#2005 - Bam! Pow! Crash! The Comic Book Reselling Hustle
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Drawing on a childhood affection for comic books, this mechanical engineer smashes his student loan debt with an online collectibles business.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, what's up, Chris Gellibout with you here, back in the studio to record |
| 0:12.5 | Episode 2005, of Side Us All School. |
| 0:17.6 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 0:18.6 | Today we're going to talk about comic book reselling. |
| 0:21.4 | And what's crazy is I'm not sure we've ever actually featured this topic on the show, |
| 0:26.7 | but after more than 2000 episodes. And that just seems surprising to me because selling |
| 0:30.9 | comic books is almost a quintessential reselling hustle. |
| 0:34.2 | Like we've had all kinds of reselling stories, but I had to go back in the archives to confirm. |
| 0:39.6 | And all I found was an episode about a comic book subscription box. |
| 0:42.8 | That was Episode 685. I think that subscription box is still going strong. |
| 0:46.8 | But anyway, in this story, guess what happens? A mechanical engineer smashes his debt with |
| 0:52.1 | an online collectibles business. |
| 0:54.6 | He is indeed drawing on his childhood affection for comic books. He's able to make a good |
| 0:58.8 | amount of extra income. He's also got a few tips for anyone interested in slinging superheroes |
| 1:03.7 | for profit. |
| 1:05.1 | The story's called Bam, Pow, Crash, the comic book reselling hustle. It's coming to you |
| 1:10.0 | right after this. |
| 1:18.7 | Allie Subs remembers sitting on the stoop with a friend, looking at his buddies Marvel |
| 1:22.9 | cards and comic books. At the tender age of just six years old, he was already hooked. |
| 1:28.8 | And comics became his passion for many years to come. Just one problem. Money was tight. |
| 1:35.4 | So when Allie went out shopping with his parents, he always looked for comics with 99 cents |
| 1:39.6 | on the cover. Because $1.99 was too expensive for his family. He dreamed of having his own |
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