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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 2, 2024 20:16:11 GMT -5
I had just started college, this month (with NROTC orientation a week before move-in, at the University of Illinois, in late August. I think we got a week of classes, then Labor Day. Then: Nothing. Crisis was going before I discovered my first comic shop, in town, after hearing about it, on a PBS pledge drive, during a showing of Doctor Who. They had volunteers from the local Doctor Who fan club manning the phones and their spokesman owned a comic shop, The Book Nook, in downtown Champaign, not horribly far from Campus. It was about a 30 minute walk, from my dorm. I bought Crisis #7 there, and started buying back issues; must for 40-50 cents; plus, a free one for every three purchased. The more valuable stuff was behind the counter, like X-Men and New Teen Titans; but, you'd be amazed at what I got for 50 cents, tens years after publication, which in another ten years would be $20-30 dollars (or more). I bought a ton of Bronze Age DC and Marvel, over the next ten years and never paid more than a buck, for most of it. Later:
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