That's great you're an engineer, but that isn't relevant to budgeting, production, or dispensation. Especially shipping from Malaysia, you are looking at a LOT of overhead costs right out of the gate. Your interest check had nothing about funding or what anyone would be willing to pay, so how are you going to price your bundles? Do you have multiple manufacturer liaisons that can assist you in finding bulk discounts? Do you know the identification numbers that will need to go on each parcel? Do you know how to find them? Do you have appropriate packaging materials? What sort of shipping costs are we looking at, with a book, a side book, keychains, charms, prints, and stickers, badges, and washi tape? You are looking at $50 shipping at least, for most parcels of relevant size and weight, not even including the cost of buying the items.

You seem to be shooting for the moon, here, with all the merch listed in the IC. When the entire team has no practical experience in zines, the proper course of action is to make a free digital zine. Not to poorly slap together a team of friends YOU trust that no one else has ever even heard of and expect your weird vague information to be compelling. Shipping from Malaysia is going to increase your money requirements so much, and it is extremely worrisome that you don't even know that? PLEASE get at least one mod who knows what they're doing. You really need at the very least a finance and shipping mod who HAS DONE THIS AT LEAST ONCE. You're all blind leading the blind and it is very concerning. i hope you will actually take this advice, your failure will just make zines even harder for people to have trust in if you take their money and then fail. And you will, if you don't make some changes immediately. Your setup is not going to work. You are already using official assets that are not allowed to be used this way, to promote sales. Please just make this a digital zine with nothing actually at stake. Save yourselves and everyone else the hassle of trying to get their money back when it's mishandled and you don't actually have enough to complete the production, let alone the shipping. Learn how things work on a digital zine, get at least one competent mod with a successful project in their resume, and maybe then try for something physical.