Buddy Saunders: DC Comics Has Left Comic Stores Out
I want to stand with Diamond. And I don’t want to receive and sell comics that my fellow retailers can’t get because their stores are shuttered through no fault of their own.
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Dennis O’Neil: Marvel’s Blame Game
The first time you ever ate a Yummy-Lump candy bar â second grade, wasnât it? â you were sure youâd never tasted anything so good and you couldnât wait to taste another. You didnât have to wait long. Your aunt â the one who lived upstairs and always smelled like wet laundry â loved Yummy…
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Mindy Newell: This Is My Country
“This is my country, Land of my birth, This is my country, Grandest on Earth “This is my country, Land of my choice, This is my country, Hear my proud voice. “I pledge thee my allegiance, America the bold, For this is my country, To have and to hold” This Is My Country (1940), Dan…
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Martha Thomases: Is Comics Distribution Sexy?
One of the most important but least sexy aspects of the comic book business is distribution. The people who get the comic books from the printer and then send them to your local comic book stores don’t have that aura of imagination we associate with artists and writers. They aren’t publicly literate, like editors and…
