San Diego Comic Con Report #3

Howdy!

Day three of the greatest comics convention in America, and I'm starting to waver... This show has been very intense, with crowds significantly larger than last year. Our booth has been non-stop busy, and it has been hard to even sneak away for a five-minute break. I've been in meetings non-stop all day, most of them involving folks who want to link their Internet operations up with ours. This is very much like being at the high school prom, and having every one wanting to dance with you! Very flattering, but also exhausting. Nothing may come of all these discussions, or I may be able to work out some deals where we can improve the number of people we're able to show our website, or I may be able to improve our website content. We'll just have to wait and see...

As regards collections, we purchased about 20 different groups of items today, including a great deal of early marvel Silver Age, and as great Transformers toy collection. We're already sweating bullets about how we're going to ship all this stuff back to Colorado. Making us even more paranoid about our shipping problems is the fact that the pace of people bring us collections is picking up very rapidly. It seems that seeing $100,000.00 in cash acts as quite a stimulus for people to make that decision to sell their collection. I have a feeling that we're going to get buried on Sunday afternoon...

My final point for today is the state of the current market for Golden Age comics, particularly early key books in high condition. Arnie Sawyer (one of the members of our e-mail list, and a major Golden Age investor) came by the booth to give me an update on current transactions. I didn't take exact notes, but the gist of his information was that some major new investors have moved into the market, coming in from the coin collecting hobby. These well-funded investors are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on individual Golden Age comics! This has prompted some dealers to increase their multiples on certain pedigree books (such as Allentown, Mile High, Larson, etc.) to an incredible 10 times Overstreet Price Guide. One person even supposedly offered David Anderson, the owner of the Mile High ACTION COMICS #1 a cool one million dollars! David turned him down. I am just stunned. Arnie also said that someone here in the room has a NM (9.4) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 marked $100,000.00 He offered the guy $75,000.00, but he turned it down! I knew the Indian pottery market was on fire (everything at the last Sotheby's auction sold at 2 times high estimate...) but apparently this madness for collectibles is spreading on all fronts Yahoo!!!!

That's it for the news from today, here are the pictures:

1) Warp Graphics Booth

Richard and Wendy Pini have been our friends for over twenty years now. Their ELFQUEST series is still one of the most popular comics series in the world.

2) Elfquest Toys

Here are some of the upcoming ELFQUEST action figures. Prices and release dates are yet to be announced. Don't they look just fantastic?

3) Chewbacca Bronze Statue

Dark Horse had this great statue in their booth. I was told we didn't offer it through our N.I.C.E. subscription service, but I'm sure we can get one from Dark Horse. E-mail nice@milehighcomics.com for pricing information. It's not cheap, but it is way cool.

4) Moore Creations Booth

The Vampirella Snow Globe sculpture was just stunning. This can be ordered through nice@milehighcomics.com for only $139.95. Seeing these items long before they ship is one of the best parts of the convention...

5) Image Comics Booth

Alley Baggett , the star of Matt Hawkins' hit ALLEY CAT series, was signing in the Image booth, and posing for pictures. If our photo looks like a bit of an odd, it's because Pam was having to stand on tip-toe, and hold the camera waaay over her head. Alley was being mobbed!

6) DC Comics Booth - Green Lantern Prop

The prototype for the GREEN LANTERN prop was just incredible. It will ship on 8/23. List on this great item was $249.95, but I made it a killer Bonus Book item at only $179.95. The production run has already been set on this item, but the folks at DC indicated that we may be able to place a re-order.

7) Mile High Comics Crew

Here we are, all together at the end of a long day. The fine gentleman in the yellow t-shirt is John Hartling, a good friend of our from Tennessee. This picture was shot by Pinguino, owner of www.penguinpalace.com a very fun site to visit. She also helped design our website back in the days when I couldn't even turn my computer on!

See you tomorrow night!

Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc.


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