Back issue restock update.

It's happening faster than I thought. I believe we'll have everything up and running by Thursday, February 15th. 

It's been a bit of a trip down memory lane. I spent years doing this kind of thing. At first because when I bought the store I had so little inventory or money that I had to try to scare up business by organizing as best I could, finding hidden gems, figuring out how best to display the product. 

The first comic book show I went to, I bought every X-Men comic I could find.

The second or third comic book shows I went to, I found Swamp Thing and American Flagg and a bunch of other great comic books that forever changed my perception of comics. 

I remember asking some other retailers how they were able to increase their back issues. Someone said, "Don't worry. You'll have more than you'll know what to do with before you know it."

Which, over time, proved true. 

I sold the contents of the basement storage, some 40K issues, a few years ago to another retailer. I just didn't seem to have the time to go through them and try to organize them. 

What's so interesting to me is that I've probably accumulated at least another 20K issues without even trying. But this time I looked at them and I didn't despair. I decided I could deal with them. 

So what's going to be for sale?

So far, it looks like:

Two and a half long boxes Spider-man.

One and a half long boxes of Avengers.

Three long boxes of Batman. 

Two long boxes of Ultimate and X-Men.

Two long boxes of Star Wars, one each of Dark Horse and Marvel. 

The rest of the boxes are assorted titles, mostly DC and Marvel to start with. 

We have plenty of replacement issues for Spider-man, Avengers, Batman, and Star Wars. 

All bagged and boarded, in fresh clean white boxes, priced. 

About the price. 

I simply didn't have time to look up every comic. I set a base price for most of the comics, looked up a few obvious ones, went a little higher on first issues and variants. But most of it was guesswork and I undoubtedly missed a lot of "Key" issues. 

But hey, that gives you all a better reason to hunt for hidden gems. 

For example, I put together a set of the four "Edge of Spider-verse," comics and priced it for $20. Sabrina noticed and told me that it had the first appearance of Spider-Gwen, which was worth more like $400 dollars. It was only happenstance that she caught that.

I'd be very surprised if I didn't miss a bunch of other comics. I'm just not in the loop anymore. But that gives everyone a good reason to look through the boxes and IF we get the base price for most of them, we'll do fine. 

I admit, it still hard for me to transition to the collecting side of things.