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2 weeks ago

Bill's Travel Log
Flyer run- 3 weeks out!
Whose idea was it to put flyers out today?
The rainiest August day I can remember and I decide to flyer the stores in downtown Philadelphia today.

I get off the train and after fighting the crowds on Market street full of tourists , foreign and domestic- I make my way to BRAVE NEW WORLDS, say “Hi” to Rob and walk to South Street in the rain.

Rob told me he would take some flyers to The Brave New Worlds store in Willow Grove, so that is one less trip to the post office for me. Not a lot of hipster action in the rain on South Street. Maybe I was too early, Maybe it was too wet- but it was quiet for South Street.

Chris at Atomic City Comics is always nice and always puts our flyers out.

It is still raining! I have lunch with Chris Poole (Hi Chris!)and take the Broad Street subway to South Philly. Home of South Philly Comics( funny how that worked out.) Now I used to be in South Philly all the time when Vince and Gus had stores. Passyunk Ave has changed since I used to go down there in the old days. Gentrified. I just didn’t expect it. (The locals are still parking in the middle of Broad Street- so it hasn’t changed that much.)

The South Philly Comics store took some flyers and told me they are closing in September. It is nifty store too. I was counting closed stores in South Philly and in the last 20 years I counted 4 others that have closed over the years.

Subway back downtown. Still raining.I make my way to the nice and dry Fat Jack's Comicrypt a Philadelphia comic institution . 41 years.Talk about a neighborhood that has changed. Mike is still there and he took some flyers.

Starting the mailings this week. So by Friday everybody should be flyered.

3 weeks out. ... ExpandSee Less

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2 weeks ago

Bill's Travel Log
7/31
Saturday I was out of the store. This gave me the rare opportunity to drop by Comic Universe on MacDade Blvd, just south of Philadelphia. It is a neat little shop and the owner, Frank Link is a sweetheart of a guy. I dropped off flyers and found another impossible book there. Frank has been doing this forever and is one of the original gang of store owners in the Delaware Valley.

From there I went to Effin Comics in Drexel Hill.(Of course I got lost- only because of a trail of bread crumbs and my help from Rand McNally that I live to tell the tale!) I have been telling the owner Tom for a while now, that I was coming to visit. I( finally found his store. Drexel Hill is a nice location for a store (not too close to the city, not too far out in the country) and he has been there for a while. He has got a lot of comics. Tom’s store was the last one I was to visit on the old store list. After a couple of years I have visited everybody with a comic book store from Trenton to the canal in Delaware, from the shore to the PA turnpike. My elation was short lived. I Just found out about 5 Comic Book stores , either newly opened or going to open. Where are we going to put all these comics!

Sunday I am driving to Delaware Barrett Strong is on the radio at 6AM singing Money!( That’s What I Want!) (Strangely appropriate soundtrack for going to a show.) I was at the Gotta Have It! Collector Show in Wilmington. They said “you Can Find It All at… the Gotta Have It show. Well they must be right. I bought a Ton of stuff.

Jim Parker showed up in a Scout Masters uniform with his son (You certainly don’t see at a lot of Scout Uniforms at comic shows). Jim is a local legend that once owned Comic Insanity in South West Philly. Always nice to see Jim.
4 weeks until CHUD.

Mailings start this week and I am going to try and see Downtown next week. ... ExpandSee Less

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