Bagged. Boarded. Longboxed.
Longboxed knows every book to the exact printing. Track your collection, run your shop, print your next book. Wherever you are in comics, there's a box here with your name on it.
Collectors · Retailers · Creators
Why one platform instead of three apps
A collector, a shop, and a creator all open the same catalog record. Each one reads it differently. Each one makes it better for the other two.
On a collector's shelf
- The exact printing and variant, confirmed by scan
- Condition, purchase price, and a market estimate from real sales
- Its place in the run, and which issues are still missing
What the others get: want lists and run gaps roll up into demand a shop can order against.
In a shop's inventory
- On-hand count, price, and shelf location at the register
- Which subscribers pull it, and the final order cutoff for the next issue
- Ordered, arrived, and billed, matched line by line against the invoice
What the others get: pulls and sell-through show creators and publishers what is actually moving.
In a creator's catalog
- A catalog identity minted the day the printing exists
- Solicitation through the same pipeline shops already order from
- Provenance that stays attached as copies are sold and shelved
What the others get: the new book appears in the release calendar and pull lists collectors already follow.
Most people are more than one of these. A shop owner with a personal pull list, a collector who tables at conventions, an artist who bags and boards: one account carries every role, and the collection, the store, and the studio share the same identity underneath.
Know what you own and what it's worth
Scan a barcode, an ISBN, or a bare newsstand book from 1974 and it lands on the right issue, printing, and variant. Then Longboxed shows you your runs, the gaps in them, and a value you can actually defend.
2nd printing · direct edition
Identification runs to the printing level, with your copy's condition and purchase history attached to the record.
Radar
Set a buy or sell target on any book. When a real sale clears your number, it lights up on your home screen.
Condition-awareShelf map
Rooms, fixtures, and rows on a real map of your space. Finding any book is a single search.
Live countsConnected pulls
Link your shop to see holds, arrivals, and what's on their shelf that fills a gap in your run.
Portable between shopsMarket value
Condition-aware estimates from real sales, with history you can export for insurance.
Estimates, not appraisalsFive real books, all titled "Captain Marvel"
The name has belonged to Fawcett's original hero, to that same hero revived at DC under the Shazam! banner, and to three different Marvel characters: Mar-Vell, his son Genis-Vell, and Carol Danvers. A decades-long trademark dispute is why the title jumped publishers at all. A title match is not an identification, which is why Longboxed resolves every book to the actual printing.
A point of sale that understands comics
The register keeps selling when the internet drops. Intake knows a variant when it sees one, pulls know the final order cutoff, and the back office does the unglamorous parts right, from blind counts to invoices matched line by line.
Most cloud registers stop selling when the internet does. Ask any vendor what theirs does at 2pm on a Wednesday with no connection. Longboxed queues the sale and syncs when service returns.
Comics-aware intake
Barcodes, ISBNs, and pre-barcode books resolve to a real identity, variants included.
Printing-levelProvable numbers
A chained sales journal, blind close counts, and deposit matching. Month-end your accountant can file from.
Tamper-evidentPulls and deadlines
Subscriber pulls by series, character, or event, aware of final order cutoff, with aging alerts on the hold shelf.
FOC-awareInvoice matching
Ordered, arrived, and billed, checked against the distributor invoice. Shortages get surfaced, not eaten.
ReceivingPrint your book and keep your rights
The Print Studio takes your finished files through preflight, proof, and a quote that shows every line of the price. The day your printing exists it gets a real catalog identity, so shops can order it and collectors can shelve it from issue #1.
Ideas board
Notes and references linked to real catalog entries, with a public-domain registry that tells you what's free to use.
ResearchPrint Studio
Preflight checks, a cover wrap with computed spine, a proof you approve, and a quote with the unit math shown.
Transparent pricingCatalogued from day one
Your printing gets a real catalog identity. Shops can order it and collectors can shelve it from the first issue.
Same record, end to endGet scouted
Longboxed Publishing reviews portfolios year-round. A second printing is a signal we watch for.
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; Longboxed appears only as the printing service.
Every release, every week, free to browse
The full calendar is public. Browse upcoming releases by week, publisher, or series without an account. Sign in and it matches your pull list and your gaps, then taps you on the shoulder when your books land.
Make the interface yours
Twelve themes ship with the app, from warm newsprint to true-black OLED to high contrast. Every swatch below is the shipped palette, read from the same design-token file the app builds its stylesheets from. Tap one to preview it.
Longboxed · Gotham Night
How your data is handled
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 choose to share it.
Never sold individually
Aggregate market statistics only, above a minimum group size, with a one-tap opt-out.
Creator IP untouched
The colophon marks the printing; rights, copyright, and ISBNs stay with the maker.
Every collection, Longboxed.
Start with one book. Scan something from your shelf, browse this week's releases, or price a print run. The account is free to start, and the rest of the platform is there when you need it.