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Where's the nudity?

I believe it was more than once . . . But, I believe that's the issue. (Don't know about the alternate Earth stuff.)

The Dude abides!

Yes, Grasshopper.

I suppose this Spider-Ham is pretty common?

Here is a photo of the store I bought my first comics at: In running the searches to find this again, I just found out that the proprietor, Frank Petraitis, recently passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.

I see, thanks!

It appears that most of the DC Logos are vertical, and only a few are horizontal. Anyone care to do a breakdown???

Nor do they have any business having money like this.

Tell us how you really feel . . . (It'll be an acid-free cardboard box, though)

Although not entirely incorrect, you'd only get a C+ in my class if this was the thesis of your essay on the topic . . . (and that would be you starting grade.)

I sold my two MM #9s when the first rumor came out, a couple of years ago. Now I am slowly moving the rest.

About a year into working there (1972 or early 1973), we were told to start date-stamping the comics (a month in advance of after the arrival date). If we couldn't find the date-stamp (a common occurrence), we were told to write the date in the price block with a pen. This had nothing to do with the direct market (as it didn't exist yet). I was told that the distributor wanted their returns to occur within a window, between one and two months after the date of receipt. Before then, we could return anything that had sat on the shelf for over a month, no matter what date it was. The date-stamp was necessary because the cover dates of comics (unlike magazines) did not accurately reflect either the receipt date or the publication date. If I knew then what I know now, I would have negotiated with my boss just to sell them all to me for the return price. But like others have said above, as a youngster, I lacked the confidence to "make deals" or request favors.

As I mentioned before, a 7-11 had opened in town in 1972 or '73, but the other companies to my knowledge didn't even exist then. There was a "King's" next town over, that I believe later became K-Mart. Correction, they became Mammoth Mart (or the other way around), but not K-Mart.

I worked at the local drugstore as soon as I turned 16, in 1971. They had taken over selling comics in town because the distributor was the same one who sold all of the magazines (mostly fashion and sports and Playboy.) The magazines (and comics) were literally thrown off the truck in bundles wrapped in unused newsprint paper bound with jute or cord. The initials of the retail vendor (in this case TD) were hand-marked (with marker or ink?) on the newsprint and sometimes on the side of the bundle alone when newsprint wasn't used. One of my jobs when opening the store was to bring the bundles of magazines and comics into the store. Once the head cashier arrived, it was my job to unbound the mags and comics, and stock and un-stock the shelves. This is why many SA and early BA books had banding marks - boxes were not used for periodicals. They were treated just like newspapers. At first we didn't date stamp anything, because there was no reason to. All of the comics and magazines I took off the shelf were put together and returned to the distributor as unsold. This was especially important for the magazines which had a much higher cover price. (to be cont'd).

That's the beauty of it.

That makes sense... there are high-grade books from long before the direct market, so someone (somewhere) was able to get them before the riff-raff got their grubby mitts on 'em. Treating them like throw-away entertainment. Appalling! This was not a common practice where I grew up. The retail center of town was one block. In the 60's there was only one "store," a small market that had a deli counter, a candy shelf, Bayer aspirin and Tums and a spinner rack. A drugstore started up in about 1968, and a 7-11 followed in 1973. Hardly an urban metropolis . . . but halfway between NY and Boston. It was a hugely different world back then. But then, don't pay attention to the old guy . . . And only real Cities had "Newsstands" - that was something you only saw in the movies, or train stations.

I dunno . . . My cats don't care as long as it moves and is smaller than them.

Same as for #1s - I would suggest eliminating any and all major keys.

This is quite good. A lot of the overrepresentation on eBay comes from Mile High alone, which probably doesn't even verify whether they have any.

This, of course, is why using popular issues at the time (including #1 issues like Wolvy 1 Ltd.) are going to unfairly skew the percentages retained and present.

I've never even seen the title, never mind the last couple of issues . . .

Jay who? I get it - you mean this Jay: Someone with no agenda whatsoever . . .

Hearing no further objections . . . I declare that I am God.

I get close enough to your numbers, just using "spawn 1 1992 mcfarlane newsstand" = 16 out of 309 (without any closer scrutiny).