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Raisinbinn t1_ito410e wrote

When I was a kid, the Sunday Star ledger costed $.35. My mom would give me $.50 every Sunday to walk to the local corner store, at the time it was called Stop 1. I would keep the change and bought candy with the remaining $.15.

Over the years the price of the Sunday paper went up and up and up. From $.35, then to $.50, then to $.75, etc. But one thing that didn't change, there was always the Sunday comics section.

I would read them religiously every Sunday. I also had the weird idea to save them thinking they would hold value someday. I was never into regular comic books because I couldn't really afford them at the time but the one thing I was consistent with was reading the Sunday comics.

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SophsterSophistry t1_ito9rlk wrote

This person's actually selling the Sunday comics from the Star Ledger:

http://www.oldsundaycomics.com/wds120.htm

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Raisinbinn t1_itoahhj wrote

Oh wow! Unfortunately I don't have any of mine anymore they were thrown out a long time ago. But it's nice to think that it wasn't such a crazy thought to save them.

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SophsterSophistry t1_itocehc wrote

It's not so crazy since it's not like we had the internet way back when. Once thrown out you'd never see them again (unless the comic got published later in a book). I used to cut out and keep my favorite comics. I also had a bunch of Peanuts paperback books. I can't believe how much I had loved Snoopy.

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GitEmSteveDave t1_ito9w5u wrote

MY boss bought a DAILY APP a few months ago for a video we were doing. The price for a Friday copy of the APP, in May, which had 8 pages of section A? And you know the APP is barely local anymore.

$3.50.

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