I recently moved to Denver and yesterday got a chance to check out the Mile High Comics shop which is more of a warehouse.

The first thing I noticed was what a weird location it is and it really is like walking into a warehouse. There is a big banner out front but the front door is unlabeled. Going inside is like entering the Mecca of geekdom. The volume of stuff is so far beyond anything I've ever seen before it was awe inspiring. I'm used to comic book shops maybe 10 to 20 percent the size or less. I could spend all day but I only ended up buying a couple of comics, two issues of Grant Morrison's Multiversity. There were only a couple of dozen CGC comics so clearly Mile High barely deals in CGC graded comics.

Now for the rub. Almost everything was very high priced. As far as I could tell books were sold at cover price and all the toys and stuff seemed very expensive. If there is an item that ONLY Mile High has and you have to have it then I guess you pay the price but as a budget conscious buyer these prices were too high. Here is an example. On the wall they had a high grade issue of Miracleman #15, a comic I own bought when it was originally published. The price was $1500. I would LOVE to believe Miracleman #15 is $1500 but when I looked on Ebay I couldn't find a single one selling for more than $400 and there were CGC graded 9.8's. The comic in the store was not CGC graded. Issues actually bought on Ebay were even less. That means Mile High was trying to sell the comic for well over triple the going rate and I even went on the Mile High website and confirmed the $1500 price. There was an issue of DC Comics Presents #49 for around $350 which is even further beyond anything I can find. These are just two examples I happened to notice and I wasn't specifically searching for overpriced comics.

Perhaps Mile High somehow confused their own comics with actual Mile High Pedigree comics (that's a joke). So I loved the quantity of product but I ended up spending more at another store a few miles away because the prices were so sky high. One might even say, a Mile High.

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