SouthPointe Marketplace

I miss the SouthPointe flea market that used to be where the Great Southern Shopping Center K Mart was previously. I found great old copies of The American Magazine and Saturday Evening Post there and The British Papermill was right down the street with 1950s romance magazines and comics.

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The British Papermill

I do miss The British Papermill, late of Brice Outlet Mall and Great Southern Shopping Center. On the other hand, its successor, Capital City Comics, on Livingstone Ave., is a great comic shop which also sometimes carries pulp magazines! https://www.yelp.com/biz/capital-city-comics-madison

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When JCPenney Sold Vinyl

I keep reading about the falling fortunes of department stores like Sears and JCPenney. Here's one thing JCPenney could do: bring back vinyl. I used to plow through their record selection in the '70s, at several locations, including Eastland Mall and Great Southern Shopping Center. Here's a JCPenney record pricing label. The different letters corresponded with a price list displayed with the records.

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Mike Royer and the First Jack Kirby Comic Book I Bought New Off the Spinner Rack

For a small donation for cancer research, inker/illustrator Mike Royer signed the very first Jack Kirby comic book I bought new off the spinner rack (at a Gray Drug store at the Great Southern Shopping Center - Gray Drug no longer exists, having been sold to Rite Aid in 1987).

You can see by the condition of the book above that it's been well loved during the past forty years. What an incredible introduction to comic book collecting for twenty cents!

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