023 - Key Collector Comics: In Glynnes We Trust

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, this is Glennis Pruitt, owner of comic book Hideout, and you are listening to the Sneaky Geek podcast, episode number 242-52-6271 of those some episode. You're listening to an episode. You're about to listen to it right now. Listen away. [00:00:17] Speaker B: It's actually episode 23. Really, really happy about it. [00:00:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:00:51] Speaker B: Hey, guys, this is Bryce again. This is Brian Roman, and we are here with Nick colonies. [00:00:56] Speaker C: Like the 13 colonies. [00:00:58] Speaker D: Colonies. [00:00:58] Speaker B: Yeah, Nick colonies. Nick here has. [00:01:02] Speaker C: I am bushed. [00:01:02] Speaker B: You has ambushed us. We were just done with our Ming Chen interview, and he was like, hey, can I tell you about something super freaking cool and dope? Yeah. [00:01:11] Speaker C: This is not going to be super cool and dope, but I guess. [00:01:13] Speaker B: And then it was super cool and dope. [00:01:14] Speaker C: Well, thank you. Appreciate it. [00:01:17] Speaker D: So you want to tell us what you got? [00:01:18] Speaker A: Yes. [00:01:18] Speaker C: This is key collector comics. It's a free mobile app on Apple and Android mobile phones. And what it is, it's the world's first database of key issue comic books. So it's a mobile app focused exclusively on first appearances, iconic covers, anything that's valuable, or what I like to say, a milestone moment in comic books is all isolated on one database. You can catalog what you own. You could catalog what you want. Like you were saying, there are some things that you wanted, right? [00:01:48] Speaker B: So I collect new warriors comics. [00:01:50] Speaker C: You might be the only. [00:01:51] Speaker B: And I might be the only one. I just really love Nova. Yeah. And so I was like, I'm going to look into this. So I started putting it together. I mean, not a huge thrasher fan, but I'm also a big fan of Nemarita as well. And so I was talking about it with my budy Dave, and I was like, yeah, I have issue number one. He's like, yeah, but do you have first appearance? Because they first appeared in Thor, and then their first cover is actually on the COVID of Thor. [00:02:13] Speaker C: If I go to search characters and I look up new warriors, and you could look up anybody individually, like Neymarita. So we have eight key issues. Right? [00:02:22] Speaker B: Okay. [00:02:22] Speaker C: So we have the giant size defenders because it has Marvel boy in it who's in the new warriors. And then we see the first cameo team appearance. Boom. [00:02:30] Speaker B: Thor right there. [00:02:31] Speaker C: It's Thor 411. And then 412 is actually the full appearance. Exactly. [00:02:38] Speaker B: And I got both of those from Steve Wyatt's booth. [00:02:40] Speaker C: Very good. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Which is super cool. But I didn't know that that was something to even look for until a person who was already an expert on it. I was there, and so I had to rely on their brain rather than something that was in my hand. [00:02:53] Speaker C: Exactly. To look that up. [00:02:54] Speaker B: Super cool. [00:02:55] Speaker C: Surprisingly, it works awesome here because most of these convention centers, they always have bad reception for the phone. But how would you find out what your comic book is? Let's say you were looking up new warriors characters. Would you just google them? [00:03:08] Speaker B: I would get on the. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Random, it takes forever. [00:03:13] Speaker B: I would fall down that hole, and then like ten minutes later I'd be like, okay, I know who that is. And I know where they appeared. Sort of, yeah. [00:03:19] Speaker C: Right. Now I've cross referenced everything that I've researched through three sources, and if I can't get a consistent answer, I'll go and I'll read the comic book on. Read comic book online. So I'll make sure that this information is correct. [00:03:34] Speaker B: How long were you working on it? [00:03:36] Speaker C: It took me three years to build a database. [00:03:38] Speaker B: When did you get this idea? [00:03:39] Speaker C: Okay, so I was in the basement of a warehouse, and usually those stories. [00:03:42] Speaker B: Don'T end up looking for the arc of the Covenant. [00:03:46] Speaker C: Yes, the arc of the Covenant. I was helping out a friend of mine who has this basement warehouse that has 50,000 comic books in it. I thought I knew a lot. We were just going to pull out the key issues, sell them on eBay. And I thought I knew a lot. And I was going through this stuff and I'm like, what is this? What is this? [00:03:59] Speaker B: What is this? [00:04:00] Speaker C: And then I was like, I wish that there was something that had all the key issues in one place. I looked for it. It was nowhere. And then I'm like, well, I guess I'm going to do it is the. [00:04:10] Speaker B: Mother of invention, right? [00:04:12] Speaker C: And it worked out well. Like I said, it's been downloaded in 139 countries, 4.9 out of five stars on Apple and on Android with like 291 reviews. [00:04:22] Speaker B: I want to say I saw that. And that's just on the Apple side. [00:04:24] Speaker C: Has over 500 reviews. So it's been great. It's been a fun ride. Neil Adams endorse is doing a giveaway of original sketch art on the app right now. Yeah, Alex Ross has done four or five giveaways and he's going to continue to do it. Art germ has done giveaways too, so it's been crazy because I've never. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Hell of a ride. [00:04:44] Speaker C: I know, because I'm in the liquor industry, so I've never done anything with comics or tech. And then I'm like, I'm going to start an totally pollyanna attitude and it's working out. But, man, I appreciate. Guys, let me talk. [00:04:59] Speaker B: Yeah. No, we would love for our fans to know about this. That's really valuable app. I just downloaded it myself. [00:05:07] Speaker C: It's a free download on itunes and Google play. Yeah. Are we live on this? [00:05:14] Speaker B: We're not live on. [00:05:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:05:15] Speaker C: All right. [00:05:16] Speaker B: If you get really stuttery. [00:05:19] Speaker C: Real stuttery. [00:05:24] Speaker B: Okay. Well, I mean, while I got you here, what's your white whale comic that you really want? You've got this whole list. You're like, oh, man, I really want that. [00:05:33] Speaker C: See, I don't really shoot for the stars on the white whale stuff. So, like, Batman 232, detective 232, preaching to the choir. [00:05:42] Speaker B: I'm collecting new warriors. Right. [00:05:43] Speaker C: That's a good point. I know. I thought I was going to be embarrassed for a second. Turns out I'm in good company. But Raza Ghoul's first appearance is something I want, which is solid anyway. It is solid. That's a Neil Adams cover. Iron Fist 14. Saber Tooth's first appearance would be awesome to have if we're talking real old, like golden age, like Clay face would be cool. But I'm a big Batman fan. But Hellboy's first in the San Diego Comic Con exclusive, Hellboy's first appearance to Blackwell. I think it was a prototype, but still. Mignola's here, too, isn't it? Somewhere today just threw you off track on that one. Sorry about. [00:06:26] Speaker B: Oh, you're also in good company. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:29] Speaker C: All right. [00:06:29] Speaker D: Good how we work. [00:06:30] Speaker C: I'm happy about that. But the cool thing about the app, I'll just tell you, we talked about it earlier, but there's a subscription level, too. So it's a free app, but there's a subscription. If you want extra services, like I send out key issue alerts. So if there's a movie announcement, like, we've had a lot of announcements today, I've been keeping up with it, and I also get some stuff ahead of time. I'll send out a push notification that goes directly to your phone before anybody else knows about it. You could go and you could buy it online or wherever before they get jacked up, before the price raises so that people love it. And then I have all the trending issues, all the hot trending issues in one area. I have speculation in another area. So stuff that hasn't, like, I believe know, of course, all these young Avengers characters that have come out, Hawkeye, but of course, Kate Bishop. All those characters. I think that you're going to get those. Yes. That's your big time. I think you're really going to see a big jump in those issues. And then there's stuff that's a little. [00:07:31] Speaker D: Bit more obscure is one of my all time favorite cool stuff. I love it. [00:07:36] Speaker C: And then the last category is called dollar bin diving. So there's so much stuff out there in dollar bins that are obscure. [00:07:45] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. But they're great. [00:07:47] Speaker C: That are worth, like, 2030, 40, $50. [00:07:49] Speaker B: I got Power man and Iron Fist, first appearance together. Like, their first cover together. Number 50. Yeah, buck 50. [00:07:55] Speaker C: No kidding. Yeah, I found Superman. It was action comics number 869. It's a recalled issue where Clark Kent is drinking a beer. You know what I'm talking about? I found that in a dollar bin. Okay. So what they did is they recalled that issue where Clark Kent is drinking a beer with his dad, like, outside. Real nice cover. People freaked out about it, as they do. As they do, and then they recalled it, and then they re released it. And it says soda pop on the like, and you can tell it's just like someone just drew. Okay, soda. It's so that there's some great stuff out there that you can still find. [00:08:32] Speaker B: Well, man, thank you so much. [00:08:33] Speaker C: Thank you. Yeah, guys, thanks a lot. Appreciate it, man. [00:08:36] Speaker B: One more time. Just make sure I don't. Mike, what's your name? [00:08:38] Speaker C: Nick Colinese. Nick Colinese. Coglianese, what is your app called? Key collector comics. [00:08:45] Speaker B: Key collector comics. Available on itunes and Google play. Everybody look it up. [00:08:50] Speaker C: It'll help. [00:08:51] Speaker B: All right. Thank you so much for jumping in with us, man. Really, really appreciate that. Hi, everybody. Welcome to sneaky geek. My name is Bryce Frankenstein. Of course. I'm joined here today with my co host, Brian Romero. [00:09:00] Speaker D: Hey, that's me. [00:09:01] Speaker B: And today we have Glennis. [00:09:03] Speaker D: Yeah, we do. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Hey, that's everybody. [00:09:06] Speaker B: Glennis, why don't you tell everybody who you are? [00:09:08] Speaker A: I'm Glennis Pruitt, and I own the comic book hideout in downtown Fullerton. [00:09:11] Speaker B: And as we've said before multiple times, we love the comic book hideout. [00:09:14] Speaker A: Yes, we do. [00:09:16] Speaker B: Have we interviewed you twice now? [00:09:18] Speaker A: Once, I believe one or last year. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Yeah, that's right. [00:09:22] Speaker A: Okay. [00:09:22] Speaker B: Wow. [00:09:22] Speaker A: I mean, you interview me every time. [00:09:24] Speaker D: You come for a while, so. [00:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah, we just hang out. Yeah, you're just cool like that. [00:09:30] Speaker B: So today we wanted to talk about key issues and comic collecting and comic book shopping and comic book shop ing, with dash ing, as in owning a. [00:09:43] Speaker D: Comic book shop and owning a comic. [00:09:44] Speaker B: Book shop and running it. Yeah, that's why we're here. So we listened to an interview a little bit ago with Nick colonies, who created the key collector app? [00:09:54] Speaker A: Yes. [00:09:55] Speaker B: I mean, you've looked over the app? [00:09:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I've checked out the app. I think it's really a very well made app. It's very pretty. It's easy to use. It's got some cool features. I enjoyed the amount of information that it has on it. It looks like someone took a lot of time and developed it well. So if you are a key only kind of comic book collector, that would be a beneficial tool for you. I think that my only hang up on the whole idea is not necessarily at all with the app or apps designed to do such a thing. I think that those are all wonderful for what they do. I kind of get rubbed the wrong way about the idea of only collecting or valuing or giving any sort of merit to key comic books, because in my mind, comic books are for reading. So you want to get people invested in the characters and the stories and the writers and the artists and actually reading the comic books. So for me, people that only collect key issues are really missing out on the breadth of the everything else culture. Right. And I think that it's become something that's started more recently. Keys have always been a big thing since comic book collecting became a thing. But key only collecting and collecting keys that are only collected for value is something that is more common now. And, I mean, I get phone calls and emails and people coming in all the time that are only looking for. What key comics do you have? I'm like, man, I have. I got all of them, 50,000 comics in my. If you only want key issues and you're only looking for big ticket items, that's one thing. If you are a comic book connoisseur and a collector and you only have the keys left. Right? Because I have a lot of collectors that come in that have a big list and they're like, well, I'm only looking for the heavy hitters now. I got all the hulks except for the 181 80, except for the appearance. [00:12:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that's with Beard Thor. I have all the beard Thor. That time when Thor wasn't Donald Blake and he had a beard, suddenly in the early 90s, beard Thor. I call it the Beard Thor saga. I got all of them for, like, pop. Yeah, but I'm missing random keys amongst. [00:12:17] Speaker A: Those because those keys are probably worth, like, what, $5? I know I probably have. [00:12:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I should pull out. [00:12:24] Speaker D: I don't think we've come in to look for them yet. [00:12:26] Speaker B: No. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Well, you know, we are having our huge anniversary sale coming up. [00:12:34] Speaker D: Tell us about that. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. So the hideout is turning six years old. [00:12:37] Speaker B: Six years old. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Can you believe I should be able. [00:12:41] Speaker B: To read the comic book by now, right? [00:12:43] Speaker A: See? And as perfect, apropos for my hideout becoming six years old and going off to school, I get to go on vacation for two weeks right after. [00:12:51] Speaker D: It's perfect. [00:12:52] Speaker A: I'm so excited. But the comic book hideout is six years old in November. And so on November the fourth, which is a Sunday, we are having a huge sale all weekend. So it'll be Friday, Saturday, Sunday. [00:13:06] Speaker D: Cool. [00:13:06] Speaker A: And on Saturday, we have the jogathon, which I will be emcing and dealing with with the rotary. It's a huge citywide inner district fundraiser. And then on Sunday, we will be having bounce house, a barbecue, art show, and a huge sale. And the sale is going to be 60% off back issues, starting at big. So now that the hideout six, we're going to really kick it off. And I simply have too many comic books, and some of them need to go home with you. So 60% off back issues, 50% off manga, 40% off complete sets, of which I will have a ton of nice. 30% off trade paperbacks. I don't normally discount trade paperbacks, so that is a pretty awesome thing. I'm also doing 20% off all of our current books, which is unheard of hideout. [00:14:00] Speaker D: No one doesn't. [00:14:00] Speaker A: And 10% off all of my top shelf key issue books and all the top shelf rack stuff. So if you're looking to collect all those key issues, I just got a huge box full of them. Spiderman keys, Batman keys, X Men keys, everything from the modern. I've got a bunch of copies of first watchmen. I've got a bunch of the Frank Miller Batman stuff. Year one, Dark Knight, all first prints of all that stuff. First appearance of Harley Quinn. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Wow. [00:14:34] Speaker A: First bat back on keys again. Yeah, well, I'm bringing it full. [00:14:37] Speaker D: Bring it back around. [00:14:38] Speaker A: So if you're looking for key comic books, comic book hideout is just freshly stocked, and they will be gone by that weekend. So cool. Come and get them beforehand. Or get them at 10% off for our sale. And we got keys up the wazoo. Sweet. [00:14:54] Speaker B: Dope. [00:14:55] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:14:56] Speaker B: Okay, so back on key issues and back on Mr. Colonies'app. So he actually found us right after we were talking to Ming Chen, who. [00:15:04] Speaker D: Also owns a comic book shop, helps. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Run a comic book shop. And I wanted to kind of look at the app a little bit and run it in real time again. So who's your favorite character right now? [00:15:17] Speaker A: Wonder Woman. [00:15:18] Speaker B: Wonder Woman. Okay. I'm so shocked. Given the amount of Wonder Woman memorabilia. [00:15:22] Speaker A: Around your office, I know you're looking at it like, oh, my God, she's everywhere. [00:15:26] Speaker B: So much. So we character search and we Wonder Woman and we're going to go Wonder Woman. [00:15:33] Speaker A: Here, look up the number one and two from the George Perez run in 1980. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Allegedly, there are 44 key issues. Key issues. Yeah. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Well, that's going to be the first appearance of Cheetah. That's going to be the first appearance of gigantic. First appearance of Wildcat and Wildcat. Yeah. [00:15:50] Speaker B: Sensation comics number one. [00:15:52] Speaker A: Oh, dang. [00:15:53] Speaker B: This guy right here. The second one, the low end is $4.5 thousand and the high end is $52,000. [00:16:01] Speaker A: That's because it's sensation comics number one. What year did it come out? [00:16:04] Speaker B: It says, published 1942 with various writers and illustrated by Harry G. Peter. [00:16:12] Speaker A: Harry G. Harry Peter. Harry is very necessary. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Listen, budy, you throw the g on or I walk, man. [00:16:22] Speaker A: 1942, being named Harry Peter, that's got. [00:16:25] Speaker D: Yeah, that probably they allowed that. [00:16:28] Speaker A: I mean, in sensation comics, they were doing all kinds of fun stuff in 19. [00:16:32] Speaker B: Did you watch Professor Layton in the Wonder Woman? [00:16:33] Speaker A: Oh, yes, I did. Martin. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Martin, Professor Layton is a professor Marston. Did you watch Professor Marston? [00:16:42] Speaker A: I did. I did. I thought it was great. Oh, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was super fun. It was very romantic. I thought it was sweet. And I enjoyed it fully, thoroughly. All of it. [00:16:54] Speaker D: It's on my list of things to watch. I have a huge list of things I'll watch, but that's on there. [00:16:58] Speaker A: I think I have the book too, that I have to read, but I'm going to get to read it when I'm on vacation. [00:17:04] Speaker B: There you go. [00:17:04] Speaker A: That's when I get to read all my actual books. [00:17:06] Speaker D: Yeah, real books. What? [00:17:08] Speaker A: Real books? Real books are good too, guys. Everyone should be reading. They should be reading their comic books. They should be reading the full storyline, full arcs and runs of comics and not just collecting key issues. Because comics are books. [00:17:22] Speaker D: Comics are books and you need to read books. [00:17:24] Speaker A: Yes, everyone needs to read. [00:17:27] Speaker B: The more countries where comics are a little less stigmatized. Most people's first books are comic books. [00:17:34] Speaker D: We always read comic books. [00:17:36] Speaker B: First book. In France, it's very common that you'll get a bunch of comic books long before you'll ever get. Same with Belgium. [00:17:41] Speaker D: That's cool. [00:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Tintin, marsupolami, asterisks and Obelix. Those are all. [00:17:46] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, those are all from there, man. I haven't seen that stuff in forever. I never get collections of that Tintin. I never get Tintin in, well, because it's mostly european. So I get collections of what people around here were reading when they were kids. [00:18:00] Speaker D: Right. [00:18:01] Speaker A: Which is generally the same stuff all the time. [00:18:04] Speaker D: I've had this since I was a kid. Is it worth anything? Like about the same. As much as that one that's over here on the counter next to that one? Same thing. [00:18:12] Speaker A: It's amazing how demanding people can be. So one of the biggest and most important jobs of my job is buying collections and buying and flipping collections and getting older books. And I'm one of the only stores that I know of that buys collections. Most people are like, I think I've been in. [00:18:29] Speaker D: And people would bring in, like, boxes of stuff. Oh, here we go. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:18:33] Speaker B: The only people I know of who buy collections regularly are people like Steve, who don't have a brick and mortar store anymore because they can just warehouse it and then pull it out when they are ready to sell it at a con. [00:18:44] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, it's kind of hard. I do so much processing of collections that's like a majority of my time know, going through stuff, weeding out all of the things that people would consider. Not keys, even. [00:18:59] Speaker D: They're like, oh, I love this issue. [00:19:01] Speaker A: Getting collections together, like making sets and getting runs together. And what I should be doing and what I am doing now that I wasn't doing in the last six years was putting all of that online because people are buying things online instead of coming to my store and buying them in person, which makes me so sad. Come visit me in the store, come see my smiling face and pick up comics that you get to take home right in your very own hands. It's like brick and mortar retail will never die in my heart. Yeah. Too soon. Too soon. We're still open, guys. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:37] Speaker D: No, like one of our favorite bookstores growing up, like Russo's out of Bakersfield. [00:19:42] Speaker B: Interestingly enough, before I was into comic books, so I went in there for books all the time. [00:19:48] Speaker A: Same. [00:19:48] Speaker B: But he was in there getting his comic books from. [00:19:52] Speaker D: I got. Yeah, I started with regular books, and then I was super into trading card games growing up, and then I got into comics. So that was my store. That was my go to store for everything. And they slowly shrunk down in size in the shopping center. [00:20:04] Speaker B: They put up a wall. Yeah, they had two spaces. And then they threw up a wall and then gave the other side of the store to a boutique. [00:20:13] Speaker D: But they eventually shut down, unfortunately. And then they ended up opening up a smaller store across town because people were like, no, wait, where are we going to actually get our books, though? And it's like, oh, they had a bookstore. Here we go. [00:20:25] Speaker B: So, yeah, that took a long time for them to do that, though. We were without arussos for a long time. [00:20:31] Speaker A: But they're in business now. [00:20:33] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. [00:20:34] Speaker B: I guess they had an online component for a while. [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, you kind of have to. It's like going underground. Well, my shop, we burnt it to the ground. But don't worry, the warehouse is safe and all of the online product is in the warehouse. And actually, there was nothing in the store. But, I mean, don't tell my mean. [00:20:53] Speaker D: What? [00:20:55] Speaker A: It's hard out there for a retail store. The Internet is a difficult competition. Well, and Amazon is, like, taking over the world. You remember back when we were kids and everyone was like, Walmart's taking over the world. Walmart's ruining it for everyone. [00:21:11] Speaker B: They were doing some shady things. [00:21:12] Speaker A: Everyone's going out of business because Walmart's just killing it. Amazon is doing that now, but they're. [00:21:18] Speaker D: Actually, actually doing it. [00:21:19] Speaker A: But Amazon's actually doing. Yeah, it's really rough. The only bad Yelp reviews I get are very seldom, but I get people that come in and complain about my prices being too high. And the thing is, I price match Amazon. So if you come into the store and you want something and you see it online for cheaper, if you politely, politely ask me, hey, Glynnis, I really want this comic book, but I see it online for like $5 less, do you think you could do that? Then I'd be like, of course I can. No sweat. I would be happy for you to take this home with you today. But if you come in and silently judge all my prices and then don't ask me or talk to me and. [00:22:04] Speaker B: Then write me, you can hear your. [00:22:06] Speaker D: Eyes rolling all over the store, like. [00:22:08] Speaker A: Oh, this place is way too expensive. It's like, oh, no, bitch, I got expenses. [00:22:16] Speaker D: Right? [00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:17] Speaker B: When we first showed you key collector, you had mentioned, because when you pull up these comics, it shows you the low end price, the high end price, the mid range price. And I feel like so many people, they want you to sell at the low end price, but they want you to buy at the high end price. This is worth $52,000. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Don't understand how things work. [00:22:37] Speaker B: And you had said that that was kind of an issue for you. When people come in saying, this is supposed to be worth this. I saw this online. [00:22:42] Speaker A: Well, the thing about online is anyone can google something, and the top Google search is what they will take as their truth. They'll google Fantastic Four comics or whatever, and then they'll say, oh, well, these Fantastic Four comics are going for hundreds of dollars. And I'm like, okay, well, first of all, these comics are not those comics, right? Second of all, these comics look like they've been through garbage Wash. [00:23:11] Speaker B: This page is folded over, and all of those corners and marks are bent. [00:23:15] Speaker A: And we're still talking about motherfucking Fantastic Four. So get out of my office. This is from 1994. Get out. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah, that was when the movie came out. I don't know that it got released. I watched it on YouTube. [00:23:31] Speaker D: It's on the YouTube. [00:23:33] Speaker A: Did it get a real release, the. [00:23:35] Speaker B: Really, really awful one? I don't know if it got a real release, but I do know that it was awful. Like, way worse than the Jessica Alba version. [00:23:42] Speaker A: Yeah, really bad. [00:23:46] Speaker D: And. [00:23:48] Speaker B: It looks like it belongs on the Sci-Fi channel. [00:23:50] Speaker A: What's the movie? There's an indie movie with the chick, one of the main characters, and her whole deal is that she was in the Fantastic Four movie as the invisible woman. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Oh. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Do you know what I'm talking about? [00:24:00] Speaker D: Yes, I do. [00:24:01] Speaker A: I saw this indie movie, and I don't remember if it was like she actually was the actress from that movie or that was her character. [00:24:09] Speaker D: What was that? [00:24:10] Speaker A: And she's like, having a really rough time. She's like, going to the methadone clinics or whatever. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. No, my memory for it is, like, super spotty. [00:24:20] Speaker D: That wasn't shameless. Was it the tv show? [00:24:22] Speaker A: No, it wasn't shameless. It was an older Andy flick. [00:24:27] Speaker D: That wasn't a Kevin Smith. [00:24:28] Speaker A: We're going to be back. Check. [00:24:31] Speaker D: No, I've totally seen that. And I was watching, like, oh, I. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Don'T have Wifi on. You're going to have to do this. [00:24:36] Speaker A: You remember what I'm talking about? [00:24:37] Speaker B: I totally do. [00:24:37] Speaker D: Because I just watched it maybe not even a year ago. [00:24:41] Speaker A: It was a very long time ago last time I watched it because I. [00:24:46] Speaker D: Typed in Fantastic Four. So it's showing me all Fantastic Four. [00:24:49] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:24:52] Speaker B: I don't know. We'll have to just kid it. [00:24:55] Speaker A: It's all right. We'll figure it out at some point. We'll come back in the next episode and I'll be like, michael. That's right. [00:25:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So back on the subject of pricing with Google and such, one of the things that Tate's mom actually taught me was that when you search eBay for items, you can search for what it actually has sold as. Because I find an item, because she did estate sales. So I'd find an item and I'd say, it looks like it's going online for $3,000. And she'd go, no, it's being sold. $3,000 doesn't mean anybody's bought it. And then you'd find out, like, it actually only been sold for like a grand or something or even less. And some asshole thought that this was worth that and has that number associated with it. So the algorithm finds it, but that doesn't mean it's true. [00:25:36] Speaker A: And that has no accounting for condition. And condition is absolutely everything in comic books. So it doesn't matter what you said you saw somebody trying to sell it for, right? Yeah, because that's not going to take into account any condition. Right. So the number one searcher you're probably looking for is probably going to come up with the highest price for it. This is a near mint, like, whatever being sold in Iowa that thought it was going to be worth a lot of money. But then if you check sold listings and then you check actually what it's for or what condition it's in, what shape it's in. I use comicbookrealm.com. That is a great site for pricing out comics because you can click on it, you can see the image, you can click on the different variants, and then you can click on the price, and it will show you an entire price range by grade. [00:26:27] Speaker B: Oh, that's cool. [00:26:27] Speaker A: And so it'll show you top price and what the price it shows on the website. If you just take a glance at it and you don't click on it, is usually like the 9.49.5, like a near mint price. But then if you look on it, then they always have the gem price and then everything else ascending from it. It's a little bit more accurate than the book, like the comic book Bible, which is the Overstreet guide, which is what I was taught to use all my life growing up reading comic books. It's a little bit more accurate to current prices because it takes everything into account that's online, because they're going to be updated. So it takes all the stuff that's on eBay, that's on Amazon, that's on private selling sites, and then it gives you an average for all of that. [00:27:09] Speaker B: That's pretty cool. [00:27:10] Speaker A: It's super. That, like, this app, technology is growing with the comic book industry. It's just not growing fast enough to develop a really good point of sale system that can hold and track all of my inventory. So if you know, anybody tweets back putting it out there, if anybody's got a really good point of sale system that can handle more than 50,000 individual SKU numbers for an inventory database, then hit me up. I would develop one myself, try and work on. [00:27:43] Speaker D: Yeah, but in your all sorts of your spare time. [00:27:46] Speaker A: As we look at my calendar. [00:27:50] Speaker B: Glenn's calendar is basically just looks like an essay that's been written over a grid. [00:27:55] Speaker A: Yeah, right. Different colors in all different colors. It's color coded, though. [00:27:58] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:59] Speaker A: All my rotary stuff is in light blue. Got to keep it organized. It's ridiculous. [00:28:05] Speaker B: Absurd. [00:28:06] Speaker A: Almost as ridiculous as how hot it is in here. It is really hot. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Well, so you're not really a key collector. Do you have any keys that you're actually really proud of, though? [00:28:16] Speaker A: Can I tell you guys a secret? And then it won't be a secret, because then it'll be public knowledge. Yeah. My personal collection of comic books is very small, and it's pretty much just the stuff I really, really like that doesn't. So typically, I think it's like, the best way to be comic book seller is to not get high on my own. So I'll read stuff and I'll keep stuff. The hideout has its own personal stash of books I put in a box to forget about for four years and five years until they come back around and are worth more money. So I have, like, an investment box. It's kind of like stocks. Oh, I think this stuff will go up in value if I don't look at it and leave it alone. [00:29:01] Speaker D: If I don't look at it and a movie comes out, we're set. [00:29:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Or somebody decides that something is. One character is cool. That was never cool before, and you're like, oh, wait, I don't watch this. So I have cool stuff that I like, and you can see all these guys are my variants and neat covers. So I have weird collections of stuff. So I really dig werewolves. So I have a bunch of really obscure, random werewolf covers. They're all behind the wonder woman stuff right there. So I have a whole short box full of just weird werewolf comics from all over the place. Whenever I pick up stuff in greek, I have a couple of greek comic books because I don't see them ever, and I'm trying to teach myself greek. So I was like, oh, those are really cool. And I have a bunch of shit from when I was a kid that's in my dad's garage somewhere. Like, I have a whole long box full of Buffy and Zena and Spider Woman from the stuff that doesn't have any value at all. But it's shit that I really liked when I was a kid. So my heavy hitters, as far as comic book collectibles go, are probably all my original tank girl stuff. [00:30:09] Speaker B: Tank girl. [00:30:10] Speaker A: So I have a whole shit ton of tank girl from when it originally came out. [00:30:15] Speaker B: That's cool. [00:30:16] Speaker A: And, like, weird stuff like that. Like cool, weird ninety s. Like girl power. Yeah. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Wonder Woman. [00:30:24] Speaker A: Yeah. All girl power. All girl power. [00:30:27] Speaker B: There's a theme here for sure. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Well, you know, and then werewolves. [00:30:30] Speaker D: And then werewolves. [00:30:31] Speaker A: Childhood Glennis and adult Glennis had some comic book affinities. [00:30:36] Speaker B: That's fair. Last episode that we put out was with Dave, and he was talking about. He had this record when he was a kid that had dramatizations of comic books. And he had the man wolf introduction. [00:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the. I had all the Superman ones. There were like a set of three Superman ones. [00:30:54] Speaker D: Yeah, he mentioned one of those. [00:30:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I had those, and I ended up selling them. But it's because my whole deal as a salesperson and as a retail person is I love making people happy by finding them the stuff that they really want. So when somebody comes in and they see that I have something that's super cool, and they're like, oh, my God, I've been looking for that forever. Then, of course, I would rather them have. [00:31:21] Speaker D: Yeah, here we go. [00:31:22] Speaker A: My philosophy that I use for the store, and it's one that I have to repeat to my dad all the time, is there will always be more comic books. [00:31:31] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:32] Speaker A: So if I get something super cool, I got to keep it pushing. Got to keep it going. Got to keep it moving. Got to keep it moving. And the cycle has to continue to flow. Otherwise I'll end up like my dad with a three car garage that's full of fucking comic books. I remember building that garage and being like, dad, okay, this side is going to be for actual garage stuff. This part is going to be for comic books. And this part is a music studio, right? [00:31:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:31:57] Speaker A: And since I've moved out of there many years ago, it has become comic books. Comic books, and then a music studio full of fucking comic books. And then we built a shed, and the shed is all full of comic books too. I have a lot of comics. My dad has almost as many comics as I have, and he doesn't have a store. [00:32:19] Speaker D: I remember last sale? You guys had comic book day? The last sale. That's how my brain is working. It has been a long time since comic Book day. But yeah, your dad brought a bunch of his stuff out. [00:32:30] Speaker A: Yeah, he did a pop up pop. A pop up shop. Pop a pruitt pop up shop. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Up shop. [00:32:37] Speaker D: Yeah, I found some good stuff in there, though. [00:32:38] Speaker A: There's tons of really good stuff. Oh, and for my big sale, have you seen my dollar bins? Because I just created new dollar bins that are full of really good. [00:32:47] Speaker D: So I looked through them like a month ago, found some good stuff. Is there more there? [00:32:50] Speaker A: Just refilled them up. [00:32:52] Speaker D: The dollar bins are staying dollar bins, though. [00:32:54] Speaker A: The dollar bins are staying dollar bins. [00:32:55] Speaker B: I want to go through them, like now. [00:32:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm doing like, putting ridiculous stuff for the dollar bins. There's so many cool indie titles. So we're talking about key collectors, right? So bringing you back to key collectors, indie comics stuff that's not Marvel, not DC, used to be what I specialized in. And I mean, it still is what I specialize in. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Dark horse, idw. [00:33:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Image, all that stuff for new books. But the thing is, as I have noticed, and I've been selling comics for 20 years, right? Which is a weird thing to say, knowing that I'm 31. But as comic collectors go, it used to be that when an indie book came out or did a small run, it was really hard to find those books afterwards. And you'd have to go hunting for them, and you'd have a list, and superhero books are everywhere. But the indie stuff was a lot harder to get a hold of. And so I had, like, really banging indie bins that had all the coolest stuff. And what I realized recently in the last few years is people that read indie comics really read comics, and they love the comics that they're reading, so they don't care about getting them in single issues. They just want to read them. So they just wait and get them in trades, and if they get a couple of them, but then they're missing some, they'll just go out and spend $25 on a new trade rather than hunting down and looking for the back issue that they, in one way it's good because comics are being read and they're being consumed and people are digging them. And I love that in another way, for me, specifically for having a ton of back issue stock is like, what do I do with all these? What about all these? [00:34:37] Speaker B: You love the story. Why don't you have it in a set? [00:34:40] Speaker A: Yeah. Why don't you have it in single issues? And then you can get the letters from the editors. You get all the fun stuff. But that's such an old school way to do it, I guess. So now it's, like, changed my whole ordering strategy of how many books I'm getting, and it changes the functionality of the store, right. So if I know that the back issues that I'm getting are not being sold out of the indie bin and nobody's coming to pick them up, then I have to compensate by lowering the orders of those that I'm going to have on the store floor and then trying to bump up people's pulls to make sure everyone that's getting pulls is still pulling their single issues. And it just changes the whole demographic of the store and how it works. And that's something that's, like, people don't talk about as being a comic book store owner is. Ordering is so difficult and so important, it can make or break your store within four months, within half a year, you could completely fail. So the thing about key comic book collectors, right? We were talking about two different types of comic book collectors. The ones that want to collect the books because they have a specific character in mind, or they have a specific writer or artist that they really like, and they want to have all of those things, all of the things that are published by that person. Or there's the people that are collecting for value right now, we can't dis on the people that are collecting for value because they're the ones that are actually buying the shit off the market. So we like those people, right? [00:36:12] Speaker D: They're still buying stuff. [00:36:13] Speaker A: And as long as they're buying stuff, that's good. But those are the people that are also going to haggle the most, that are going to try to get everything for nothing. And they're the ones that are all looking to resale. And because we're talking about the Internet now that the Internet is the way that it is, literally any Josh mo that comes into my store can have his own online comic book store and the big air quotes that you can't see because it's radio. So it creates everyone into a potential retailer. So it's one of those things where it's cool. It used to be cool, like, oh, I have all these comic books, and I really love them. And now that I haven't touched them in 20 years, they might be worth something. But generally speaking, most of the populace doesn't have that. And if they do, it's not going to get them what they wish that it would get them. [00:37:07] Speaker B: Right. [00:37:08] Speaker D: Because they don't know how it actually works. [00:37:09] Speaker A: Yeah, but the heavy hitters that are buying hundreds of dollars worth of comic books and utilizing them, like buying and selling them or buying and trading and selling them like stocks. Right. So they're getting big key issues like, oh, my gosh, I need to have an amazing fantasy 15. If I don't have amazing fantasy 15, I don't know what I'm doing with my life. Right. But they're going to be shelling out enough money they're going to be shelling out enough money that once they get it, are they going to be happy and satisfied with that? Or are they going to have to trade it for an action, low number action? Or are they going to have to trade it for a low number detective or what? You know what I mean? So it's as much a hobby as it is kind of like a sickness. [00:37:55] Speaker D: Slight addiction. [00:37:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of a little bit of an addiction. And people that are compulsive about their collecting, which is definitely a thing. Oh, yeah. [00:38:04] Speaker D: Been there a few times. [00:38:06] Speaker A: It can be simultaneously super cool, because when you find it and you have it, then you'd be like, I am the master. I have all of the things. We had a dude display his personal Dr. Strange collection. Yeah. You guys remember that, right? It was very impressive. And that was not even his comic books. He displayed some of his comic books, but there was a lot of his memorabilia and artwork and stuff like that. He told me he had over 50 t shirts and he had, like, tons of long boxes of actual comic books. He told me he had all of the doctor Strange comic books that have been put out in print as of the date. [00:38:44] Speaker D: Wow, that's impressive. [00:38:45] Speaker A: That's super impressive. That's super duper impressive. But a. It's Dr. Strange, right? So it's doable impressive. Very impressive beard, Thor. See, you just got to pick something small, right? And then you get bigger and bigger and bigger. So that's kind of how I like to teach collectors, right? So when kids come in and they come in with their parents and the dad tells me like, oh, this is his first comic book, and I want to get him into collecting so he can learn the value of stuff. And I'm like, excellent. That's wonderful. Start small. Start small. Find something that you really did only love. [00:39:20] Speaker B: Moon girl and devil dinosaur. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Right. You start there, and then once you complete it, then you level up. [00:39:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:27] Speaker A: Right? Yeah. [00:39:29] Speaker B: For me, I like to branch from character to character. [00:39:31] Speaker D: I was going to say they'll get the little issues of whatever they have, little arc, and they're like, okay, well, this character appeared in there. What other books? [00:39:41] Speaker A: And that's what's wonderful about superhero comic books is because they're so interconnected and they have just this giant universe of characters and this whole world of different experiences and dimensions and earth one and Earth two and Earth three. And there's all this wonderful ways to get into something where you don't have to start from a and get all the way to z. And I think that that part of it is something that needs to be reminded of people. You don't need just key comic book issues. So, key issues. Is there anything more that you. [00:40:17] Speaker B: I think we've kind of covered everything when it comes to collecting as well as running a shop in that aspect of it. Both sides of the coin are kind of displayed here. [00:40:25] Speaker A: What's the coolest key that you've held in your hands? [00:40:28] Speaker B: That I've held in my hands. [00:40:31] Speaker D: I have x Men, 25 fatal attractions with Magneto tearing the adamantium out of Wolverine's bones. Oh, that's pretty badass one. [00:40:42] Speaker A: That one happened when we were kids. Yeah, I totally have one of those. [00:40:45] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:40:49] Speaker B: I think of all the ones that I've actually held in my hands, I think it would be that first parents and new warriors and Thor or my Luke cage Iron Fist team up. I got that just excited. But I saw it was 51, and I thought nothing of it, or 50 or whatever issue it is. And then when I saw it, I was like, oh, my God, I own that. I didn't realize that was the best. [00:41:11] Speaker D: Part is, like, if you're not into it for the key issues and you're just picking up whatever and you end up like, oh, I really like the series. And you find out, like, that's a huge, major key issue. You're like, hell, yeah, right? [00:41:22] Speaker A: It's winning the comic book lottery a little bit. [00:41:24] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I have all that beard Thor stuff, and I have the new warrior stuff, and I have some Nova and Starlord number ones. Yeah, I've looked at and drooled over a few that were on Steve's shelves, but I've never pulled them off and actually held it. I really want his Miss Marvel number one first printing, but it's like $100. [00:41:45] Speaker A: I have a first kamala conic, first appearance of Ms. Marvel. [00:41:51] Speaker B: We'll talk later. So the question I was going to ask was, nowadays we have way more number ones, like, back in the day. [00:42:02] Speaker A: The app was listening all of the new number ones that come out this. [00:42:05] Speaker B: But I think that's also just a weird trend, too, because back in the day, you didn't want low numbers. Comics didn't sell when they had low numbers. We established that in our Dave episode. We talked about golden age comics and Silver Age, and that was kind of a trend for a long time, but especially in the last ten years, I. [00:42:20] Speaker A: Feel like, oh, the number one. [00:42:21] Speaker B: There's so many number one. [00:42:23] Speaker D: Both Marvel and DC have rebooted so many times. So many times. [00:42:27] Speaker A: You know why? It's because they're trying to develop new readership and people are intimidated by jumping in at high number comic books. But I feel like it is a publisher error in that if you have a good team selling your product, you don't need to continuously try to rebrand it and resell it. People come in and ask me for new comics, hey, what's new? What's good? What do you really like right now? And just because I can say, oh, this is a brand new number one, or I have the first four issues, or five issues, that's not always the guaranteed selling of it. So by creating and renumbering, there are four different venom books out right now. [00:43:10] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:43:10] Speaker A: Four of them at the same time. And there's like eight different X Men comic books running at one time. [00:43:17] Speaker B: Yeah. When the X Men teams are running simultaneously, like Legacy and X Men Red and X Men black just came out. Yeah. Red, blue, black, gold. [00:43:27] Speaker A: But all the blacks are number ones. All of them? [00:43:29] Speaker D: Yes, because there's only five of them. [00:43:30] Speaker A: Because they're solo stories. Instead of calling them one shots or calling them X Men black, one through five, they're all number one. And it's confusing. It's very confusing, and it doesn't really make sense. [00:43:42] Speaker B: And then you have the problem of the exact problem that you were avoiding in the first place of, like, I don't know where to start because now your ones are in some mild succession. [00:43:51] Speaker A: They just make it as difficult as possible. For me as a retailer, I feel personally. [00:43:58] Speaker D: I think Marvel kind of realized that. I know they had a big old shift change with some of the higher ups, comic books wise. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Well, then they were like, just kidding, guys. We're going to go back to the old numbering. [00:44:08] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:44:08] Speaker A: And then they were like, oh, God, it's so confusing. Why did we do that? That was a terrible choice. Everyone hate. [00:44:13] Speaker D: And that's what I was going for is because they started putting the legacy number up on there. So they'll put the new volume number is kind of the bigger number and then the legacy number is smaller. So whatever issue 690 something was issue four in this current run, which I get and I appreciate because having seven different Spiderman number ones from the last two years is a little bit much. [00:44:34] Speaker A: There's more than that. [00:44:35] Speaker B: Yeah. There were so many spidermans right after the secret war. Oh, my God, there were so many happening right now. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Is Spider get in? [00:44:46] Speaker B: Yeah, right. And that's the thing, like, just before Secret War was when we had all that crazy crossover Spiderman thing. So it was like, there's a ton of stuff happening with Spiderman right now, but it was like this Peter Parker versus this Peter Parker versus Miles morales, which I was okay with. [00:45:02] Speaker A: I like Spider man, but holy fuck, dude, how is anyone supposed to keep up with that? I own a comic book store and I'm like, I don't even want to bother with it. [00:45:11] Speaker B: But the problem with after Secret War specifically was that three of them had to do with Peter Parker. The same Peter Parker story. [00:45:20] Speaker D: Yeah. I mean, hell, that's Wolverine and all. [00:45:23] Speaker B: At least there were clones. But I get it. Spiderverse was confusing and Spider Geddon is getting there too. But when they had, like, Peter Parker with his basically the future foundation, like, rich, non bad luck Peter Parker, which why would I care? I like Peter Parker because everything bad happens to know. [00:45:46] Speaker A: I grew up reading Spider man, and Spider man was one of the first books that got me really excited. Spider man and X Men. [00:45:55] Speaker B: And those were the two cartoons that were like best other than Batman. The animated series. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Yes. [00:46:01] Speaker B: And Superman, actually. I really liked Superman show. [00:46:03] Speaker D: I didn't get too much of that. [00:46:04] Speaker B: I think the Superman show suffers, definitely. [00:46:06] Speaker A: Remember bank? [00:46:07] Speaker D: I watched. I watched the Superman and Iron man and shows and Fantastic Four animated were on the same. [00:46:13] Speaker B: See, I barely watched them. Spiderman and X Men. [00:46:15] Speaker A: Spiderman for sure. Spiderman came out first, but that was like Saturday morning cartoon. My entire childhood classic spiderman. X Men. The tick. The tick. Yeah, that was like a lot of my childhood before Patrick Warburn, which is so funny. I think that character idea has stuck in my head so much. I'm playing A-D-D campaign where I'm a warrior and I'm basically an Amazon version of the Tick and just have zero charisma and I'm just like really trying to help and be the leader. Exactly. And falling in love with the tick on Amazon. Yes. [00:47:00] Speaker B: I bet it was amazing. [00:47:01] Speaker A: It was not amazing, but it was definitely better than the Patrick Warburg one. And it was the most, like, the cartoon. [00:47:08] Speaker B: Did they have Batman? [00:47:09] Speaker A: Well, it wasn't Batman. Well, Batman. Well, was a version of the Deflator mouse. Deflator mouse and American made were their original ones. [00:47:16] Speaker B: That's right. [00:47:17] Speaker A: The Patrick Warburg one. I tried to watch it, and I just was like, it's really bad. And, I mean, I like him. [00:47:24] Speaker B: Because you want to watch Patrick Warburg. [00:47:26] Speaker D: That's basically it, yeah. [00:47:27] Speaker A: I just wish that they just did it animated and had him do the voice like crunk. [00:47:31] Speaker D: That would have been so cool, right? [00:47:32] Speaker A: He's so great as crunk. That movie is so underrated. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Squeakily squeaky. Have you watched a series of unfortunate events? I have, because he's great in that. [00:47:40] Speaker A: He is good in that. I have a problem with that show because it's just such a bummer. It is such a bummer. And I get it that it's funny and stuff, but it's like, all of the problems seem so fixable if people would just communicate. And so it's really frustrating for me because I'm just like, oh, my God. Why is the judge so nice but so stupid? It doesn't make sense, right? She's so great, but it's just like, why are you so vapid? How are you a judge? I don't know. It's a really well done show. The production quality is great. All of the actors are great. The funny parts are very funny. But I think it's too triggery for me as a girl that came up from a bushmo, we're just like, oh, God, no. What? [00:48:31] Speaker B: Well, what are you reading right now? [00:48:34] Speaker A: Right now I'm reading rat queens, which I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on with that book. I loved it. So know back when Brian's cousin was. [00:48:44] Speaker D: Drawing it, my cousin drew it for. [00:48:45] Speaker A: A little bit, which is really cool. And then they were, like, got in some trouble, and there was a lot of drama, and they're like, okay, just reboot it. Just start over. [00:48:54] Speaker D: Whole marvel. [00:48:56] Speaker A: And then they did. And then I was reading it. I was just like, but why are we starting over? I know all the. Okay, do they start completely over? No, they did, like, a soft reboot where they were just like, and now it's number one again. Okay. Yeah, it was kind of originy stuff. And then I was like, well, what is actually happening with these characters? And then there was, like, some weird, other dimensional kind of magician dude thing going on. And I was like, okay, well, maybe they're going to make it all make sense. But because I've been reading it as it comes out month to month and then taking breaks. As I've been taking breaks. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:49:36] Speaker A: It's so disjunct. Like, disjunct? Disjointed, jointed. And there's a word disjuncted. No, something similar to that. Am I losing my mind slightly? [00:49:48] Speaker B: The rat queen story. [00:49:49] Speaker A: I'm losing my mind. I'm also reading Wonder Woman is finally gotten better. And all the stuff with the witching hour and Justice League dark has been really enjoyable and super fun. And look at how fucking cool. [00:50:02] Speaker B: This is a podcast. And holy. What issue is that? [00:50:06] Speaker A: This is the new Wonder Woman 57 that comes out tomorrow, and this is the super awesome variant of it. And they're turning Wonder Woman into, like, a super badass witch. And it's just really rad. I'm 100% into it. And all of the Justice League dark stuff tying into it has made the Wonder Woman main storyline, which has been sucking really hard since rucka left, better. And I'm like, oh, wait, this is great. I'm also reading Rick and Morty Dungeons and dragons, which your cousin also does some variant covers for. [00:50:39] Speaker D: Yeah, I love those covers, though. [00:50:40] Speaker A: The character sheet covers. Character sheet covers, yeah, 100%. So I'm reading those. I'm reading anything. Tank roll, obviously. We already talked about that. I'm trying to think of marvel stuff that I'm reading. I'm reading Mr. And Mrs. X, which I really enjoy. [00:50:53] Speaker D: Yeah, because you kept me in the store. Because you're like, I didn't order enough, and I didn't get my. You can't buy this until I'm done reading it. [00:51:01] Speaker A: I don't do that to every customer. That's Brian. Yeah. I had to finish reading that. I'm like, you know what? [00:51:07] Speaker D: I'll go find some stuff. I think I ended up finding some back issues I was missing. Anyway, it totally worked out. Oh, sorry. [00:51:13] Speaker A: Anything? Yeah. [00:51:14] Speaker B: Which one are you watching? [00:51:15] Speaker A: Anything? Yes, I'm finishing season two of Luke Cage. I have not started season two or season three of Iron Fist and Daredevil, but I'm all in that Netflix stuff. [00:51:26] Speaker D: I just finished Daredevil season three, and I really liked it. [00:51:29] Speaker A: Excellent. Yeah, I have to catch up on that. I have very limited free time, so I can watch, like, an episode a night, maybe three or four nights a like we talked about earlier. I'm trying to catch up on coven so I can get back into the american horror story stuff. And there's just some of them that I'm going to do a hard pass on. I think that it's just like, oh, hotel. Yeah. I just don't need to see. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I never watched any hotels. [00:51:53] Speaker A: Oh, the circus one. [00:51:54] Speaker D: The circus one's good. [00:51:55] Speaker B: And actually ties in a little bit to the asylum one. Yeah. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Okay. I like that they're doing stuff that tie them all together because I was really worried about that, watching from a distance and being like, I don't understand. The show is cool, but it's, like, weird and like, okay. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Certain characters actually exist in multiple seasons. Other characters don't, and the actors are. But there's only one of other characters. It's very strange. [00:52:20] Speaker A: Yeah. So I thought that was interesting. But I understand the want to work with the same actors often and do something different, and it's cool. I kind of like that. [00:52:32] Speaker B: As good if not better in freak show as she was in coven. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Oh, really? Really? [00:52:37] Speaker B: She's great. [00:52:38] Speaker D: I mean, she's great anyways. Yeah, she's great anyways. [00:52:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:41] Speaker B: She plays a voted lady in freak show. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Most of her parts in coven are like, almost too much for me. Yeah, she's a little of just like, oh, my God, could we stop with the torture for like 5 seconds? Like, did you need to rip that guy's guts out? I guess you did. [00:52:54] Speaker B: I guess. Really? I'm serious. It's like pretty little liars got together with really people. Yeah. [00:53:01] Speaker A: But Luke Cage is in it. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:53:03] Speaker A: Oh, is he skinny? Not so buff. Luke Cage. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm digging that. And that was like my Halloween one that I wanted to watch for October. But what I'm really, really super flipping excited about is Sabrina, the teenage witch. They're doing Sabrina Chillers as a Netflix series with the producers of Riverdale, and they're doing it like the Chillers comic that they put out a little while ago. Okay. And if you've not read that comic, stop what you're doing right now. Turn this podcast off, drive to the comic book hideout, and come buy it from me because it's amazing. [00:53:35] Speaker D: Yeah, we'll wait. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Just pause. Or if you have it on your phone, you can listen to it in your car. I mean, it's 2018 happened, guys. But Sabrina Chillers, when they did the Archie reboot, they did the Archie horror reboot as well. So they did the Chillers one right after they did afterlife of Archie, so they did zombies, and then they brought Sabrina back. And the art in it is fantastic. It looks like a 1960s Archie horror, but cooler, cool, and the art is fantastic. The writing is rad. They pulled so much from the old stuff, like all of the villains and how they're doing. Everything is really fun. And Sabrina, in the ideas that we have about witches came from the catholic church, and so it's very like, witches give themselves to the devil when they're on their 16th birthday and blah, blah, blah. It's very campy, silly monster fun, witchy stuff. And, yeah, I'm really excited to see what they do with the tv show. [00:54:48] Speaker D: Yeah, I've seen a couple previews and it looks really good. [00:54:50] Speaker A: The previews tell so much. I was just like, oh, my God, I didn't want to watch. I didn't know that they were going to do all this, but I'm really excited. I like the girl that they picked to play Sabrina. I think that's the clutch maneuver for that show, is just, you have to have a really good Sabrina, and the aunts look great and they're going to have the talking cat and everything's going to be amazing. I grew up with the, and, you know, Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina and Archie and stuff were a big part of my childhood. So I'm really excited to see what the Riverdale's producers are going to do because they don't hold anything back. They're like wild teenage rampant nonsense. So I'm into that. [00:55:32] Speaker B: Sounds good. [00:55:33] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:55:33] Speaker B: Brian, you read anything right now? [00:55:34] Speaker D: I'm reading all the things that I'm getting from. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah. Last week picked up the new Mr. And Mrs. X, which is so good. They're in space, gambit and rogue, and. [00:55:45] Speaker A: It'S like all of the characters from your childhood that you never thought would be in comics again. They're back, like all of the weird space people and weird sidekicks. [00:55:55] Speaker B: Nice. [00:55:56] Speaker A: I love, like, we are the target age demographic. [00:56:01] Speaker D: Totally. [00:56:02] Speaker A: Because it's all of the shit that was in comics when we were kids. [00:56:05] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:56:05] Speaker B: But no redback. [00:56:07] Speaker A: Not yet. [00:56:07] Speaker D: Not yet. [00:56:09] Speaker A: I wouldn't put it past him. No. Is he not the next X Men? Black cover. [00:56:15] Speaker B: Juggernauts out. [00:56:16] Speaker A: Juggernauts out tomorrow for that one. Yeah. [00:56:18] Speaker D: No. So I'm going to read the X Men, blacks and the Reds and the golds and the blues. But they finished up. [00:56:23] Speaker A: Golds and blues are done because they switched to black and red. Yeah, black and red will be done so that they can switch to something else. But astonishing still is going. [00:56:30] Speaker D: Uncanny's. [00:56:31] Speaker A: Oh, Uncanny's going to be back. Yeah. [00:56:32] Speaker D: So they finished those ones up. They're doing extermination and then that's going to lead into the new run of Uncanny X Men, which they have to. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Bring back Wolverine to get the original team. [00:56:42] Speaker D: Yeah, I kind of started reading the return of Wolverine. It wasn't that great. [00:56:49] Speaker A: People have been anticipating it for a long time. [00:56:51] Speaker D: Yeah. And the story is not that. Anyways, I'm all about the X Men stuff, as usual. Yeah, astonishment has been really good. What else am I reading? There's so many venom stuff. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Holy crap. [00:57:04] Speaker A: Are you reading this? [00:57:06] Speaker D: No, and I was going to get it in trade because, in fact, I think you started. Put it in the poll list just in case. I'm like, no, I'll wait. And then you sold out of all of them. [00:57:16] Speaker A: I'm like, I put it in your poll for a reason. [00:57:19] Speaker D: Ryan and Glennis, we trust. [00:57:21] Speaker A: I'm like a personal comic book. And actually, I really try to have personal service, like me and Heather, my girl helping me here. [00:57:32] Speaker D: Heather's great, by the way. [00:57:33] Speaker A: Heather's awesome. We love Heather. We're really happy to have. I'm really happy to have a team right now that is the best team that I have had yet at the comic book hideout. I just keep switching them out for better, the next level up. And Heather is definitely the level up. [00:57:50] Speaker D: Yeah, she's awesome. [00:57:52] Speaker A: So we try to pick books for your polls that we think that you'll enjoy so you don't miss them, because now the industry is where it's at. We have to slim our orders down really tight to be able to keep on keeping on. So I try to make sure that people are getting the books that I think that they would have an interest in before they have to come and shop for them and they're all gone. [00:58:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:12] Speaker D: Which helped me, because you guys put in the X Men black, and I knew it was coming out. In fact, I was at the Comic Con panel when they announced it, and I was super stoked, and I didn't realize it's already October. [00:58:23] Speaker B: And then. [00:58:24] Speaker D: So it showed up and they're like, oh, thank God. [00:58:28] Speaker A: And that's kind of the thing is, I'm offering a free service pulisar for free. You get free comic book bags and boards, and I stock all of your stuff so you don't miss it and put in recommendations. It's free. All you have to do is buy your comics and show up and pick them up regularly. I don't even make you show up every week. You can come and see me once a couple of months, once every other week. Yeah. And I feel like that's something that the commitment is not really a commitment. Right. I don't make you sign a contract. I don't keep your credit card file number on file or anything. [00:59:04] Speaker D: And plenty of stores do that. And it's really weird. I get why they do it. [00:59:08] Speaker A: I mean, it's a business. I would love to put everybody's credit card on file and just be like, well, they haven't come in charge anyway. But it just doesn't. I get it. Everyone has a life. Comic books are item of luxury. Leisure. Yeah, luxury. So I understand when people have to come in and be like, yo, I got to cut titles from my list because I can't pay my rent. I want you to pay your rent. Yeah. I want you to eat. Yes. Comic books are great. [00:59:32] Speaker B: Poll of, like, 17 different books. And then I changed jobs and my poll went down to one. [00:59:38] Speaker A: But I mean, as long as you're. [00:59:39] Speaker B: Then it went down to zero for a while. [00:59:41] Speaker A: As long as you're communicative with your shop. I'm here to get, like we said earlier, my favorite thing in the world is making people happy by giving them exactly what they want. So if people come in and are like, hey, I really want all this stuff, but I just can't afford it, I'd be like, no stress. You don't have to get it. It's all right. I'm going to put it to back issue, and then you can come get it when you want, when you have time, if it's still, you know, easy peasy. Yeah. [01:00:06] Speaker D: And you got plenty of awesome sales to come get it later, too. [01:00:08] Speaker A: Exactly. And you can even get it cheaper than you were going to get it from before if you come and get it on sale. [01:00:14] Speaker D: What do you got going on, Bryce? [01:00:16] Speaker B: I'm reading tales from Vader's castle, which is Star wars adventure books, which are image IDW. IDW. They're IDW. Okay. Which are IDW. Yeah. [01:00:27] Speaker A: They have the rights to Star wars stuff just for kids. Yeah, but the other regular Star wars books are coming out through Marvel. [01:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:34] Speaker D: That Vader story is freaking doing because. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Vader's castle is happening over in that end. [01:00:39] Speaker D: Yeah, but they're showing how Vader got his castle and how it was built, and it's just freaking awesome. [01:00:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Was it built with force? [01:00:48] Speaker D: We don't know yet. [01:00:50] Speaker A: You'll have to read it. [01:00:51] Speaker D: But there's an old sith lord that showed up. [01:00:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah? Does he have robot legs? Because I'm not into it. [01:00:57] Speaker B: No. Yeah. So I'm reading that, and then I just got back into Miss Marvel again, and we just recently found out that Ms. Marvel uses the way she ambiguous without becoming more dense, is because she's actually borrowing mass from her future selves and different timelines. [01:01:16] Speaker D: Very weird, and it's very trippy. [01:01:17] Speaker A: And I don't know. [01:01:21] Speaker B: Bruno figured out ridiculous, and he watched all these timelines, and he sees the exiles timeline, and he sees her as president's timeline. He sees just fighting timeline and several of them. He realizes that he might not be able to use his legs in the future because of various accidents and stuff, because he's got, like, an adamantium exoskeleton on his legs right now. [01:01:39] Speaker A: What? [01:01:39] Speaker B: Yeah, like, he's in braces, basically, but he has, like, this computer that has its interface is represented by Professor X. And so Professor X sometimes will give, like, life advice, and he'll be like. [01:01:51] Speaker A: Oh, my God, that's amazing. I want that on my phone. [01:01:53] Speaker D: Really weird that you're saying. [01:01:55] Speaker B: He's like, well, I'm in party mode right now. Remotely exciting. He just happens to have, like, a mild existential thought. [01:02:03] Speaker A: I want that as an app. Someone make that happen. I want to have Professor X on my phone telling me about. [01:02:10] Speaker B: If I've learned anything from comics in the last several years, it is that I do not trust Professor X at all. [01:02:15] Speaker A: There's also good, actually. Yeah, that's kind of true. [01:02:18] Speaker D: Kind of a dick. [01:02:20] Speaker A: I was thinking of the Professor X from my childhood, right. [01:02:23] Speaker D: Who was doing all the bad things. [01:02:25] Speaker A: Kind of a secret. Yeah. Turns out. Turns out. [01:02:29] Speaker B: But I'm reading those two, and then I'm reading a shitload of information on inter language because I'm in grad school for linguistics. So I'm reading a lot of academia, which is making reading comics go super fast, because now it's raining in, reading in the world. And then I'm watching Haunting of Hill House. [01:02:51] Speaker A: I heard that's really scary. [01:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it's terrifying. I love it. [01:02:53] Speaker A: Oh, good. Is it ghost stuff? [01:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah, last night. So it's based on a book by Shirley Jackson, who wrote the lottery. [01:02:59] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:59] Speaker B: And I have the abridged version in my car, actually right now from Reader's Digest, my 1963 Reader's Digest. Wow. It's, like, cracking as I move it. [01:03:08] Speaker A: I love. [01:03:09] Speaker B: But I've been reading that, or I've been reading that. I've been looking at that occasionally, and there's some parallels, which is cool. But last night I went to watch the show, and I was like, I'm going to want to watch one of these and then I'm going to finish big mouth because that's what I'm going to do. And Brian's like, so you're not going to sleep night. And I'm like, no, I think I'll be okay. And then he came in at five. [01:03:27] Speaker D: No, it was a little after 430. It was about 450 or 450 because I got up for work and he. [01:03:32] Speaker B: Goes, oh, my God, you weren't kidding. I'm like, brian, this show is blowing my mind. [01:03:37] Speaker A: Yes. What's big mouth about? [01:03:38] Speaker B: Big mouth is a cartoon, by the way. Big mouth is a cartoon about kids going through puberty. It's got Nick Kroll and, oh, okay. Maya Rudolph and Jordan Peele. And they have all of their gross puberty thoughts are represented by monsters that live with them and tell them horrible things and say awful, awful, terrible things. But it's also a little too. [01:04:01] Speaker D: It really is. You're like, that's fucked up. Oh, wait, no, that sounds about right. [01:04:05] Speaker B: Yeah. And sometimes it's a little too real. Like season two has this thing called the Shame wizard, and it's all about triggering, feeling really guilty about your body and your urges. And he goes in specifically to make you feel shitty, but that sounds like being a teenager. Okay, so that's, that. That's key issues. That's being a comic book person. [01:04:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, I can talk comic books for ages. [01:04:28] Speaker D: So we should probably go to work. [01:04:32] Speaker A: We have meetings. [01:04:32] Speaker B: I have to go write a PowerPoint presentation. So thank you, everybody, for listening. I appreciate you all. [01:04:40] Speaker A: Come see the comic book hideout. If you can't come now in downtown Fullerton, come for our big party on November the fourth. Sunday, November the fourth. Come and hang out with us for the bounce party. There's going to be a bounce house. There's going to be a huge sale. We're doing an art show. It's going to be really, really fun. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Sweet. [01:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll be there like you guys. [01:05:00] Speaker B: Thanks, guys. [01:05:01] Speaker A: Thank you. Have a wonderful rest.