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Post by masterofquackfu on Jul 12, 2016 7:49:29 GMT -5
Ah..the good old days. I wish they still had things like this. There would be like 3 comics in a plastic bag. You could see 2 of them, but you were always trying to manipulate the bag so you could see if the middle one was any good. Usually, they tried to put a lower tier title wedged in there. Awesome memories. I think the last time I bought some was in 1984 or '85. But it was so awesome to just be able to get 3 comics for a good price and have such awesome memories. Guess they can't really do that anymore because the cost of comic books is ridiculous these days.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 8:48:15 GMT -5
I do remember those and my Comic Book Store was selling them like hotcakes and I like the allure of getting 3 Comics for the price of two. It was a rage in the late 60's and early 70's and I was very curious what the third book that I was getting ... fun days back then and I wished kids today experience this too.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 12, 2016 8:59:52 GMT -5
very seldom did i ever see any Marvel bags growing up. Local K-Mart's in the area would have DC grab bags and Dell/Gold Key grab bags. Those were fun because you almost never saw those comic books anywhere else due to local distribution rights. Such joy to find these and tear into wondering what you would find because only the front comic cover was ever visible and they were sealed so tightly you couldn't view what else was inside. The hardest thing in the world at that time was mom placing them inside the shopping bags and putting in the trunk of the family car and that insufferably long (so it seemed) drive home of the itch for ripping that little plastic bag to shreds!
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 12, 2016 12:03:07 GMT -5
Toys R Us were selling sealed bags containing three comics within the last ten years or so, at least here in the UK. I still have a couple of them, still sealed. They were only 99p and I just never got around to opening them. There's one currently in my line of sight, sitting on a box covered in dust where it's been for some years now. The top comic seems to be an issue of New Warriors from the 90s, and I think the bottom one is an issue of Secret Defenders. I suppose I should find out what the middle one is, but given its immediate neighbours, I doubt it's anything special, somehow.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 12, 2016 12:34:06 GMT -5
I picked up quite a few Marvel Giant-Size books that were sold in cellophane two-packs in the early 80s. Not at all sure how the distributor came up with them. I remember them being probably 75 cents for the two-pack. It never had any of rare expensive books. But that's where my issues of Giant-Size Man-Thing came from.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 13:50:36 GMT -5
This is how I got many, many of the Marvel books I had as a kid. Some Whitman reprint sof both MArvel and DC as well. And the Modern Comics reprints of old Charlton books.
DC is doing something similar with 3 packs exclusively at Wal*Mart now, and I saw bags of 90s Image/Valiant/Marvel stuff packaged that way at a Family Dollar/Dollar General store I was at a couple of months back.
Yip Yip has a whole thread going on buying blind grab bags of books like this, though it has been a few weeks since she posted in it.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 15:08:28 GMT -5
Loved them...bought a pack everytime I saw them (& had some money!)
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 12, 2016 15:21:10 GMT -5
I recall one pack that I received for Christmas 1977: Fantastic Four #184; John Carter, Warlord of Mars #2 (the hidden middle book); PPtSS #8. Still have all three, but the bag is long gone. All have July 1977 cover dates, so either my grandmother did her shopping well in advance or these were re-purposed for the secondary market.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2016 15:46:58 GMT -5
I recall one pack that I received for Christmas 1977: Fantastic Four #184; John Carter, Warlord of Mars #2 (the hidden middle book); PPtSS #8. Still have all three, but the bag is long gone. All have July 1977 cover dates, so either my grandmother did her shopping well in advance or these were re-purposed for the secondary market. Most often those multipacks were made up of copies that were returned unsold but not destroyed as they were supposed to be, or copies leftover that were never sent to vendors. There was one pharmacy chain in CT when I grew up that used to have bins of 6-12 month old Marvels they sold 4 or 5/$1 (they were mostly 25-30 cent cover price era issues) that were unsold/undestroyed copies they had bought in bulk from some wholesaler. I use to get a handful almost every time we went there. Between those and the multi pack bags, those accounted for roughly half of all the Marvel Comics I had as a kid rather than actual purchases from a newsstand when they were released. -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 12, 2016 15:57:24 GMT -5
I recall one pack that I received for Christmas 1977: Fantastic Four #184; John Carter, Warlord of Mars #2 (the hidden middle book); PPtSS #8. Still have all three, but the bag is long gone. All have July 1977 cover dates, so either my grandmother did her shopping well in advance or these were re-purposed for the secondary market. Most often those multipacks were made up of copies that were returned unsold but not destroyed as they were supposed to be, or copies leftover that were never sent to vendors. There was one pharmacy chain in CT when I grew up that used to have bins of 6-12 month old Marvels they sold 4 or 5/$1 (they were mostly 25-30 cent cover price era issues) that were unsold/undestroyed copies they had bought in bulk from some wholesaler. I use to get a handful almost every time we went there. Between those and the multi pack bags, those accounted for roughly half of all the Marvel Comics I had as a kid rather than actual purchases from a newsstand when they were released. -M Speaking of copies that should have been destroyed, I still have several coverless comics from when our local newsagent used to cover strip unsolds to return them but then sell the stripped comic for a few pennies. Later, in the early eighties, he wouldn't bother, but would just mark 'out of date' comics on the cover with a black cross and sell them for half price. I still have loads of those. |
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