Shoutout to the comic shop guy who saved my pull list

I was at Cosmic Comics on Broadway last Saturday just flipping through some back issues, not really looking for anything. The owner, this older dude named Jerry, saw me holding a copy of a run I'd been trying to piece together for a while now. He just walked over and said "you know you can set up a pull list for key issues right, not just monthly releases?" I never even thought of that... I've been digging through bins for three years like a chump. He showed me how they keep a binder of collector requests and even added me to the system on the spot. Now I got an alert for the next big variant that drops in April. I saved like 15 bucks in shipping fees just from not having to hunt online after. Has anyone else ever slept on a simple service like that at your local shop?

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stone.jesse6d ago

wait is the binder thing common at most shops or just the old school ones? feel like my local spot would just tell me to set up an online account or something instead of actually talking to me about it

the_uma6d ago

The big True Value near me still has a three-ring binder with all the specialty parts in it, been there for like 30 years. I love how you can flip through and see the worn out pages, that's way better than any computer screen honestly. Totally agree with you @stone.jesse, some of these newer places just want you to scan a QR code and figure it out yourself. I'd take a grumpy old-timer handing me a binder over that any day!