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From: rogerb@tektronix.UUCP (Roger Bonzer)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Comics Libraries
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 12:47:52 1984
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[Obie-wan, we meet at last!]

	I enjoy reading comics, but I do not collect them (I read my
friends' when I get the chance).  But occasionally I would like to,
say, read the back issues of The Avengers or the DNAgents, because I
didn't start reading them until after the first issues were already
gone.
	Now what I want to know is this.  If I wanted to read something
that they didn't have, such as an issue they missed or a series they
didn't have, it would be prohibitively expensive to purchase these
issues myself (consider the cost of, say, buying the first hundred
issues of X-Men!).  Not only that, it would be stupid too, since I
have no interest in collecting them merely for a good investment (as
of course everyone else does :-).  So the whole point is this: Is there
some place like a comics library where one can go to check out comics,
or even just look at them on microfiche or something?  Would there be
any interest in such a thing if something like this could be set up?
What about the legal problems and such?

	Megathanks,

		Roger Bonzer, aka Eclipse

PS: Anyone care to netmail me their entire collection of Cerebus for a
    weekend ? :-)