Celebrating Joe’s 20th Anniversary at CBH!

Joe in ’92

Unbelievable as it may seem, this week marks my 20th anniversary of working at Captain Blue Hen Comics.

Here’s a rundown of some of the numbers since August 29th, 1992:

• 1000+ New Comic Days (used to be Fridays)
• 12 Free Comic Book Days
• 6 ACME shows
• 7 Street Fairs
• 8 viewings of a Christmas Story
• 4 Flea Markets
• 4 San Diego Comic Cons attended, along with trips to Montreal, Burbank, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Charlotte, New York and Las Vegas
• 3 Eisner Retailer Nominations
• 4 comics shops opened and 5 closed
• 6 Batman movies with 4 different Batmen
• 7 Harry Potter novels and 8 films
• 5 X-men, 4 Spider-man, 2 Iron Man movies
• 4.2 million Samuel L Jackson movies
• Superman died ( and came back again)
• Crossgen came and went and came back and went again
• Valiant came and went and came and went and came back again
• Rich, Big Joe, Debbie, Kris and Mark have moved on to other careers
• Paul, Dave, Kita, Z and Joe continue to keep the legend alive.

But the most disturbing realization- about the same time I started working at my favorite comic shop two decades ago, Kita was starting first grade.