He brought it upon himself, mostly. Did not want to share the spotlight with anyone.
I read a book years ago that went into detail about all the relationships of the cast and how the series came to be, including the affair between Roddenberry and Nichols, and how Roddenberry basically threw in the towel for the third season and practically abandoned them…
So Shatner wasn’t the only difficult personality on that show.
I think MCS may have changed when they pull books from FOC. I remember that used to be a problem not being able to preorder books a few days before FOC. If you look now you can still preorder Star Wars 43 as an example at the FOC discount, which is on FOC this Monday. You just have to look at the previous month’s “preview”, in this case December.
Dark Dominion’s shipping is a bit pricey, but the discounts are such that if you order enough books in a given FOC it pays for itself. So Ive ordered from him on occasion. And it’s well packaged. Prices include. Ag and board as well.
TFAW is good if you just have one or two books each week and like to combine shipments (offer weekly, bi-weekly or monthly). They close FOC a day or two early, and sometimes do not update FOC if books are pushed out (for example, they have Star Wars Visions #1 listed as 1/22, even though it’s been pushed out at least a week…and they will not update it). Bag and board extra so you have to factor that into the price when you’re looking at their FOC discount.
Otherwise I order from Collector Cave and Comixzone as they are bigger stores offering competitive discounts and can combine books that have different FOCs or are currently in stock. They ship quickly and I’m regionally close enough that new books arrive within a week, if not by Saturday the week of release.
Does MCS charge you when you put in the pre-order or wait until it ships, like TFAW? I pretty much exclusively use TFAW but am getting tired of the wrong FOC dates and delays in shipping.
They have an option to defer billing until the 21st of the month. I’m not sure if that applies to all shipping frequencies or just monthly. They are very responsive over Facebook chat if you want to ask them.
I was looking at Dark Dominion Comics this past week for the FOC and the prices were retail, could’ve sworn they offered discount. I reached out to them and was told they changed their policy. Will check them out again this weekend as well as the ones you mentioned. Thank you.
I don’t see mention of a tech suit. Do you think he opted for technology instead of being bitten? We didn’t see the actual “bite” occur (unless you tell me it was in ultimate invasion).
Or maybe the spider infused him with some bio-nano technology, not so much radioactivity…
Appreciate the info but I had emailed them inquiring about their pricing and was told they’ve changed their policy. I just checked and books are retail price.