week/