Peanuts Treasury and other discounts

Normally I steer folks to Amazon for the books as they have the most stuff, but Barnes & Noble (who, yes, also give me a kickback) is running a sale (cutting about an additional 10% off most prices) and has a few things that can’t be found at Amazon. BN exclusives on Peanuts stuff include:

Now, if you’re starting to gather presents for the coming holiday season, there are  some particularly good deals on Marvel comics hardcovers –  collecting runs of comic books, cover prices of about $20-$25, and they have them for $6.28 apiece. And my experience with these B&N Marvel discount items is that, unlike most “remaindered” books, they don’t have remaindered book markings – no mark on the price or on the bottom edge of the book. The books are actually shrinkwrapped, and the discount price sticker on the outside of the shrink wrap is easy to remove. So you can get a cheap gift that doesn’t look so cheap. Free shipping hits with a $25 purchase. (For those of you not used to modern superhero comics, I should warn that they are not all as all-ages appropriate as you might assume.)

  • Ultimate Iron Man – list $19.99 (written by science fiction author Orson Scott Card)
  • Red Prophet vol1 and vol2 – list $19.99 (adapting work by Orson Scott Card)
  • Spider-Man: One More Day – list $24.99 (written by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski)
  • Silver Surfer: Requiem – list $19.99 (also Straczynski)
  • Supreme Power vol1 and vol2 – list $29.99 (note: these are $7.18 – but the first reprints 12 issues, so it’s quite a bargain. More Strczynski )
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The Untouchable Charlie Brown

If you look at this ad, you may be wondering (as I did when I stumbled across it) why Charlie Brown is advertising a television show in 1963… and why, of all shows, he’s advertising The Untouchables. (Or you may be one of the many people now populating the earth too …

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Peanuts First Edition guide

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