Trade Paperback and CGC Sales Extended One Day

Trade Paperback and CGC Sales Extended One Day!

Howdy!

Here at Mile High Comics we have benefited enormously from technology. Beginning in 1986, we began to use a mini mainframe computer (with a whopping 80 Megs of storage!) to construct the first commercial database of back issue comics. In the 20 years since, we have paid out approximately three million dollars to gradually expand our internal operating functions, and then to build our online website and consumer interfaces. Those outlays were often far more expensive than what it would cost to replicate those same functions today, but that's the price we willing paid for being a pioneer in the utilization of computers and the Internet to retail comics. That innovation on our part continues today, as we are waiting anxiously right now for new software that will allow us to switch our internal operating system over to Linux. Presuming that the representations made about the speed of the Linux upgrade are even remotely true, that new software should increase the speed of our internal data processing by 10X from what it is right now.

I'm telling you about our approaching Linux upgrade to explain why all of our trade paperbacks and hardbacks are still on sale at 20%-40% off today, even though I'd told all of you that our book sale of last week would be ending today (Tuesday), at noon. About once a month, the program that updates our prices encounters some sort of glitch during its 12 hour running time, and crashes. That happened last night, and thus not only are all of our books still on sale, but also all of our CGC graded back issues are still on sale at 30% off. My presumption is that the repricing program will run smoothly this evening, so you can anticipate those two major sales being removed at noon tomorrow. In the meantime, however, you can still get some great bargains on both books and CGC's.

For what it's worth, my preference would have been to end those sales today in order to protect our inventory from excessive diminishment. During the seven days that the book sale has already been in effect, we sold more trade paperbacks and hardbacks than we sold in the entire preceding month! The same is nearly true for our CGC graded comics. Reducing the price on them to 30% off across the board, and then allowing the current 30% off ALETAROCKS! codeword to also apply to the CGC issues, reduced the price for you to only a net 49% of our usual retail. That's about as close to free as we'll ever make our CGC issues.

Speaking of the ALETAROCKS 30% off codeword sale, it is also doing very, very well. April started out as a bit of a slow month for us, but sales during the last seven days were so strong that we ended up with very respectable numbers for the entire period. So you know, the 30% off ALETAROCKS! codeword sale will still be in effect through at least next Tuesday, as I want to be sure that all of you get a shot at purchasing some of the great back issue comics and magazines that we've been buying of late from private collections at the full 30% discount. (Codeword may not be used on the Dallas Stephens Collection, new comics, supplies or statues.) Lisa's team over at the Fox St. warehouse has also been adding a huge number of recent back issues into the online inventory from some of the convention purchases that I made during February and March. The net effect of adding those recent issues is that a great many of them are now going into oversupply, and are thus being automatically discounted by our pricing algorithm at levels ranging up to 80% off, in a few extreme cases. The most common discount range on these new additions is 30%-50% off of our standard retail, which can then be multiplied with the 30% off ALETAROCKS! codeword up to a net 51%-65% off! Check out New-In-Stock and $50+ New-In-Stock for all the latest additions to our inventory.

My final bit of news is that my wonderful daughter, Aleta, just yesterday received notification that she has been accepted into the new graduate studies program in Elizabethan History at the University of York, England. Her professor from York (she spent a semester there studying last Fall and Winter) took a real shine to her, and asked to come back to help him get a graduate program started that combines some of the best elements of the British and American higher education formats. Aleta was so thrilled that she was jumping up and down in excitement when the letter arrived telling her that she made it in to the program! Now I just have to figure out how in the heck I'm going to pay for it all (as well as the continuing education costs of my other three girls...). I guess I'm simply going to have to sell one heck of a lot of pumpkins this upcoming Fall... (click on the image for larger view)

Happy collecting!

Chuck Rozanski,
President - Mile High Comics, Inc. Advance Previews
of next weeks comics from
Marvel and DC




PS: Above is a picture of Aleta receiving the secret handshake from the head of the University of Colorado chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the national academic honor society. Of all the students graduating each year from colleges in the USA, less than 1% are elected to Phi Beta Kappa. It should come as no surprise that my wonderful wife, Nanette (pictured with Aleta to the right), was also selected as a member, when she graduated in 1968. Given that Nanette was also selected as a Fulbright Scholar (ultimately studying Germanic literature at the University of Vienna), and holds a Master's Degree from the prestigious University of Denver, it's mighty easy to see where Aleta got her smarts... (click on the image for larger view)


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Top 5 Newgrounds submissions for Tuesday May 2, 2006

Here are the top five Newgrounds submissions for Tuesday, May 02, 2006:

1. Tomorrow's Nobodies Ep.4 (4.46/5.00, 576 votes and 4,281 views)
2. rtil's trad animation '06 (4.26/5.00, 450 votes and 1,786 views)
3. -Stranded- (4.10/5.00, 332 votes and 1,707 views)
4. Dr. Shroud: BITB 3 (4.16/5.00, 259 votes and 904 views)
5. Las Aventuras de Mr Coo#3 (4.07/5.00, 296 votes and 907 views)

Check out these animations, and many more like them, at The Portal!

-Tom
http://www.newgrounds.com

Becky Worley on Yahoo! Tech

A tipster, emailing me from the TechTVForever.net blog passed along
the info that Becky Worley will be doing a show on Yahoo's new Tech
brand called Yahoo! Tech [ http://tech.yahoo.com/ ] which was
announced last week as Yahoo's answer to the gaping lack of
information, buying resources, news, and reviews from professionals on
consumer technology all located in one place.

Becky, feel free to correct me or jump in with any more info:

It looks like the new show, Hook Me Up, has a "Pimp My Ride" aspect to
it, except users submit their videos and info on how technologically
impaired they are, the Hook Me Up comes to the rescue! There's a
trailer up right now over at Yahoo! Tech:
http://tech.yahoo.com/

And you can read more about the show and submit your own video to be
on the show here:
http://www.ifilm.com/promo/hookmeup?htv=12

Awesome! Hopefully if Becky is interested, we can get her back to chat
with us about her endeavors and what she's up to, and what's in store
for Hook Me Up, which is slated to premiere on Yahoo! Tech on May 15!