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    Take a trip with EP to some "local" Brick and Mortar Stores

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    7 hours ago, electricprune said:

    Wow, you worked there full time for that long? We would have likely crossed paths at some point then. What happened towards the end? I remember the large Livonia store closed, but I believe another smaller shop opened in the same strip mall under the same name. I think I only went there once, and it was focused more on new books and didn't have much as far as back issues went. I honestly didn't think the large location lasted much passed '93 or '94.

    The large location opened in Livonia in 1981.  In the mid-90s, we had open spaces on either side of us and the landlord offered the owner a deal on rent if he moved to one of the other locations so that he could combine two spaces into a bike shop (Bike Nashbar I think).  The rent had been rising a lot so in 1996, the owner took the deal and we moved next door.  The new shop was much narrower and a lot of stuff got left behind.  Most of what was lost was actually from the back room (overstock and the like).  We kept our wall of back issues (there were tons of them on custom built wooden shelves).  We did lose display space for the discount bins on the tables, though, and for stuff like tshirts and movie posters which used to hang from the ceiling.  We kept some poster racks, but it was very much diminished.  Gone also were the remnants of the video rental business we once had, though most of that was probably gone long before 1996.  I can't remember for sure at this point.

    The store continued along like that for almost a decade before a variety of issues (rising rent, an aborted move, the owner's health) prompted the sale of the store.  My understanding is that it was almost sold to customers who would have kept the store open, but it fell through and was eventually sold to Todd Lange, who wanted it mainly for  the backstock to sell at shows.  The store closed a week after he purchased it.

    I had started working at the store in 1986 when I was in high school.  I worked about 30-40 hours per week through college and then a diminished schedule after becoming a teacher.  Eventually it was just Saturdays year round and Wednesdays during the summer and breaks.  I ran the card section for much of that time, though my real interest was always the comic books.  It was a fun place to work and we had lots of great customers, but it all ended in the spring of 2005.  It was sad, but all things end I guess. 

    Take a trip with EP to some "local" Brick and Mortar Stores

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    Posted · Edited by kaculler

    I've been to Stadium and purchased comics there a few times.  It's a nice shop.  The best shop in the Detroit area these days is probably Big Ben's in Allen Park.  Time Traveler's in Berkley has a lot of stuff and might be worth a look.  If you get up to Flint, you might want to check out The Amazing Book-Store.

    Classic Movie and Comic Center was my first comic shop back in 1977 when it was still in Farmington.  It was a great shop.  I worked there from 1986-2005 and find it hard to believe that it has been gone for 15 years.

    Anyone Else Notice A Major Slowdown in the Mail?

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    8 hours ago, Robot Man said:

    For what it’s worth, I sent out two media mail packages across country and they were delivered in a week flat...(shrug)

    I recently had a media mail package ship in California on a Thursday and then it was delivered to me in Michigan two days later on Saturday.  That's incredibly fast for media mail.  It was definitely an outlier, but I was amazed.

    I had a lot of packages suffer delays back in April/May, but they have been a lot better for me over the past 5-6 weeks.

    Need Help Identifying an Archie Comic

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    There were two Archie Comics reprint series with that title in Australia in the 1950s.  The first ran from about 1950-1955 and lasted 62 issues while the second ran from about 1956-1961 and lasted 59 issues, at least according to the information available at GCD and the ausreprints site.  It appears that Archie #10 came out or was dated April 1957.

    Here's a link to the cover gallery.  They don't have #10, but they do have #11 which seems to match the cover style.

    https://ausreprints.net/cover/series/4338/16973/2/200/50

    archie 11.jpg