>>91871981Back issues are largely for conventions or whales. Or long time customers who remember back in the day when you didn't have TPBs/internet and had to buy the actual back issues you wanted to read and live for the hunt.
The type of big spender who can afford spending big bucks on older books or who can afford blowing money trolling through dollar bins for shit.
Local comic shop has a guy like that. Spends huge bucks on dollar books/back issues, especially in the last couple of years during the dark days of DC You and Secret Wars and SJW Marvel. When he pretty much culled his entire pull folder down to like three books instead of his normal 20-25 and only coming in every three or four weeks.
He ended up spending in the last couple of years, nearly three grand on dollar books, so much so that the owner ended up buying up other peoples collections of shit he'd normally laugh if they brought it in trying to get money (90s era shit). Largely because he wanted to keep the guy coming in and knew what the guy liked or was looking for (especially after said guy ended up throwing cryptic comments about spending his money on Ebay to get his comic fix).
Guy ended up buying (via dollar books) nearly a full post-Crisis through New 52 run of Superman, pretty much the entire Thor run from the Simonson run through Heroes Reborn, several complete runs of Valiant books, Marvel Comics Presents, Marvel Fanfare, Green Lantern's 90s comic (with Gerald and Marz), a shit ton of smaller runs (Legion, Darkstars, Team Titans, Valor, Fantastic Force, Force Works)
He's one of the shop's oldest costumers (since the day it opened) and the guy is basically a gay basement dwelling nerd who turned conservative over the last couple of years in terms of being a disillusioned Obama cheerleader type who voted for Trump simply for the thrill of Trump spending his term pissing everyone off and is of the John Waters school of "Politically incorrect" gayness.
