Any suggestions for buying comics online?

Mile High Comics

With their Free Shipping over, usually $40, you can make it worth your while.

Plus they usually have great prices. Sign up for the newsletter and wait for one of the codeword sales.

I've gotten some really good deals for back issues on eBay. But then I was looking for Malibu Comics.

Anyone have a good experience with a subscription directly from either DC or Marvel? How do they ship their wares?

Whenever possible, I try to buy at a brick and mortar store. Aside from saving on the shipping and handling, a lot of comic shops are having trouble staying in business. It's good to support them.

I do tend to grab graphic novels on Amazon though, as some of those deals are just too good to pass up.

If anyone's strictly looking for independently-minded comics, Copacetic Comics has great deals and low shipping rates...plus, they accept PayPal...and they package well and deliver pretty speedily, to boot...

http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticcomicsco/

I'm spoiled by my shop, That's Entertainment in Massachusetts. They're one of the biggest in New England, and if they don't have that I want they'll usually order it and have it in my subscription box within a week or two. The staff isn't pushy and generally knows what they're doing.

Of course, a lot of the customers there are walking cliches, and I won't even bother going down on days when they're holding their Pokemon/Magic/whatever game is hot at the moment tournaments. These guys make Comic Shop Guy from the Simpsons look like a social wizard in comparison.

Always a good idea, of course, but a lot of the shops I've ben to lately don't have much in the way of back issues, particularly older stuff (not enough room, I guess, and many do cater to kids w/ their card game tourneys and such; kids aren;t as likely to look for older back issues as stuff that just came out, or recent back issues thereof), so on line orders may be a viable option.

I second the love for Mile High. I don't read nearly as many comics as I used to, so I haven't ordered from them in years. But I used to order from them constantly, & never had a bad experience. Prices are, in fact, generally good. Shipping pretty quick & reliable, selection is very large too. I never cared much about grading, so I can't say how honest their gradings are, but I never got anything I'd consider unsatisfactory from them.

As an aside, if you live near a city that has conventions, or can travel to one, back issues are one thing, in my experience, they havea lot of. Particularly gold, silver & bronze age stuff, if that's what you're after. You can also score deals on things from vendors, who probably want to move product & have a s little left to pack in their vans for the ride home as possible. I've bought a years' worth of reading material (well, almost) at the last 2 New York Comicons, and back issues was what I was really trying for.

Good luck.

if it is only comics, i think eBay has some good ones at cheap prices even amazon has good ones at cheap prices...
but if you are looking for mangas, i would recommend to read yours online since a lot of free site have them available for free reading online; sites like
onemanga.com
mangavolume.com
and a lots more ...

You have to be some kind of autistic anime shill.

I would recommend Marsimports.com, as they have a wide variety of titles for sale, from DC/Marvel to various smaller publishers, including European titles, translated and original language. Mostly TPBs and GNs, with some individual issues for sale.

I wish there were more big online comic shops, on account of

a) Honestly, I can never find what I want on eBay. Well, exactly what I want.

b) I'd love to have a brick and mortar store that I could just walk into and buy what I want and leave, but I'd have to travel distances to get to decent comic shops.

Otherwise, I'd be stuck with places that charge $20 to set up a pull list (and then manage to bungle the orders), places run by people who think that old=$$$$$ thus they have shelves clogged up with tattered, crinkled issues of Gold Key and 70's Archie comics and such being sold for $15 and higher (and yet they never sell. Hmmmm.) and stores that are organized in a surreal way that makes sense only to the manager clogged up, again with crap no one ever buys and yet sits on the shelf year after year gathering dust like the leftovers from the brief 90's "small publisher action figure craze", (Oh wow, the Nira X Cyberangel variant with see-through breastplate, only for a dollar!) stacks of yellowing Dr. Who and Star Trek fanzines, and boxes of superhero trading cards.

One of the last times I went into a store, they had tables full of Magic: The Gathering players. The place reeked of stale sandwiches and BO and all around me were these gawky teens and 30ish manchildren noisily eating junk food and fried chicken and slurping down Mountain Dews and engaging loudly in such scintillating conversations like:

Nasally-voiced Neckbeard: "Dude, your cousin Amy is sooooooo hot."
Morbidly Obese 30-something in a Naruto sweatjacket: "Yeah, she's got like, really big tits."
Nasally-voiced Neckbeard: "Wouldn't you like to do it with her? I would."
Moribdly Obese 30-something in a Naruto sweatjacket: "Oh yeahhhh..."

Shit! Guys, he heard us!

I'm telling Amy.

Though to be fair, a lot the bad comic stores I've seen over the years haven't been creepy Dungeons of Dankness, just mediocre in their selection. Some of the worst shops I saw were during the early 90's when it seemed every fool with dollar signs in his eyes thought "All I have to do is set up some card tables with longboxes on them, slap some Wolverine and Batman posters on the walls and the comics will sell themselves! I'll be rich, rich I tells ya!" and then did all that.

I will still go to comic shops when the online world is of no help or I don't feel like waiting for a package in the mail and just gotta have the books I want now, as long as they have a decent selection and staff who know what they're doing. They don't have to be mega-experts who've read every comic out there and know everything, but when they aren't sure of something I ask them, they at least check their computer inventory or something instead of muttering, "I dunno" and doing nothing.

That and sometimes I can find books in brick and mortar stores for surprisingly low prices, maybe lurking in the bargain bin, when everywhere I look online they're either out of stock or being sold for ridiculous prices.

And again, my suggestion is to check out Mars Import, not imports, marsimports.com will take you nowhere. Whoops.

I've also used Mile High sometimes because they have a lot of titles, including obscurities and such I may have overlooked.

You may want to check out mailordercomics.com
Mailordercomics

The service was good and you could pick up a few really cheap (75 cent) books every month. Those were typically new series or some such, but it allowed you to sample. I stopped buying monthlies at the beginning of the year, so I don't know how they are right now.

Great thread, some nice sites on here. Unfortunately I'm hunting for the marvel G.I. Joe trade paperbacks from 2002 of which volumes 2 through 5 (if one can find them) are going for sixty to eighty bucks, if not more. Guess I'll be single issue hunting . . .

oh i just found one the forbiddenplanet.com has good comics...

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who said anime???? i do not see anything about anime here!!!