Buying comics

Amazon has recently lowered the pre-order price on the upcoming hardcover editions of Don Rosa’s Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck books from $24.99 to $16.49. That’s 34% off! Most of the other future hardcover books from Boom! Studios listed on Amazon are $16.49 now too. They are:

• Cars: Radiator Springs
• Cars: The Rookie
• Donald Duck Classics: Quack Up
• Finding Nemo: Reef Rescue
• The Incredibles: City of Incredibles
• The Incredibles: Family Matters
• The Life & Times Of Scrooge McDuck: Volume 1
• The Life & Times Of Scrooge McDuck: Volume 2
• Mickey’s Hero Squad
• Monsters, Inc: Laugh Factory
• Toy Story: The Mysterious Stranger
• Walt Disney’s Christmas Classics Volume 1
• Walt Disney’s Valentine’s Classics Volume 1

Did you know that in the United States you can subscribe to several European weekly and monthly Disney comics through Amazon.com? You can get Lustiges Taschenbuch from Germany, Musse Pigg & Co from Sweden or Picsou Magazine from France. Here’s an overview of the Disney periodicals that I found. These titles can be shipped only within the U.S. and the prices listed here include shipping costs.

• Lustiges Taschenbuch (Germany)
  Price: $100 for 12 issues / 12 months
   
• Musse Pigg & Co (Sweden)
  Price: $30.08 for 12 issues / 12 months
   
• Le Journal de Mickey (France)
  Price: $239.93 for 52 issues / 12 months
   
• Picsou Magazine (France)
  Price: $89.93 for 12 issues / 12 months
   
• Super Picsou Geant (France)
  Price: $50.62 for 6 issues / 12 months
   
• Mickey Parade Geant (France)
  Price: $45.48 for 6 issues / 12 months
   
• Disney Princesse (France)
  Price: $40.53 for 6 issues / 12 months
   
• Micky Maus (Germany)
  No longer available
  Price: $180 for 52 issues / 12 months
   
• Kalle Anka & Co (Sweden)
  No longer available
  Price: $194.99 for 52 issues / 12 months
   
• Witch Magazine (France)
  No longer available
  Price: $90.23 for 12 issues / 12 months
   
• Anders And (Denmark)
  No longer available
  Price: $331.81 for 52 issues / 12 months
   
• Disney Adventures (Australia)
  No longer available
  Price: $52.36 for 12 issues / 12 months