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Acquisition Log: Even More Comics

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Multimedia Mike

I had so much fun with the last batch of comics that I decided to visit the same comic shop and raid their dollar comic rack again, especially since I now know what the look for. In particular, I was interested in comics from the 1990s, when video games really took off, and advertising thereof ramped up commensurately. This score wasn’t as dramatic with only 8 comics:

Another pile of comics

Another pile of comics (click for larger image)

I was finding a lot of good stuff but noticed it was already in the database. These were the only issues I found with new material,

As of this writing, I have entered all of the scans into the database, all except 3. I have been putting these off since they are all double-page scans that require extra effort:

Double-page video game ads

Double-page video game ads (click for larger image)

Two of them are from stapled comics so those should be rather simple to disassemble, scan piecemeal, and stitch together. The other has a glued spine, so I get to do that trick I’ve read about of heating up the spine with a hair dryer.

Note that one of the above ads (for Wild Arms) is actually a fold-in (apparently popularized by Mad Magazine). I’m thinking I may need to stitch together an example of the folded product and submit that separately.

I seem to have hit a point of diminishing returns pretty quickly on this front, at least with this particular comic shop. I may have to raid other comic shops in the area to see if any have similar deals on old comics.

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