Pop Culture update: Mile High Comics; John Buscema; Barry Windsor-Smith; Conan;

The Denver Post profiles pioneering comic shop owner Chuck Rozanski, whose 42-year-old Mile High Comics business has expanded to include a 65,000-square-foot warehouse housing "two miles of comics" along it's inner perimeter.

Q: Why do people spend so much money on a collectible comic that they might be able to see scanned online for free?
A: With comics, the tangible has a gratifying aspect. If I wanted to read my 1950s Disney comics, there's no way I'd want to read them on my iPad or Kindle. I want to hold them. There's a sense of ownership. You enjoy the linear progression as a collection. To actually hold an issue in your hand, and know it's one of less than 100 surviving comics in the entire world? Well, that's pretty special.
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Diversions of the Groovy Kind takes a look at John Buscema's "floating head" superhero covers for Marvel Comics.


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Bronze Age Babies offers a side-by-side comparison of artwork by Barry Windsor-Smith and John Buscema, who illustrated adaptation of the Conan story "The Tower of the Elephant."

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