BUILT FOR
COLLECTORS,
BY COLLECTORS.
Every serious collection starts somewhere. Mine started as a spreadsheet — books I needed, prices I'd accept, grades I'd consider. When it hit 400 rows, I built the tool instead.
That was the pitch I never had to write: if I needed it badly enough to build it, other collectors probably needed it too.
BY THE NUMBERS
29,364+
Series catalogued
164,681+
Issues indexed
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Sales completed
THE MISSION
The secondary comic market runs billions of dollars a year and is almost entirely unorganised. Prices are guesswork. Condition is subjective. Sellers range from meticulous LCS owners to people storing books spine-up in a damp garage. Buyers have no leverage and no recourse.
That's fixable. Not by disrupting anything — by doing the boring, careful work: standardising condition grades, surfacing real transaction data, connecting buyers and sellers who take the hobby seriously, and making it easy to know whether a book is worth what someone's asking.
This isn't a replacement for your local comic shop. It's a better market for the people who love the medium.
WHAT WE DO
A searchable database of hundreds of thousands of series and issues, enriched with creator credits, key-issue callouts, and first-appearance notes — so you know what you're looking at before you buy.
Wantlist alerts fire within minutes of a matching listing going live. Set your max price and minimum grade. We do the watching.
Condition-graded listings, seller ratings, and a 30-day dispute window. No listing fees. 9% only when you sell.
Portfolio tracking and recent sales data show you what the market is doing — not what influencers say it's doing.
WHO WE ARE
I came up collecting Silver Age Marvel and copper-age keys. I know every friction point in this hobby because I've hit them all — scattered data, unreliable comps, no decent place to sell. I built FindMeComics to fix those specific things, because I got tired of working around them.
One person: I write the code, run the servers, and answer every support email. Email support@findmecomics.com and you're talking to me.
No outside investors
Self-funded, solo-built. No growth-hacking, no data monetisation, no acquisition exit.
30-day dispute window on everything
Wrong item, not as described, no show — file a claim and we mediate. Refunds are funded from the seller's Stripe balance.
Reachable support
I respond to every support email within one business day.
Transparent data
Sources are published and credited. Every dataset this project depends on is acknowledged.
DATA & ATTRIBUTION
No single database covers comics completely or accurately on its own. We pull from three specialist sources — each built for a different purpose — and cross-reference them. Where records overlap and agree, confidence is high. Where they disagree, the discrepancy is flagged for manual review rather than silently resolved.
Community-curated coverage of hundreds of thousands of series and issues: creator credits, character appearances, story arcs, and publisher history. Our primary source for anything published after the mid-1970s.
The most rigorous print-history record in comics. GCD™ supplies UPC barcodes, indicia data, variant callouts, and print-run details — the data that distinguishes a first print from a later one, or a Type A cover from a Type B. Essential for Silver and Bronze Age accuracy. Data licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Western databases have minimal manga coverage. AniList provides Japanese and English volumes, chapters, publishers, and licensing status. Every manga title in FindMeComics is sourced here.
A barcode from GCD links an issue to its collected editions and lets us surface trade paperback equivalents on issue pages. A first-appearance tag in Comic Vine cross-checked against GCD's indicia date catches issues where the publication sequence is mislabelled. Creator credits present in one source but absent in another are held as unverified rather than silently promoted. Accuracy here isn't automatic — it's the result of three imperfect sources checking each other's work.
Cover images belong to their respective publishers and are used for identification purposes only. FindMeComics does not claim ownership of any licensed characters, titles, or artwork.