[SPEAKER_00]: New York Comic Con takes heat for ticket prices.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel pubs new Indiana Jones collections.
[SPEAKER_00]: Weed in 70 back on Batman.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for May 21, 26.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a new story that may put my longstanding press pass to New York Comic-Con in Jeopardy, the 20th anniversary of the annual Read Pop Convention is under fire from fans lamenting a jump in past prices.
[SPEAKER_00]: The short version, VIP tickets now cost almost $1,000 and nearly $200 jump from the price for the almost all access pass in 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, as the beat effectively breaks down, the jump isn't quite as big as fans are reacting to.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's because this year, Reed Pop included taxes and fees in the listed price, something they've been legally required to do since 2022, but have not until this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: While the VIP pass is still jumped 13% in price from 2025, the biggest leaps with taxes and fees built in are the Saturday one day pass.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which has gone up over 20% in price from last year, and the Sunday kids ticket, which jumped a massive 35% in price to nearly 50 bucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not to loot back to the VIP ticket, but it cost $625 including taxes and fees 2 years ago, so it has increased a not insignificant 58.5% in price in two short years.
[SPEAKER_00]: The cynical way of looking at this is that, well, readpop can charge this because people will come.
[SPEAKER_00]: Despite the prominence of San Diego Comic-Con and pop culture based purely on actual ticket sales, New York Comic-Con is the biggest convention in the United States.
[SPEAKER_00]: The less cynical take is that the fees for running a convention like everything else in America have jumped exponentially in the past few years thanks to a variety of factors.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it also possibly could be basic crowd control.
[SPEAKER_00]: Charging more means you get less people packed on the con floor, but make more money in the long run.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will this impact the final count of AT&T's in 2026?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe where kids are concerned.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to VIP's, my guess is griping aside, probably not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back in the 1980s Marvel published a series of comics based on the Indiana Jones movies and now those classic books are coming together in two Deluxe Hard Covers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana Jones, the further adventurers book one and two.
[SPEAKER_00]: The oversized collections will feature per a press release from Marvel Quote, leatherette binding, debossed cover designs at ribbon bookmarks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And absolutely no snakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: More importantly, they'll feature work by David Michelini, Walt Simonson, John Burn, John Busemon, more as they collect the comic adaptations of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones of the Temple of Dub, and Indiana Jones of the Last Crusade, as well as the entire run of the further adventures of Indiana Jones comic books series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Both volumes will hit stores on September 30th, 2026, and I think we can all agree they belong in a museum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Writer, Mark Wayne, an artist Chris Semniere back at and again for DC Comics with Batman and Robin Year 1 dynamic duo's.
[SPEAKER_00]: A new 12-ish series spitting off the critically acclaimed Batman and Robin Year 1.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what's it about?
[SPEAKER_00]: Her DC, while Batman and Robin are getting along swimmingly, enter Catwoman in a character who may or may not be her own sidekick.
[SPEAKER_00]: This naturally throws a wrench in the budding friendship slash mentorship between Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson while at the same time a bunch of kids are running wild on the streets.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds neat.
[SPEAKER_00]: On it, Batman and Robin year one didn't have it to his number one hit stores on August 12, 2026.
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