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\nWelcome back comic lovers to another edition of Marvel Snapshot<\/strong>. In this week’s column I’d like to discuss people’s buying trends. <\/em>Specifically, if you mainly buy new comics or back issues? I have some weird trends myself which I’ll be talking about, but I also want to hear from the masses as well. OK, so no more intro, let’s just get down to business!
\nFirst off, my personal buying habits have really gone over the top from previous weeks\/years. When I went to my LCS (local comic shop) every \"\"<\/a>Wednesday, I used to buy 3 – 5 books on average. Sure there were 8 – 10 weeks, but they were few and far between. Now I regularly get 5 – 7 books regularly. I feel like I save so much more from buying online that, “hey, why not buy a couple of more books at this discount, the LCS would have been a lot more.” I know that’s kind of foolish, but it makes sense in my cloudy mind so I say go for it.
\nNow, a little back story on my old\/new habits. When I first started buying comics I literally only wanted back issues. The first couple of comics I bought were new issues from a bookstore turn-style rack, but after that it was back issue city for me. I really loved going to my LCS and rooting through boxes and boxes of back issues. I would spend hours with my nose buried in those old water-stained long-boxes, just to look at the covers sometimes. Yeah, that’s right, I would sometimes go there even if I was flat broke just to peek at the covers. In my mind, nothing was going to stop me from collecting every back issue until I bought Amazing Fantasy #15.