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My LCS pull list system broke and I lost 3 months of comics

I walked into my local shop last Saturday and they told me my pull list had been deleted during a computer swap. Somehow I missed 12 issues from May through July, including a signed variant I had preordered. The owner just shrugged and said sorry, no way to prove I ordered it. I spent almost 2 hours digging through back issue bins trying to find what I lost. Ended up paying $45 extra just to catch up on key story arcs. Has anyone else had a store just lose your entire pull history like that?

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claire_hart53•5d ago

TIL that a single issue of Action Comics #1 sold for over 3 million dollars at auction

I was reading an article on Yahoo about old comic values and it said the first Superman comic went for $3.2 million in 2014. That blew my mind because I remember digging through quarter bins as a kid hoping to find something valuable. Does anyone else think the prices on these golden age books have gone completely bonkers?

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taylor.sean•6d ago

TIL I passed 1,000 back issues in my collection this weekend

I was sorting my long boxes to reorganize by publisher and actually counted for the first time. Hit 1,023 issues and that number kind of blew my mind. I started picking up floppies back in 2012 just for fun, never thought I'd get this deep. My wife just rolled her eyes when I told her, but it felt like a real milestone to me. Anyone else ever tally their collection and get surprised by the number?

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jennifer204•7d ago

Chasing down a comic book variant cover took me 3 months longer than it should have

I started hunting for a specific Dave McKean variant cover for Sandman #1 back in September... the one with the different color scheme. Every shop I called said they sold out on release day, and I spent weeks driving to stores in Cleveland and Columbus with no luck. My mistake was only looking at brick and mortar shops and ignoring online marketplaces for the first 2 months. Finally found it on a random seller's thread in a Facebook group for $35 after a guy posted it at 2 AM. Has anyone else wasted way too long hunting down a single issue when the answer was staring you right in the face?

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