366: Comic Book Shop Secrets with Timmy Heague

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Have you always wanted to know the ins and outs of running a Comic Book Retail Shop? We've pulled in an expert! Timmy Heague, owner and operater of Arsenal Comics & Games in Ventura, California is here to answer all your questions about selling comic books from behind a register! Follow our guest Timmy: https://twitter.com/ComicBossTimmy Check out Arsenal Comics & Games in Newbury & Venture, CA: https://stores.comichub.com/arsenal_comics_and_games/ Today's episode is sponsored by THE SUPER SECRET BOOK by Tian En. https://www.thesupersecretbook.com/ Don't forget to check out our new comic: JUPITER JET & THE FORGOTTEN RADIO! Buy a copy: https://bookshop.org/books/jupiter-jet-and-the-forgotten-radio/9781632295828 Review it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54960853-jupiter-jet-and-the-forgotten-radio Review it on Amazon: https://t.co/16WDKTUQvY?amp=1 GET OUR RECOMMENDED READING from this episode here: http://geekhistorylesson.com/recommendedreading Follow the show on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GHLPodcast Make sure to visit our Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/geekhistorylesson You can find Ashley at https://twitter.com/AshleyVRobinson and Jason at https://twitter.comJawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class is dismissed!

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0:00.0	We've talked about comic books, so today we are talking about comic book shops because
0:04.6	your Geek History lesson on the local comic book shop is now in session.
0:25.6	Welcome to Geek History lesson. I'm Ashley Victoria Robinson and I am Jason back issues in
0:31.2	and welcome to your mine university because we are the podcast that covers one character,
0:36.1	one construct or one team and a little bit less than an hour. But today we're not doing that.
0:42.4	The mine university is going out to an adjunct professor to gain the expertise on something
0:48.3	that a lot of people I don't think consider in the pop culture industry the comic book shop.
0:54.1	We're doing an entire industry for the rest of the day.
0:56.9	Yes, an entire industry right now. Yes, and we, you know, of course, Ashley has worked
1:02.8	at a comic book shop. I have frequently frequented many comic book shops, but we decided that
1:08.2	we needed a true expert for this episode. And Ashley, who did we bring in to tell us about
1:14.8	the secrets of the comic book shop?
1:17.8	So today we are joined by owner of Arsenal Comics and Games in Newbury Park, Inventure
1:22.2	at California, and soon coming to the rest of the world, nominated five times for the
1:26.5	Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award, Kineho Valley 40 under 40, 2020 list maker, comic boss,
1:33.1	and friend of the pod, Timmy Hig. Hi, Timmy. Hey, how's it going, guys? Thank you very much for that.
1:39.9	Thank you. Wow. Those are all true facts about that. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
1:44.6	It's very, very weird being the man. And it's weird, man. That's a whole other conversation.
1:53.1	Yeah, I'm the boss. Thank you. Real quick, do you guys want the intro to that silly name,
1:58.0	comic boss, Timmy? That my Twitter and Instagram handle is started as kind of a joke.
2:04.0	So I, you know, I was like, I'm the boss. I own a shop. Cool. Like, look at me. Yeah, I'm young.
2:10.4	I opened up at 22. What's up? And then like, it became like this, like, no, really, I'm,
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