CBG Dead

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Trev
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CBG Dead

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via The Beat: http://comicsbeat.com/rip-comics-buyers ... 1971-2013/

and Comichron: http://blog.comichron.com/2013/01/end-o ... -2013.html

I dropped my subscription a year or two ago and had one for 3 or 4 years before that.

This was really the magazine that introduced me to the joys of the silver age. When I started to get into buying older books, I would often add books to my want list based on columns in CBG.

I even did a 'fan reviews' article once for them. My first published work! :)

Will miss that they are there. Hopefully something else comes along to scratch my itch for history on older books.
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I still had a sub and will finish it out with some issues of Antique trader that I'll likely toss directly into the recycle bin.

I think the day of print magazines is over, the Internet has done them in.

Newsweek stopped print publication also.

The really sad part to me is they are ending on #1699. Would have been nice to have stuck it out one more month to go out with #1700, I like the round numbers.
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Post by BobBretall »

Here are thoughts from long time CBG contributor Tony Isabella:

http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... -more.html

Very cursory for now. He'll have more to say tomorrow.
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