30% Off Back Issue Comics, Trade Paperbacks, Graphic Novels, Comics Hardbacks Howdy! While I am not leaving Denver for the East Coast for another three days, I am already starting to get those little tingles of excitement that precede all of my major comics buying trips. It has been eight months since I have been able to see my friends in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Maryland, and I just cannot wait to get back out on the road. My first major stop will be at John Paul's Sunday-only show in Secaucus, NJ. Please come by and visit with me there, if you can. The show runs from 10am - 4pm John Paul's shows are always fun, friendly, and great places to buy old comics at bargain prices. Aside from simply wanting to be able to visit with my friends in the comics community, it also is gratifying to know that they have been saving up vast numbers of great older comics to offer me. I already have one deal being delivered to me that contains approximately 30,000 nice back issues. These comics originated from several large private collections, including several thousand high grade 1980's issues. It is precisely those kinds of large and diverse collections that make the me happiest, as I am well aware that by purchasing them that we will be able to offer you even better deals on our website. As much as I enjoy the traveling, the real goal of my going out on the road is to find great comics for you, and this trip is already shaping up to be my best comics buying trip,ever! Savage Wolverine Speaking of great comics, the nearly complete Marvel Comics collection that I purchased in Indiana last Tuesday arrived in Denver on Friday, right on schedule. Will Moulton and Pam are grading key issues from that collection for you right now, with a special effort being put into getting over 1,000 different issues of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1-up, AVENGERS #1-up, CAPTAIN AMERICA #100-up, DAREDEVIL #1-up, and various DEADPOOL issues into our New-In-Stock and Premium New-In Stock listings for you. Those titles will be finished being graded by the end of today, at which time we will then begin on FANTASTIC FOUR #1-up, HULK #102-up, and IRON MAN #1-up. You really should keep an sharp eye on our New-In-Stock links every day this week (updates are usually posted daily at about 11 AM), because we are going to have some exceptionally rare back issues to offer you. In other news, our SAVAGE WOLVERINE #1 variant edition is continuing to sell very well. That having been said, I think that I am going to be OK leaving our present $19.95 asking price on the regular edition the same for the rest of this week. Once we have sold 80% of the entire print run, however, I am going to bump our price on the last few copies to $24.95. That may be as soon as Friday... In the meantime, the signed and numbered edition of our SAVAGE WOLVERINE #1 variant (200 copies, signed by J. Scott Campbell) sold far more copies over this past weekend than we had projected, so we will bump up the price on that edition by a little tomorrow morning. If they keep selling at this rate, we will be sold out of 80% of the signed and numbered copies of our variant edition in just a couple of weeks. Savage Wolverine #1 Blank Cover Savage Wolverine #1 Young Baby The really good news for those of you who collect variant editions is that, thanks entirely to Will Moulton's diligence, we were finally able to obtain a small quantity of the scarce BLANK COVER and YOUNG BABY limited edition variants to SAVAGE WOLVERINE #1. So you know, Will searched for these two scarce variants specifically so that we could offer them to you entirely for free! You can earn either one of these cool variants as a free bonus for simply placing any $50 order with us, or both of them for placing any minimum $75 order. Just place your order with us as per usual, and then ask for your free SAVAGE WOLVERINE #1 variants in the "notes" section of our online order form. Because our supplies are very limited, this free variants offer is for this week only, and will expire on Friday, at noon. Ramos sketch (Not Final Art) I do not like going on endlessly about variant editions, but I do have to mention a couple of bits of information about our upcoming WOLVERINE #1 (with a cover by Humberto Ramos) and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 (cover artist yet to be announced). First, Greg and Mario in our new comics subscription department were absolutely deluged with calls and e-mails over this past weekend from fans wanting to pre-order those two comics at the $6 advance purchase. As a direct result, we have had to institute a limit of 20 copies per issue, per fan. One especially eager fan called Greg this morning and wanted to pre-order 100 copies of each, and we actually had to ask him to reduce his order to only 20 of each, out of a genuine fear of our running out of copies. While turning down large pre-orders is something that I never thought that we would need to do, under our budgeting plan we have only 40% of each print run of our variants allocated for pre-order sales. It now appears that we are going to hit that percentage number well before either of these two upcoming variant editions even releases. Simply put, I want as many individual readers of this newsletter as possible to be able to obtain copies from us at a bargain price, while still allowing some folks buy a few extra copies. Suffice it to say, this is a difficult balance to maintain. If you would like to order either of those two variants from us at the $6 advance price, I highly encourage you to call Greg and Mario in our subscription department at 303-455-2659 (weekdays 9-5) right away, or write to them at nice@milehighcomics.com. Once we pre-sell our entire 40% allocation, no more advance orders for WOLVERINE #1 or GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1 will be accepted. I will close today's newsletter by mentioning that I have extended our 30% off HOLIDAY codeword for you on all eight million of our back issue comics and 250,000+ back list trade paperbacks, graphic novels, and comics hardback books. Simply put, I am using the revenues that we receive from your HOLIDAY codeword purchases to help fund our purchases of even more great back issue comics collections to offer you. Please do be aware, however, that the 30% off HOLIDAY codeword does not apply to new comics or new books, non-comics items, and oversize items listed on our website. That having been said, our 30% off HOLIDAY codeword discount DOES apply to almost all of the comics listed in today's New-In-Stock and Premium New-In-Stock listing, including darn near all of the great comics that I just brought back from Texas and Indiana. Please do enjoy these cool 30% off savings on almost all of our comics and books without sincere thanks for your continuing support. Happy Collecting! Chuck Rozanski, President - Mile High Comics, Inc. January 21, 2013 Advance Previews of next weeks comics from Archie Comics P.S. I forgot to mention that Will was able to place the last reorder with Marvel for the regular edition of SAVAGE WOLVERINE #1 before they completely sold out. We have those in stock for you right now at only $1 over cover price. We also just received an extremely small number of newsstand variants on some new and/or recent Marvel and DC releases, including AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #700, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #1, BATMAN #15, and several more listed below. These newsstand editions are relatively common in some parts of the country, but in most of the western states they are quite scarce. We estimate that newsstand editions constitute about 2% of the total print runs on most comics being produced today, so they are essentially 1:50 variants. They do look the same but if your look carefully in the UPC Code you will notice that it states Newsstand (or nothing at all) instead or Direct Market and in some cases the cover price is different. Marvel and DC Newsstands Variants AoA #10 AoA #11 Spidey #698 Spidey #700 Avengers Arena #2 AGE OF APOCALYPSE (2012) #10 NEWSSTAND AGE OF APOCALYPSE (2012) #11 NEWSSTAND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #698 NEWSSTAND AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #700 NEWSSTAND AVENGERS ARENA (2012) #2 NEWSSTAND AV Assemble #10 Batman #15 Dark Knight #15 Captain Marvel #8 Catwoman #15 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (2012) #10 NEWSSTAND BATMAN (2011) #15 NEWSSTAND BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT (2011) #15 NEWSSTAND CAPTAIN MARVEL (2012) #8 NEWSSTAND CATWOMAN (2011) #15 NEWSSTAND Daredevil #21 Dark Avengers #183 Dark Avengers #184 FF #2 Gambit #7 DAREDEVIL (2011) #21 NEWSSTAND DARK AVENGERS (2009) #183 NEWSSTAND DARK AVENGERS (2009) #184 NEWSSTAND FF (2012) #2 NEWSSTAND GAMBIT (2012) #7 NEWSSTAND Hawkeye #6 JIM #647 Justice League #15 MU Ult Spidey #9 Superior Spidey #1 HAWKEYE (2012) #6 NEWSSTAND JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (2011) (#622-UP) #647 NEWSSTAND JUSTICE LEAGUE (2011) #15 NEWSSTAND MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2012) #9 NEWSSTAND SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN (2013) #1 NEWSSTAND Thor: GOT #2 Thor: GOT #4 Thunderbolts #2 Thunderbolts #3 UC: X-Men #19 THOR: GOD OF THUNDER (2012) #2 NEWSSTAND THOR: GOD OF THUNDER (2012) #4 NEWSSTAND THUNDERBOLTS (2012) #2 NEWSSTAND THUNDERBOLTS (2012) #3 NEWSSTAND ULTIMATE COMICS: X-MEN (2011) #19 NEWSSTAND ULTIMATE COMICS: X-MEN (2011) #20 NEWSSTAND UC: X-Men #20 Uncanny X-Force #35 Wolvey/X-Men #22 Wolverine #317 X-Men: Legacy #3 UNCANNY X-FORCE (2010) #35 NEWSSTAND WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN (2011) #22 NEWSSTAND WOLVERINE (2010) #317 NEWSSTAND X-MEN: LEGACY (2012) #3 NEWSSTAND Click here to view all of the Premium New-In-Stock Click here to view all of the New In Stock Current Newsletter