Free DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #1
Howdy!
Our Friday has been going very well, as we were able to move over 200,000 comics from our soon-to-be-closed
56th Ave. headquarters, over to their new home in the back of our
Jason St. Mega-Store.
We still have about
that many more of our
website
"singles" to move out of 56th, but with any luck we can get that task completed
tomorrow. It all depends on how many volunteer workers show up to help us at Jason St. in the morning.
Ten-Pack Racks
In the meantime, the first two of our enormous ten-pack shelving units are also now in place, and ready to
reload. We have over two million comics packaged into ten-packs in 56th. Moving them is not particularly
difficult, but shifting that many 10-packs into long boxes is going to be very time-consuming. That worries
me, as we have only 15 days left before we are supposed to be totally out of 56th. My fingers are firmly crossed...
On a related note, our invoicing and packing of orders will move to
Jason St.
on either Tuesday, or Wednesday.
That move will mark the end if an era in
Mile High Comics
history that began on June 16th, 1986, on that day we
first moved into 56th. One would think that this ending would make me somewhat melancholy, but nothing could be
further from the truth. In all honesty, the 29+ years that we spent in 56th Ave. were ones of endless struggle and
deprivation. No matter how hard we tried to economize, the very thin margins that plague comics retailing left us
perpetually undercapitalized. I managed to hold on through some very difficult times (when thousands of my fellow
comics retailers had to close their doors), but being broke all the time sucked much of the joy right out of me.
Once we turn over the keys to 56th to the new owners, I never want to revisit those memories of not-so-genteel
poverty for the rest of my life.
Two Million Comics!
Before I leave you with the impression that being in the comics business has been entirely less than joyful, let
me point out that (despite our endless undercapitalization issues) we somehow managed to expand our
comics inventory
by a factor of 5X during our three decades of occupying 56th Ave. Our core inventory of ten million
back issue comics, magazines,
graphic novels, trade paperback, and hardbacks
is now the best in the world, and I am very proud of having been able to slowly gather together over the years such
a wonderful accumulation of choice collectibles.
Of greatest importance, however, is the fact we shipped a staggering $100,000,000.00 (one hundred million dollars!)
in comics out of 56th during the past 29 years. While we earned very little (if anything) from many of those transactions,
the sum of the patronage that we received did cover our operating expenses, and kept us going. What really matters to me,
however, is that we made a difference in the comics world by providing over one million comics fans with a reliable source
for their
comics
and
books,
both new and old. I genuinely love the world of comics, and the thought that I have been
able to make so many of my fellow comics fans happy, brings me great inner peace. The last few decades may have been a
struggle, but we worked hard, and accomplished great good. Not everyone can say that about their life.
As regards the new life that we are beginning at
Jason St.,
it will be considerably different precisely because I sold
56th, and used the proceeds to immediately pay off 90% of our long term debt. While we do still have some pressing
short term obligations to pay, it will be much easier for us to cover our expenses operating out of Jason St., as we
will no longer have to bear the $30,000/month cost that was required to keep 56th open. That is precisely why I look
upon this difficult moving process as merely being one last bump in the road. Hauling tons of comics seven days a week
for a month is unpleasant, but the end result is well worth it.
DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL (2013) #1 SDCC 2013 FREE with an $100.00 order or $19.95 each
Moving on to news, our head new comics buyer, Will Moulton, found a "lost" long box this morning that is filled with
2013 San Diego Comic-Con variant editions. I would be perfectly happy to keep those comics as a part of our long term
inventory, but the thought occurred to me that we could also offer them to you today as a bonus items. The most attractive
issue that Will found were 30 copies of the extremely limited edition
DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #1 SDCC variant edition.
Limited to only 5,000 copies, this highly desirable issue sold out at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con in a heartbeat. You
can pick up a copy from us today for only $19.95, or entirely free with any minimum $100 order. Enjoy!
Below are listed four more great SDCC limited editions that you can pick up from us today for $9.95 each, or free for
a $40 order. Or you can pick three for free with a $100 order. All free items require that a separate order minimum be
met per each item requested. Let us know in the "notes" portion of the order form as to which free comics that you would
like to receive. Supplies are limited!
ADVENTURE TIME SUMMER SPECIAL (2013) #1 SDCC 2013 FREE with an $40.00 order or $9.95 each
MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC (2012) #9 SDCC 2013 FREE with an $40.00 order or $9.95 each
SUPERIOR FOES OF SPIDER-MAN (2013) #1 SDCC 2013 FREE with an $40.00 order or $9.95 each
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: NEW ANIMATED ADVENTURES (2013) #1 SDCC 2013 FREE with an $40.00 order or $9.95 each
I will close today's newsletter with a reminder that our 50% off TRUCKLOAD! codeword sale will be ending in the
not-too-distant future. We need to keep this awesome half price sale in effect for you right now to help us to cover
our out-of-pocket moving costs, but once we finish moving, the sale will need to end. The 50% off TRUCKLOAD! sale applies
to all ten million of our
back issue comics and magazines,
excepting only new issues, trades, hardcovers, few variants, and our
CGC-graded issues.
Happy collecting!
Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc.
April 8, 2016
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