Heroes 4 Heroes

Weldon Adams donated a whopping 10,000 comics to the H4H effort! That’s right folks 36 long boxes of comics that will find a good home in the pockets of our soldiers serving in harms way. Weldon, we can’t tell you how much we appreciate your generosity and commitment to our cause. “Where did he GET all those COMICS???”
Here’s the story…
10 years ago, when I was an Acclaim Comics Sales Rep (Co-employed by
Diamond Comics Distribution and Acclaim Entertainment), I was stationed
in the Diamond Dallas warehouse. One day the warehouse manager, Don
Nagy, approached me about taking an entire PALETTE of returned books off
his hands. They were Valiant comics and all the retailers were
overstocked on them at the time. The warehouse was getting full, Don
needed the room and no one would take the books. Even the other Diamond
warehouses were overstocked on them. This was during the ‘Valiant Glut’
and these books were a few years old on top of that, so it’s not like
they could be used to ‘re-stock’ another store or something.
So Don finally got authorization to get rid of the books however he
could.
He offered them to me because with the Valiant/Acclaim link, he felt I
might be able to use them somehow.
I said I needed to check w/ my bosses at Acclaim.
He said, “NO. I am giving them to YOU. It will take too long to deal
with it through your office. These books have to be out of the
warehouse by 5:30 today or they go in the dumpster.”
He didn’t want to put them in the dumpster because that would fill it
up, but he would if he had to.

So I got my mom’s van and moved an entire palette of over 27,000 Valiant
comics (many of which were full unopened shipping cases of a single
title) to my garage.
I have been hauling these books around with me for TEN YEARS NOW.
I have been making good use of them.
We have been giving them away instead of candy at Halloween (that goes
over BIG, let me tell you!)…and I have made several donations to
charities such as “A Wish With Wings”.

But as now *I* need the space in my garage, it was time to get rid of
the rest of them in one lump sum.
The problem is that most charities I contacted couldn’t handle that big
of a donation all at once. I still had 36 long boxes full of them!
But I knew that there had to be a good home for my books…
And I couldn’t have found a better charity than HEROES 4 HEROES.