New DEADPOOL Variant Edition Series Begins - Codeword Ends Friday Howdy! Today (September 30th) marks the 41st anniversary of the opening of the very first Mile High Comics retail location. My extremely humble first comic book shop was located at 1428 Pearl St., in the former coal storage room of an old bank building in downtown Boulder, Colorado. I opened that dusty little store with only $800 (and 20 boxes of really nice older comics...) as my entire initial working capital. When my little store took in a whopping $100 on that first day, I was ecstatic! To give a sense of perspective, the cover price on all new comics in September of 1974 was only 20 cents, as we were still in the tail end of the Silver Age era, and the Bronze Age had yet to begin. Gas could still be found for 53 cents a gallon. I lived for four months (May-September) of that year in a 1963 Chevy Impala 4-door sedan, sleeping diagonally across comic boxes stacked across the back seat, while traveling to 11 comics conventions in cities all around the country. The $800 that I managed to earn at my final show (the 1974 San Diego Comic-Con) was the money I used to open the Pearl St. store. Much in the world has changed since that fateful day in the fall of 1974, but one thing that remains completely undiminished is my love for the world of comics. At the beginning of that summer I gave up a full ride ROTC scholarship to become a traveling comic book dealer, which is a decision that I have never once regretted. All I can say to the many doubters who called me crazy at the time to pursue such an eclectic career is that my subsequent 41 years of comics retailing have been a blur of remarkable experiences, and absolutely wonderful people. How can one possibly regret a life when it was filled with friendships and personal interactions with hundreds of comics legends, such as Jim Shooter, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Julie Schwartz? I believe that I have been blessed beyond all measure by Providence, and remain eternally grateful that my personal path of circumstance led me this wonderful life in the world of comics. STAR WARS (2015) #10 MILE HIGH Moving on to current news, we just received confirmation from Diamond Distributing that our exclusive Mile High Comics STAR WARS (2015) #10 and SECRET WARS (2015) #6 variant editions will be releasing next Wednesday. What that means for you is that you only have five days left in which to place an advance order for these exclusives with Greg or Mario in our new comics subscription department at only $19.95 each. As of Monday, these exclusives will be available only through our back issue department at $24.95. You can contact Greg or Mario by phone (weekdays 9-5) at 303-455-2659, or by e-mail via nice@milehighcomics.com. SECRET WARS (2015) #6 MILE HIGH As an aside, publishing our Marvel exclusives has been the single most successful endeavor for us during all of 2015. We had a very successful show in Salt Lake City last weekend, at least in part because we sold $4,000 in STAR WARS (2015) variant editions in just 3 days! Some of that revenue came from later printings variants, but the vast majority derived from fans purchasing our Mile High Comics STAR WARS and PRINCESS LEIA exclusives. In case you are wondering, the reason we sold so many of our variant editions is that more and more fans are catching on to the fact that we are seeking to continue publishing a Mile High Comics variant edition to each new edition of the primary monthly STAR WARS (2015) title, for as long as Marvel will allow. We are currently contracted through issue STAR WARS (2015) #12, and hope to be able to sign a contract soon for issues #13-#18. As far as we know, this is the first time in history that any comics retailer has published variants an entire comics series from Marvel. Making that commitment has already cost us more than $100,000.00 in upfront investments, but that risk has been more than justified by the incredible response we have been receiving from STAR WARS fans. As regards SECRET WARS (2015), those issues are also selling very well for us, with more people adding the later issues to their subscriptions almost every week. SECRET WARS (2015) will be ending soon, however, so we already have a replacement title in the works. Effective in December, we will begin publishing exclusive Mile High Comics variant editions of DEADPOOL (2015) #1-#6. With the movie coming us in mid-February, I am of the opinion that this title is going to blow up in popularity next year, so I have already committed to the first six issues, and plan to keep publishing variants of DEADPOOL (2015) pretty much indefinitely. DEADPOOL (2015) #1 MILE HIGH If you want to get in on the ground floor of this new series of exclusive Mile High Comics DEADPOOL (2015) variant editions, I urge you to contact Greg or Mario right away. Our DEADPOOL (2015) #1 issue can be pre-ordered for only $19.95 right now, which I will guarantee you will seem like an insane bargain by the time next summer rolls around. Below is the inked preliminary artwork for our cover to DEADPOOL (2015) #1. Our covers will feature postcards of DEADPOOL traveling throughout the Marvel Universe! TALES OF SUSPENSE #74 I will close today's newsletter with a couple of quick reminders. First, our annual end-of-September 40% off SAVINGS! codeword sale will end on Friday, at noon. Our online revenues typically pick up quite a bit during October, so this may be our last steep discount codeword sale until December. second, we do still have a few copies of TALES OF SUSPENSE #74 in "Good" condition to give away for free as a bonus for placing any minimum $40 order with us. I urge you to take advantage of this unique opportunity to receive a free 1967 Silver Age Iron Man/Captain America issue, while you still can. Happy collecting! Chuck Rozanski, President - Mile High Comics, Inc. September 30, 2015 P.S. I almost forgot to mention that we only allow three copies of each of our variant editions per subscriber. This policy stems from the fact that we actively seek to protect all of our purchasers of our exclusives from value declines by tightly controlling the availability of our Mile High Comics variant editions in the secondary market. Simply put, to protect your market value we never wholesale our Mile High Comics variant editions, or ever discount them. What that means is that when you purchase a Mile High Comics exclusive variant, it can go nowhere but up in value. 'Nuff said... Current Newsletter