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Collectors · Retailers · Creators — one platform

The home for your whole hobby.

Longboxed knows every book down to the printing — and every person in the pipeline. Track what you keep, run what you sell, print what you make. Wherever you are in comics, there's a door here with your name on it.

Three doors: collectors, retailers, creators

Collectors

Your collection, in order.

Scan anything, know its printing, watch its value, and see the gaps in every run — with your shop's counter wired in.

Start your collection → Retailers

A register that understands comics.

Point of sale, pulls, order deadlines, and provable numbers — one system that keeps selling when the internet doesn't.

Book a walkthrough → Creators

From idea to first printing.

An ideas board, a print studio with honest unit math, and an imprint scouting the work — your IP stays yours.

Open the studio →
Most of us are more than one. The collector who tables at cons; the shop owner with a pull list of their own; the artist who bags and boards. One account carries every hat — switch surfaces, not apps.
End to end

One pipeline, every seat at the table.

Comics move from a script to a shelf through a dozen hands. Longboxed is built along that whole path — so the thing you make, sell, or keep is the same identified object at every step, with its provenance intact.

Pipeline

For collectors · scan, shelve, value, complete

It knows what you're holding.

SpotlightTop moverJust gradedKey issueNew this week
9.8CGC UNIVERSAL4213556002
Resolved · to the printing

2nd printing · direct edition

Barcode, ISBN, or a pre-barcode book from 1974 — it lands on the right issue, printing, and variant, with your copy's condition attached.

Key issue ▲ 4.2% 30d Raw NM · yours
Market$465.00 You paid$210.00 Sales 90d38
Saga · run 62 of 66 4 MISSING · FROM $4.99
Radar

Buy and sell targets on the books you watch — red when a sale price clears your target.

Configurable · home widget
Shelf map

Rooms, fixtures, rows — a real planogram, so "where is it" takes one search.

Live counts
Pulls, connected

Link your shop: holds, arrivals, and what's on their shelf that fills a gap.

Portable — take it with you
Value, honestly

Condition-aware estimates from real sales, with history — for insurance or curiosity.

Estimates, not appraisals
For retailers · register, pulls, inventory, back office

Keeps selling when the internet doesn't.

No connection Still selling
$51.57 4 lines · card ····4242 · tendered
Queued 3 sales 1 pull update syncs on restore

Most cloud point-of-sale goes dark when the connection does. Ask any vendor what their register does at 2pm on a Wednesday with no internet.

Book a walkthrough Retailer overview →
Comics-aware intake

Barcodes, ISBNs, pre-barcode books — resolved to real identity, variants included.

Printing-level
Provable numbers

Chained journal, blind close counts, deposit matching, month-end your accountant can file from.

Tamper-evident
Pulls & order deadlines

Subscriber pulls by series, character, or event — aware of final order cutoff, with aging alerts on the hold shelf.

The cash on your wall
Invoice matching

Ordered vs arrived vs billed, checked against the distributor invoice — shortages surfaced, not eaten.

Receiving that fights back
For creators · ideas, print, publish, get scouted

From idea to first printing — your IP stays yours.

Ideas board

Notes, inspiration sources, and public-domain references linked to the catalog itself.

Knows what's free to use
Print Studio

Format, preflight, cover wrap with computed spine, proof, and a quote with the unit math shown.

Transparent pricing
Catalogued from birth

Your printing gets a real catalog identity — collectors can shelve it from issue #1.

Same record, end to end
Get scouted

Longboxed Publishing reviews portfolios year-round — a second printing is a signal we watch.

Invite-only imprint
PRINTED WITH LONGBOXED
The colophon marks the printing — never the IP.

Your story, your rights, your ISBN if you bring one. The indicia asserts your copyright; we appear only as the printing service.

Comic single · 32pp color · 100 copies$411.60
Your margin at $4.99 cover$0.87/copy
Sell in the marketplaceopt-in, never bundled
Open the Print Studio
The release calendar · free to browse

Know what lands, before Wednesday.

The full calendar is public — browse upcoming releases by week, publisher, or series without an account. Sign in and it becomes yours: pull-list matching, gap alerts, and release notifications for the books you actually follow.

In the catalog Identified to the printing — the live calendar adds the dates
  • JLA: The Nail — The Complete Deluxe Edition
  • Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday
  • Aquaman: The Search for Mera Deluxe Edition
  • The Flash by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar: The Deluxe Edition
  • Daredevil Epic Collection: The Concrete Jungle
  • The Batman Who Laughs: The Deluxe Edition
  • Secret Warriors Omnibus
  • Justice League: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 1
Free · no account Browse every week, publisher, and series. With an account: matched to your pulls and gaps, with notifications when your books land — that part rides your subscription.
Full release calendar →
Make it yours

Twelve themes. One tap.

Gotham Night is the house look — but the whole interface rethemes from four base colors, from warm newsprint to high contrast. Every swatch below is the real palette, straight from the design tokens the app ships. Your shelf, your light.

Longboxed · Gotham Night
Collection value$18,632 Issues shelved1,284 Runs complete14 / 96
Saga · 62 of 66
One account, every hat

The pipeline isn't tidy.
Neither are we.

Real people in comics don't stay in one lane — and the software shouldn't force them to. Surfaces switch with one tap; the collection, the shop, and the studio share the same identity underneath.

DO
Dana — creator and collector

Prints Dead Air in the Studio, tracks her own long boxes at home, and watches her key issues on the radar.

StudioCollection
MR
Marcus — shop owner and lifelong collector

Runs two registers and a kiosk by day; his personal pull list rides the same account as the store's order-cutoff board.

RetailCollection
JT
Jules — collector turned con-table seller

Lists duplicates from the collection straight to the marketplace, and prints a zine for the spring show.

MarketPrint
Trust

Built by people who keep things.

Your data is yours.

Export everything, any time, in open formats — proven during onboarding, not promised.

Private by default.

Your collection is visible to you unless you share it.

Never sold individually.

Aggregate market statistics only, above a minimum group size, one-tap opt-out.

Creator IP untouched.

The colophon marks the printing; rights, copyright, and ISBNs stay with the maker.

Find your door. Or all three.

Start with one scanned book, one walkthrough, or one idea — the rest of the pipeline is already here when you need it.

Start free — collectors For shops For creators