Haven't had a chance to go into town today so not sure about my local Smiths. However what I've noticed is that they ordered less copies of each title of those Egmont reprints. I suppose this was due to it being called "Egmont Classic Comics" on their order list, so they've treated it as one comic instead of 4 separate titles, and scaled their order down as they do with anything else. eg: If they ordered, say, 20 copies of Roy of the Rovers and it sold 12, they'll order 12 copies of Battle. If that sold 8 they'll order 8 copies of Misty, and so on. So even though Buster may potentially sell many more copies than Misty, it's possible there may be less available.intune wrote:Got mine today on the way to work in Chorley.They only had about 3 copies and had to ask for it as it was hidden away.
Not had chance to look at it properly yet.. it's all black and white though, except for the cover obviously.
(I noticed that's how they scaled down their orders of The Beano so I imagine it applies to all titles.)
That's what happens when they rely on a computer system instead of experience to order magazines etc. Remember the fiasco with the final Buster Annual? When Smiths went computerized they mistakenly left it off the list, so when time came to order that year's books, they didn't order the Buster annual. (A sales assistant said to me at the time: "Buster annual? It's not on our system so we've never stocked it." Incredible!) Subsequently sales suffered without Smiths stocking it and the book never appeared again after that year.
Lew
