Your local comic shop is closing. And it's not Amazon's fault - it's how Marvel and DC decided to market their covers.

For 60 years, comic covers were honest promises: what you saw on the front matched the story inside. Then publishers broke that contract and turned covers into speculation tools. In this episode, we expose how the broken promise at the cover level destroyed reader trust and retailer stability, and why manga, wrestling, and soap operas got it right.

Watch the previous videos in this series:

🟢Episode 1: The Shared DNA -- https://youtu.be/lLQhJL5nshg

🟢Episode 2: The Broken Format -- https://youtu.be/eRaKvd_KIRU

🟢Episode 3: The Friction Engine -- https://youtu.be/gEkg6SXAl-8

🟢Episode 4: The Comic Shop Trap -- https://youtu.be/nQK2ktkc2ms

🟢Episode 5: The Illusion of Change - https://youtu.be/MuaGq537Ci8

🟢Episode 6: Broken Promise - [YOU ARE HERE]

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The Broken Promise