The Story of How I Purchased 1.7 Million Comics At One Time
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2020
- This is the story of the Mile High II collection that was acquired by Chuck Rozanski, owner of Mile High Comics, narrated by Key Collector Comics, the free mobile app that helps collectors identify which comics are significant to the history of comics.
Chuck describes this story in summary as “a sordid mix of sex, drugs, and family betrayals. It ended up being the best comics deal that I ever made, but it took a trip through the sewers to get the job done.”
Thank you to Mr. Rozanski for the permission to read this entry of comic book history. To read the complete story in Chuck’s own words. Click this link:
www.milehighcomics.com/tales/...
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I sold my entire collection once in 2007, and then after restarting again in 2014. Both times it was over a girl and probably are the biggest regrets of my life. The best advice i can give anyone is never let a girl come between you and your comics.
Great advice! Partners come and go but comics are forever
Great advice!
@@KeyCollectorComics no comics come and go, but partners are forever
@@averydae1810 How do you explain the high divorce rate?
@@khainguyen3056 Men coming to their senses.
I don’t collect comics...but was riveted to this tale...all the way to the end😊
Thank you
This was an interesting story.
All's well that ends well
The Mile High story needs to be made into a movie.
Why? Maybe a documentary.
@@KalElvis a comic would fit
Chucks writing his story in graphic novel form, from my understanding.
Only if it includes the the people who were burned.
@@cheerstocomicspodcast264 Really? That is so cool!
Totally amazing story. I remember in 1995 I went to a garage sale and bought $3500 worth of vintage marvel comic's for $56 Canadian. I couldn't sleep that night. Up all night reading the comic book price guide. I wish I still had them. A once in a lifetime find 😀👍♥️🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏🎉🎉💯💯
Imagine what they're worth now
This is hands down the most incredible comic book hoard in the history of comics. What a tale!
Holy cow 😳😱 I used to love ordering from Mile High comics back in the days. Never knew that the story behind the scenes was more titillating than the comic books I was buying 😂😂😂👍 Great video. #subscribed
Chuck is a true collector. You could tell he's more interested in having a crazy collection vs actually selling the books lol. I still remember giving my grandpa money to make a purchase after seeing one of his ads. I think that was the first time I ordered something !!!
Never paid attention to comics in my life and I was hooked the whole time. Thanks for making this
Thank you William
Great lesson from this story: Always have a poker face when making business.
Thanks for telling this story, Key Collector. I had read about the original Mile High collection, but did not know the history of this one until I happened upon your video. I just find this all fascinating.
Nick, this was a great video. It was great to hear some of the history behind the comics.
Great story and even better narration. The fact that you not only gave him more then I think everyone realizes you had to to close the deal but held true to your agreement to send him the comics for his kids at your expense shows the content of your character and ultimately the key to your success.
Thank you for sharing!
Damn, unreal story I really enjoyed it. Biggest comic deal in history. Well done Sir, well done. You got some crazy heart sticking in there and going through with the deal. I'm happy it payed off for you. Thank you very much for this story :)
What a cool story. I'm so glad it all worked out! Thank you for sharing
Dude this is an awesome story I love learning about any kind of comic book history
Great stuff Nick! Best bedtime story ever; thank you, and good night.
That was great watched the whole video what a amazing deal.
Great story, I really enjoyed this! Good for you, man!
What an incredible story! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing. That's a part of comic history I didn't know.
Great video. I really appreciate Mr Rozanski. He is one of the few people that has actively formed the hobby of comic book collecting, to what it is now. More like this please.
the guy is a crook
Great story, man, thanks for sharing. Not even a big comics fan, but it's a great motivational story, too.
Thanks for making and posting this - I’ve been buying from MHC since the 80’s but had no idea how Chuck got all of those back issues, cheers. 💀🔥
A gripping tale through and through! I had a good time listening.
Hey K.C.C. and Chuck, This is an incredible story full of suspense and took me on Chuck's emotional journey through the lows (from fear, doubt, numerous obstacles) to possibility to excitement to frustration to elation to wisdom. This is no doubt an epic journey of the warrior. Thank you for sharing this gripping tale. BTW Mr. Narrator has done a fabulous job. I would not believe you if you said this is an A.I. reader.
Amazing story. Heard about the deal but this video offered so much behind the scenes detail.
Thank u for this video! Amazing story! Thank u also for the key collector app and all the work u put into it. The app has made collecting easier and fun when out on the hunt, so thank u!
I appreciate that Andy. Thank you
Amazing story. Thank you for sharing!
You are incredible! What a story and what a narrative!
Thank you!
This was fantastic.
I liked the panels that tied in with narration. Nice touch
Merci, great video and amazing story!
Even if I live in France I really appreciate the app and I use it everyday for my collection!
Keep on rockin'!!
Benjamin
Benjamin Roch thank you
Great story. It’s nice that you were at all times a decent businessman who never gave up, but that you also had morals and did everything possible to hold up your end of the deal.
Wow Nick, this was awesome! Well done.
Geek Out Therapy thank you
Wow just wow not only you have a passion for comics but a great narrator aswell.
Thank you Ali!
Great story! Amazing narrator and graphics! You earned a sub Key! Great job!!
Thank you for the awesome compliments and overall comment
Great story and great commentary!
I remembered a warehouse in Brooklyn that was selling comics. That's a cool story 😎
Its still open and its still great !
I live 25 mins from mile high and see Chuck almost everyone I go there. Always says hello and smiles. Great job in narration sir! Enjoyed this!
I finally got to visit the store and I live 3,500 miles away. I had hoped to see Chuck while I was shopping at Mile High, but he was not in town at the time. I did however, got to meet “Cambridge”, the resident cat! Which is almost as good as meeting Chuck 😺
Chuck is a historical member of the comic book community. Like Stan, Jack, Bob, Joe, Jerry, Martin, Phil seuling , bud plant. Comic book and internet community would have never existed. His involvement in the growth of the human race cannot be underestimated. Genius. Pure and simple.😀 ooh la la!!!
Great video i immediately thumbs upped and added to my favorites. Great documentary you spent a lot of time editing this and as a fellow youtuber I can appreciate the effort you put into this.
Ah an 80s music reference also, it's pronounced Glenn "Fry" Frey. Smuggler's Blues was a Miami Vice episode which Glenn guest starred on and actually wrote the song specifically for that episode. Also Glenn was a in this little band called the Eagles :)
Ok your video is just killing me!...I'm drooling with such envy looking at your haul in amazement thinking...What The F***!!!! Very awesome..thanks for sharing!👍😉🇨🇦
Thank you so much... Inspiring!
This was very good, Nick! You’ve got that smooth voiceover!
Haha thank you
This was awesome to hear
Amazing,you are a true hero in the comic world!!!!
This was awesome! I was too lazy to read the a Article myself.
Great story... phenomenal really. Makes me appreciate how insane the history of American comic book collecting really is! I always wanted to know more about those freaking Mile High ads in every goddamn Marvel comic I read in the 80s!!!
Oh and...
"I pretended to take a hit..."
Im not gonna lie... I kind of hope he told this story to you face-to-face so he could see the look on your face when he dropped that little nugget right there...
My friend in 5th grade collected comics back in the 1980s & 1990s, i remember he was so excited of a GI Joe #1, and a rare X Men comic. I never got into comics but i always wanted to. I guess its never too late. Thanks for the interesting video.
Fascinating story!
Chuck is a great guy who is very generous to the Denver area. Good fortune could not follow a better comic book addict.
Great Story! Saw the entire video!
Great story! Really enjoyed it!
Awesome narrative of your story.
Awesome story!!! I used to buy back issues from Mile High in the mid 80's as a kid because none of the comic books shops in my town had any back issues. Now I know where all those books came from!!!!
This video needs to be played in every class. Risk and hard work can pay off.
Damn, this brings back some memories. I was sixteen at the time, working for Chuck at the old Broadway warehouse that summer. Probably the youngest employee at the time. Took three days for a couple dozen of us to unload five semi trailers. Bout killed me.
This was excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed. Nice one Nick.
Holy moly this was really good. Like really good!
Thank you!
Thanks. I sold my silver age comic collection to pay the bills in my comic store in the 80s. That has always stung.
Incredible story!
Growing up in the 80s, I can remember the awe I felt looking through my first Overstreet Guide, particularly the middle color insert of the precious Golden Age book. Many as I would come to know, were part of Chuck’s first legendary collection purchase, The Edward Church collection. Seeing Mile High’s 50 cent back issue ad spreads in the middle of many books growing up, I was enamored by the charm and innocence of older, inaccessible parts of the hobby. Here I could get almost an entire run of Shazam! comics published by DC in the 70s for 15.00 I would mow yards and send off for them in batches. Getting mail in the forth grade was a thrill. To open those boxes and be greeted by beautiful, seemingly untouched/uncirculated copies of this hero I had only before heard of in the stories of my grandad and his brothers, older collectors, and the Filmation cartoon from the late 70s and early 80’s. Chuck, with a little help from the Overstreet Guide, definitely hooked me on the thrill of hunting down early bronze, but better still Silver, and by far the most intoxicating finds of all, the rare Golden Age book. Much like Chuck, thought I loved the Marvel Family, I always pined for a copy of Marvel Mystery...one with the amazing Schomburg covers with the Human Torch and Toro blazing in brith vertices across the cover. I’ve been a collector now for nearly 40 years. I’ve never been able to afford to put together a large run of any of those books, but boy, the day I got my first real Fawcett Marvel Family comic book in the mail is as vividly etched into my mind as my first kiss, or driving my dad’s old Galaxie 500 for the first time. And I own a single, precious copy of Marvel Mystery. Chuck and the stories of the early days of fandom were legends I grew up on. In the pre-internet days, Chuck, along with characters like Ernst and Mary Gerber with their quest to produce the criminally overlooked Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books, Bob Overstreet whose name is synonymous for “comics price guide,” and the other players in the rarefied world of vintage comics collecting and the movers and shakers in the hobby that shaped the market from Harley Yee to the polarizing Steve Geppi...they shaped my appetites and taste in comics. I’ve been a back issue collector waiting on the day he stumbles on that stack of old golden age books that someone’s mother didn’t throw out since I was a 7 year old boy in 1983. I’m looking still. Thanks Chuck.
Remember when Giant Size X-Men #1 was going for 70 bucks in 1983?
I’m a collector of anything vintage, sadly to say, and I have a few 12 cent’ers of my own! I don’t collect “collections” I just like to have bits and pieces of my childhood history. But I will say, your story was incredible as you well know because you made a video about it! I’ve gone to great length to acquire “must have” items, but brother you win the Oscar for pulling that one off.
Wow. I wish I could have found that many comics! Great story!
Well done...very well done. I deal in collectibles myself (not necessarily comic books..but comic related and very often comic art) and I love a good "deal" story. Yeah...I've been there...but somehow you work your way out of it and it pays off in the long run. I"m pretty sure I know at 3 to 4 of those Brooklyn dealers...as do most people in the business probably do. This is worth a movie.
Damn, that's one hell of a story dude.
Whenever I read my older comics I always see this mail order comics in a huge advertisement!!!!!!!!! The whole page!!!!!! And I always see some comics I’d love to order now for the price that they were selling at that time in the middle 80’s!!!? God bless you all today Shalom
That’s funny Tommy. Thank you for the comment and the kind wishes
Wow impressive how you sealed the deal nice one
awesome job nick i was just on you tube the other day watching a video about his store just amazing how it all started and a little f-ed up about the porn stuff....cheers
Had a vast collection of large conan comics that my parents just got rid of. No explanation, bought with money I earned on my own, they were forever doing shit like that. Years later in a different city as an adult I stopped at a yard sale and bought some scifi paperbacks and the guy mentioned he had some comics that his brother who passed away saved. I looked through the box noticed some pencil marks that looked familliar, IT WAS MY OLD COLLECTION. The sad ending is they got stolen along with some other stuff by a guy I thought was a friend. It's funny how you value the stuff from childhood.
Great commentary enjoyed the story. You need a job on audiobooks. I also enjoy your app. All I have to do now is wait on that million comic book call. Great job.
Willie Survive thank you willie
You never know, Chuck might sell you MHC someday! 💀🔥
I thought he looked familiar in the thumbnail. I went to Mile High once. He's a great guy and incredibly knowledge
I can hand on heart right here right now state that this was the most delicicious engrossing mesmerizing and damned thrilling thing ive ever watched.Wow!Make Mine Marvel
Now that is truly a great story
Love the Buddy Christ cameo!
awesome story thank you
Fantastic story!
It's unfortunate that mile high charges 2x FMV. Sometimes even more for their comics. I would love to purchase from them, but no point when you can get it significantly cheaper other places
Agreed
Yes. Their prices are completely insane. It's as if they think that their public recognition (more people have heard of them than most dealers) gives them the right to rip off their customers. I wish their sales would plummet so they would quit this.
Visited Denver last week for work and made a point to stop at Mile High. The pricing was so beyond unreasonable that I left the place rather quickly. Even if they were willing to negotiate they’d have to knock 70% off of their prices just to match eBay. They have raw copies of many books at much more than FMV for the same book graded 9.8. So disappointing
Great job as is your norm, do more videos and narration
Holy ****!! That is am AMAZING tale!! Personally I would not have sent the 2 copies to that guy until he paid first. Yeah it was in a contract and he was ready to fulfill his end of it, but if the other party didn't cover the shipping that was on them. I would have kept and sold those extra issues. That's me though.
Plus you know his kids never saw those comics.
Same here, never ship anything until the check clears! 💀🔥
Nick the nob -- awesome Narration -- I think you should do Jim Comics story next :)
Great Story!!
What a superb video and one helluva story, I was unaware of this deal before now, as some others have said, would make for a great film.
Super nice comic books!
Thank you!
What a stort....with hard work,comes great reward.
Very cool story. I'm a Native Coloradan and although not a Comic collector, know of Mile High Comics. Never knew the story though.
Great story!
Good story Nick.
A tale before bed!! Sweet
He is a great guy too very passionate about the industry and about our local community too.
Great story! I guess 2 grand was a lot in '85... it kind of seems comical now though to grease a six figure deal by fanning just 20 C-notes at someone.
This is Inspirational to me starting now with 30 books from my father....
when i was a kid, 9 years old maybe, when i went to bed i liked to imagine how big a room must be to contain all the comic books published at that time in the world...i wanna be its guardian...i still got the same idea...
I bet it could fit on to one harddrive .. especially if it was stored in vector graphics instead of bitmap. then eventually we could use AI to understand the story and generate animation out of it
I have one Golden Age comic from the Lamont Larsen collection an All American Comics #7 which I bought some decades ago back in the late 1980’s when you could still get that type of collectible from a dealer for $150.
Good Times.
Thanks for telling me this story. I have meet the owner. He is such a great guy. He give back to his community . The comics shop is the biggest in the world. The owner live my dream.
Make documentaries please this was great
Man this was a great story
That is a story for the comic history archives!
That Captain America issue at the beginning was the origin of Vermin. I have a good memory.