one conundrum answered

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I had wondered why everyone talked about getting comics via pull lists at their comic shop, when Marvel, at least, has subscriptions that are so much cheaper than retail price. I have found at least one reason why: because the expected time after release for my subscribed issue to get to me is 2-3 weeks. Which. :\

So I shall have to decide if I care enough to pay $1.50 - $2 more for timeliness.

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[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I've also wondered about trying to sell my comics back to the store for the really pretty runs, so that I could offset having to pay for the issues and the trade. But I have no idea what kind of money they give you for that.

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Yeah, I have no idea. If the run's pretty recent, I'd suspect they'd still have as many new copies around as they'd want? But I really have no idea. I've yet to set foot in an actual comics shop. :)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I think what they do with those is they either put them in the discount bin, or if they are in good quality and you have a full arc sometimes they wrap them in plastic and sell them as a run. Or something like that.