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Mid 1970's Comic Books Dealers advertising on this nationwide page were: Recently I posted the membership page of the 1973 San Diego Comic Con on my Facebook Page. As seen at this link. The page was posted small via the Facebook photo procedure, so I'm going to list here in my blog those names identified as dealers. Those dealers included: #6 Larry Bigman, #11 Joe Colabella, #16 Gary Nishimura, #17 Mark Reynolds, #24 Melville C Hill, #25 Lucas Dang, #26 Gary Carter (later the publisher of Comic Book Marketplace!), #29 North County Book Shop, #30 Bob Sidebottom (later an Editor of a few comic books), #40 Tom Heaton, # 42 Joe Kotuna, #43 Tony Raiola, #44 Shane Shellenbarger, #74 Roger C Nelson, #78 David Boring, #91 Lance Casebeer, #93 Jay Knowles, #121 Don Morris, #122 Russ Cochran - (still selling today), #127 Jim Buser, #128 Joe Swan, #129 Will Conine, #136 Marc Zarkarin, #145 Harry A Hopkins, #150 Tom Tallmon, #169 David T Alexander (still a dealer today in 2015), #174 Michael D Haw(m)ersky (that's me!), #188 Terry Stroud (still a comics dealer & was a comic book writer), #195 Arnold Berman, #198 Tom French (SDCC's dealer room organizer - died 1997), & #201 Prince & the Pauper Imported Toys.
Also, the photo to the left is a photo of myself holding the 1973 San Diego Comic Con Souvenir Book, along with a copy of the 2pages showing the 1973 membership list as of date of publication! BTW before I forget... Richard Alf, named in the first paragraph above, who also had bought many of my duplicates issues before I started dealing myself, went on to sell out to Chuck Rozanski, Owner of Mile High Comics in Colorado, in 1978. Richard had built his mail order business into a going concern, but by then there were some major competitors in mail order including Pacific Comics (also in San Diego), Passaic Book Center and of course Robert Bell. I will be adding more info to this mini-history in the months to follow... ~ Michael
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #4046 - At the left is an advertisement page from a mid 1977 Marvel Comics book. 
If you have been buying comics since the 1970s, you will recognize several of the above names! Some like myself went on to advertise in The Buyers Guide, as well as other publications. Some just sold at comic cons that sprang up nationwide during the following years!
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #4045 - Yesterday I received a notice from Bob Bretall, whom I have blogged about previously on setting the Guiness World Record for the World's Largest Comic Book Collection.
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #4044 - Yesterday I attended the August 2015 San Diego Comic Fest Volunteers Meeting at the Serra Mesa Library in San Diego, along with twenty-three other volunteers. Not all volunteers were able to meet this meeting, but Mike Towry, (founder of San Diego Comic Fest), brought us all up to date on what had happened since the last Volunteers Meeting.
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #4043 - Yesterday I blogged about my thoughts on the 2015 Winkie Con, (newly renamed to OzCon), which ran this past weekend, July 31st thru August 2nd. (
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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #4042 - I am back from the 2015 Winkie Con (newly renamed to OzCon), which ran this past weekend, July 31st thru August 2nd!