The Comic Book Retailer’s Bill of Rights

§ January 19th, 2004 § Filed under Uncategorized Comments Off on The Comic Book Retailer’s Bill of Rights

As a comic book retailer, you have the right to expect clear and concise solicitation information from publishers.

As a comic book retailer, you have a right to expect a monthly comic book to be published monthly, not bimonthly, weekly, daily, or whenever Marv..er, the publisher feels like it.

As a comic book retailer, you have the right not to be a daycare center.

As a comic book retailer, you have the responsibility to carry a wide range of comics and graphic novels, not just Marvels and a handful of DCs. Carry some manga, for God’s sake…it won’t kill you.

As a comic book retailer, you have the right not to be expected to offer a discount to a customer just because he’s buying what he calls “a whole bunch of comics” (i.e. about $10 worth).

As a comic book retailer, you have the responsibility to make a good faith effort toward obtaining comics and graphic novels requested by your customers, if they’re available for preorder or reorder. You also have the right not to be blamed if said comic or graphic novel is out of print or otherwise unavailable.

As a comic book retailer, you have the right not to believe a customer when he tells you that he has a copy of Action Comics #1 at home. (Just through personal experience, this would mean there are something like a hundred copies in our immediate area.)

As a comic book retailer, you have the responsibility to make your store a nice place to shop. One would think this would be obvious. Sweep, clean, stock the racks, keep Eminem off the store stereo, change those posters in the front window that are now all the same sunfaded blue color, wear clothes that aren’t torn or stained.

As a comic book retailer, you have the right to be respected as a real business, given that you treat it as a real business.

(EDIT: I just realized some people may not know what I’m referring to. Here is the original Comic Book Reader’s Bill of Rights…the permalink doesn’t seem to be working properly, but it was posted January 10th.)

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