Author: johnwoods

Hello Comic Shop Friends! We have one event coming up in January, and it is a big one! The Late Nite Comics Purge will commence at 8pm on Thursday January 16th. All crime will be legal for – oh wait, that’s not right… All back issues will be 50% off for four hours. We will be dragging out as many dollar stock boxes from the storage unit as we possibly can and from 8pm to midnight you can participate in the 2025 Purge! Fill a long box of dollar stock for only $75! We’re using 300 comics as the definition, so books must be bought in increments of 300 to get that Purge savings! This is absolutely a once-a-year event, so make sure you come out! Get ready to dollar dive! MARVEL COMICS Time for another Disney What If! What if the classic Disney characters were Marvel’s first family? Mickey Fantastic! Minnie Invisible! Donald Thing! Goofy Torch! After being hit with cosmic rays on an amusement park ride, the four friends become the Fantastic Four, and they’ll need those incredible...

Happy New Year Comic Shop Friends! We closed early New Year’s Eve and took the day off January 1st to get ready for you all for New Comic Day on Thursday the 2nd. I hope your New Year’s goal is to read more comics, and I hope you all cleared out your files… Even Gail Simone wanted you to pick up your books because she reposted our reminder! So we hope you didn’t upset Gail!!! We appreciate those of you who stopped in, called in to check your files, and settled up as best you could. Picking up your books regularly helps us with ordering correctly, and inventory management, and keeps us from having to close your file. We want you to read all the great stuff coming out! Late Nite Comics is back in January! Thursday the 16th we’ll be staying open until midnight, filling the shop with dollar stock, and back issues will be 50% off! John’s not taking the excess dollar stock to Uncle Todd’s farm, so for one night only you can participate in the Purge!...

Merry Christmas Comic Shop Friends! We closed up shop at 5pm on Tuesday, Christmas Eve and remained closed on Wednesday, the 25th for a little holiday and Christmas cheer. This week, new comic book day is moved to Thursday the 26th. Our fan-favorite Facebook live video Christmas Eve Late afternoon so you can go check it and get a look at the new table. We’ll check comments and upload the YouTube video on the 26th. I hope you all got to enjoy a relaxing holiday! The big thing this week is that we crushed last year’s donation total to the Cleveland Food Bank! Thanks to all of you who donated artwork, and all of you who bought raffle tickets, we were able to give them $8717! That creates 26,151 meals! An extra thank you goes out to the large donations from Kamm’s Plaza management, and the crew at NEO-TAC, the North East Ohio Toy and Collectible Club! 50% off back issues will run through the end of the year! Use those gift certificates you got at Christmas to fill in...

We’re counting down to Christmas, Comic Shop Friends! We’re counting down to our Holiday events too! The art show is being put together as I write this, and starting Wednesday the 18th, you’ll be able to stop in to check it all out! And start filling those bags with your raffle tickets! We beat our record number of submissions this year, with over 150 covers! We have so many we’ll have two binders full of covers, along with the display wall, full of amazing art, so you’d better check those out too! Extra thanks to Mark Overlow and his art students at Ashland County West Holmes Career Center, https://www.acwhcc.org/ They submitted an excellent batch of covers this year! Like every year, we do a basket raffle for the covers, which means each cover is labeled with a number and has a corresponding bag with that number. You throw your tickets in the bags for the covers you’d like to try to win, and we pull the winners at the Holiday Party on the 21st. (You do not need to be...

Here’s all the information on this year’s Holiday Party – Art Show – Charity Fund Raiser for the Greater Cleveland Food Bank! The theme of this year’s art show is “Homage to a Classic Comic Book Cover!” Let’s dig into the Art Show first! We’ve been hosting out Holiday Art Show since 2012, even moving in temporarily online during the pandemic. We consider it to be one of the most important things we do every year, in great part because we couldn’t do it without you and the help we get from our artistic community. Since its inception, we’ve assisted the Greater Cleveland Food Bank in creating over 159,000 meals for those in need during the holidays and beyond. (159,000!!!) The Food Bank has the uncanny ability to turn one dollar into three full meals. Every dollar you put into the system in the art show has a very direct result you can measure and be a part of. Our art show is where local artists (and quite a few from a distance) create custom comic book covers that we...

Hi Comic Shop Friends! I’m finishing up this week’s newsletter from home (Feeling unwell, but it’s nothing contagious!) so the only book I was able to read early was the EC Shiver SuspenStories one-shot. That means publisher synopsis filling in the rest, and me falling more behind with reading new books! First thing, there are still some delays with small press titles shipping from Diamond, but we did get a couple week’s worth in last Friday, so Previews are in the shop, and those titles are in your files. Again, we thank you for your patience with this, and hopefully we’ll have more updates from them soon. Onto the fun stuff! There’s still time to pick up a black cover and create your interpretation of a homage to a classic comic book cover! Submissions are due back at the shop by 5pm on Sunday, December 15th, and we’ll have them displayed in the foyer December 18th through the 21st. We’ll have the bags set up for the basket raffle on the 18th, so you can start putting your raffle tickets...