Do comics have ISBN numbers?

[jjoseph7772]

Having a hell of a time listing a book on amazon. I dont use ebay for personal reasons. Anyways as you all know books can have multiple covers, variants etc which means its a pain in the butt to use the UPC code. In fact many of the UPC codes are used for other items that have nothing to do with what i am trying to list.

 

So I contacted customer support and they keep telling me books must be listed by their ISBN number but im pretty certain that individual comic books do not have ISBN numbers. Am I wrong? If so how do i obtain an ISBN

[brendanb438]

Did you search either Amazon for the same issue or try googling an ISBN for the comic?

[jjoseph7772]

Did you search either Amazon for the same issue or try googling an ISBN for the comic?

 

Sure did, but all they have listed is the regular cover and a few variants, none of which I am trying to sell. I use to be able to list books by clicking on a box that said NO ISBN available. Yet amazon came up with a new policy where every book must be listed by ISBN or UPC. This doesent really help since books can have multiple covers but still hold the same UPC code. I am still arguing with amazon customer service right now about this.

 

They want me to list under the regular cover. Yet it is not a regular cover so this makes no sense to me since what I am offering is rarer and thus more expensive. How would it look when someone is selling a book for 2.99 and Im selling under the same listing at 29.95

[Boozad]

Comics don''t have ISBNs as they are 'serials'. Graphic novels do have them though.

 

LINK.

[jjoseph7772]

Thanks that is what I thought and what i have been telling them, yet the keep repeating the same thing over and over. Maybe Ill go back to ebay

[HugeRosen]

I've tried listing on Amazon before. If you can't find it already listed there, good luck creating a new listing for it. Found it highly frustrating and gave up.

 

And the fees work out to be just as expensive or more expensive than eBay.

[sakaridis]

Comics don''t have ISBNs as they are 'serials'. Graphic novels do have them though.

 

LINK.

Shouldn't comics have ISSNs (International Standard Serial Number), since they are periodicals?

[dupont2005]

On Paperbackswap.com I've seen regular floppy comics listed. I don't know how they did it. You're supposed to have an ISBN to list something, the ISBN's for the floppy comics are always like four characters long. I tried listing floppy comics myself but couldn't figure out how to do it.