http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_042905_Marvel,00.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

Try as I might, I can't help but be cynical about this. I just don't see it being totally altruistic on Marvel's part - I also don't really see it doing much for sales to servicemembers. As much crap as we have to take with us when deploying, anything extra better pack a lot of bang for the buck - and a comic book that you can read in under 10 minutes doesn't fit the bill. My iPod? That rocked!

Agreed about their motives, but you're probably right about it not working anyway.

Well I suppose they have to try to expand the market however they can - and unlike the newstand/convenience stores, the spinner racks never disappeared from military exchanges. Can't say as I've ever seen many people actually looking at the comics in them though.

They announced recently that they're putting the spinner racks back into 7-11 stores. It should be interesting to see what happens with that