A comic book is made of paper, so it can handle substantial flexing before damage or creasing occurs. A bare LCD is a sheet of glass. It can handle no flexing. I am incredulous at the need to explain this basic knowledge. I'm similarly incredulous at you believing that the postal services will handle everything with kid gloves. Have you SEEN the equipment used for automatic envelope sorting? Have you SEEN how everything (be it an envelope or box) begins its journey by being unceremoniously dumped into a bin or bag? There is nothing delicate about any part of the process. It's miraculous that anything arrives undamaged!
Ladies and gentlemen, here's a living specimen of why vintage equipment routinely gets smashed to smithereens in shipment: the assumption that the postal service (or courier) will not be "a beast", and think some bubble wrap, packing peanuts or crumpled newspaper in a cardboard box is enough. 
P.S. Please use the quote tags carefully. In your last reply, you completely mangled who said what.
OK, post before re-edit to add the lack of quote lines to separate replies to replies, again my mistake and I'm sorry for my lack of English, It's not my mother language and even now I still make mistakes.
Second, sorry for the lack of insight regarding the assumption that postal mail services can treat a parcel properly. Yes an LCD doesn't have that flex because it's glass. My mistake again. The seller probably will send that in a small light box for sure, and will pack according not as I said above in my mental diarrhoea of reply specially with my example (really what were I doing or thinking to give a so stupid example).
So for all of that I'm sorry.
Between 2006 and 2008 I worked in the Portuguese national representative of Yamazaki Mazak CNC machines and between 2010 and 2015 on the at the time the biggest Telecommunications company in Portugal, TMN. Both times I was with the service support to clients and machines by association also RMA department of receiving and sending broken parts to Yamazaki and to NSN, and I was the one who unpack and pack everything and no parcel arrived damaged to the destination, via DHL or TNT or other transportation service. Between 2010 and 2012 I also worked in the Lisbon Airport in loading and unloading airplanes, at a 4.5hours part time to get extra money, so I saw how things are threaten and how they are loaded and thrown inside the lower cargo haul of an airplane by workers. I kept in the warehouse lots of packing material and extra boxes that I would just reuse when needed.
In all my sales on eBay no item I packed arrived damaged, and I sold from small very fragile items to heavy network switches and normally I use a lot bigger box that necessary and a lot more bubble wrap and packing material that necessary and a lot more tape than necessary, including reinforcing corners, sides, and protection against water with black wrapping film (3 to 4 turns on each side) since things go by airplane and when they are loaded on the airplane most of the times they lay on a cart, near the airplane while raining without any protection.
If the item is small and I have space on the box I even create a suspension system with elastics and cardboard, to suspend the item on the middle, with packing on the bottom, and packing on the top, so if any hit that may cause deformation on the sides or perforation or a very high drop or shock will not affect the item in question.
In some special cases where movement should not really be allowed and the price of the item itself is too high I use Instapak Quick Expandable Foam Bags and affix G sensors outside of the box, and all goes insurance to the price of the equipment sold, in all sales, with photos kept for reference how I sent that are sent to the buyer in question.
And when I say thick corrugated cardboard I'm talking this kind of sheets (I have some of this exact models, that I cut to size):
So with all this practice and how I've done things I still don't understand why I used the stupid example of the comics books, probably I wanted to use the simplest example of packing I remembered or probably as said before it was a mental diarrhoea (the second for sure).
So please save the emotes and your own assumptions of intelligence or ability of someone to yourself, as I do when I reply to others, even being the most stupid and logic answer I can give.
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