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Mile High Comics pre-convention affair at the company’s capital barn in Denver on June 12, 2014.
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With hundreds of vendors at this year’s Denver Banana Con 2014, allurement is everywhere to acquirement every agleam article or aperitive banana book that catches your eye. Who bigger to admonish on what to buy than one of Colorado’s bigger nerds, banana book dealers Charles (a.k.a. Chuck) Rozanski?
Standing in a Superman apparel at his pre-convention affair Thursday, Mile High Comics architect Rozanski is blessed to allocution about affairs banana books. He has been wheeling and ambidextrous comics for about 45 years. He started at age 14 by affairs banana books out of his parents’ basement in 1969.
He has committed his activity to announcement comics as an art form. He considers today’s bearing of comics to be the best he has apparent so far.
Charles (Chuck) Rozanski on June 12, 2014. (Photo by Korene Gallegos, The Denver Post)
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“Today’s comics are better. We accept had evolutionary growth. The creators of today accept been able to be afflicted by all the abundant creators of the past,” Rozanski said. “They’ve been able to actualize new comics that amalgamate the abundant elements of the old with their own avant-garde new ideas.”
For banana newbies, Rozanski recommends the alternation “Fables,” which is about to end.
“I acquaint anybody who hasn’t apparent comics to alpha with (Fables),” He said. “It’s mostly accessible now in book form. It is a abundant access alternation about absurd characters active in an another world.”
Publication of Fables will end aboriginal 2015. Prices of the Fables editions may access afterwards abutting year. As best banana book admirers know, eBay has become the circadian banal bazaar for banana book buyers.
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The Amazing Spider-Man alternation was on of Chuck Rozanski’s admired banana books as a kid. Photo of The Amazing Spider-Man #10 Edition – about 1961. ( Photo by Korene Gallegos, Denver Post)
As of Friday, the three highest-priced comics auctions on eBay were:
Flash Comics #1 Ashcan Edition, DC (1939), $5,000,000 or best offer.Nickel Comics #1 Ashcan Edition, Fawcett (1940), $2,000,000 or best offer.Original Art For Fantastic Four #1, Jack Kirby (1961), $1,000,000 or best offer(full list)
For first-timers at DCC, Rozanski recommends a above access to buying.
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“I acclaim is artlessly activity and immersing yourself and aloof walking about and adequate the sites and sounds,” he said. “And accordingly again article will bolt your eye. Article that duck-tails with interests you already accept will be the arch that leads you in.”
As a kid, I bought my aboriginal Teen Titans banana book in the 1980s. I had no affairs arrangement and bought what bent my eye. Banana books stills accompany out the kid central me. Even if we ‘nerds’ abound up, we should assurance our kid’s instinct.
Mile High Comics has become Colorado’s better banana books vendor. With retail food and website transactions, the company’s anniversary sales are in the millions, according to William Muraki, carnality admiral of operations.
“We accept the better barn of comics in the United States for the accomplished 20 years,” he said.
["636.32"]Not bad for a kid who started out in his parents’ basement.
Most banana books nerds accept Jedi abilities in haggling. Here are some aggregate tips for haggling at a convention:1. Don’t be abashed to ask for a lower price.2. Smaller vendors are added accommodating to arrangement than a beyond vendor.3. Grouping items as a array may lower the amount significantly.4. Sunday afternoon is the best time to acquisition bargains.
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