Earlier today, I started conducting a piece detailing all the fun that comes with shipment day at my shop Conquest Comics. You can check that out to start with if you somehow finding yourself reading this drivel.
https://hive.blog/comics/@blewitt/prepping-for-the-week-s-new-comic-day
So I’m going to jump right into things. Right where the above post left off, I had to start slicing into the boxes to see what this week has in store. I started with DC books today. This is all of the DC books for the week. First things first is to inventory them and make sure there are no shorts or damages.
Now onto the Marvel & Independent books. This here is that stack.
Now it’s time to comb through the invoices, count and check each copy, and organize them.
Ok. Only a few shorts and damages. Now I go to our new book rack and prepare to remove the previous week’s New Books to swap with this week’s.
Then comes the fun part of going through the Reservist’s Pull List’s. Those are our regular customers who give us a list of all the titles they collect. Each week I go through the couple hundred folks that have pull list’s and yank em down any copies that they need. This helps guarantee that the customer receives the titles and books they want incase of sell outs.
This takes a bit as not only are there tons of customers, each with very specific wants and needs that change by the week…but there are tons of books. I’m only human so I do miss a book now and then. Usually on the reservist that has to guilt me about it….😂
After this I usually take all of the higher priced variant covers for the week and price em up fir the rabid monsters that will burst through the door Wednesday morning. Some of these are pretty rare, so they get gobbled up quickly. First come first served style for those.
Usually while I’m going this, my business partner Pete arrives and finishes going through the toys and miscellaneous product as he prepares everything for the weekly photo bomb on new product that we pop up on our Instagram. I will say that IG has been a pretty good tool for us to connect with customers on.
I wish I took a few other photos of the unboxing of this week’s toys, but we got a little busy towards the end of the day. If you want to see that selection though, check my post later tonight which will showcase all of the tasty goods arriving on shelves this week at comic shops across the land.
Thx for checking this out!
Blewitt
Has there been an uptick in Hit Monkey interest since the series dropped on Hulu?
Not at all. Lol. I can’t think of the last time I sold or had anyone ask about him sadly.