I got the sad news last week that Comics Buyers Guide would cease publication on issue 16,999. At one time the premier source for information and ads in comic book fandom, Buyers Guide had been replaced by the internet. The Buyers Guide had some pleasant memories for me. I found it when my father and I took a trip to New York City in July 1971. I don’t know how I talked my father into going to Comic Book Convention, we were there for an hour or two at the most. I did find Rocket Blast and Comic Collector fanzine. set of color Patton photos and Buyers Guide. Buyers Guide at that time was free so I signed up for it. The rest of the trip to New York we went to a different part of New YorkCity, where my parents would buy items that were restricted during the war.
Buyers Guide was one of the first places I put an ad to sell the items I had bought from the Marx Warehouse. I also entered into a debate with Jim Harmon on whether item he had found was the first Superman licensed item. Harmon, who died last year had written several pop culture books, which I had discovered were loaded with errors. Another thing I did was sent to Buyers Guide a flyer of Supergirl movie that had a photo of Supergirl that I had gotten at Toy Fair. At the time no one had any pictures from the movie, they printed it with my name in the credit so they could deflect any flak from DC. Nothing every happen about picture, so I did not need any lawyers.
Like many of the readers I dropped the magazine once it went to monthly format after being a weekly.