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affirmed that back issues were a valid commodity for the collector's market, and led not only to a boom to Mile High Comics, but to the entire back issue market. Mile High Comics frequently placed ads in Marvel and DC comics in the 1980s, listing back issues of comic books that could be purchased through the mail.
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comics, listing prices for back issues he had for sale. This ad, which was the first of its kind, was a departure from the general practice of the time for its inclusion of prices, which
Rozanski explains was a way to educate non-collectors as to the value of their collections. The success of the ad
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He announced his Bettie Pages persona in a newsletter that went out to his 118,000 subscribers in 2017. "I knew that I would lose business," he said, and he was right. About 10,000 customers left his mailing list overnight, some leaving pointed, vitriolic parting shots. “But guess what? In short
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division, with which he gained systems and methods for greatly expanding his mail order sales. To that end, he created
Alternate Realities Distributing, Inc., a wholesale distributor run by Rozanski's wife Nanette. The Rozanskis eventually sold Alternate Realities to
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In 1993 Rozanski and Mile High Comics opened the first comics mega-store in Denver, which measured 11,000 square feet. The company eventually expanded to eight stores, although by 2024 it had retracted to a single 45,000-square-foot mega store in northwest Denver.
392:#1 for $ 500,000 in order to pay off his debts. Although he does not sell the comic book, his booth at the convention generates more profit than the previous year's, allowing Mile High Comics to move into a new 65,000 square foot warehouse.
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comics collection ever discovered. The cache had been preserved due to the unvarying 60-degree temperature and minimal humidity, and consisted of 16,000 comic books dating from 1937 to 1955, including the first
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Rozanski drives all over the U.S. to local comics shops in order to stock Mile High's back issue inventory. He is also a frequent attendee at comic book conventions across the country.
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victims, accompanied by a prominent sign proclaiming "Transgender rights are human rights." Rozanski emphasizes the establishment as a refuge, actively confronting
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in comics in three days. It was at this point that he realized comics retailing could be a career. He opened the first Mile High Comics store in
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Rozanski and his wife, Nanette Furman, were married in
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I am in a joyous mood today, as it is the 41st anniversary of when
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Rozanski is widely recognized as an industry leader, and in 2003 he was awarded the
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