Showing posts with label Subscriptions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Subscriptions. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Choose Your Own Adventure

In 1971, DC ran this house ad (sorry, the right end and bottom are cropped off a bit...don't worry, you didn't miss anything):

Wow! I can get free comics? How??


Ahhh....behind all the flowery "DC Comics Club" and "Charter Membership" hoo-ha, it's really just a subscription pitch. And those "brand new DC Specials" are no doubt just reprint collections, like Super-Heroes Vs. Super-Gorillas and the like.

But wait...there's something different here...

"Groups?"

Yup, rather than pitching subscriptions to single titles, DC was trying to make readers subscribe to three titles at a time, in preset groups. In each of these first three sets, you got 12 issues of each title + the 4 DC Specials for 9 bucks:



The last group was a bit different...you got just 8 issues of each mag and the 4 Specials, for $8:

So, here's the test: choose your poison, readers--if you could subscribe to only one of these four groups of 1971 DC titles. which would it be?

Show your work...