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margin on toys is never, like, terrific but assume that anything Diamond sells that isn't an exclusive is topping out at like a middle thirties percent, and then add freight, and then consider that a comic shop is probably buying like straight up ones of things as special orders so the discount is even lower
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Unless you're ordering enough to get the extra tier discount, things like Marvel Legends generally cost a shop $14 each. This is why shop prices on figures are so high.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:52
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Rhyno posted:Funko aggressively pursued direct sales to shops to cut Diamond out after the Hastings fiasco a few years ago. There's also some statues that have been there for at least since HoXPoX started (that's when I started going every week again instead of getting trades) including a Harley Quinn that's lewd in both appearance and price.
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Mar 27, 2021 14:55
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Rhyno posted:Funko aggressively pursued direct sales to shops to cut Diamond out after the Hastings fiasco a few years ago. they still directed total scrubs who wanted to buy like eleven pops across ten SKUs to start an eBay store to Diamond after the Hastings collapse though, they just hung onto the good customers
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Mar 27, 2021 15:04
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Rhyno posted:You can literally get anything toy/statue that Diamond carries from BBTS and it's always cheaper. I don't know why anyone buys toys or statues from comic shops anymore. Did you have a guy who helped run your store into the ground because he would constantly order super expensive statues because they 'looked good on the shelf' and 'would sell during the sales?' We did.
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Mar 27, 2021 15:15
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Dawgstar posted:Did you have a guy who helped run your store into the ground because he would constantly order super expensive statues because they 'looked good on the shelf' and 'would sell during the sales?' We did. I had pretty solid control of ordering for the most part. They carry a fuckton of statues now and the display cases never change when I visit.
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Mar 27, 2021 18:55
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I wanted to pre-order a couple of those designer X-Men covers, if they weren't gonna be too expensive, and I checked with my local guy the week of the EW story and they weren't in his ordering system yet, does anyone know if they'd be in there now? I was out of town on Wednesday so I was going to swing around there later today to pick up books.
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Mar 27, 2021 19:15
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The June order form is up on Diamond's website, you can search for "DAUTERMAN CONNECTING VAR" and get the order codes if you want to make sure you get the covers you want. They're not 'incentive' variants where the store has to order X copies of something to get 1 Design Variant, so they should be cover price.
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Mar 27, 2021 19:39
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Edge & Christian posted:The June order form is up on Diamond's website, you can search for "DAUTERMAN CONNECTING VAR" and get the order codes if you want to make sure you get the covers you want. They're not 'incentive' variants where the store has to order X copies of something to get 1 Design Variant, so they should be cover price. Awesome, thanks, Yeah, he only upcharges on the ones with minimum orders I think. If they're all cover price I'll probably just get them all, except that normal X-factor cover with all the kids dancing is pretty cool too. Edit, and double checking X-Factor is the Scott Summers cover that's just about the only cover I don't like.
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Mar 27, 2021 19:43
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That reminds me, now that both Marvel and DC are ditching diamond is there another website that lists every release for a week instead of previewsworld
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https://blog.gocollect.com/category/comiclist/this-week/
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Cloks posted:What are the profit margins like on them for comic shops? I like to buy them there just so my money goes back into a local business. Our cost on them is like 7 bucks or so. Not great on a 10.99 thing that is unlikely to ever sell after a week or two.
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Mar 27, 2021 20:23
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Codependent Poster posted:I was surprised to find I had a lot of comics that are apparently worth something just from buying comics as normal Just for giggles I looked up one of the probably higher-priced comics from my collection (Amazing Spider-Man #361). What I learned is that it's either worth $20, or $550 depending on which sucker is bidding.
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Having something graded seems to help. I'd really like to sell my new mutants 98 but I don't want to pay $50 to find out how Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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Mar 28, 2021 21:00
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Apparently some goony nerd is going to be writing an upcoming Moon Knight series.
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Mar 28, 2021 21:54
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Open Marriage Night posted:Apparently some goony nerd is going to be writing an upcoming Moon Knight series. Congrats to X-O!  Oh, I guess maybe it might be Vulpes
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Mar 28, 2021 22:04
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i would extremely be using this as an oppotunity to try and meet oscar isaac
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Mar 28, 2021 22:08
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Just found out about Soleil. I wanna know who at Marvel wanted to publish the sex robot comic and why they agreed to do that and like three other titles to make it look like they weren't just publishing the sex robot comic
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Mar 28, 2021 22:09
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what
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site posted:what in 2008 Marvel published a single issue of a French comic anthology called Soleil, from which the story Sky Doll got a 3 issue limited run.
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Mar 28, 2021 22:20
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do you mean from like ten years ago or did they do it again
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Mar 28, 2021 22:23
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site posted:what Soleil was a very briefly lived imprint of Marvel comics under which they published English language editions of multiple European comics. They did like three random sci-fi minis and all of Sky Doll, a series about Catholic sex robots Alaois posted:in 2008 Marvel published a single issue of a French comic anthology called Soleil, from which the story Sky Doll got a 3 issue limited run. It was bigger than that. https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?pl=Marvel/Soleil
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Looks like over two years they published: Husk #1-3 Kookaburra K #1-3 Samurai Legend #1-4 Scourge of the Gods #1-3 Scourge of the Gods: Fall #1-3 Skydoll #1-3 Skydoll: Doll Factory #1-2 Skydoll: Lacrima Christi #1-2 Skydoll: Space Ship #1-2 Soleil Sampler #1 Spin Angels #1-4 Tales of the Dragon Guard #1-3 Tales of the Dragon Guard: Into the Veil #1-3 Universal War One #1-3 Ythaq: Forsaken World #1-3 Ythaq: No Escape #1-3 Why did they do it? I mean they publish superhero comics and not a single volleyball comic, it's obvious that Marvel is run entirely by stupid perverts. Why ask why?
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Mar 28, 2021 22:33
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If you think European comics are weird, just wait until you check out some manga
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Mar 28, 2021 22:47
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Gaz-L posted:Congrats to X-O! I would never let them ruin something I love by letting me write it. Vulpes if this is true good luck. I have yet to be disappointed by you but now you're playing with one of my favorites so I'll be watching even more closely.
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Mar 28, 2021 23:16
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drat Penguin Random House also publishes Sky Dolls the pervert conspiracy goes further than we thought Seriously this is a weird loving thing to get hung up on
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Blockhouse posted:drat Penguin Random House also publishes Sky Dolls the pervert conspiracy goes further than we thought its guy goodbody
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Blockhouse posted:drat Penguin Random House also publishes Sky Dolls the pervert conspiracy goes further than we thought I'm not hung up on it, I just thought it was funny.
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X-O posted:I would never let them ruin something I love by letting me write it. Seems it was Bleeding Cool saying it, so no official announcement yet. Between this, Taskmaster, the Marvel Mecha book, and the Magic: The Gathering comic, it seems like he’s the go to guy when they want a comic to coincide with some other form of media (movie/tv show/toy/game). He’ll always be the Spider Punk guy to me.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Seems it was Bleeding Cool saying it, so no official announcement yet.
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Is that before or after he lands the Combo Man ongoing?
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Open Marriage Night posted:Seems it was Bleeding Cool saying it, so no official announcement yet. Yeah, could an unfounded rumor or it could just be Vulpes isn't allowed to talk about it yeah.
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Mar 29, 2021 23:07
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When's he going to write about a big hero?
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okay sorry i'm catching up on the last couple issues of taskmaster and lol shots fuckin fired
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Black Cat was v. good. Vulpes did a good job making me care about a character I didn't existed because I certainly didn't read whatever Axis and what Hobgoblin was up to was. Edit: Also in news: https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1377259387400642565 Welcome back, Junior Junior. Dawgstar fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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Really hope JR, Jr. isn't put on any books I read.
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I was talking to he guy who does my tattoos a while ago and he said that even though he loves Jack Kirby, Jack Kirby is the only comic book artist people want to use as a reference for tattoos. He named a few other people he'd really like to do pieces based off of and both Romitas were on the list, which made a lot of sense to me and caused me to look at their art with a new appreciation. I've also been idly rereading Claremont's X-Men and that really shows off JRJR at a really interesting and impressive moment in his trajectory. I don't know-- I think he's really easy for an inker to mangle but I still think he's very impressive and singular.
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Every face he draws looks exactly the same, and they all look like someone who got hit in the face with a shovel so now their face is totally flat and smushed out.
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Dawgstar posted:Black Cat was v. good. Vulpes did a good job making me care about a character I didn't existed because I certainly didn't read whatever Axis and what Hobgoblin was up to was.  It's always nice to see a talented writer spin straw into gold.
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