At the end of January, comic artists Nick Dragotta and Daniel Warren Johnson sat at two separate tables in a small conference room at a Marriott Hotel in Monterey Park, Calif. From morning to deep into the night, they signed comic book after comic book, while workers carefully took the issues and placed them into holders to be graded and slabbed for preservation.
Fueled on coffee and with breaks for lunch and dinner, the two men signed more than 15,000, maybe even upwards of 20,000 comics, in a span of four days under the watchful eyes of reps for a signing and grading company charged with handling the comics.
Despite being bleary-eyed, it was a relatively quiet affair for the duo, who have been friends since the 2010s. The days were peppered with light conversation under the whirring of miniature fans that dried the ink on the comics’ covers.
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