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October 21, 2008


Quick Hits: A Few Not Comics Links

The LA Times profiles David Maisel, the chairman of Marvel Studios and one of Hollywood's major players after the success of Iron Man at the box office and in take-home formats... the PW team gets in what has to be the first Holiday Shopping Guide for comics... an article in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune looks at used bookstores and notes how many are closing while some hang in there; I think it's true that while used bookstores are certainly still out there, they've diminished in frequency and saturation to the point I no longer think in terms of a day or half-day spent visiting used bookstores when I go to anywhere in the U.S. save for maybe New York... here's a local profile of the film The Comic Book Lady, set in Huntington, West Virginia.
 
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