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It's been 50 YEARS...show us your books from 1966!

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Hepcat

Hepcat

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Bought at the drugstore....

 

Another one bought at the drugstore.

 

I'm just glad they only cost me 12 cents each

 

Nicely done! I wish I could find forgotten comics from 1966 at my local drugstore but they all seem to have been returned to the distributor,

 

:(

 

 

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Tri-Color Brian

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So Tricolor-B,how did you store those DCs over all those years??? Really beautiful books!

 

Thanks. The Actions and Adventures were stored better than the Batmans and Detectives. I put them in thick produce plastic bags (about 5 comics per bag) from Safeway (next door to the drugstore) and evidently they preserved pretty good. Around 1980 I put them all in comic bags with boards, then about 15 years ago I put them in mylars. I have always tried to keep them cool, but that hasn't always been possible.

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Hepcat

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Another from the you know what...drugstore next to my house in 1966.

 

Wow, original owner! Beautifully done!

 

So:

 

1. In what locale was this drug store?

 

2. Is the drug store still there?

 

3. Did it have a lunch counter or soda fountain?

 

4. Was it a mom and pop independent or was it part of a chain?

 

5. Were you exposed to comic fanzines at the time? What prompted you to take unusual steps for the time to preserve your comics?

 

???

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Tri-Color Brian

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Drugstore was located in the Oak Knolls shopping center in Santa Maria, CA.

I don't think it is still there. There is a chain drugstore now where the Safeway used to be.

No lunch counter. The shopping center was built in 1963.

It was an independent owner store. Affiliated with Rexall.

I was not exposed to fanzines, but had recently discovered Cherokee bookshop in Hollywood and was buying golden age comics there. They would give me a bag for each comic, so I got the idea from them.

 

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Of course, I don't live there anymore... :D

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