Dive into the history of Denver's oldest comic store, which is celebrating five decades devoted to four-color art and lit.
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Rozanski always had a bit of a Midas touch, he admits, when it came to creating the retail juggernaut of funny books. However, he"didn't come from money," he says."Quite the opposite." He got his start hitchhiking to conventions as a teen and buying and reselling comics for some small profit — just enough to buy more and still afford food .
The 1974 San Diego Comic Con marked the first time he ever made real money from comics. He was offered a deal by Denver comics dealers Jim Allen and Dennis Wakabayashi, of Middle Earth Publishers, to sell their Barry Smith portfolios of Conan illustrations for $10, and Rozanski could keep $4.
The store got by, but"just barely," he says. He expanded with more pop-culture swag: posters, buttons, T-shirts, bumper stickers, useds and LPs and underground comics. He also befriended Emil Clausen, a wholesaler who ran periodical distribution channels in the Boulder region. Through Clausen, Rozanski got a 40 percent discount on the retail price of comics, and received them upwards of a week before the large retailers would."It made a huge difference," he says.
"I don't know it for sure," Rozanski says,"but I think the idea of me suddenly owning three stores in three different cities might have played a part in me getting the opportunity to buy the Edgar Church collection. Despite the fact that two weren't doing very well, it still lent me some credibility."
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