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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7971765" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>Nop, I mean country. I'm sure Canada has a few dozen stores already, but here on the other end of North America things aren't as simple. Part of it is the language barrier, part of it is that the part of the country with the biggest chance of English proficiency is close enough to casually go shopping to the US. But essentially there is only three stores big enough to regularly ship across the country. Only one of them actively promotes new comics -and I know for sure they are a Diamond store-. The others, I'm not so sure with the focus on collectibles and pricey back issue, they could be Diamond too, but their business model can be satisfied by buying from -say- Midtown. Too bad quarantine came before I got to set foot on either. (But I'm almost sure that they aren't Diamond, because all other small comic stores focus on pricey back issue and don't get their stock from Diamond)</p><p></p><p>Muddying the waters is the fact that we have a few local publishers that have taken turns to republish Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. Traditionally it was an old one called Vid that had a good distribution network, it was the one that had the license when Death of Superman and Clone Saga happened, and only lost Marvel by the late 2000's, but sadly lost DC too by the time of New 52. It went broke and was reborn as Kamite and only keeps Dark Horse and a few manga. Currently the DC and Marvel License is held by a publisher called Smash. Most manga is republished by the local branch of Panini. These comics are only 50 to 75% cheaper than new comics and are one or more years behind. You can find Smash comics in Walmart and Newstands though. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>Hopefully, I think that if I could focus on twenty or so titles per month, and then rely on prepaid pre-sales for the rest. Then have key back issue for conventions. -There are about six to seven major conventions every year in my City-, I could have a healthy business model. These have to be the right numbers or it might not be feasible.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is cool advice.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On back issue, I think that it isn't as important in here. There's a lot of focus in what is in "now", and from experience back issue is important to help sell the new stuff, but not worth as much by itself. I've seen key issues and and silver age comics priced at $80+ dollars sit for years in shelves pretty much untouched while multiple people shill those amounts to get a full storyline at once.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I love to sort and organize too. I think it is very important that comics get sorted properly. Perhaps even going so far as to have back issues with a full story together or very close to each other. Also maybe polybag each and all individual comics, it always bothered me that new comics were always sold bare and vulnerable. while old and discounted ones were polybagged and pristine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7971765, member: 6689464"] Nop, I mean country. I'm sure Canada has a few dozen stores already, but here on the other end of North America things aren't as simple. Part of it is the language barrier, part of it is that the part of the country with the biggest chance of English proficiency is close enough to casually go shopping to the US. But essentially there is only three stores big enough to regularly ship across the country. Only one of them actively promotes new comics -and I know for sure they are a Diamond store-. The others, I'm not so sure with the focus on collectibles and pricey back issue, they could be Diamond too, but their business model can be satisfied by buying from -say- Midtown. Too bad quarantine came before I got to set foot on either. (But I'm almost sure that they aren't Diamond, because all other small comic stores focus on pricey back issue and don't get their stock from Diamond) Muddying the waters is the fact that we have a few local publishers that have taken turns to republish Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. Traditionally it was an old one called Vid that had a good distribution network, it was the one that had the license when Death of Superman and Clone Saga happened, and only lost Marvel by the late 2000's, but sadly lost DC too by the time of New 52. It went broke and was reborn as Kamite and only keeps Dark Horse and a few manga. Currently the DC and Marvel License is held by a publisher called Smash. Most manga is republished by the local branch of Panini. These comics are only 50 to 75% cheaper than new comics and are one or more years behind. You can find Smash comics in Walmart and Newstands though. Hopefully, I think that if I could focus on twenty or so titles per month, and then rely on prepaid pre-sales for the rest. Then have key back issue for conventions. -There are about six to seven major conventions every year in my City-, I could have a healthy business model. These have to be the right numbers or it might not be feasible. This is cool advice. On back issue, I think that it isn't as important in here. There's a lot of focus in what is in "now", and from experience back issue is important to help sell the new stuff, but not worth as much by itself. I've seen key issues and and silver age comics priced at $80+ dollars sit for years in shelves pretty much untouched while multiple people shill those amounts to get a full storyline at once. I love to sort and organize too. I think it is very important that comics get sorted properly. Perhaps even going so far as to have back issues with a full story together or very close to each other. Also maybe polybag each and all individual comics, it always bothered me that new comics were always sold bare and vulnerable. while old and discounted ones were polybagged and pristine. [/QUOTE]
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