Author: johnwoods

Hey everyone, while we can’t have a Christmas Party this year, we won’t let the pandemic stop our yearly efforts to assist the Cleveland Food Bank, which likely needs help now more than ever. Help us to turn your artwork into food for the needy by submitting a cover for our Holiday Art Show!  Each year we round up our community and ask local artists to stop by and pick up a blank comic book cover to turn into a work of art to be displayed during the art show.  Covers are won through a basket raffle system with all money collected going to the Cleveland Food Bank. (Who have the uncanny ability to turn one dollar into four full meals for those in need!) Last year, with your help, we were able to assist them in creating 14,276 meals, bringing our all time total to 77,644 meals!  While in the past the art show has been a one day event ending with a party, we will now stretch the it over the course of five days, from Wednesday December...

Here’s the details on what we’ll be doing for Halloween this year at the comic shop! While there is no official “Halloween ComicFest” this year, we have managed to put something together on our own with FREE Comics, FREE Candy and FREE Paper Masks! From 10am to 5pm on Saturday October 31st we’ll be opening up the foyer next to the shop for trick or treating. We’ll be letting one family/trick ot treating group in at a time to walk past three tables, one with candy, one with comics and one with the paper masks. We’ll have a hand sanitizer station outside the foyer, masks are required, and please maintain your six foot social distance from everyone else while waiting. If you’re sick, stay home! All staff members will have their tempertarure checked in the morning, and will regularly sanitize the area (and themselves). After that if you want to enter the shop you can exit the foyer and go in the main doors of the shop, where we will keep the occupancy rating at the regular 15 plus staff....

Okay, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover here so hang on! HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY First and for most, Happy 30th Anniversary Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop! Yup, this Wednesday October 28th will be our 30th year in business, dating back to 1990. We linked to it before but here’s some of the history of our shop from Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Issue this month. We got the lead article! So here’s what we’re going to do for you! Stop in and see us this Wednesday and we’ll give you a FREE Howard the Duck Complete Collection Volume One Graphic Novel with any purchase. Why? Because Howard’s base of operations is historically Cleveland, and we think everyone that lives here should get some background on his history. This is a $34.99 book you’ll get for FREE to thank you for keeping us in business all these years. It’s got a lot of supplemental material, all his earliest stories, Howard running for President in 1976, as well as the KISS appearances. If reading old 70’s pap isn’t your thing...

Hi everybody! The big news this week (well, not really big news) is that I finally decided to sell off my CD collection. I have a policy about not turning the shop into my own private garage sale but like Doc Brown says, “what the heck.” I put 1,800 CD’s in the shop at only $2.00 each, with a focus on Punk Rock, Alt bands, soundtracks, compilations, and some bootlegs and imports. Not your typical stuff! (My father in law went through them and said “I have no idea who these bands are.”) Please dig through them and enjoy. The price will drop to $1.00 each on Saturday and Sunday then you’ll never see them again. I had alot of fun doing this with some of my vinyl a few years back and I’m just happy someone gets to enjoy the music. (I may even use the money to by myself a comic book for our 30th Anniversary next week.) Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled programing. Here’s the featured new releases for Wednesday, October 21st, 2020. MARVEL BOOKS Amazing...

Let’s start off with the big announcement, from Wednesday October 14th to Sunday October 18th we’ll be offering  50% off all back issues. This will be the last time for 50% off back issues until Black Friday, which we’ll drag out through the whole week to lesson the traffic. So think November 23rd to the 29th. But why wait for then when you can just come in now! (Yes we just put some books up on the wall, and they will be 50% off too.) Back to our regularly scheduled programing! Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, October 14th, 2020! After the return of the Green Goblin last week in ASM #49, “Last Remains” begins in issue #50 as Kindred’s Identity is revealed! Expect the whole Spider Family to be involved in this one as Nick Spencer’s plot threads all start to weave together! This week is also the conclusion of the Moon Knight story in Avengers #37. What a great run! Wait till you see who is (temporarily) the new Sorcerer Supreme and Iron Fist to...