Glen Soustek of Westlake Cards, Comics & Coins, Inc. in Roselle, Illinois saw John Riley's comments about the limited availability of Captain America #25 (see 'Sharpening the Sword--Captain America Died') and thinks Marvel caused more harm than good with its 'stunt:'

So Marvel got some momentary publicity with the death of Captain America... good for them, unfortunately the damage they've done to the comics industry will live on long after Cap returns (and certainly, he will return).  Keeping the information from comic retailers is bad enough, but going to the extreme of intentionally mis-soliciting titles reeks of gamesmanship rivaling the disaster that books became in the early '90s. 

Marvel...grow up!  You've created an environment where every dealer is being accused of profiteering on a 'Sold-Out' book... every dealer in the country looks bad on this one, either by Marvel's doing or by the greed of certain dealers, whom I'm sure, were somehow privileged with advance information (Marvel can deny that, but can any dealer ever trust Marvel again?).  Marvel can release 'additional copies' into the marketplace, but that only serves to fuel the 'Pump and Dump' profile that the general public links to most collectibles dealers.  Too bad, Marvel had seemingly worked hard over the last few years to develop some level of trust with dealers...all that's gone now, because of... a stunt.  Stunts tend to back-fire; I can't see where this stunt will be any different.

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