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:
- Peanuts Treasury hardcover – $8.98
- A Charlie Brown Christmas book adaptation-with-snow-block (the 2007 version where the block is built into the book) – $10.76
- A Charlie Brown Christmas book adaptation-with-snow-block (the 2008 version where the block and snow block are just both in the same box) – $8.50
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.)
- Killraven – list $19.99
- Punisher War Journal volume 2 – list $24.99
- New Avengers v. 6 – list $19.99
- Marvel Zombies: The Covers – list $19.99
- Wolverine: Evolution Black and White – list $19.99
- 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 )
