Free GAMBIT First Appearance - X-MEN ANNUAL 14

Howdy!

A brief newsletter today, as I am working non-stop on preparations for our 2014 Denver Comic-Con Opening Night Party. We are anticipating that at least 3,000 fans may attend that huge June 12th party at our Jason St. Mega-Store, which is about double at many as attended last year's party. Doubling the number of people in our building is a difficult logistics problem for me, as we not only have to provide a comfortable venue in which that many fans can meet the creators attending this year's convention in a more relaxed environment, but we also have to provide at least some measure of fun and entertainment.


George Pérez


Lou Ferrigno


Neal Adams

In a nutshell, that is why I arranged for 30 performance artists from the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire to put on a show for us that evening dressed in either superhero or fantasy costumes. Our overall party officially begins at 5 PM (it will be a rolling start, with Lou Ferrigno signing autographs beginning at noon, and other creators showing up during the course of the day...) with the Cosplay performance show commencing at 7 PM. I a member of the ICRME, and since I requested this show, I am required to give the lead performance. We are also working on creating a series of YouTube videos of the entire event, for those of you who cannot attend our party in person...

As regards our online business, the biggest news for this week is that we will finally be back on track with all of our online invoicing and shipping of orders by Friday. Our Vice President of Operations, William Murakami, has accomplished miracles to resolve the problems that arose due to our computer difficulties, often staying late into the evening to make sure that our shipping backlog was resolved as quickly as humanly possible.

The best news coming from this arduous journey is that we now have a central computer in place that has been upgraded to be significantly faster and more reliable than anything we've ever had before, and the techs who helped us fix our existing machine are now working on a brand new custom unit for us that will increase our database speed by at least 5X current levels. This new machine will also contain two drives, with the second drive taking over automatically if there is ever a glitch with the first. Belt, and suspenders...


X-Men Annual #14

My only other news that I have for you today is an offer of a free NM copy of X-MEN ANNUAL #14. This comic from about 25 years ago was somewhat ignored by collectors until recently, when some clever folks on eBay began marketing it as the first cameo appearance of Gambit. As it turns out, this Gambit cameo appearance actually was released slightly before X-MEN #266, Gambit's first full appearance. As such it is now being considered equally as important as HULK #180, which features the first cameo appearance of Wolverine... Whatever the case may be, the inventory work that we were doing early in May uncovered a supply of these scarce annuals, and I will give you one for free if you place any minimum $40 order with us over the next few days. Just ask for your free copy of the X-MEN ANNUAL #14 in the "notes" section of our online order form.

Happy Collecting!

Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc.
June 3, 2014

P.S. Here is a listing of the comics creators who have committed thus far to attending our party. We are adding 1-2 more each day. "Like" our Mile High Comics Facebook page to see all of the latest updates.

Lou Ferrigno
George Perez
Neal Adams
Tone Rodriguez
Dan Conner
Michael Golden
James O'Barr
Greg Horn
Josh Adams
Steve Lieber
Monte Moore
Batton Lash
Tony Fleecs
Jessi Jordan
Allan Bellman
Steve Oatney
Andy Moore
Randy Salazar
Joel Adams
Kristina Bad Hand



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