What issues are on back order?
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Captaindiptoad Posts: 23
10/28/2023
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I'm a fairly new collector, and something I have come across is the lack of back issue availability with new/recent comics.
I have about 15 comic stores in my area, all with varying degrees of stock/effort.
I overheard one clerk telling a customer he wishes you could order back issues. He told the customer if he could he would. Now I I was a bit skeptical of this as he had a very large store and one small corner was dedicated to comics, the rest was miniatures manga and hardcovers/traditional books. He had about 10 long boxes in total and one small shelf of this weeks comics, almost none of his long boxes had bags and even less were boarded. This left me with the impression he didn't actually care that much about them and didn't want to order them.
I have yet to ask directly but is it true stores can't order recent back issues? I'm talking issues published in the last 5ish years?
Any insight on this would be great!
Thank you!
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lokyel Posts: 486
10/28/2023
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we are lucky if we can get them from 3 months ago. so, to answer your question no not that often. but if you are looking for certain ones let us know
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
10/28/2023
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The answer to your question is no, shops can't order back issues from the last 5 years from a distributor at least. they have to rely on buying from collectors, or at shows or other mail-order sellers. they can maybe buy some from some publishers, but most won't keep stock that long. years ago Marvel and then DC I think, started to 'produce to number ordered' with very little overrun done for replacing damaged copies, so shops either had to over order more, which cost $ they maybe couldn't afford to use in case they couldn't move the extra stock very quickly, or people who didn't have pre-orders missed out if they waited too long after new-comic-day to hit the shop. so it got tricky to even get new back issues THAT WEEK from the distributor, if they happen to have any from cancelled orders. Not sure how many other publishers did that. second printings were also stopped in some cases, or more limited production. seems these days tho, they keep doing multiple printings for about anything.
dunno what the deal is these days, and publishers have switched to different distribution methods and companies, but Lokyel could tell you. but with regular comics hitting $4-$6 cover prices, plus 1,000 variants a week, shops can't afford to order many extras. so even new back issues can be hard to get. but 'last 5 years'? Nope. that's secondary market stuff.
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