Finally tracking down an old back issue took me 4 months

Everyone says you can find any comic online these days but I spent from January to April trying to get a 1993 issue of a minor X-Men spinoff. I checked 5 local shops, 3 conventions, and had to message 8 different sellers on a buy/sell group before one guy had it. The funny thing is I finally found it in a dollar bin at a shop I almost skipped because it looked closed. Why do people keep acting like every old issue is easy to track down when some of them are total ghosts?

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andrew77813d ago

Man, did you also get the feeling like you were hunting for buried treasure or something? I had a similar thing with an old Spectacular Spider-Man issue from '94... took me almost six months and I had to drive two hours to a shop in another state just to find a beat up copy. The seller online kept ghosting me and the local shops all said they had no idea what I was talking about. Its wild how some of these issues that are supposedly "easy to find" just vanish into thin air. I swear, the internet makes it sound like every old comic is sitting in a warehouse somewhere but thats a load of crap. And the best part is, I ended up finding mine in a random stack at a flea market for fifty cents... totally random. I think the whole "easy to find" thing is just people trying to sound cool when they themselves probably spent a year tracking down their own grail.

charlie_allen13d ago

Funny how that works, isn't it? You can search high and low for something "common" and it's nowhere, then bam, it shows up where nobody would think to look. Kinda like trying to find a decent parking spot at the grocery store during rush hour, you circle forever then someone pulls out right in front of the entrance.