On the subject of old news articles, here's a good one

I hit something like that, years ago. While I was in the military, stationed in Charleston, SC, I used to periodically drive up to Columbia and Charlotte, to hunt for back issues and used books. I would go to the main Heroes Aren't Hard to Find store, in Charlotte, plus another shop, nearby (they had some better indie back issues). I went up one Saturday and picked some stuff up from my list and the clerk told me about their warehouse sale, just a block or so away. I went over, figuring I might pick up a couple of things. When I got there, there were a couple of tables with stacks of Treasury and Limited Collector's Edition tabloid comics and I ended up buying about a dozen or so of those, dirt cheap. Then, I discovered that they had a pretty good selection of the early issues of Warrior magazine, with Marvelman and V For Vendetta and I snapped up one of everything they had and ended up with between 1/2 and 2/3 of the series (and was able to buy the remaining ones, as a group, from Joseph Koch, via mail order). Then I found a whole bunch of The Comics Journal, including the very rare interview with Bill Watterson, of Calvin and Hobbes (got it right, this time). Snapped those up, too. Then, I found the issues of Roy Thomas' Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt that I needed to finish my collection. I got a few other things, including some Marvel magazines and then decided enough was enough. I almost went back on that when I spied The Dixie Pistols' Scout album, with Tim Truman and his band, with the Scout wedding comic. The only thing that stopped me getting it was that I didn't have a turntable.

Between what I spent in the store and what I got at the warehouse, I think I racked up about $200. Luckily, it came out of back pay that I had earned, so I wasn't eating peanut butter for a month. Only other time I spent that much in one go was at my first comic convention, in Atlanta; but I had budgeted that and set the money aside in advance. I brought home a huge hall from that, too.

When I lived in Springfield, IL, there was an EMI plant in nearby Jacksonville, that pressed CDs and DVDs. They would do a big factory sale every year, with canned good donations as an entrance fee, to help collect food for the underprivileged. Then, they had all kinds of CDs and DVDs available for sale. I only went once and got a David Bowie collection and a few movies; but, a co-worker had gotten a whole Stax Records boxed set and a bunch of other things like that.

I was browsing at the local collectible store and saw this gem. I thought it might be appreciated here.

I hope The Chameleon is able to get a better wage and benefits.

"Waiter, there's a stalactite in my beer."

Spidey is a damn Pinkerton.