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<DIV>Yea!! we gotta keep promoting Groo so he keeps
coming well into next year!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>The next "Previews" catalog for August orders comes out in the next 2 weeks
to comic shops (hopefully with some Groo preview pages) and now's the
perfect time to tell your local comic shop owners to pre-order tons of
the 25th Anniversary issue for <STRONG>August 1st</STRONG>!
Definitely call any other nearby comic shops too! Don't
stop at just one comic shop...call a bunch of
them! </DIV>
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<DIV>Here's the "comic shop locator" link to find your nearest comic
shops:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://comicshoplocator.com/">http://comicshoplocator.com/</A></DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.diamondcomics.com/public/">http://www.diamondcomics.com/public/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Ask your wives, girlfriends, husbands/boyfriends or
baby-daddys/baby-mamas to call and order too!! Let's pump up the
Groo circulation numbers!!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>The last <STRONG>Sergio/Mark</STRONG> comic from last Summer,
<STRONG>"Solo" #11</STRONG> had orders of <STRONG>14,100</STRONG> which
sold way more than the title's previous issue of "Solo 10" at 11,400 and
"Solo #12" at 10,300. That bump in increase shows that there's a
lot of people out there craving more "Sergio/Mark" style
comics! Let's order up these <STRONG>new Groo
comics</STRONG> while we can! </DIV>
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<DIV>We can make <STRONG>Groo</STRONG> one of Dark Horse's top sellers
so more books keep on coming!!!! </DIV>
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<DIV>And possibly more Sergio/Mark comic projects! Like maybe a
Mighty Magnor 2 mini series for next year??? (2008 marks the
15th Anniversary of Mighty Magnor too...) <IMG
src="http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/0201e05fa3/08"></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/18/2007 12:55:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
GaryG@DOR.WA.GOV writes:</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meanwhile, GO TO YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP OR THE
TFAW WEB SITE AND<B> ORDER 2 OR 3 COPIES</B> OF THE GROO 25TH ANNIVERSARY
SPECIAL. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>And tell people you know who used to read Groo or
are the type of folks who might like to read Groo to do the same!!! As
Eric pointed out, the first Dark Horse Groo in 1998 had 21,300 preorders and
by the last Groo in April of 2002, preorders were down to 10,100.
(Dropping it from #117 to the 160's.) I don't think the sales through
TFAW will show up in the preorder figures, but that doesn't matter</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know if we can actually do anything that
will have a substantive effect on total sales, but we can at least try to
spread the word outside regular comic book channels! I have run into a
tons of folks who have fond memories of reading Groo in the Epic days, but
haven't read him since. If we could just tap into a little of that
potential market that would be something. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, I gotta get back to work or I'm gonna be in big
trouble. Take care all -Gary G.
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