Because Screwing People Over Should Bring With It an Even Playing Field

Dirk Deppey goes deep into the notion that Wizard benefited from advance knowledge of Captain America dying in issue #25 of his comic by being first on the mark to sell special back issues at some exorbitant price to a particularly under-informed class of consumer. Although I have to say, I don't think you need to know anything about how magazines are published to presume that Wizard's well-known, regular lead time concerning key plot points could give them enough of a time advantage to do what's being accused of them, because not all that much time is needed.

However, all jokes made in the headline aside, 1) I don't know if it's true, 2) it's pretty clear interest in the book was driven by a reaction which no one should have been expected to reasonably predict, 3) the information leaked anyway and was therefore out there, and 4) determining the sliminess of one such action against the backdrop of the almost fundamentally corrupt back issues and valuables system and then assigning it a value in an industry where every advantage of this kind is routinely pressed -- that is a game for madmen.

But I'm happy to say that if it happened, it's wrong.
 
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