Free STAR WARS Comics, 1960's Monster Mags, SPIDER-MAN Variants Howdy! As we anticipated, the incredible worldwide success of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS prompted a flurry of orders over this weekend for our exclusive Mile High Comics STAR WARS (2015 variant editions. We also sold considerable quantities of the other STAR WARS, DARTH VADER, KANAN, PRINCESS LEIA, LANDO, CHEWBACCA, and VADER DOWN variants we stock, as well as a slew of the beautiful later printings of all of those titles. What surprised us a little was how many of the Dark Horse Star Wars titles also sold, both as individual comics, and out-of-print trade paperback collections. This is just the beginning of what promises to be a decades-long unfolding of the new Star Wars mythos, and it has certainly started off great! STAR WARS #39 On a related note, we had an extremely positive responses over the weekend to my offer of free copies of Marvel's original STAR WARS (1977) #39 (which presents the first installment of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) and MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL #27 (which presents the entire RETURN OF THE JEDI story). I offered a copy of the comic book as a free bonus item with any minimum $40 order, and the MSS magazine for free with any minimum $100 order. We do still have copies of both the comic and the magazine left to give away, but at their current pace, I anticipate that they will all be gone by Wednesday. MARVEL SUPER SPECIAL #27 Another trend from this past weekend was that quite a few fans from around the world placed very large orders with us, with a few orders containing hundreds of individual issues. I believe that this came about as a direct response to our annual 50% off HOLIDAY! codeword sale, which slashed all of our back issue comics and magazines prices in half. Selling particularly well were all of our Silver and Bronze Age comics, as well as a variants of all kinds. We also had a slew of orders that focused on issues that we list for $2 each, or less. All other considerations aside, with ten million of our modern back issues now available at half price, our HOLIDAY codeword has transformed our website into the largest dollar bin in the history of comics collecting! I will close today's newsletter with an exceptionally generous offer on some 50 year old magazines. To explain, in 1985, I purchased an immense collection of 2 million comics and magazines from a bankrupt book wholesaler in New York. Among the magazines that I purchased in that huge deal were over 100,000 monster mags, including various issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND, SHRIEK!, MONSTERS AND HEROES, and 3-D MONSTERS. We have sold thousands of copies of these magazines over the past 30 years, and they have have been a steady source of income for us. At this point, however, I have no choice but to slim down our inventory in anticipation of our merging our two main warehouses together by March 31st. That having been said, we have a large quantity of some of these vintage monster magazines left in stock, and they do take up quite a bit of space. Blessedly, we received a very attractive offer for all of them from a collectibles buyer's group over the weekend. Before I let them go, however, I wanted to provide you with one last opportunity to purchase them, or to receive them for free. My offer is very simple: place any minimum $40 order with us by Thursday, and you can request any one of the magazines shown below for free. Place any minimum $100 order, and you can request three different, or a $250 will allow you to request ten different monsters magazines from below. The free copies we will send out will be in VG/Fine condition. A few copies in higher grades will also be available for sale through our website at bargain prices. This offer is through Thursday, only, as we then have to pack them for shipment... 3-D MONSTERS #1 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #34 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #36 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #53 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #54 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #57 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #58 FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #61 MONSTER & HEROES #4 MONSTER & HEROES #5 MONSTER & HEROES #7 MONSTER TIMES SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S ISSUE #3 SCREEN THRILLS ILLUSTRATED #8 SHRIEK! #2 SHRIEK! #3 SHRIEK! #4 Happy collecting! Chuck Rozanski, President - Mile High Comics, Inc. December 21, 2015 P.S. I almost forgot to mention that we do still have a couple of sets left of the ultra-scarce Alex Ross "B" set of SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #5. I'm reprinting below my offer from Friday's newsletter. This offer expires the minute we run out, or Wednesday at noon, whichever comes first. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS (2015) #5 QUESADA B SET "Moving on to an amazing offer of some incredibly rare variant issues from the Marvel Universe, our head new comics buyer, Will Moulton, was just able to obtain for us a few copies of the two Joe Quesada "B" variants to SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #5. What makes these two variants so significant is that they both feature Stan Lee on the cover, and that they were unbelievably hard to obtain when they were first released. The color variant required a purchase by retailers of a minimum of 150 copies of the standard edition of SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS #5, while the black and white edition had a 250 copy! minimum. Simply put, these variants are so scarce that the only place I have ever seen them for sale was in Stan's booth, at October's COMIKAZI convention. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS (2015) #5 QUESADA B SKETCH COVER My offer to you on these SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS variants is as follows: you can help us to cover our out-of-pocket cost for these variants by purchasing the color edition for the bargain rate of only $49.95, or the scarcer B&W edition for $74.95. Or, if you wish, you can order a set of both variants for only $99.95. OR, you can obtain a set entirely for FREE as a reward for placing any minimum $500 order via our website over this upcoming weekend. As was the case with our Todd McFarlane prints, however, we only have limited supplies on hand of these two ultra-rare variants. All orders will be filled on a first-received basis. 'Nuff said." Current Newsletter