Wednesday, December 9, is New Comic Book Day, and to celebrate, Collector’s Paradise Comics in Pasadena is releasing a handful of new comic books.
This is a great opportunity to stock up on some comic books and occupy your time with new reading material during this lockdown.
Collector’s Paradise was created in 1994, when Edward Greenberg and Joseph Zelich bought an existing comic book store, called Little Angel’s Comics. Little Angel’s prominent location, on a major intersection, across from two schools and a busy traffic street, was what attracted the new owners to the store.
For the next few years, the two tried to refocus the business model of the old store and focus more on comic books, the emerging graphic novel category, and customer service. A few years later, the store moved two doors down to a much bigger location and, in the past few years, has finally started to become the type of store the owners have always had in mind.
In the last 5-6 years, the store’s goals have been re-evaluated again. They now include moving forward into online presence and continuing to refine their online customer services, including a custom-created online subscription management software application, which lets the stores’ customers track and organize their monthly comic book subscriptions online and have access to complete previews and catalog information for nearly every title. The mail-order part of Collector’s Paradise business has grown tremendously since the software was implemented.
The store opened a full-time gallery in 2009 with an awesome grand opening party, which featured famous comic book and culture artist Jim Mahfood producing a wall-sized mural in front of a huge crowd. Since then, Collector’s Paradise has hosted art gallery exhibits and sold a wide variety of original art and limited-edition prints from a wide range of artists.
In April 2010, Collector’s Paradise opened its second location in Old Town Pasadena, and in August 2019, they opened a third location in the historic NoHo art district.
For a list of their new releases, visit www.comicsandcards.net/week-
