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Not only do I remember BJ's Country Corner, I often worked for Hank. I had discovered the place around 1975 or 1976 and started going quite often. I bought a lot of comics and used science fiction books. After awhile he asked if I wanted to help out a bit. I did some of the pricing - and yes, he had me put the price in pencil on the upper left of the back cover. @catman76 I see that you had posted some examples of the pricing. I got a kick out of the two books priced 25 and 30 cents. The 25 cents was Hank's writing and the 30 cents was mine. I had neater handwriting and always used the decimal point. I ended up working for him at the Relax-a-Cons, the Chicago Comic Con a couple of times and I also worked the Kane County Flea Market. The latter was more geared towards antiques and collectibles. @Moondog He did like to make a quick turn around. I remember a number of times at the Kane County Flea Market he bought a bunch of stuff from this one guy. Most of it was not really worthwhile, but he often had a couple of Weird Tales that included some of the original REH Conan stories. Hank would buy the whole lot of stuff for may $15-$20 and almost immediately was able to sell the Weird Tales for $40-$60 each. Especially the Conan ones - that was a hot commodity at that time. I really loved that place. As others have mentioned, you could smell the paper as you walked in because of the comics and books. They weren't usually in the best shape, but it certainly helped me read a wide range of comics and SF.