8,000 DC's Added GREEN LANTERN - WONDER WOMAN! Howdy! Chuck at Captain EO 3-D Tribute (click on image for larger view) I'm back at home in Colorado today, after finishing the loading of the huge tractor-trailer full of comics that I purchased in Southern California last week. In case those of you who read this are wondering if a tractor-trailer can ever be overloaded with comics, yes, it can. I knew on Friday that we were pushing the upper limits of even this gigantic 53' truck, as I noticed that we were packing a disproportionate number of newer comics in the 300,000+ selection of comics stored in one section of this vast warehouse. As most of you already know, newer comics are much heavier than the comics that were published during the period prior to 1988. Comics from the past five years, in particular, weigh nearly double the weight of the old newsprint editions. Where this ultimately led to was that we ended up with 44,700 lbs. of comics and magazines in a truck that could legally only transport 42,000 lbs. Blessedly, I had anticipated this problem, so I packed the last two pallets (mostly 1970's Marvel and Warren magazines) for easy removal. They'll arrive in Denver at the same time as the main truck, but at about triple the shipping cost per lb. since they'll be going at LTL (less than truckload) rates. I really don't mind the small extra cost, however, as these two magazine pallets contain an astounding number of rare issues. Give us a week to get them graded, and you'll see exactly what I mean... While I am home at my beloved farm in Boulder today, I'll be leaving at the crack of dawn tomorrow (my 55th birthday...) for Orlando. MegaCon is in Orlando this weekend, which is one of my favorite conventions of the year. Sadly, the comics participation at MegaCon is in decline, as it increasingly becoming one of the premier Manga/Anime conventions in America. Just enough comics dealers continue to show up, however, to still make it well worth attending. I already have one deal for 30,000 comics pending at the show, so my weekend at MegaCon should be very, very busy. That having been said, if you do get a chance to come by the beautiful Orlando Convention Center over the weekend, please look for me on the show floor. I love meeting the readers of this newsletter, even when it seems that I am otherwise preoccupied buying comics. If you see me working in the dealer's room, please don't hesitate to introduce yourself. I'd love to spend a couple of minutes chatting with you! After Orlando, I'll be off to London. I found a cheaper fare to London directly from Orlando, so I will not come back to Colorado after MegaCon. The London show is at the Royal National Hotel, only on Sunday, the 21st. This will probably be my only stop in London this year, so if you get a chance, please stop by and visit with me. Also, since I'll be seeking British (Pence) editions of US comics, if you have any you might wish to sell, please bring them along. I'd be most interested in taking a look at them. I now want to make a REALLY BIG DEAL (!) of mentioning our current trade paperbacks and hardbacks sale. At the present time, we have all of our trade paperbacks and hardbacks priced for you on our website at 30%-50% off, with all of our Marvel and DC trade paperbacks at a whopping 40% off. I bring these discounts to your attention because we are calling a complete halt to our usual frenetic grading of scarce back issue comics today, in order to focus the combined energy of our entire inventory crew into grading an immense private library that we purchased earlier this week. Aside from a broad selection of Marvel and DC trade paperbacks published during the past 20 years, this one incredible book collection contains a very large number of MARVEL MASTERWORKS and DC ARCHIVE EDITIONS. Many of these books are now out-of-print and quite hard to locate in the secondary market, so this one exceptionally large private library will add a single copy each of hundreds of books into our inventory that have not have been available for you to purchase for a year, or even longer. Presuming that our overnight inventory update program runs properly, we should have all (or at least most) of these trade paperbacks and hardback books available for you to purchase online at approximately 11 AM, tomorrow (Thursday). I will mention, once again, that we received only ONE COPY EACH (!) of these books, so I highly recommend that all avid book collectors visit our website New-In-Stock listings on Thursday morning, promptly at 11 AM Mountain Time. While all of our books are fully discounted on our website right now, you can still deduct a full 30% from the cost of your order for back issue comics and magazines by entering our ongoing 40YEARS codeword into the line provided on our order form. Only books, new comics, and Dallas Stephens consignment issues, are excluded from this sale. In total, over six million of our back issue comics and magazines are eligible right now for the 30% off 40YEARS savings. This total includes all of the eligible back issue comics listed in our New-In-Stock area. Our 30% discount on New-In-Stock items is a quite important factor for you, as we are adding approximately 4,000 comics per day into our New-In-Stock listings. At the beginning of last week we added 8,000 Marvels, mid-week we added 4,000 Image comics, and at the end of last week we added 8,000 Dark Horse issues. We started off this week with an exceptionally nice grouping of 8,000 DC comics, ranging from DETECTIVE-WONDER WOMAN. As an aside, I wanted to be sure that you know that I utilize special custom-generated inventory books when I am buying from other dealers at conventions. That is why I can tell you with great certainty that a large percentage of the comics that we have added into our system over the past ten days are ones that were either previously out-of-stock on our website, or were in such short supply that we were forced to charge premium prices. As we've recently added these thousands of comics from my East Coast buying trip into our inventory, we have not only filled a great number of out-of-stocks, but our automated pricing algorithm has also been able to incrementally decrease a great number of our prices for you on scarce issues. We finished grading and inventorying these comics just yesterday, so if you check out our New-In-Stock listings right now (for best selection - don't delay!), you'll see the very scarcest of the issues that I found on the East Coast. Please don't forget, however, to enter the 40YEARS codeword into the line provided on our order form. I really do want to save you money whenever I can on your comics purchases, so it never ceases to come as a shock to me when I see so many orders arriving that just don't use the codeword. Some of those orders are from new customers who do not yet know about codewords, but I do still see a few of our long time supporters forgetting to take the 30% discount. Saving 30% is a big deal, so please remember to use the 40YEARS codeword! Well, that's it for today. I'll close by mentioning that my very wise daughter, Rowan, did make me take her to Disneyland on last Friday evening. I've been to Disneyland nearly 100 times over the past 40 years, but my all-time favorite Disney experience is the Captain EO 3-D show/dance video that Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas created with Michael Jackson during the late-1980's. Disney made the regrettable decision to unilaterally shut down Captain EO about a 15 years ago, after allegations about Jackson's private life created a scandal. Now that he has passed on, however, they felt comfortable in once again presenting this incredible 3-D extravaganza. Even after more than 20 years have passed, this groundbreaking utilization of 3-D effects, music, fantastic sets, and dancing creates an incredible impression. I have no idea of how long Disney will let it keep playing, but if you can get over to Disneyland anytime soon, be sure and set aside the time to see Captain EO. Even if you have already seen the show several times in the past, the "making of Captain EO" trailer that they now show in the waiting area is well worth your time... Happy Collecting! Chuck Rozanski, President - Mile High Comics, Inc. Advance Previews of next weeks comics from Archie Comics PS: Will Moulton, has added five more great Bonus Books to our already amazing large list of items that you can choose for free for placing orders of a certain size. Please be sure, however, when selecting you free item, or items, that you base your requests on the net of your order AFTER discounts. Then, just let Byron know which items you would like for free by asking for them in the "notes" section of our order form, and he'll make sure that your free items are included in your order! New $50.00 Level DARK HORSE PRESENTS (1986) #62 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $33.60 FREE! SOMEPLACE STRANGE (1988) #1 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $21.00 FREE! New $20.00 Level WILDC.A.T.S TPB Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! WONDER WOMAN (1942) #219 Fine Retail: $9.80 FREE! $50.00 Level 3-D MONSTER MAGAZINE #1 Very Good/Fine Retail: $25.20 FREE! 1990 HOMER SIMPSON BENDABLE ACTION FIGURE Mint on Card Retail: $30.00 FREE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #533 San Diego Near Mint Retail: $11.20 FREE! ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) #1 Incentive Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $46.50 FREE! BARBARELLA GRAPHIC NOVEL #1 2nd Print Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $80.00 FREE! BATMAN (1940) #404 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $21.00 FREE! BATTLESTAR GALACTICA OFFICIAL POSTER MAGAZINE (1978) #2 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $16.80 FREE! BIZARRE ADVENTURES (1981) #27 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $12.60 FREE! BLACK WIDOW: THE COLDEST WAR GRAPHIC NOVEL (1990) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $30.00 FREE! BLAZING COMBAT (MAGAZINE) #3 Verg Good/Fine Retail: $21.25 FREE! BRING BACK THE BAD GUYS TPB (1998) (Marvel Villians) Near Mint Retail: $20.00 FREE! CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #132 Fine Retail: $12.85 FREE! CAPTAIN GALLANT (1955) #1 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $28.00 FREE! CAPTAIN UNIVERSE: UNIVERSAL HEROES TPB (2005) Near Mint Retail: $18.00 FREE! CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Magazine) #1 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $22.40 FREE! CREEPY MAGAZINE (1964) #18 Fine/Very Fine Retail: $27.40 FREE! DARK HORSE PRESENTS #56 Near Mint Retail: $28.00 FREE! DARK HORSE PRESENTS (1986) #61 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $28.00 FREE! EERIE MAGAZINE (1965) #4 Very Good/Fine Retail: $21.25 FREE! HEROES HC #1 (Lee) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! LAZIEST SECRETARY IN THE WORLD TPB Near Mint Retail: $20.00 FREE! MONSTER WORLD (MAGAZINE) #1 Very Good Retail: $20.15 FREE! SIN CITY #1/2 Rare Wizard #1/2 Edition Near Mint Retail: $22.40 FREE! SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR TPB (2005) #1 (7th Print) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $14.00 FREE! STAN LEE PRESENTS: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PB (1977) Very Fine Retail: $34.00 FREE! TOMB RAIDER/DARKNESS SPECIAL TOPCOWSTORE.COM EXCLUSIVE (2001) #1 CGC 9.8 Retail: $84.00 FREE! TOP COMICS (1967) #1 Lassie Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $10.80 FREE! TOP COMICS (1967) #1 Super Goof Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $6.40 FREE! TOP COMICS (1967) #1 Zorro Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $15.20 FREE! TOP COMICS (1967) #2 Snow White Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $11.55 FREE! TOP COMICS (1967) #2 Yogi Bear Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $11.00 FREE! TOYBIZ MARVEL SUPER-HEROES PUNISHER FIGURE Mint on Card Retail: $28.00 FREE! WARREN PRESENTS: MOONRAKER (1979) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $35.00 FREE! WATCHMEN #12 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $28.00 FREE! X-MEN (1963) #507 (Planet Com) Near Mint Retail: $5.60 FREE! $20.00 Level 1989 ERTLl DIE CAST BATMOBILE, JOKER VAN, & BATWING MICRO-MACHINES Mint on Card Retail: $10.50 FREE! 2001 (1976) #1 Fine/Very Fine Retail: $9.20 FREE! AKIRA (1988) #29 Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! ALF TPB (Issues #1-3) (1990) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $24.00 FREE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #1 Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1999) #583 Obama (4th Print) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $7.00 FREE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 1: COMING HOME TPB Platimum White Near Mint Retail: $17.50 FREE! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 2 - REVELATIONS TRADE PAPERBACK (Platinum) Retail: $17.50 FREE! ANGEL: HOLLOWER TPB (2000) Fine Retail: $16.80 FREE! ARCHIE & ME (1964) #77 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! ARCHIE & ME (1964) #93 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! ARCHIE'S TV LAUGH-OUT (1969) #48 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $12.60 FREE! ARRGH (1974) #2 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $16.80 FREE! ARRGH (1974) #4 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $16.80 FREE! ARRGH (1974) #5 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $16.80 FREE! BALLAD OF SLEEPING BEAUTY (2004) #1 FCBD Near Mint Retail: $1.50 FREE! BATMAN (1940) #407 Fine Retail: $7.55 FREE! BATMAN: A DEATH IN THE FAMILY TPB #1 (1st Print) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! BATMAN: OFFICIAL BOOK OF THE MOVIE (1989) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $10.00 FREE! BATMAN/TARZAN: CLAWS OF THE CATWOMAN TRADE PAPERBACK Fine Retail: $4.50 FREE! BLADE: BLACK & WHITE TPB (2004) Near Mint Retail: $8.00 FREE! BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: CRASH TEST DEMONS TPB Near Mint Retail: $4.95 FREE! BUZZ & BELL: SPACE CADETS GRAPHIC NOVEL (1991) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! CABLE VOL. 1 (1993 SERIES): SHINNING PATH TPB (2002) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! CAPTAIN AMERICA GOES TO WAR AGAINST DRUGS (1990) #1 2nd Print Very Fine Retail: $5.45 FREE! CARE BEARS MARVEL UK MAGAZINE #67 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $9.80 FREE! CHAMBER OF DARKNESS (1969) #8 Very Good/Fine Retail: $12.85 FREE! DAREDEVIL #180 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $21.00 FREE! DAREDEVIL: LOVE'S LABOR LOST TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $15.00 FREE! DARK HORSE PRESENTS: ALIENS (1992) #1 Platinum Near Mint Retail: $14.00 FREE! DARK KNIGHT (1986) #3 (2nd Print) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $8.40 FREE! DARK KNIGHT (1986) #4 (1st Print) Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $7.00 FREE! DC GRAPHIC NOVEL (1983) #7 Space Clusters Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! DONALD DUCK ADVENTURES FCBD (2003) #1 Near Mint Retail: $3.50 FREE! DRAGONLANCE SAGA GRAPHIC NOVEL #4 Near Mint Retail: $20.00 FREE! 1964 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #34 in Very Good/Fine (Warren Publications - 1964!) Retail: $25.20 FREE! FATHOM TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $12.45 FREE! GI JOE #138 Near Mint Retail: $14.00 FREE! GRENDEL: PAST PRIME ILLUSTRATED NOVEL Near Mint Retail: $7.45 FREE! GROO ADVENTURER TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $20.00 FREE! HELLBOY II: GOLDEN ARMY NOVEL PAPERBACK Retail: $7.00 FREE! MAD MAGAZINE #182 Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $15.40 FREE! SPIDER-MAN: ELECTION DAY HC (2004) #1 (Variant) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! STAR WARS: DARK FORCES JEDI KNIGHT GSA TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $7.45 FREE! STAR WARS TALES: A JEDI'S WEAPON FCBD (2002) #1 Near Mint Retail: $1.50 FREE! SUPERMAN: UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE TPB (2005) Near Mint Retail: $15.00 FREE! TEEN TITANS: GO (2003) #1 FCBD Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $2.20 FREE! ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2000) #1 FCBD Very Fine/Near Mint Retail: $4.20 FREE! ULTIMATE X-MEN: ULTIMATE COLLECTION #2 TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $12.50 FREE! UNCANNY X-MEN NEW AGE: END OF HISTORY TPB (VOL. 1) (2004) Near Mint Retail: $6.50 FREE! WILL EISNER: A LIFE FORCE GRAPHIC NOVEL (2001) Near Mint Retail: $12.50 FREE! WILLOW GRAPHIC NOVEL Near Mint Retail: $17.50 FREE! WILL EISNER: LAST DAY IN VIETNAM GRAPHIC NOVEL SC 2nd Print Retail: $15.00 FREE! WOLVERINE: BLOOD DEBT TRADE PAPERBACK Retail: $6.45 FREE! X-MEN ANNUAL #14 Near Mint (First Appearance of Gambit!) Retail: $14.00 FREE! XENA WARRIOR PRINCESS: SLAVE TPB Fine Retail: $10.00 FREE! In case you missed it, the way my new Bonus Book program works is pretty simple. Place your order with us as you usually would, and then ask in the "notes" section of our order form for your free item(s). If your order totals $50 (just as an example...) you would not only receive free shipping for orders being delivered in the USA, but would also be able to select either two Bonus Books from the $20 list, or one Bonus Book from the $50 list. A $125 order (which is the level at which our International buyers earn free shipping) would earn the right to select up to six items from the $20 list, or a combination of several items from the $20 and $50 list. A couple of quick terms for the giveaway program. First, we have limited supplies on a few of these items, so some will undoubtedly run out over the next couple of weeks. We do have enough for orders received this week, however, so if you order quickly all of the above giveaways should be in stock. As items do eventually run out, even more cool items will be continually added to replace them. My goal is to keep this giveaway program fun, and interesting! Second, you can order multiples of the same item, if you wish. Third, you will need to manually ask for each item you've earned via the "notes" section of the order form, as we have no way to automate this program. Finally, our International patrons need to be aware that we do still need to add the small per book shipping fees to any request for books to be delivered to International destinations. Current Newsletter