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Formerly known as THIS THREAD IS CLASSIFIED.  

I'm going to post a spattering of ads from the pages of The Buyers Guide for Comic Fandom #2 here.  Some are good.  Some are funny.  Some are dumb. 

All are interesting and point to earlier days in this hobby.  

 

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I'm going to start with this one from our northern neighbors in Canada called Canazine !!  

Not sure who "Peace sign Man" is.  Perhaps he is Canadian too !!  

Some nice names in the art credits - 

Sent in an envelope.  That's a plus 

 

 

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Ten bucks for an original drawing by Dan Adkins.  Seems kind of sad by todays standards.  

Comic artists scratching out a living like they always have.

I wonder if his book was ever published ?  

Mr. Adkins has been gone for six years already :( 

Dan Adkins wiki page

 

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Another "zine" ad.  Amazing how many of these there were back in those days.  Everybody and their brother wanted to be involved in the comics industry in some way.  

Its a very self promoting business.   

One of the things that hooked me as a kid, was seeing ads of the covers of other comics in my book.  So exciting !!  DC and Harvey were tops at those kind of ads. 

I wonder how many of these fanzines made it to ten issues ? Not many I think.

 

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The Buyers Guide was invaluable in connecting comic collectors with each other in the days before computers and cell phones.

 I don't think cosplay was even around in 1971

 

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Here's an interesting one.  A fanzine attempting to list the names and address' of all the fans and what they collect !!

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1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I remember George. Got a lot of PCH from him...

How was the grading by todays standards.  Things were looser back then.  

I bet that Batman #15 he lists in "perfect mint"  looked pretty good. 

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