And that’s why I try to buy books I want as soon as they’re out.
- I found an image that I thought would suit the Moment of Moore site quite nicely, and BEHOLD: Alan Moore and Jack Kirby!
- In other news about me, those fun-time gals over at the Shatner-centric Look at His Butt podcast discuss my post about the Star Trek Cooking Manual in their latest episode. …I thought they’d might like that!
- Pal Andrew is celebrating Debruary with Debbi of Debbi’s Dates fame. Why aren’t you?
- It bears repeating: Professor X is a jerk!
- CO2 Comics looks back at the widespread discussion of comic creators’ rights and the transition to the digital age with a bevy of links to entertain and edify.
- Tim looks back at the end of Earth-2 Superman’s story and how Crisis on Infinite Earths was really all about him.
- Pals Dorian and Ken present their regular movie trailer wrap-up and, as always, it’s a great read.
- A little something I discovered last night whilst in a Twitter discussion with Zack Soto about the Wild Cards series of novels: 2006’s Death Draws Five
reportedly had a print run of about 600 copies. I figured it was pretty rare, given it came out just about the same time its publisher, iBooks, was going out of business, but…if that’s true, wow. Considering it’s relatively important to the Wild Cards world, in that it wraps up the story of one of the series’ major players, it’s a shame it’s so little-seen.
(EDIT: I’ve since been informed by a person in a position to know that actual sales on Death Draws Five were probably closer to about 1,500 copies. Still, not a whole lot of copies out there!)
Copies are priced at about a hundred bucks on Amazon, but there’s a much-cheaper Kindle version
out there for those of you inclined towards Kindling.
Related: hey, current Wild Cards rights holders – let Zack Soto put together a Wild Cards comics anthology, why don’t you?
I remember there being a copy of Death Draws Five in my local Borders (sadly no more here in the UK). I now wished I’d bought it when I saw it rather than waiting. Thanks for pointing out that there’s a Kindle version.
But is that 600 copies thing real or just abig ol’ urban myth?
Nimbus – It appears 600 copies was bit of an underestimate, but the print run was still pretty small…I’ve updated the post with details.
Well, I see on George RR Martin’s live journal site that less than 2 months ago he wrote that “only 600 or so copies ever got into the bookstores”. So I can see why this number would often be quoted.