Thursday, December 13, 2012

Sagert looks to restore faded comic community


It was in the early 1970s, when Sagert was looking for a storefront to set up his new comic book shop. There was a time when people believed Mike Sagert sold porn.
But at the time, the idea of a shop that specialized in comics was strange. It didn’t matter how passionate Sagert was about comics, everyone else still viewed illustrated adventures as mutated reading material. They were uncanny. So when Sagert looked for storefronts, landlords misunderstood what he was trying to sell. In their minds, there was little difference between superheroes and strippers. Continue here.


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