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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Job Four, Comic Store

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Tim Finn, photo courtesy Hub Comics Tim Finn already had three jobs. But when the owner of his local comic store passed away, he took o...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Ed Greenberg, from Belarus to two USA stores

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Ed Greenberg (with thumbs up) at Collector's Paradise Ed Greenberg is a great American story. He immigrated from Belarus at age 17, ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Business Booms at Comics Conspiracy

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Ryan Higgins of Comics Conspiracy Ryan Higgins started working in comic stores at age 12, and bought his first store at age 27. Now, at ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Does Comics Have an Inferiority Complex?

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Chart courtesy icv2.com and comichron.com Comic publishing—the publishing alone, to say nothing of merchandising and other media—is a bi...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Convention Changes: Lower Prices, Street Closures

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Getting around at San Diego Comic-Con, 2018 The comic convention business is hyper-competitive, and getting BIGGER. In the wake of compe...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Almost a stockbroker, now a comic store owner

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Mike Banks, owner and operator of Samurai Comics Mike Banks had a crazy year in 2002: He had a stockbroker job disappear from under his ...

The porny Dungeons & Dragons module that costs $5000

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The cover to the original "Palace of the Silver Princess" So when Dungeons and Dragons was first becoming a Real Big Deal in ...
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