On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Defunct Sources Of Material About Comics You Enjoyed." This is how they responded.
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Comics Interview
2. Rocket's Blast Comic Collector
3. Journalista
4. Amazing Heroes
5. Nemo
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Dave Knott
* Egon
* Comic Art
* The Steranko History of Comics
* Comics Comics
* Submedia
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Patrick Ford
1. Nemo
2. Graphic Story World
3. Cartoonist Profiles
4. Inside Comix
5. Harvard Journal Of Pictorial Fiction
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Andrew White
1) Indie Spinner Rack podcast
2) Comics Comics
3) Next Issue! (thenextissue.blogspot.com)
4) The Comics Journal Message Board
5) Livejournal
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Gerry Alanguilan
1. Philippine Comics Review
2. Marvel Age
3. Comics Interview
4. Wizard
5. Hero
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Tonyefa Oyake
- Indy Magazine
- Bud Plant (catalogs)
- Hogan's Alley
- Comic Art (by publisher M. Todd Hignite)
- Escape
... and honorable mention goes to...
- Comics Scene
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Christopher Brown
1) The Comic Reader
2) FantaCo Chronicles
3) Comics Scene
4) Comics Buyer's Guide, when it was a weekly newsprint paper
5) Dick Giordano's Meanwhile columns
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Shannon Smith
1) Journalista
2) The Comics Interpreter
3) The Comics Journal as a semi-monthly magazine
4) Marvel Age
5) Comic Book Artist
Side note: Comic Shop News is still going but I miss it. None of the shops within an hour of me carry it. But is it the last/most read print magazine/paper about comics in the US?
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Bert Duckwall
1. Wizard- a guilty pleasure in the 1990's, a joke in the 2000's
2. Hero - another guilty pleasure in the 1990's
3. The Comics Journal- Tell Gary that that magazine is dead with that once every 14 month bullshit $30.00 price.
4. Comics Scene-the most missed of all of these
5. Marvel Age- when I was in grade school, I use to read these for hours.
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Sean Kleefeld
1. Comics File Magazine
2. Marvel Age
3. Comic Book Marketplace
4. Comics Feature
5. Hero Illustrated
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Mike Pfefferkorn
1. The Comic Reader
2. The Barks Collector
3. Amazing World of DC Comics
4. Comics: The Golden Age
5. Mediascene
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Tim Callahan
1. Amazing Heroes
2. Title Bout by A.K.
3. Savantmag
4. Comics Comics
5. Comics Interview
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Tom Bondurant
1. Michael Fleisher's Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes
2. Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics
3. Graeme McMillan's Fanboy Rampage
4. Dick Giordano's Meanwhile... columns
5. Amazing Heroes' Preview Specials
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Michael Dooley
1. Grimmers: The Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction
2. Cultural Correspondence
3. Cartoonist PROfiles
4. Funnyworld: The World of Animated Films and Comic Art
5. Fanfare: The Magazine of Popular Culture and All the Arts
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Steven Thompson
1- Amazing Heroes
2- Hero Illustrated
3- The Comic Reader
4- TBG
5- The Menomonee Falls Gazette
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John Platt
1. Comic Culture
2. Indy
3. Comics Scene
4. Comic Book Marketplace
5. Evan Dorkin's mail newsletter
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Andrew Mansell
1. Comic Art Magazine
2. Don Rosa's Information Center
3. Book Introductions by Bill Blackbeard
4. The TCJ Message Board
5. Nemo: The Classic Comics Library
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Michael Grabowski
1. Crash
2. The Comics Reader
3. Comics Scene
4. Marvel Bullpen Bulletins with Stan's Soapbox
5. George Olshevsky's original Marvel Comics Indexes (Spider-Man, Conan, etc.)
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J.E. Cole
1. Ninthart
2. Artbomb
3. Optimum Wound
4. Pulp magazine
5. Come in alone
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Mark Mayerson
1. Graphic Story Magazine
2. Graphic Story World
3. Funnyworld
4. Comic Book Artist
5. The Comic Reader
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Stergios Botzakis
1. Dave's Long Box
2. Amazing Heroes
3. Comics Collector (Kruse Publications version)
4. Don Markstein’s Toonopedia
5. Gone and Forgotten
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Chris Duffy
1. Nemo
2. Comic Book Artist
3. Direct Currents
4. Comics Reader
5. Journalista
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topic modified from a suggestion by Adam Casey; thanks, Adam
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Comics Interview
2. Rocket's Blast Comic Collector
3. Journalista
4. Amazing Heroes
5. Nemo
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Dave Knott
* Egon
* Comic Art
* The Steranko History of Comics
* Comics Comics
* Submedia
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Patrick Ford
1. Nemo
2. Graphic Story World
3. Cartoonist Profiles
4. Inside Comix
5. Harvard Journal Of Pictorial Fiction
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Andrew White
1) Indie Spinner Rack podcast
2) Comics Comics
3) Next Issue! (thenextissue.blogspot.com)
4) The Comics Journal Message Board
5) Livejournal
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Gerry Alanguilan
1. Philippine Comics Review
2. Marvel Age
3. Comics Interview
4. Wizard
5. Hero
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Tonyefa Oyake
- Indy Magazine
- Bud Plant (catalogs)
- Hogan's Alley
- Comic Art (by publisher M. Todd Hignite)
- Escape
... and honorable mention goes to...
- Comics Scene
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Christopher Brown
1) The Comic Reader
2) FantaCo Chronicles
3) Comics Scene
4) Comics Buyer's Guide, when it was a weekly newsprint paper
5) Dick Giordano's Meanwhile columns
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Shannon Smith
1) Journalista
2) The Comics Interpreter
3) The Comics Journal as a semi-monthly magazine
4) Marvel Age
5) Comic Book Artist
Side note: Comic Shop News is still going but I miss it. None of the shops within an hour of me carry it. But is it the last/most read print magazine/paper about comics in the US?
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Bert Duckwall
1. Wizard- a guilty pleasure in the 1990's, a joke in the 2000's
2. Hero - another guilty pleasure in the 1990's
3. The Comics Journal- Tell Gary that that magazine is dead with that once every 14 month bullshit $30.00 price.
4. Comics Scene-the most missed of all of these
5. Marvel Age- when I was in grade school, I use to read these for hours.
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Sean Kleefeld
1. Comics File Magazine
2. Marvel Age
3. Comic Book Marketplace
4. Comics Feature
5. Hero Illustrated
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Mike Pfefferkorn
1. The Comic Reader
2. The Barks Collector
3. Amazing World of DC Comics
4. Comics: The Golden Age
5. Mediascene
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Tim Callahan
1. Amazing Heroes
2. Title Bout by A.K.
3. Savantmag
4. Comics Comics
5. Comics Interview
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Tom Bondurant
1. Michael Fleisher's Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes
2. Maurice Horn's World Encyclopedia of Comics
3. Graeme McMillan's Fanboy Rampage
4. Dick Giordano's Meanwhile... columns
5. Amazing Heroes' Preview Specials
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Michael Dooley
1. Grimmers: The Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction
2. Cultural Correspondence
3. Cartoonist PROfiles
4. Funnyworld: The World of Animated Films and Comic Art
5. Fanfare: The Magazine of Popular Culture and All the Arts
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Steven Thompson
1- Amazing Heroes
2- Hero Illustrated
3- The Comic Reader
4- TBG
5- The Menomonee Falls Gazette
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John Platt
1. Comic Culture
2. Indy
3. Comics Scene
4. Comic Book Marketplace
5. Evan Dorkin's mail newsletter
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Andrew Mansell
1. Comic Art Magazine
2. Don Rosa's Information Center
3. Book Introductions by Bill Blackbeard
4. The TCJ Message Board
5. Nemo: The Classic Comics Library
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Michael Grabowski
1. Crash
2. The Comics Reader
3. Comics Scene
4. Marvel Bullpen Bulletins with Stan's Soapbox
5. George Olshevsky's original Marvel Comics Indexes (Spider-Man, Conan, etc.)
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J.E. Cole
1. Ninthart
2. Artbomb
3. Optimum Wound
4. Pulp magazine
5. Come in alone
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Mark Mayerson
1. Graphic Story Magazine
2. Graphic Story World
3. Funnyworld
4. Comic Book Artist
5. The Comic Reader
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Stergios Botzakis
1. Dave's Long Box
2. Amazing Heroes
3. Comics Collector (Kruse Publications version)
4. Don Markstein’s Toonopedia
5. Gone and Forgotten
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Chris Duffy
1. Nemo
2. Comic Book Artist
3. Direct Currents
4. Comics Reader
5. Journalista
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topic modified from a suggestion by Adam Casey; thanks, Adam
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