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From Challengers Comics + Conversation in Chicago, this is CONTEST OF CHALLENGERS, a comics industry business podcast about the businees of running a comic book shop.
Hosted by Challengers' owners Patrick Brower and W. Dal Bush.
1845 N Western Ave | Chicago, IL 60647 | 773.278.0155
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Will Eisner "Spirit of Comics" Retailer Award Recipient 

Jan 29, 2024

FEELING THE IMPACT
•Low January sales.
•The future of vaulting subscriber credit cards.
•Ghost Machine
     -Publisher support
     -Issue readability
•No retailer support for Returnability.
•Shopify/Google email compliance.
•Spotify/Patreon RSS feed confusion.
•Two new events
     -Spawn #350 RE: Spawn...


Jan 22, 2024

DEAD POWER

•Dead Strange
•Chainsaw Man’s Power
•Neca product returns.
•No bags (this is in my notes but as I’m typing this, I have no memory of what it means, yet we only recorded 2 hours ago).

•An almost Scott Kurtz signing.
•And the t-shirt artist is… Gustavo Duarte!
•Our Top Selling Graphic...


Jan 15, 2024

YOU SHOULD HAVE CALLED
•Patrick’s experience as a retail customer.
•2023 number fun!! Now in percentages!
•Positive consumer financial positivity (via AP and Axios).
•Turning lemonade into lemons, featuring Ultimate Spider-Man #1!
•A new home for our Incentive/Ratio Variants!
•A very specific rule for...


Jan 8, 2024

ECONOMIC-CABAL
•Oooohhhhh! Episode 666! Sooo spooookyyyyy!!
•Stacked deliveries really suck!
•More complaining about how Diamond ships out product.
•Product Costs vs. Operational Costs
•Kamen Rider toys vs AEW action figures.
•60,000 copies of Heartstopper Vol.5.
•Marvel Hallmark ornaments.
•Help us help...


Jan 1, 2024

A BURDEN TO SURVIVORS
•Arielle Free is in Chicago and Patrick had no idea (non-comics).
•Remembering the contributions of George Brower III (Patrick's Dad) to the early days of Challengers.
•We got our WTBW bookplates!!
•DC as a company = Villains. DC as a publisher = Heros.
•Other shops Instagram...