August Tales Comics

Vanguard Fiction Exchange

About this app

`Your shelves are groaning. Your wallet is whimpering. And somehow publishers keep announcing new collected editions like they're personally trying to ruin you.

You've got trade paperbacks you've already read twice — some of them three times if we're being honest — and collected editions that haven't been touched since the day you shelved them. Meanwhile, some collector across the country has the exact volumes you've been eyeing. And guess what? They're staring at their own overstuffed shelves wondering the same thing.

August Tales Comics is where comic collectors trade, buy, and sell collected editions and trade paperbacks with each other. Your shelf rotates. New reads come in. Everybody wins. Your significant other stops asking "where are you going to PUT those?"

HOW IT WORKS

List a book. Find a book. Trade or buy. That's it. No bidding wars. No auction anxiety.

Add books by scanning a barcode — we pull from a massive database so you're not manually typing "Batman: The Long Halloween Deluxe Edition" letter by letter. Trade books for just the trade fee plus shipping. Or buy outright — sellers set their own prices.

STOP HUNTING. START READING.

Add books to your Wishlist. The second someone lists one? You get an alert. That out-of-print omnibus you've been stalking on eBay for six months at ridiculous prices? We'll ping you when a collector lists it at a price that doesn't require a second mortgage.

ONLY SEE BOOKS YOU CAN ACTUALLY GET

Nobody wants to fall in love with a listing and then discover it's shipping from another continent. We use geolocation so you only see books available in your country — USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. No heartbreak. No surprise international shipping costs.

FIND YOUR EXACT BOOK

Browse and filter by title, publisher, condition, and availability. Looking for a near-mint DC collected edition available for trade? Yeah, we can do that. We're collectors too. We built this for us.

TRADING MADE SIMPLE

Worried about sending books to strangers? We've got you.

- Build a trade basket — pick multiple books from the same seller in one offer
- Prepaid shipping labels — no post office math, no awkward payment exchanges
- Secure payments through trusted providers
- Cancel anytime before the other person ships
- Seller ratings so you know who you're dealing with

STAY IN THE LOOP

Our news section pulls the best comics coverage from around the web. New releases, industry news, reviews, deals — all in one place. Because keeping up with comics is a full-time job and you already have one of those.

READ SOMETHING ORIGINAL

Fan Fiction is our corner for original stories. Writers, fresh voices, content you won't find anywhere else. Some of it is weird. We like weird.

THE DETAILS

- Trade fee per book — the cheapest way to refresh your collection
- Shipping labels purchased at checkout
- No subscriptions, no hidden fees
- Woman and Minority owned (Vanguard Fiction Exchange, LLC)

Secondhand books. First-rate collecting.

Download now. List your first book. Join collectors who actually get it.`

What’s new

Initial release of August Tales Comics. Trade, buy, and sell collected editions and trade paperbacks with collectors across the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand.