*Magazines/Books About Vintage US Comics: Launched in 1961 by Jerry Bails as ‘On The Drawing Board’, by 1962 the pioneering comics news magazine had changed its name to The Comic Reader, and over the ensuing decade gained influence, becoming known as ‘The TV Guide of comics’, and featuring early work by many people, including Paul Levitz, Don Rosa, Paul Kupperberg, Neal Pozner and Tony Isabella, who would go on to professional careers in the field. Street Enterprises, publishers of the Menomonee Falls Gazette, took over TCR from issue #100, bringing news of forthcoming projects, hirings, firings and more to a breathless fandom on a monthly basis in those pre-Internet days, as well as articles, features, newly-commissioned cover artwork not seen anywhere else, and a selection of newspaper strip reprints including Howard the Duck, Star Hawks (Goulart & Kane), Superman, Batman and more. We have 50 issues of this long-running series new in stock, from 1979’s #167 to 1984’s #219, the final issue – though the cancellation appears to have been sudden, as #219 makes no mention of the title’s end, and in fact was still soliciting ads for future issues which never happened!