Billbord

Found this today for a dollar. Needs a press, man but I'm pretty excited.

Just moved to Indy in April, the shops around here seem pretty good. Still looking for one with a lot of back stock though. Nice to see some other Hoosiers on the board.

I think your best bet would be to give them a call. I've found them to be very helpful on the phone in the past.

The website stated that online-only stores needed a live site with CC-processing, which I have covered (or can easily). Could be out of date though.

I'm in the process of setting up a small online comic shop and getting a Diamond account. Over the past several months I've been selling quite a bit on eBay, both older stuff from my collection/flea market finds and new "hot" comics. I do a fair amount of flipping to support my habit, but it's often a frustrating process (not being able to source enough issues to make it worthwhile, etc...). The basic idea here is that I'm spending a fair amount on new stock every month that gets shipped from Diamond->online/LCS retailer->me. If I cut out that middle step I can both reserve more issues of books I want and reduce my price. I already do a lot of reading/monitoring the market week to week so I could possibly tailor the site to investment/speculation comics that can be hard to find on the big sites. It seems like a win to me. I'm already finding myself spending $400-500 a month on books (between personal collecting and flipping) so I'm not too concerned about the monthly order threshold. I already have an online store set up (but not live), eventually I'd like to have user-friendly subscription management but for now the goal will be to just sell books on the website/eBay. Is this stupid? Are there any horror stories of people that have tried this? I searched the boards but can't find much. Thanks!

Mine only had 24 books too, 9 of which were the blank variants that are thicker. I think they did it by weight or something.

Yeah not sure what happened there. Mine were all in good shape. I did get 24 instead of 25, though I'm not too upset since I got a Negan and other titles I wanted. I have one with a small ink smudge and the horizontal line mentioned upthread. PM me if you're still interested.

Are you in Indy? If so I want to start going to that shop because $200 is a heck of a deal.

All these copies are coming out of a store in the UK that's part-owned by Charlie Adlard. Pretty crappy thing to do for a few extra bucks, I imagine the artist of the Walking Dead is doing ok financially.

They took a break between issues 6 and 7 so I think it's a planned break between arcs and they'll pick it back up in a few months.

I recently took the plunge on a Giant-size X-men #1 9.6. Naturally I was curious about the grader notes, only to find that none were available. https://www.cgccomics.com/grading/verify-cgc-comic.aspx?cgc-comic-cert=1294167001 I see that the book was graded recently - do the notes lag behind a bit? Is it possible there just aren't notes at all? Apologies if this is a common question, I searched the boards before posting.

Trees and Violent

Surprised that I didn't get outbid. I forgot I even put the bid in until I got the email.

the Descender 9.8

Hi everyone I'm new to the boards - I've been lurking for about a week. I'm floored by the amount of knowledge on this forum. I started collecting in the early 90s as a kid and got back into the hobby a few years ago. Right now my focus is mostly on silver age, although I have a soft spot for Claremont X-Men and the Frank Miller Daredevil run. Currently subscribe mainly to Image titles (Saga, East of West, Seven to Eternity, Kill or Be Killed, etc...) Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for basically consuming my entire work week