shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Sept 18, 2017 7:53:34 GMT -5
"It was a cold and rainy Wednesday. I'd just gotten off the bus a block from old man Glugman's five & dime where I got my comics off a spinner rack that'd seen better days. I had just enough spare change to buy the latest issue of Captain Carrot...when she walked in..." All heads turned, as several of the adult men glancing over the comics looked up in unison and began to quietly stutter the word "guh...guh...girl?" She felt uncomfortable and left. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 8:02:34 GMT -5
Very fond memories of the spinner rack! At the convenience store where I bought most of my childhood comics, I can remember the bright glare of the overhead fluorescent lighting, how cold the store always was, even the clean scent of the store. The spinner rack originally was at the end of an aisle beside the magazine rack (which contained all kinds of adult material along with the tabloid books along with Archie and DC digests). The spinner rack always had a variety of DC, Marvel, Harvey, and tons of Archie comics. I remember seeing the DC Dollar comic comics such as Superman Family, Batman Family, and World's Finest and thinking they were something really special with the banner along the top of the book. One very vivid memory I have is when I was probably 10. I was sick and my mother had taken me to the doctor and I was given a shot. I was feeling lousy and she offered to stop and get me some comics on the way home. I asked for Justice League of America #200 and I stayed in the car when she went in. I can still very vividly see my mom and the cashier going through the spinner rack and my mom walking out triumphantly, with JLA #200 in hand.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 18, 2017 8:03:51 GMT -5
"It was a cold and rainy Wednesday. I'd just gotten off the bus a block from old man Glugman's five & dime where I got my comics off a spinner rack that'd seen better days. I had just enough spare change to buy the latest issue of Captain Carrot...when she walked in..." All heads turned, as several of the adult men glancing over the comics looked up in unison and began to quietly stutter the word "guh...guh...girl?" She felt uncomfortable and left. Yep. I said girl and dropped the comic to talk to her. That was my departure from comics for a while. |
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Post by MDG on Sept 18, 2017 9:49:51 GMT -5
I have one that's basically the same model as Crimebuster, but painted white. Unfortunately, I can't find the center support--I think one of my kid's may have adapted it as a mic stand. I can probably work something up when I have a place to put it. |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 18, 2017 10:00:22 GMT -5
Strangely enough there was only 1 spinner rack in the stores I frequented. A neighborhood Korean market had it. All of the other convenience stores and grocery stores had their comics on the magazine rack just like you find them now at a Barnes and Nobles. That rack at the Korean store was old, rusty and had a nice squeaking loudly lament like some lost soul that to this day I can hear in my nightmares. Think they kept it rusty and squeaking on purpose just so they knew when kids were looking through the comics. It sat right in front of their lone check out register and there were only ever a few new comics at any given time. It's the store where you could find older comics from 3-4 months ago because i don't think they ever shipped the unsold comics back and just left them on the rack expecting them to eventually sell. That store was like that, you would find out of date canned foods with years of dust on them hoping to be bought just like the island of misfit toys but no Rudolph coming to take them away. LOL
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 18, 2017 10:58:29 GMT -5
Keep checking on it. Prices fluctuate. Mine was $55 plus shipping. And in regard to your comment above, this one is wide enough to hold bagged and boarded books, and it does so very securely. Nice, but it's missing the pièce de résistance:  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 18, 2017 11:13:14 GMT -5
Yeah spinner racks bent the comics but I didn't care when I was younger. Whenever I see comics in a spinner rack I feel like a kid again.
Do any of you have comics with dates scribbled in black wax pencil on the back cover? Front cover, and several. We had this discussion somewhere else once (I have no idea where), but I prefer my comics to convey a little history, even at the cost of their "condition". I love when crosswords and subscription orders are filled in, or there are little doodles and notes on the margins of the pages, and I especially love when the original owner's name is stamped or handwritten on the cover. I love this stuff too, within reason. I used to have a copy of Journey into Mystery #103 wherein a former owner had used a very sharp pencil to draw cleavage between the Enchantress's breasts. I didn't realize the cleavage had been drawn on for a few days. Then I realize that Kirby never drew cleavage and I took a closer look. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 18, 2017 11:18:30 GMT -5
Front cover, and several. We had this discussion somewhere else once (I have no idea where), but I prefer my comics to convey a little history, even at the cost of their "condition". I love when crosswords and subscription orders are filled in, or there are little doodles and notes on the margins of the pages, and I especially love when the original owner's name is stamped or handwritten on the cover. I love this stuff too, within reason. I used to have a copy of Journey into Mystery #103 wherein a former owner had used a very sharp pencil to draw cleavage between the Enchantress's breasts. I didn't realize the cleavage had been drawn on for a few days. Then I realize that Kirby never drew cleavage and I took a closer look. And that was bad because...?  |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 18, 2017 11:22:05 GMT -5
Keep checking on it. Prices fluctuate. Mine was $55 plus shipping. And in regard to your comment above, this one is wide enough to hold bagged and boarded books, and it does so very securely. Nice, but it's missing the pièce de résistance: I actually made a reasonable facsimile of this spinner rack sign and placed it on top:  I'll have to snap a photo and share it here at some point. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 18, 2017 11:25:02 GMT -5
I love this stuff too, within reason. I used to have a copy of Journey into Mystery #103 wherein a former owner had used a very sharp pencil to draw cleavage between the Enchantress's breasts. I didn't realize the cleavage had been drawn on for a few days. Then I realize that Kirby never drew cleavage and I took a closer look. And that was bad because...? It was bad because I was still a dumb kid and I tried to erase the pencil lines and ended up rubbing off the ink so that every picture of the Enchantress had a weird rubbed-out mark on her upper chest! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 18, 2017 11:31:41 GMT -5
And that was bad because...? It was bad because I was still a dumb kid and I tried to erase the pencil lines and ended up rubbing off the ink so that every picture of the Enchantress had a weird rubbed-out mark on her upper chest! Oh, right, right, you were "rubbing off the ink."  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 18, 2017 11:32:26 GMT -5
Nice, but it's missing the pièce de résistance: I actually made a reasonable facsimile of this spinner rack sign and placed it on top: I'll have to snap a photo and share it here at some point. Well played! HEY! Don't you have a class to teach, shax?  Love the Joe Friday photo! |
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Post by MDG on Sept 18, 2017 11:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 16:08:15 GMT -5
MDG ... Thanks for posting these photos!
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