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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
ChallengersComics.com
Will Eisner "Spirit of Comics" Retailer Award Recipient 

Jan 30, 2023

HUMMUS YOUR TIME
•When T-Shirts went mainstream.
•Our self-made day-to-day accountant.
•”All Ego” Ethan Page vs Karate Man.
•The confusion behind the collected release of Wonder Woman Historia The Amazons.
•Pre-Ordering thru our vendors.
•We do not ship internationally.
•Last-minute event...


Jan 23, 2023

ABDICATION OF VALUES
•Would you want text messages from Challengers? How much contact is too much?
•Finding a good Filtering/Sorting tool for our new website.
•Building ‘Collections’ for the new site.
•comiXology no more! It’s so weird to have been a store for the entirety of their digital comics...


Jan 16, 2023

PIG 8008
•Comics and Comics Retail is like a broken exercise bike.
•Patrick was on Off Panel with David Harper! It was… dark…?
•UPS deliveries, all day, every day!
•Are you caught up with all your comics?
•A ¢hange for $aga.
•Why customers can’t pre-order ratio variants from Challengers.
•Helping...


Jan 9, 2023

ISBN13+5
•New Challengers Website—Coming Soon! Like, after the Sale, soon.
     •Commerce-focused
     •Advanced filtering/searching!
•How many Holiday cards did not get picked up in December?
•Searching “Marvel TP” in inventory is like just searching for “a”.
•Dal’s dream version of Manage...


Jan 2, 2023

5/90/2/2/2
•Instagram videos vs Instagram reels.
•2022, a full year without ComicSuite.
•Entering 2023 WITH Manage Comics.
•Thanks, Patrons!
•Answering questions for a Sorbonne Nouvelle University student.
•Mission Statement (which should have been at the start of this episode)!
•What we’re looking...