As KFR reported back at the end of August, Virgin Comics went tits up with no further comics being published out of NYC. But when I was looking up The Psycho by Dan Brereton at the old Amazon, I noticed one of their cross-selling internal links offering Virgin Comics’ Dan Dare for $0.49. After doing some minor clicking around, I came upon eleven Virgin titles (all #1s) under the exclusive Amazon Shorts program ready to purchase for the aforementioned price of $0.49 available in HTML format and PDF download.
Could this be a viable business model for the electronic version of print comics like the mess that is Platinum Studios’ Wowio and Marvel’s current Digital Comics Unlimited sub service? Or could it just be a means of getting as much money out of a deceased comic book line as possible? Until there are more titles from different publishers offered, I would have to subscribe to the latter theory.
