It’s almost here! A day that will go down in Cleveland Holiday Infamy! Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop’s 2013 Christmas Customer Appreciation Party on Saturday December 21st, from 8pm to 11pm! This event is our thank you to you for all the support through what has been our best year ever! We basically pull out all the stops to give you that old school office Christmas Party experience, with food, drinks, music and holiday hi jinx! To begin with, stop by the shop to pick up an invite! You don’t need one to get in to the party, but an invite has a coupon good for 33% off any one item of your choice! (coupon must be used at the Christmas Party! They look like this: We’ll also have amazing deals at the shop ALL DAY on the 21st, such as: 50% off ALL Back Issues! 20% off ALL Graphic Novels! 20% off ALL Action Figures, T-Shirts and Statues! 10% off everything else in the shop! Our event bartender Macklin will be serving up free Great Lakes Christmas Ale, domestic beer,...

It’s that time of year again as we begin to collect food for our yearly food drive and prepare for our awesome Christmas Customer Appreciation Party! Every year we do a food drive hand in hand with Pop The Comic Culture Club. Pop is a comic book club in North East Ohio that while not affiliated with the shop, shares many of the same principles of community action along with a love of pop culture. Check them out here to see what they’re all about: http://popcomicclub.com/ From December 2nd till December 21st we’ll be collecting food items at the shop. With the support of Pop we’re able to offer a free comic book from the dollar bins for each item brought in! The limit to this is three comic books a day! (But please feel free to bring in as much food as you’d like) Here’s the Cleveland Food Bank’s Six Most Wanted List: This all culminates on December 21st at our Christmas Party from 8pm to 11pm! To make the food drive and party even more fun we’re turning it...

As you may know, every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day at the comic shop! We get a full shipment of new merchandise and comics and give the shop a new energy each week. While awesome, it can also be intimidating to new customers. We’re going to fix all that this week! We’ve made an easy access cheat sheet to seven cool things you can jump right into with a release date of 11-6-2013! So for potential new customers, lapsed customers looking for a way back in, or our beloved regulars who just want to know the score, here’s eight things you should be checking out this week!  ONE: Amazing X-Men #1! The X-men titles have just finished a two month long crossover. Here’s a new X-title you can just jump into featuring the return of fan favorite Nightcrawler and staring the likes of Wolverine, Storm and Firestar and Iceman! (remember them as Spider-Man’s Amazing Friends from the 80’s cartoon?) Written by fan favorite Jason Aaron and drawn by Ed McGuinness, who’s known for his high energy action panels, this...

Cleveland beer pairing event connects hops and heroes By Douglas J. Guth Beer is meant to be versatile as it is diverse, providing complementary experiences when enjoyed with a variety of foods. Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop recently teamed with Great Lakes Brewing Company for another kind of crossover, one that paired six different GLBC craft beers with a like number of comic books. The hops-and-heroes hook-up was hosted by GLBC in its tasting room on Cleveland’s near west side. About 80 comics-and-beer enthusiasts were in attendance as CNJ owner John Dudas and pub brewer Joel Warger presented hand-picked beers and books connected by theme, flavor and personality. Guests at the Oct. 22 shindig received  swag including a six pack of the selected brews along with their associated comics. Classing up the proceedings was Brad Ricca, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and author of Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—the Creators of Superman. Coinciding with Cleveland Beer Week, the affair was the first of its kind in Cleveland. With both industries carrying...

October has been a crazy month, and it’s not quite over yet! This Monday, October 28th is Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop’s 23rd anniversary in business! We’re very grateful to you, our customers, for all the support through the years. I’m personally also very thankful to my staff, who time and time again outdo themselves both at events and at regularly keeping the shop flowing on a daily basis. We are proud to say this has been our best year is business ever. As a thank you to you, we’re be giving 50% off ALL back issues on this day (Yes all, even Marvel NOW and DC New 52) and 20% off ALL Graphic Novels and Hardcovers! Take advantage of it and enjoy the discount on this really cool day for us. (And now for you too!) So what do we have going for the month of November? First off we’ll be at Akron Comicon On Saturaday, November 9th! We rarely do shows as it never benefits us to take inventory out of the shop, our primary showplace. But...