1. Charles M Rozanski was born on March 11,1955 and is a German-American retailer and columnist, known as the President and CEO of the Denver, Colorado-based Mile High Comics Inc.
16 Facts About Chuck Rozanski
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Chuck Rozanski attended the University of Colorado Boulder but dropped out in 1974.
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In 1969, when Chuck Rozanski was 13, he began working out of his parents' Colorado Springs basement, selling back issues of comic books by running mail-order ads in the magazine Rocket's Blast Comicollector.
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Chuck Rozanski opened the first Mile High Comics store in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974 with $800 in cash and 10,000 comics.
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In 1986, Chuck Rozanski sold a batch of comics from the Church Collection and used the profits to put a down payment on a 22,000 square-foot Mile High Comics warehouse.
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In 1979 Chuck Rozanski purchased Richard Alf Comics' mail order division, with which he gained systems and methods for greatly expanding his mail order sales.
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In 1980, Chuck Rozanski purchased a double-page ad in mainstream Marvel comics, listing prices for back issues he had for sale.
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Chuck Rozanski eventually expanded to eight stores, although by 2024 it had retracted to a single 45,000-square-foot mega store in northwest Denver.
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Chuck Rozanski wrote the column "Tales from the Database" for the Comics Buyer's Guide from 2001 through 2009.
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Chuck Rozanski is a frequent attendee at comic book conventions across the country.
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Chuck Rozanski was one of five people whose journey to and experiences at San Diego Comic Con were depicted in the 2011 Morgan Spurlock documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope.
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Chuck Rozanski is widely recognized as an industry leader, and in 2003 he was awarded the Defender of Liberty Award by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund for his long-standing dedication to the protection of free speech.
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In 2008, partly as a result of encephalitis, Chuck Rozanski discovered his "Two-spirit" identity, and realized that he was gender-fluid.
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In 2017, Chuck Rozanski came out, publicly adopting the drag queen personality of Bettie Pages.
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That year, Chuck Rozanski shared the news with his Mile High Comics customers as well:.
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Chuck Rozanski announced his Bettie Pages persona in a newsletter that went out to his 118,000 subscribers in 2017.