{"id":3077,"date":"2009-08-11T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2009-08-11T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:49:04","slug":"tonight-in-toronto-the-beguilings-marvel-70th-anniversary-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"Tonight in Toronto: The Beguiling’s Marvel 70th Anniversary Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Marvel 70th Anniversary Party and Sale<\/strong>
\nTuesday, August 11th, 2009, From 9pm-11pm
\n@ The Beguiling Books & Art, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada<\/a>
\nJust around the corner from Honest Eds, at Bathurst Subway Station
\nFREE TO ATTEND<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=123224306638<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

So we’re hosting a one of those 70th Anniversary parties at The Beguiling tonight. Marvel put together this promotion where as a store, you could order a couple of extra variant covers for two of their comics if you agreed to host a party, and they would tell people you were hosting a party. It’s a decent enough promotion (though the promotion of my store is buried in a PDF document on their site… ), and since we’d been contacted by a number of our customers who wanted the variants, we decided to go ahead with it.<\/p>\n

At first I thought about just ‘phoning it in’, not really doing an event and just putting the variants out for the people who wanted them. After all, Marvel’s stuff isn’t generally the stuff we get behind when it comes to promoting comics at The Beguiling, for a lot of reasons. They haven’t behaved particularly well or particularly ethically as a company for… their entire history. And they publish a lot of bad books, in a lot of bad ways. But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t love Marvel’s comics at one point in my life… I’ve got hundreds of them piled up in my parents house. And we’ve got customers who love the Marvel books, or who loved the Marvel books of their youth somewhere in the last 70 years of their publishing history… for good or for ill. So we’re doing a party; a little trivia contest, a big sale on Marvel stuff, having some fun with it for our customers who wanna show up. It’s a little under 4 hours until the party starts now, and I hope it goes well but realistically my total investment has been an extra staff-member and $50 in food and drinks, and that’s worth a little good will.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if you’re in the area come on out tonight.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

– Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Marvel 70th Anniversary Party and Sale Tuesday, August 11th, 2009, From 9pm-11pm @ The Beguiling Books & Art, 601 Markham Street, Toronto, Canada Just around the corner from Honest Eds, at Bathurst Subway Station FREE TO ATTEND http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=123224306638 — So we’re hosting a one of those 70th Anniversary parties at The Beguiling tonight. Marvel … <\/p>\n

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