Comic Buyer's Guide: RIP

[Earth 2 Chris]

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/main/fw-announces-closure-of-comics-buyers-guide

I had a subscription to CBG for years and years. In fact, I was sent the first issue of Toy Shop just because I was already a CBG subscriber (I then subscribed to both for a while). I will admit that the much flashier Wizard took my money away from CBG, and I never really went back.

To a mid-80s kid stuck in a small town with no comic shop and dwindling magazine rack space, CBG was my pipeline to a greater world of comics. A newspaper about comics? CRAZY!!!

I specifically remember seeing the first photos from the Batman film and Flash TV series in CBG...exciting times for this DC fanboy.

RIP CBG. Thanks for the good reads.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

The times they are a changin'...

[palitoy]

A lot of good times cruising for toys in those crudely done, handwritten ad spaces.

[madmarva]

Sad. I had a subscription to it from around 1982 until it went to the magazine format. Loved the old Hembeck covers, Evanier and David's columns and Don's reviews and the debates in the oh so letter pages. A review of Moore's JLA issue of Swamp Thing prompted me to try the title again after I had dropped it. One of the best suggestions ever involving entertainment for me. Another review turned me on to Miller's DareDevil. I always thought of the character as a bargain basement Batman until then. CBG always gave something to look forward to on Thursdays. But I hadn't thought about it for a long time until I saw a story on Bleeding Cool yesterday.