One is a long-serving city leader in El Cajon. The other oversees movies at IDW. Both needed Superman's help to get there.
Gary Kendrick was a teenager in 1970s Santee, and he’d heard of a comics seller wanting to dump everything he had. Gary’s job at the time paid two bucks an hour, meaning those comics would cost more than two weeks of full-time work. Then he’d have to re-sell it all.Years later, Gary is now the longest-serving council member in East County’s largest city, El Cajon, giving him influence over everything from small businesses to homelessness policies.
He eventually rented a warehouse, because, as he points out, a garage might only hold tens of thousands of issues. He needed space for half a million. The business was taking off. The plan was simple. Distributors would send him their excess stock, which he would mark up before offering to fans. On the plus side, supply was cheap. Yet he generally never knew what he would get.
Sometimes he’d put more money in. Decades ago, he spent $80 on the first Marvel comic to feature Spider-Man. He sold it a few years later for ten times that number, the most he’d ever made on a single issue.He picked up his phone. “Hey Siri, ‘Amazing Fantasy #15, in mint,’” he said.“Oh my gosh,” he said. “In 2011, it sold for one million, one hundred thousand — I didn’t need to read that!”
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