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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.

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.

CreateIdeas board · public-domain registry · linked inspiration
PrintPrint Studio · preflight checks · proof · quote
PublishSolicit · a catalog entry from day one
OrderSubscriber pulls · order-deadline aware · invoice-matched receiving
SellOffline-capable register · kiosk · promotions
CollectScan · shelve · shelf map · runs & gaps
WatchRadar · buy & sell targets · market comparables
Click a step Every stop on this line is a live surface in the product — click any step to see what happens there, who it's for, and what it hands to the next one. A book printed in the Studio gets a catalog identity at birth; the shop receives it against the invoice; the collector scans it to a shelf; the radar prices it from real sales — the same record, end to end.
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 · 1st Hazel ▲ 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 ↓ One-pager (PDF)
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.

Mon
20
Tue
21
1 BOOK
Wed
22
NEW COMIC DAY · 4
Thu
23
2 BOOKS
Fri
24
Sat
25
1 BOOK
Sun
26
Saga #62
IMAGE · WED · $3.99
Monstress #48
IMAGE · WED · $4.99
Tides #12
WED · $4.99 · FILLS A GAP
Full release calendar →
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.
Make it yours

Fifteen themes. One tap.

Gotham Night is the house look — but the whole interface rethemes from four base colors, from warm newsprint to high contrast. 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