Went To A Comic Book Store Yesterday

fmdog44

fmdog44

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The comic books are $5.00 ea. which is 50 times more than when I was a kid @10 cents ea. What if books were 50 times more expensive??!! (I didn't buy any because all the villains are modern day issues like pollution etc. Bring back the arch villains)
 

Every Friday My city library has a used book sale. PAPERBACKS are 25¢ each. I come home with a whole

bag full. I rarely run out of something to read.
 
fmdog44 said:
The comic books are $5.00 ea. which is 50 times more than when I was a kid @10 cents ea. What if books were 50 times more expensive??!! (I didn't buy any because all the villains are modern day issues like pollution etc. Bring back the arch villains)
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When I was a kid I had more trouble coming up with 10 cents than I do coming up with $5.00 today, I'm good.
 

Aunt Bea said:
When I was a kid I had more trouble coming up with 10 cents than I do coming up with $5.00 today, I'm good.
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Considering the comics are smaller and thinner and the technology to create them now is light years ahead of the 50's it is against my principals to give my money to them. I really went out of curiosity more than to buy. Maybe the price reflects in part, lower demand because kids don't read books anymore.
 
I had hundreds of comics all through my young years. Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge. Had all of Superman books and a series called Blackhawk. Whenever his men charged they would yeLL HAWKA.
My collection, probably worth thousands, went to our dump in our woods. :cry:
 
I remember 10 cent comic books. They were sold in most grocery stores, there wasn't a specific comic book store. We traded comic books between us until they were just rags. I remember 10 cent pop too. I always bought Pepsi because it came in a bigger bottle than Coke. My candy bar purchases were made with size in mind too.:D
 
Timetrvlr said:
I remember 10 cent comic books. They were sold in most grocery stores, there wasn't a specific comic book store. We traded comic books between us until they were just rags. I remember 10 cent pop too. I always bought Pepsi because it came in a bigger bottle than Coke. My candy bar purchases were made with size in mind too.:D
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Candy, Coke and comics. Life was good.
 
When I was a little girl in Portland, Oregon, people used to trade comic books to get new reading material. I remember my dad handing my older brother a stack of comic books and he'd go around the neighborhood (to neighbors we did not know) and trade one for one with people who were also looking for new reading material. Now as I think back it sounds kind of embarrassing. When he came back with a pile of new comics we'd go through them and everyone looking for their favorites. My dad liked the military comics and Uncle Scrooge, my brother the super heros, and I was after Little Iodine and Little Dot. This was in the early 50s and we didn't have a TV. We did have a lot of books in our house though, comic books weren't our only reading material.
 
I got 25 cents allowance so I could buy both bbs and a comic book. We had a store that sold used comics. They would tear off half the front page and sell for 2-3 cents each.
For money for Saturday movies, we would take bottles back to the store and get 2 cents deposit back. Our two movie houses were 14 cents and 16 cents to get in. Plenty of change for popcorn and a box of milk duds.
 
Pappy said:
I got 25 cents allowance so I could buy both bbs and a comic book. We had a store that sold used comics. They would tear off half the front page and sell for 2-3 cents each.
For money for Saturday movies, we would take bottles back to the store and get 2 cents deposit back. Our two movie houses were 14 cents and 16 cents to get in. Plenty of change for popcorn and a box of milk duds.
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Man, you were rich

I used to enjoy the ads on the back page, like the X-Ray glasses ad



….they don’t work, btw
 
My favorite Charles Atlas ad was the "Stop kicking sand in our faces".

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Definitely not p/c for today's world.
 
RadishRose said:
No kidding? I heard they are brine shrimp but I never saw them. Did you train them to "do tricks"?
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That's exactly what they are/were. And the trick part? Let's just say that false advertising was much more prevalent back then, lol.
 
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