Author: johnwoods

Carol and John’s Comic Shop is looking for local artists who would like to contribute a sketch cover to our 5th Annual Holiday Art Show to benefit the Cleveland Food Bank.  ARTISTS WANTED It’s easy! Are you a local artist who would like to turn your talents into food for those in need during the holiday season? Stop by the shop and pick up a free blank sketch cover. (or two.) Some are completely blank and some have just a logo to get you started.  This year’s theme is “The Holiday Season” which can mean Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Wookie Life Day, whatever. Take that idea and incorporate a comic book element into it, either super hero’s or indie comic characters, again whatever. We’re pretty liberal with the theme.  Create a custom cover, sticking to the front of the book for display purposes.  Turn the book into the comic shop by Thursday, December 14th at 8pm.   Be sure to include you name, URL, and email contact on the submission form you will be given with the cover. You can also write this information...

We will be closed on Thanksgiving Day so our staff can enjoy the holidays with their families. We will reopen on Friday for a weekend long sale, and our longest running shop event, our Anti Black Friday Sale!   On Friday November 24th from 7pm to midnight we’ll be having our annual (anti) Black Friday Sale. There will also be and ongoing sale throughout the weekend, but nothing as massive as 7pm to midnight.  For this sale we open up our back room and the foyer with over 70,000 comic books at $1.00 each. (Buy 100 or more and the price drops to .50 cents each) This year we will have the books in some semblance of an order to make your shopping easier, with books divided into Marvel, DC, Small Press and DC New 52. There’s even stuff form new collections we’ve purchased that we haven’t even cherry picked yet.  Also that night: 20% off all Graphic Novels and Hardcovers 50% off all Back Issues 20% off the New Comic Wall 20% off Statues and Action Figures and Pop Fun’s Discount Graphic Novel Bins will...

t’s been awhile since we’ve done an early release event, but if one book ever justified it, it’s Doomsday Clock #1, featuring the first real merger of the DC and Watchman Universes! DOOMSDAY CLOCK EARLY RELEASE DC is allowing us to sell Doomsday Clock #1 (As well as all new DC releases) at 11:57pm on Tuesday (11-21-2017) night, to coincide with the time on the Doomsday Clock. We’ll be selling four different covers including one exclusive to the early release.  The Lenticular cover is my favorite, featuring DC’s Trinity blended into Rorschach’s mask. The standard edition hints at the fact that the Rorschach journal really did get out.  We also have a great Gary Frank variant, featuring key players Superman and Doctor Manhattan.   The 11:57 variant will only be available at the early release event and featured a black and white version of the Gary Frank variant cover.  The first 25 people in line will also receive a FREE early release lithograph that looks like the 11:57 variant. We will also have these cool Doomsday Clock pins, that we can give free with every copy you buy of the book.  Considering how iconic...

We’ve got some announcements about upcoming events, as well as some new releases for both DC Metal and Marvel Legacy. Here’s the featured new releases coming out this Wednesday, November 8th, 2017. DC COMICS Batman Lost one shot throws Batman himself into the Dark Dimension to confront his greatest fears. As this one shot is written in part by Scott Snyder we’ll be putting it in everyone’s file who gets Dark Nights Metal. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32 is a Metal tie in and part of the “Bats Our of Hell” storyline. Expect to get a glimpse of the Batman Who Laughs! MARVEL COMICS Some featured Marvel Legacy books this week include: Moon Knight #188 is written by Max Bemis, who has produced some pretty interesting work like Polarity, Foolkiller and Worst X-Man Ever. Plus Moon Knight is a regional favorite and always does pretty well at the shop. After all his hard work in Secret Empire, the Kingpin will make his bid for mayor in Daredevil #595 with “Mayor Fisk” part one. A big part of...