And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I remember buying comics at a little corner store that had part of the cover torn off for $0.05 back in the early and mid '60s. Used to collect soda bottles that were tossed on the side of the road for the deposit. Two cents for 12oz and five cents for quarts. Got a lot of comic books and penny candy that way. Sometimes get a couple of what we called penny pretzels which were two for a penny.....
The comics that didn't sell were just left with the store owner. They just had to cut the name of the comic along with the date etc. and return that to the distributer for a credit. Most of them kept those comics in a box and you could buy them for a couple cents or maybe a nickel.
A big push in the fifties to ban "lurid and horror " comics and the comic book companies set up an internal censorship board. It started to be ignored selectively in the seventies and died completely by 2000.
I remember buying comics at a little corner store that had part of the cover torn off for $0.05 back in the early and mid '60s. Used to collect soda bottles that were tossed on the side of the road for the deposit. Two cents for 12oz and five cents for quarts. Got a lot of comic books and penny candy that way. Sometimes get a couple of what we called penny pretzels which were two for a penny.....
ReplyDeleteDid the same thing in Chicago growing up. Comics were 12 cents.
DeleteThe comics that didn't sell were just left with the store owner. They just had to cut the name of the comic along with the date etc. and return that to the distributer for a credit.
DeleteMost of them kept those comics in a box and you could buy them for a couple cents or maybe a nickel.
I just noticed the "Approved by the Comic Code Authority" whatever the f*ck that was back in the day.
ReplyDeleteA big push in the fifties to ban "lurid and horror " comics and the comic book companies set up an internal censorship board.
DeleteIt started to be ignored selectively in the seventies and died completely by 2000.
Exposed air hoses. Single point of failure!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the rips and holes in their suits.
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