Month: August 2023

Hey, Folks!

 

I’m a little bit behind schedule today. I know, I know…you already knew that because it is after 2 and I still haven’t got the damn sub form posted yet! Hillman and I had an early morning meeting with the caterer for our final party arrangements and, of course, the final payment. We also picked up our new suits yesterday and I do believe that covers everything except for last minute details. This has been an incredible stressful odyssey and I am now looking forward to partying down and eating cake.

 

I also want to get out there that Monarch Comics will be closed on Monday, September 4^th, for the observance of Labor Day. I know we won’t be doing much observance ourselves, but I figure that Brian deserves a paid day off.  Monarch Comics will also be closed Saturday, September 9^th, for the observance of Hill and I’s big wedding celebration. Again mostly because Brian will need all afternoon to get ready to make his glamorous appearance at our party and can certainly use another paid day off…:P Regular Monarch service will resume after all of this holiday and party silliness has ended.

 

Final note for the week is about the Image catalog situation. Apparently Image will no longer be putting their product information in Previews now that Lunar is there regular distributors. Sorry about that, folks, but that is certainly way above my pay grade. It looks like there are website links offered online to give you the whole show and I know how much most of you love that system. That was sarcasm, by the way. Anyway, obviously I will still be carrying some Image titles on the rack and will gleefully preorder any Image titles for those who ask me. I’m hoping Image will create their own catalog before too much longer when they notice the big order drop on their comics.

 

I hope everyone has a great week and I will talks at ya next week!

 

Eddie

Hey, Folks!

 

Well, here we are at yet another relatively uneventful week. It’s actually nice to be coming to the end of another five week month with yet another teeny tiny ship week. I would like to apologize for some of the books that I’ve come up short with this month, but sales got pretty skewed because of the funky shipping schedule. Also, I will cop to the fact that I totally underordered Ghost Rider because I didn’t realize it crossed over into the Wolverine comic…lol. I had also stopped ordering DC’s comics reprinting covers because of low interest, but apparently I cut the orders a bit too low and am coming up short now. Rest assured I will do my best to cough up these titles for those looking for them.

 

I am making pretty good time with the Jersey collection and only have around 25 long boxes to go. You have probably noticed all of the new stock posts I’ve been making on the store’s Facebook page in the last couple of weeks. Lots of fun keys and stuff have risen to the top, but I’d also like to stress that a lot of run filler type books have been going out into the back issue boxes. I mean, we’ve got nearly a complete run of Spider-Woman as well as some 70’s She-Hulk back issues. I just finished processing a bunch of 70’s Green Lantern, 80’s Green Arrow, and 80/90’s Flash back issues as well. I still haven’t found the Detective Comics box that I am sure is in there as well as Brave and the Bolds. I will be very glad when I get through this collection so that both Brian and I can both focus on the BG collection that has some really interesting books in it.

 

Okily dokily…it’s the end of the month and I have to finish Diamond initial orders as well as the weekly FOC orders for Lunar and PRH. I don’t think I will get to it, but I’d also like to finish the Jersey box that I started the other day which has a bunch of 80’s Swamp Thing backstock in it.

 

Have a great weekend, Folks!

 

Eddie

Hey, Folks!

 

Nothing much new to report this week although I finally feel like I am getting somewhat caught up with my work here in the store. At the end of the day, I’ve realized that what I have needed to do the whole time was separate my duties between what I can do at home and what has to be done at the store. Once I rearranged my schedule to accommodate those requisites then everything just snapped into place and things started to get done. You may have noticed that I have been making a whirlwind of posts on Facebook showing a bunch of the new back issues that I have been coaxing out of the Jersey collection, but understand that for every book I spotlight online there are plenty more going out into the back issue boxes that are similar if not quite as pricey as the ones I show you online.

 

Also, there are a TON of Dollar Boxes that have started to queue up in the back room which explains why I decided to have a little sale on them. For the month of August, all of the Dollar Boxes will be magically transformed into 2 for a $1 boxes! That’s right…50 cents a piece for the month just as a self defense measure so that Brian and I don’t get buried by a mountain of Dollar Box comics stacked up precariously in the back room. We will see where we are at the end of the month. I am not quite at the halfway point on the Jersey collection so I may need to extend the Dollar Box sale into September. Like I said, we will see where we end up!

 

Also, you may have noticed that we have had to put more back issue display boxes on the floor. Obviously this is because of the massive influx of back issues from Jersey. This may create the need for a big back issue sale in either September or October. Again it will mostly depend on where we are and how much space I need to clear to make room for the new stock. Stay tuned, Folks, and keep your want lists updated!

 

That’s it for me today. I have some FOC work to finish today, including my first FOC order for Image material through Lunar, and I really want to dive right in to the next box from the Jersey collection and see if anything of interest turns up rather than more Dollar Books. Stay tuned to Facebook today to see what I discover next!

 

Eddie