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William Costello
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Joined: 30 August 2012
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Posted: 24 August 2024 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
John Byrne: "I still think about all those kids who walked into their local drugstores and newsstands and saw SUPERMAN vs THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN on the rack with no idea it was coming!"

 - - and sometimes the subsequent issue wouldn't show up!  Huntington Pharmacy was where my parents would allow me to buy one or two comics a week (My parents were Depression Era and WW 2 parents, remember.) and the pharmacy was very inconsistent on which issues they stocked every week.

( - and no, my parents wouldn't take me "comic shopping." What I got is what I got.)
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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 24 August 2024 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Distribution was horrible in my part of Canada. Frequently I would have to hop on my bike and pedal around to half a dozen locations searching for comics. Including the railroad station, where there was a well stocked newsstand. The thrill of the hunt! (Somehow the actual day the comics came out eluded me.)
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 24 August 2024 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
The variety store in my little town of 3,000 in Ontario was pretty good at getting all the comics, eventually.  But if we visited a city like London, or even Stratford, their comics were a week ahead of ours!
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John Cole
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Posted: 25 August 2024 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I Always had one grocery store and two quick stop gas station convenience stores to hunt for my favorite books at.
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Doug Centers
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Posted: 25 August 2024 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
I have no memory of seeing comics on a magazine stand until they started using those 3 in a bag multi packs in the late '70's. I missed out on all of those larger Treasury Editions I seen advertised so much that didn't fit in the spinners. 
Man I wanted that Superman vs Spider-Man badly.
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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 26 August 2024 at 12:59am | IP Logged | 6 post reply
I didn’t get Superman Vs. Spider-Man either, but I was able to read it with
my friends as someone’s copy got passed around.

One thing I recall was the attitude we brought to it. I recall no one
expressing an opinion or wondering “how good is it”? We all treated it like it
came from on high and that it simply revealed what actually happened.

Ah, to be a kid again!
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Greg McPhee
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Posted: 26 August 2024 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
I guess I'm in the minority, but I really loved the old Cary Bates/Elliot S. Maggin/Curt Swan era--and I still do! 

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I often re-read that era of Superman along with the Pasko run and the Wolfman / Kane run and find them enjoyable. What I felt was that when you looked at Marvel and some of DC's output in the early to mid 80s it was light years ahead of the Superman books.

Titles like The New Teen Titans, Firestorm and the Conway and Moench runs on Batman and Detective were showing how DC could progress and move things forward from the formulas they were used to. Cary Bates had been doing work in The Flash to break it away from the single issue stories and develop characters.

It just felt the Superman books had his a rut and no one knew what to do with them.
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