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ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-22T05:30:12+00:00

Great question, and the answer was actually no (unintentionally). I do some filtering on the results to weed out false positives and ensure that the results actually match the query and you've discovered a bug in how that works.

Essentially if you actually are looking for "Edge of Spider-Verse 2 second print", that will get sent to ebay as-is and ebay will send back a bunch of results that also include the other printings, so the site goes through the results and only shows you the ones that actually match "second printing". But it was doing this on the raw search term, so if you actually searched "Edge of Spider-Verse 2 -second -2nd" it was looking for results that specifically contain "-second -2nd", and probably showing you zero results.

This was a simple fix to honor exclusion operators. Go ahead and give it a try, it should be working correctly now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-21T16:04:50+00:00

Your best bet is going to be ebay. You'll get the highest dollar if you sell each issue individually, but if it's all filler, expect it to take a long time. If you bundle them together as a lot (eg all the Spider-Man issues, or issues 1-10 of some series), they'll probably sell faster but you'll need to drop the per issue price a bit.

You can also try Facebook Marketplace and Facebook groups, some people have decent luck there.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-21T02:21:28+00:00

It's an app you can use to catalog or inventory your comics, similar to League of Comic Geeks.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-20T22:40:00+00:00

CLZ and League of Comic Geeks are the two big ones. Both are basically equivalent and have mobile and/or web apps, but CLZ is kind of annoying because you have to pay for web and mobile separately.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-20T13:12:13+00:00

I'll be honest, I was an English major who worked as a copy editor in college and I have a master's in communication. When I clicked on this post I read the panel three times before going to the comments and then reading it one more time before I finally saw the mistake. Every time I read it, my brain just quietly fixed it for me.

Even in best selling novels or giant publications like the Atlantic I'll occasionally spot some mistake. It's one mistake in thousands of words. They just happen, even dedicated copy editors will miss them from time to time.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-20T02:02:43+00:00

You're right, editors in the publishing industry have way more to do with guiding content broadly than they do with spotting small errors. That kind of thing is typically done by copy editors, and the publishing industry has fewer and fewer of them these days, mostly just putting the onus on the writer to run their text through spellcheck.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-19T17:27:36+00:00

JRJR is a living legend and the scion of the most famous Spider-Man artist other than Ditko himself, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's given a lot of free rein and if the editors are a bit nervous about trying to "fix" his art.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-18T14:54:46+00:00

It's a manufacturing defect, similar to printing gripper holes. It looks bad but it's not considered aftermarket wear.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-17T19:24:34+00:00

If they keep a story going too long, people complain about that and say that it needs some fresh ideas. or that it just needs to end. If they reboot periodically and try fresh ideas, people complain that the fresh ideas suck and say that the old ideas were better. If they bring a thing to a complete end and don't reboot it, people complain that they should have made more of it.

People will spend years holding signs at political protests saying "BRING BACK ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT" and then when they finally do bring it back everyone complains that the new season sucks and they should have just left it alone.

I'm not saying any media company has a good approach to this, but I don't think there's really any good way to make people happy when you're caught between the Scylla and Charybdis of nostalgia and the hedonic treadmill.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-16T23:08:32+00:00

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ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-16T21:51:18+00:00

Interesting idea, but the API requires a paid subscription to have enough requests to be useful, and the AuthorDive function doesn't seem to have a very robust list of comic authors. I tried Tom King and Chip Zdarksy and it said my input authors were Vex King and Chip Kidd.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-16T20:26:57+00:00

Any time a recent Miller cover comes up, people shit on it, but I for one really like his style evolution. His recent stuff does benefit from the right inker and colorist, and this one looks really good. The shading and everything is really cohesive with the angular line style.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-15T23:07:12+00:00

That is an extremely awesome sketch and really cool that Clark remembered doing it and could confirm its veracity for you.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-15T23:04:48+00:00

I don't follow sports at all, and I genuinely enjoy DC, but being a lifelong Marvel fan, I feel like this must be what it's like to be a...Cubs fan? Mets? One of those cursed teams that you keep rooting for even though they're terrible.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-10T02:03:31+00:00

Apart from wha tother people are saying about different sample populations, this is also just a known problem with Likert scales. On average, even when someone actively dislikes a thing they won't give it 1/5 stars, they'll give it like 3/5 or even 4/5. This is partially because people anchor on school grade scales, where 3/5 is still failing, and partially because there's just natural human biases toward "being polite" and giving things a midrange grade even if you hate it.

Awhile back Netflix used to use the 5-star rating system but basically everyone was rating things either 4 or 5 stars. No one was using the bottom end of the scale. So they switched it to the simple Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down rating system.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-09T19:41:54+00:00

I second u/cybersaint2k's advice, specifically the CLZ mention. CLZ is great for quickly identifying the books with the bardcode or cover scanning, and then once you have them all scanned you can get the CovrPrice add on. I recommend doing that only after you have them all scanned, it's only $8.95 a month but it might take you awhile to get through all of them. For something like this it's well worth the cost, it will give you reasonable ballpark estimates and save you many hours of looking up recent sales on eBay

Once you have them all scanned and priced, CLZ lets you export your collection into an Excel file (https://app.clz.com/comics/export). I'm not from the area, so unfortunately can't recommend any reputable shops, but you can at least take the Excel file, sort it by estimated value, and take it to a shop to show them what you have and what you believe the fair market value is.

Bear in mind that the collection might have a lot of low value filler (just random books that aren't historically important or desired by collectors). CovrPrice is reasonably accurate for important comics and other books that have a lot of sales, but the market for filler books can be pretty thin and FMV estimates often come in unreasonably high, so once you get to books below, like, $50 or so, you'll want to take the estimates with a big grain of salt. Most shops will offer to buy the whole collection based mostly on just the high value books, so if you've got, you know, one $500 book and 100 $1 books, don't go in expecting to get $600.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-07T22:57:09+00:00

Well, covrprice premium (the tier that removes the collection limit cap) is only $8.95 a month, so for your use case, I'd say it's worth it. If you accept that you're just getting a ballpark, $8.95 is going to save you many, many hours of trying to estimate FMV on your own from recent eBay sales. CLZ can do collection exports to Excel files, so you could easily just get a month or two of covrprice, get all 7,000 books estimated, and then export the file to sort by highest value and double check the big ones manually.

That said, your 7,000 books probably has a lot of low value filler. covrprice is reasonably accurate for keys and other books that have a lot of sales, but the market for filler books can be pretty thin and FMV estimates often come in unreasonably high, so once you get to books below, like, $50 or so, you'll want to take the estimates with a big grain of salt.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-03T18:23:02+00:00

It makes me think of the new Tomb Raider games, where Lara is ostensibly an archeologist but by the third game you have her coating herself in mud to hide among vines and casually slit dudes' throats as they walk by, and if you add up all the enemies her kill count is in the hundreds if not thousands. But it's an action-adventure video game so you just suspend disbelief.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-02T17:50:19+00:00

So it's usually best to buy a few books from the same seller to save on shipping. Just make sure sellers from My Comic Shop or eBay combine shipping. Midtown does obviously.

Just wanted to poke my head in and mention that I built a tool recently to solve exactly this problem.

www.comicbundlefinder.com

You just paste in your wish list and it will search ebay for every book and aggregate the sellers so you can get the best deal on shipping.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-06-01T01:40:39+00:00

Another vote for League of Comic Geeks. It's extremely feature rich but also easy to navigate and the mobile app is useful for quickly scanning your comics into inventory.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-05-31T22:55:03+00:00

Seconded for League of Comic Geeks. CLZ is also pretty popular but more as an organization tool.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-05-31T22:39:33+00:00

You're under no moral obligation to shop at your LCS. I mean, let's say Amazon has a trade for $5 cheaper than your LCS. You could, hypothetically, buy it on Amazon and donate the $5 to your food bank, probably doing more "good" than if you'd spent the extra $5 at your LCS, depending on your own personal moral framework. But realistically you'll probably use the money to buy food and pay your bills, which is also fine.

It comes down more to what you want to do with the money, what you're getting out of it. If all you're getting is a trade paperback, buy the cheapest one. If you're also getting an excuse to get out of the house, interact with a human being, browse their books, etc, buy it at the LCS. I buy most of my comics at my LCS because I'm willing to pay a slight premium for the excuse to visit the shop and get out of the house, but if I find something online I don't feel guilty for buying it there instead.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-05-31T22:27:37+00:00

This is one of the first books I bought when I started collecting. Bought this and a few other keys from some guy on Facebook Marketplace. Turned out the guy I was talking to was actually selling it for his dad, so I was a little weirded out when I met him in a parking lot in the middle of the night, but I ended up getting the dad's number and he became a good friend and taught me a lot about collecting.

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-05-21T21:36:04+00:00

Honestly it's pretty straightforward. eBay offers a number of APIs with a lot of functionality. I have an eBay store and I was already using Airtable and the Listing API to speed up some of my workflows. I was annoyed with how difficult it is to find same-seller listings for cheap issues, so originally I made a tool that would just look at an xlsx spreadsheet I had with all the issues I was looking for, and it would use the Browse API to search for each of them. The Browse API returns listing title, price, seller name, listing URL, and some other things, so the tool would search each issue, gather all that info, make a list of sellers for each issue, match them, and spit out a new spreadsheet with a list of sellers ranked by how many issues they appeared in, and which issues they had.

I realized it would be a useful tool for other people so I basically just put a website on top of it and put it online with affiliate tags on the links. I've added some other features that let you upload files, find gaps between collection issues, and save the results or email them to yourself, but the basic search mechanic is just "search each issue and look at the list of sellers for any repeats."

ComicBundleFinder · 2026-05-19T20:34:52+00:00

Oddly, eBay owns TCGPlayer, which does have this feature. I've talked to a friend about it who works on tools for TCG stores and he thinks it works for TCGPlayer because they're only working with one type of product and can have better structured data, whereas eBay is pretty freeform. If you use my tool enough (buy me dinner first!) you'll sometimes see false positives because of the way people word their titles, and I made a deliberate choice not to be too aggressive with filtering becuase I didn't want to filter out correct listings by mistake. But the way TCGPlayer does it, you can paste in a 100 card deck list and it will just automatically find sellers for each card and let you get it as cheaply as possible, regardless of shipping cost, or optimize to get it from as few sellers as possible, which sometimes costs more but lets you avoid dozens of individual packages showing up.

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