I always liked going to a shop. The one in my town closed, so I went to another that was about a 45 minute drive away. Then that one closed.
After that I caved in and started using dcbservice.com. You have to order like a month in advance, but you get just about everything at a nice discount. Back issues though, you're gonna have to look elsewhere.
I haven't ordered a ton of stuff, but when I do I usually use mycomicshop.com or just amazon.
Been using Midtown Comics for about.... 6 or so years with no issues.
I used to use Westfield Comics subscription service years ago, and they were top notch. It was like 15 years ago though.
The drawback to ordering online is that I think a lot of services want you to order 3 months in advance so they don't get stuck with a lot of books, or run out of hot sellers.
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before my current FLCS opened up, i was ordering pretty steadily from Mile High Comics. it's been a while since i last really dealt with them, but ive a couple buddies that still place orders with them. they're quick and have a huge selection. old or new stuff. so give them a look if you haven't already found someone else.
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I used to have monthly subscriptions with them when I was in the Army and stationed overseas. They also have a huge selection of back issues.
@Joshua.
nice to see Mile High is still around...I remember their ads from back in the day.
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yeah, for quite a few years there MHC was my pretty much my sole source of comics. do remember quite a few months i think i dropped 20 or 30$ easy just on the cheap section. 
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Those ads made me give them a try and I was a customer for years. I've gone exclusively to trades now, so I get all my comics in the stores or from amazon.com, but in the rare case that I'm looking for a back issue, I go the Mile High first. I also use their back issue log as a reference on back issues in general.
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nice to see Mile High is still around...I remember their ads from back in the day.
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@Joshua.
I've always heard good things about MHC, and actually ordered a comic from them over ebay recently. They are VERY fast in getting those comics to you.
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id probably still be using MHC pretty regularly, but ive cut back on buying so many back issues and just pick up trades, and i get a better deal on those from amazon or instock trades.
TFAW.com is where I get most of mine and where I have my subscriptions.
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I'm a fan of Sci-Fi Genre. You have regular comic subscriptions on a weekly, every 2 weeks or monthly basis and add other geek-related items and back issues to your cart and just have them shipped with the next subscription send, saving overall on shipping. They discount based on % of regular titles in the subscription as well.
My friend goes through dcbservice.com and probably saves more money that I did, but I didn't like their ordering process, personally.
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Hmm I may have to give them a look then. That's one thing I don't like about TFAW - I can't just order something on the fly and have it added to my subs & preorders for the month. Individual orders for in stock items always ship when ordered. |
Originally Posted by Attercap
I'm a fan of Sci-Fi Genre. You have regular comic subscriptions on a weekly, every 2 weeks or monthly basis and add other geek-related items and back issues to your cart and just have them shipped with the next subscription send, saving overall on shipping. They discount based on % of regular titles in the subscription as well
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Thanks for the tip.
@Quasadu
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I'll second this. Though I will add that one of the times I've ordered from them they seemed to almost forget about my order and I sent them a friendly email after waiting a month and seeing my order still hadn't shipped. They shipped it out right away, but informed me that a few of their special 50 cent back issues (specific variant covers I had selected) were not available. To make up for it, and to ensure I at least got the issues, they sent me different variant covers. The variants they did end up sending were valued at over 5 dollars each on their site, and not part of the 50 cent selection, so I thought that was nice of them.|
Originally Posted by Attercap
I'm a fan of Sci-Fi Genre. You have regular comic subscriptions on a weekly, every 2 weeks or monthly basis and add other geek-related items and back issues to your cart and just have them shipped with the next subscription send, saving overall on shipping. They discount based on % of regular titles in the subscription as well.
My friend goes through dcbservice.com and probably saves more money that I did, but I didn't like their ordering process, personally. |
They also have a 10 dollar deal in which you get 25 new, random comics. The comics are from within the last 5 years, are generally in good/unread condition, and they will personally sort through to ensure you don't get any duplicates. A large portion of it was Marvel with some DC and independents (you'd think they'd try to give me more DC since that's what I primarily ordered in back issues... but whatever).
If you're looking for older stuff, the site http://graveyardmall.com RARELY has a 50 comics/$9.95 deal, full of stuff mostly from the 80s/90s and an occasional older/newer issue. I ordered 100 issues once and mostly got X-Men and related spinoff group titles. Seems like they unloaded all of their 90s X-Men crap on me. It is mostly Marvel. I think of the 100 issues, 80+ of them were Marvel, maybe 4 or 5 DC, and the rest were Image or smaller/independent companies. Friends have reported titles that vary greatly from what I got, as well as more DC/independent/etc. I did however come across TALES OF FEAR #14 from 1972, featuring one of the first appearances of Man Thing. It's worth about 15 bucks according to the internet. My most prized issue is an unopened MR. T AND THE T-FORCE ISSUE 1 with collectable Mr. T trading card in tact.
I'm looking at buying a couple comic mini-series. I don't have a local comic shop so I'm looking at buying them online. Anyone have recommendations for online comic shops?