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The ad affirmed that back issues were a valid commodity for the collector's market, and led not only to a boom for Mile High Comics, but to the entire back-issue market. [citation needed] Mile High Comics frequently placed ads in Marvel and DC comics in the 1980s, listing back issues of comic books that could be purchased through the mail. [2]
Prior to the 1970s, most comics were found in newsstands, grocery, drug, convenience, and toy stores.A handful of early comic book specialty shops first appeared in the late 1960s, stocking back issues as well as sourcing new releases from newsstand distributors and the new counterculture underground comix.
Back Issue! is an American magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 2003 and published eight times yearly, it features articles and art about comic books from the 1970s to the present.
Action Comics #875–879, Annual #12; Superman Secret Files and Origins 2009 March 2010 HC: 978-1401226381: Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird, Vol. 2: Action Comics #883–889; Adventure Comics #8–10; Superman #696 October 2010 HC: 978-1401229399: Superman: The Black Ring, Vol. 1: Action Comics #890–895 February 2012 TP: 978-1401230340
Comic back-issue prices had stabilized by the end of the 1960s. [2] In 1970, Jerry Bails, who had recently published the Collector’s Guide to the First Heroic Age, was considering creating a comic book price guide. He was contacted by Bob Overstreet, who was doing the same thing.
Bud Plant at the 1982 San Diego Comic-Con.Photo by Alan Light. Bud Plant's booth at the 1982 San Diego Comic-Con. Plant (born 1952) [1] was a comics and illustrated books enthusiast [2] from San Jose, California, who throughout his high school years bought and sold back issue comic books through ads in fanzines such as Rocket's Blast/ComicCollector.