Mixed Bag

[Mike Morbid]

Does anyone remember when retail stores sold two comics in a transparent bag? There was often one you wanted, but the other one was always as interesting as used dishwater.

[Rathulfr]

  On 5/27/2020 at 3:01 PM, Mike Morbid said:

Does anyone remember when retail stores sold two comics in a transparent bag? There was often one you wanted, but the other one was always as interesting as used dishwater.

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I remember.  I also remember being able to buy two comics, one candy bar, and one soda for $1.  I'm old as dirt, apparently.

[Mike Morbid]

  On 5/27/2020 at 3:11 PM, Rathulfr said:

I remember.  I also remember being able to buy two comics, one candy bar, and one soda for $1.  I'm old as dirt, apparently.

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That would have been around 1980 in Canada, not sure about the US.

[Rathulfr]

  On 5/27/2020 at 3:24 PM, Mike Morbid said:

That would have been around 1980 in Canada, not sure about the US.

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For me, it was circa 1975.

[ImpousVileTerror]

Dang.

 

You old.

 

*stands around on @Rathulfr's lawn*

[Rathulfr]

  On 5/27/2020 at 11:16 PM, ImpousVileTerror said:

Dang.

 

You old.

 

*stands around on @Rathulfr's lawn*

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*shakes fist and bellows ineffectively*

"You kids get off my lawn!"

[Call Me Awesome]

  On 5/27/2020 at 3:11 PM, Rathulfr said:

I remember.  I also remember being able to buy two comics, one candy bar, and one soda for $1.  I'm old as dirt, apparently.

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STILL only 25 cents!

 

I well remember those days, comics were an obsession of mine all through the 70's and 80's up until I got too busy running my business to have extra time.  I think it was around the Death of Superman/Rise of the Supermen storyline that I stopped collecting, and along about 2000 I got the ultimatum that the boxes and boxes full of comics had to go.