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From Challengers Comics + Conversation in Chicago, this is CONTEST OF CHALLENGERS, a comics industry business podcast.
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 

Mar 20, 2023

LACK OF MOMENTUM
•A Challengers business fact: If a comic sells very well for us, it is usually ignored by the mainstream.
•John Allison is very smart.
•The missing “A” cover of Invincible Iron Man #4.
•Checking-in PRH replacement books.
•Patrick is on Episode 825 of Car Con Carne (


Mar 13, 2023

YOU’RE THE WORST PART OF COMIC COLLECTING
•Really good comics: INDIGO CHILDREN; NO/ONE and (hopefully) PARASOCIAL.
•All the Variant Covers for March 15th. Also, the last time we complain about variant covers on this podcast.
•Chargeback BS from a Pumpkin-Headed D!p$#!t with no shame.
•The Fables Wellness...


Mar 6, 2023

2 BUGS MAKE A RIGHT
•Removing an item from the Shopify register during the payment phase.
•Extra-large transactions cause large bugs.
•Guns!
•The X-23 Deadly Regenesis solicitation is a large paragraph of nothing.
•2 Kickstarter campaigns of note (yes, we can be bought)!
•Fast food apps.
•Funko...


Feb 27, 2023

IN YOUR MIND CALENDAR
No time for notes—we’re already late!
Contest of Challengers...


Feb 20, 2023

SOMEWHERE BTW SKEPTICAL & AMBIVALENT
•”You look like you work in a comic shop!”
•3 Shopify support tickets at one time.
•What Shopify considers a “discount”.
•”The trick was… sort of pedantic.”
•UPS BS
•Our website is now a webstore.
•Sale aftermath.
•Marvel releases for May...