rogerb@tektronix.UUCP (Roger Bonzer) (08/07/84)
[Obie-wan, we meet at last!]
I enjoy reading comics, but I do not collect them (I read my
friends' when I get the chance). But occasionally I would like to,
say, read the back issues of The Avengers or the DNAgents, because I
didn't start reading them until after the first issues were already
gone.
Now what I want to know is this. If I wanted to read something
that they didn't have, such as an issue they missed or a series they
didn't have, it would be prohibitively expensive to purchase these
issues myself (consider the cost of, say, buying the first hundred
issues of X-Men!). Not only that, it would be stupid too, since I
have no interest in collecting them merely for a good investment (as
of course everyone else does :-). So the whole point is this: Is there
some place like a comics library where one can go to check out comics,
or even just look at them on microfiche or something? Would there be
any interest in such a thing if something like this could be set up?
What about the legal problems and such?
Megathanks,
Roger Bonzer, aka Eclipse
PS: Anyone care to netmail me their entire collection of Cerebus for a
weekend ? :-)moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (08/10/84)
I don't think there is a legal problem.... while I was at Reed College, they
had a fine old collection of Marvels, bound, and apparently there were no
legal hassles there (however, Reed has never been one for paying attention
to legal nicities :-) ); however, Microfiching (which can be easily copied),
might be tough -- also, I don't know how full color works on it. I'm afraid
the Reed collection is (or was when I was there), only for students.
Also, they bought all their old Marvel's when they were new Marvels... it'd
be a bit more difficult now...
"What do you want to talk about?"
"I can talk about anything, I've been to college."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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