Where do you buy your Comic Books?19097
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 PEDIGREED... Again!
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| Back in 1942 when I bought my first comic book you could find them everywhere...Drug Stores, newsstands, news rooms, Five & Tens, corner stores, Bus Stations and Train Stations. Today other than Comic Book stores and on-line it seems rather difficult to find specific new titles on a regular basis. It would be interesting to find out how it's done today. |
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 Miss Chanandler Bong
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jake private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Mostly LCS, I have seven in 6 mile radius. Otherwise, Walmart and Target for seasonal packs. Occasional local comic and card expos. Supermarket and pharmacy spinners have gone by the wayside, since it’s become a specialty item. | ||
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| Like you my generation had the same similar experience in the late 80s and 90d they were everywhere like you said grocery stores to quick shops everywhere you basically went to had a newsstand area were they sold magazines and comics. So a similar experience with comic being just about everywhere you would go. So now I mostly visit the 2 best comic shops I found that are in a hour drive radius of my house. Might make a trip to each one once a month if I can. One of them actually was cool and got me a pull box going of the regular stuff I tend to buy. Second I use eBay it can be addicting use ebsy at your own risk. But yeah comic shops and eBay are my way of getting comic media in my hands | ||
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 Where's his Bat-package?
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LCS and eBay are my usual hunting grounds. It gets a little tougher to get in the LCS shopping because two of the ones closer to me had to shut down thanks to events of the past few years.  |
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| I don’t have a good local option but honestly don’t purchase many new comics as I have enough to open a store myself at this point. What I do purchase is through Things From Another World, pretty easy to use and reasonable shipping. | ||
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 would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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| If you're looking for options, here's another thread with some... clickable text |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Broker1 They're my go-to as well. |
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| I used to use Midtown but when they started charging sales tax and the shipping rates increased, I decided to try TFAW. The discount is slightly less but the shipping costs are cheaper and with them being near my state, I get my books quicker. I will say Midtown's monthly Previews/Pre-order section is top notch, very easy to navigate, etc. TFAW's needs to be revamped and make it a bit smoother, however with Midtown you pay in advance and can't change your order, with TFAW they charge you as orders ship and give you the option to increase/decrease your book orders up until the FOC date so TFAW has a lot going for it and so far, with it being two months into using them I am impressed and look forward to continuing business with them each month. | ||
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| I use DCBS - the discount is enough to overlook the few minor issues I've had over the years. | ||
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 Beaten by boat oars
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| Before I got my driver's license in 1999, I would either walk up to the grocery store or pharmacy to once every week or two with my friends and we would browse the spinner racks for the best-looking copies of whatever we collected. We would also mail order from Mile High (before Chuck went too far off the deep end), East Coast Comics, and Entertainment this Month. Then it was all about going to the LCS (had quite a few at the time). Now, I go the various LCS in the region to buy nicer wall books, and back issues. I'll do the occasional mail order through Mile High, MCS, Comic Link or Doug Sulipa. My eBay purchases have gone way down. I haven't bought a comic on ebay since Nov 2022. My pull list comes from Graham Crackers in IL. I had several gaps in the years of collecting and reading, but I'm back to full time buying and reading, just less purchases right now as I've slowed down a lot. Mostly focused on some of my runs and eventually phasing out my pull list. | ||
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PEDIGREED... Again!
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martymann private msg quote post Address this user | |
| In the email I received from BEDROCK CITY COMIC COMPANY stated "View a complete list of this week's new comic book day releases here." I was linked to gocollect for COMIC LIST: New comic book releases for 02/08/2023. What I saw were titles with up to 7 different covers...does anyone collect them all or just certain covers? |
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 I wish I had a title.
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| Mycomicshop or big times collectibles | ||
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 I like bean sprouts.
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| @martymann The variant cover thing is getting insane. I'm sure someone collects them all, but it's not me. | ||
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Where's his Bat-package?
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Quote:Originally Posted by James42 Someone has to be going to town on the variant covers, because they wouldn't keep doing it if it weren't profitable. I confess I have some variant covers, but it's because I either love the cover or it was given to me. |
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PEDIGREED... Again!
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martymann private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I have some SUPERMAN and BATMAN Comics that had two different covers from the late 80's but they seemed to be one-shots as best as I can remember. |
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Where's his Bat-package?
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| The first 'variant cover' was the first issue of John Byrne's Superman limited series, "The Man of Steel" that came out in 1986. Then there was Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (wedding issue) with a Peter Parker cover on direct sales issues and a Spider-Man cover on newsstand editions. A couple months later came a couple of variant 'test market covers' from DC. One was Justice League #3 and the other was Fury of Firestorm #61. Those two can be pretty hard to find, especially in good shape because the test market covers were newsstand only and had very limited distribution. It took a while for variants to really catch on, but now they've taken the concept further than it ever needed to go, IMHO. Sometimes a variant cover comes out that I really like, but I'd be willing to forgo that in favour of just not having all the freakin' variants anymore. |
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I like bean sprouts.
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James42 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd I like variants. I usually pick up a couple each month, often in addition to a regular cover. But there is no sane reason for every single issue of ASM to have 5+ variants. It's like nobody remembers the 90's comics implosion. |
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Where's his Bat-package?
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Byrdibyrd private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by James42 Pick what you like, which is exactly how it should be. If they weren't so unhinged about it, I'd really enjoy the variety, but like @James42 said, there's no good reason to have so darn many. What's more, a number of variants aren't even that great. |
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 I don't want to brag, but cashiers are always checking me out.
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| depends. i tend to buy from whatever is cheapest at the moment. midtowncomics.com when they have an awesome sale several ebay sellers if its a hard to find and they got my local comic shop when Im going somewhere physical |
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Silversorrow private msg quote post Address this user | |
| My closest comic book store is a 1 hour drive away so I pretty much exclusively buy online from Captcan Comics and occasionally from eBay. | ||
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