If you want to buy your monthly comics online more cheaply, go with DCBS (and no, I don’t work for DCBS, nor do I get anything from them for recommending them). MCS also offers a subscription service, but based on its discount tiers alone, I can’t recommend it.
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The average price that I paid per comic was $2.90 for 16 issues, plus a little more than $4 shipping. Because of the great selection at MCS, I was able to complete runs on eight different series! And the price wasn’t bad either.
That aside, when you get your comics, they come pretty well packaged/protected.Īs you can see, my comics were placed between slabs of cardboard, wrapped in thickish plastic (with the exception of one title that came in its own bag with a board), and taped pretty securely. I get that, but I’m also used to the processing of online orders being much faster (there’s that “I’m spoiled” thing). Someone has to process the order, and go find and package the comics. Realize that MCS is the online presence of a comic shop in Texas. Keep in mind that they have to process your order, then ship it–the time frame MCS gives is for when they hand your package off to the USPS or UPS, and this is where MCS does get a knock: it took them four days to pull my order and ship it (including a weekend). I went with the cheaper Lone Star Economy option, but you may have to wait 10+ days to receive your order with that one.
When you choose your shipping, you are given more choices than is usual for an online comic shop. After you start the checkout process, you’ll be asked to log in or create an account. Again, it’s the ease of use with this site that I particularly like. Once you’ve selected all of the comics that you want, you can review your cart and change the amount or easily remove the titles if you’ve found that you’re spending too much (is that actually possible?!). Regardless, MCS usually gives you a choice in obtaining that issue to complete your run. Plus, considering that I can buy $1 back issues at Fearless Readers Online and the quality of the issues is always really good, I’m more than a little spoiled when it comes to getting cheap, good quality copies. This isn’t a knock at MCS’s graders–I know I have an uninformed view of these grades (in fact, this is something that I need to become much more familiar with fortunately, MCS helps with that). I bought an issue of Americomics with a rating of VG and was surprised that it wasn’t in better shape. It might be very appealing to order that copy of Avengers #177 (1963 series) for $1.10, but in the case of this store, that grade of GD is probably pretty accurate. You can just choose what copy you want and it is added to your cart automatically.īe careful with this. For each issue that MCS has in stock and has multiple copies of, you are presented with a quality rating and corresponding price.
When you click the title link, you can then see the issues. At this point, you can already see if MCS has a complete run or not, or you can click the associated tabs to only see the In Stock books, CGC rated books, or if there are any auctions for issues in that title.
Simply type in the title or portion of the title and you get a list of potential hits. The first thing about MCS that I like is how easy it is to find back issues (or even newer comics). And from there, let the money fly out of your wallet! ( Update: Before buying from this vendor, please review the comments below.) Whenever you look up the details of an issue at StashM圜omics, there’s a handy Buy link that directs you to MCS. I “discovered” (hereafter known as MCS in this review) via the comic book database site StashM圜omics. I’m always on the lookout for a great deal, especially involving comics! I’ve used and reviewed DCBS and Fearless Readers Online, and now I’ve obtained some comics from yet another online source:.
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