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Jun 6 11 1:03 PM
Phonics Monkey Vol 2 wrote: My Mom used to buy those three packs for my brother and I at Farmer Jack (defunct grocery store chain in Michigan). They were first prints unless they were character specific. The Star Wars ones were reprints. I had the 4-6 3-pack. The G.I. Joe one that had 3-5 were reprints. They didn't exactly say it, but the back cover ads matched the back covers of comics that came out several months later, ditto the Transformers ones. I also have the Whitman version Star Wars "Treasury" editions.
My comic book habit began from 3 main sources (circa 1981-1984):1) DC Digests at Farmer Jack (now torn to down to make way for an Aldi)2) Marvel 3-packs (random) at the adjacent Revco drug store (which became Perry's, which became Rite Aid before getting torn down for an auto parts store). These were all newsstand editions, no variant diamonds on them.3) The occassional single issue at Lawson's (which became Dairy Mart, now 7-11). This later became my principal comic book source for the rest of the 80s.I remember some of those Marvel sequential 3-packs at Oak Ridge Market, most notably an Amazing Spider-Man pack that included #196 (which creeped me out, so I never bought it). If you tell me it was racked with Shogun Warriors and Star Wars, that sounds about right. At that time, ASM was already in the 220-230s, so those issues would have been pretty dated when I saw them (an unlike the drug store, the selection never changed).
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