Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tektronix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!rogerb From: rogerb@tektronix.UUCP (Roger Bonzer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Comics Libraries Message-ID: <3299@tektronix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:47:52 EDT Article-I.D.: tektronix.3299 Posted: Tue Aug 7 12:47:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:15:32 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 25 [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 ? :-)