Crankshaft: Asking Permission
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/07/13

I used to ride my bike down to the Pik-n-Pak back when I was 10 years
old (1970) to buy a carton of cigarettes for my grandfather for $1.90.
He would give me $2.00, I would scrounge up another 15 cents and buy a
Spiderman or a Iron Man comic book.

Lynn

I made the trip on my 20" red, used bicycle I was given by Santa one year.
I could have walked it, but I loved to ride the bike. Maybe a mile, round trip,
without any detours. I could have walked it, but one can't let news get stale.
Sometimes I was funded to pick up the Daily News, also, if my Dad hadn't been
anywhere to pick up a morning paper. Newday published in the afternoon in
those days, while the News published several editions, rom a "bulldog" to a
morning final that had the previous night's sports results in it. On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 5:34:33 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Crankshaft: Asking Permission
> https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/07/13
>
> I used to ride my bike down to the Pik-n-Pak back when I was 10 years
> old (1970) to buy a carton of cigarettes for my grandfather for $1.90.
> He would give me $2.00, I would scrounge up another 15 cents and buy a
> Spiderman or a Iron Man comic book.
>

SAG-AFTRA/WAG striking means this year's SDCC will have to depend on
actual Comics programming!

Good way to figure out who is affected by the strikes wpould be reading
Mark Evanier's blog.

https://www.newsfromme.com/

When I were a lad, my Dad would send me to the local candy store to pick up
the Saturday Newsday (The Long Island Newspaper.)* In the 1960s the paper
did not publish on Sunday, so the Saturday edition had the extra sections -
magazine supplement, 4-color comics - that The New York Daily News or the
Long Island Press released on Sunday. I earned a whopping nickel for that.
It was always a great decision whether that became a candy bar, a pack of
baseball cards or 5/12ths of the price of a comic book. If it were the last, I
also had the problem of how to smuggle the comic onto our property, and
then into our house. My parents had been brainwashed by the Legion of Decency,
Senator Kefauver and/or that quack Fred Wertham into declaring comics contraband.
I always had to hide them.

* https://www.newsday.com/

When I hit 12 I got a News paper route. It was hard to sell customers on it
because they did not provide us with an edition late enough to have the sports
scores in it. People preferred to pick a later edition up on their commute to work.
If that was by the Long Island Rail Road the stations' kiosks got the latest editions
sent out by train, rather than having to wait for the local distributor to make his
rounds.

Younger folks will not remember having to wait even mere hours for breaking news
below the level of importance that would cause radio and TV to "interrupt this
broadcast."

--
Kevin R
a.a #2310

On 7/13/2023 9:14 PM, Kevrob wrote:
>
>
> I made the trip on my 20" red, used bicycle I was given by Santa one year.
> I could have walked it, but I loved to ride the bike. Maybe a mile, round trip,
> without any detours. I could have walked it, but one can't let news get stale.
> Sometimes I was funded to pick up the Daily News, also, if my Dad hadn't been
> anywhere to pick up a morning paper. Newday published in the afternoon in
> those days, while the News published several editions, rom a "bulldog" to a
> morning final that had the previous night's sports results in it. On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 5:34:33 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Crankshaft: Asking Permission
>> https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/07/13
>>
>> I used to ride my bike down to the Pik-n-Pak back when I was 10 years
>> old (1970) to buy a carton of cigarettes for my grandfather for $1.90.
>> He would give me $2.00, I would scrounge up another 15 cents and buy a
>> Spiderman or a Iron Man comic book.
>>
>
> SAG-AFTRA/WAG striking means this year's SDCC will have to depend on
> actual Comics programming!
>
> Good way to figure out who is affected by the strikes wpould be reading
> Mark Evanier's blog.
>
> https://www.newsfromme.com/
>
> When I were a lad, my Dad would send me to the local candy store to pick up
> the Saturday Newsday (The Long Island Newspaper.)* In the 1960s the paper
> did not publish on Sunday, so the Saturday edition had the extra sections -
> magazine supplement, 4-color comics - that The New York Daily News or the
> Long Island Press released on Sunday. I earned a whopping nickel for that.
> It was always a great decision whether that became a candy bar, a pack of
> baseball cards or 5/12ths of the price of a comic book. If it were the last, I
> also had the problem of how to smuggle the comic onto our property, and
> then into our house. My parents had been brainwashed by the Legion of Decency,
> Senator Kefauver and/or that quack Fred Wertham into declaring comics contraband.
> I always had to hide them.
>
> * https://www.newsday.com/
>
> When I hit 12 I got a News paper route. It was hard to sell customers on it
> because they did not provide us with an edition late enough to have the sports
> scores in it. People preferred to pick a later edition up on their commute to work.
> If that was by the Long Island Rail Road the stations' kiosks got the latest editions
> sent out by train, rather than having to wait for the local distributor to make his
> rounds.
>
> Younger folks will not remember having to wait even mere hours for breaking news
> below the level of importance that would cause radio and TV to "interrupt this
> broadcast."

I was thinking that comic books were 25 cents in 1970, I was wrong.
According to this website, Marvels were 15 cents in 1970 and 1971.
https://www.comichron.com/vitalstatistics/mediancoverprices.html

Lynn

On Thursday, July 13, 2023 at 11:19:57 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:

[snip]

> I was thinking that comic books were 25 cents in 1970, I was wrong.
> According to this website, Marvels were 15 cents in 1970 and 1971.
> https://www.comichron.com/vitalstatistics/mediancoverprices.html

I posted details about changing comics prices in that era, here:

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.written/c/TAFfHKcwy1Q/m/CaM3rbfMAgAJ

--
Kevin R

On Thursday, 13 July 2023 at 22:34:33 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> Crankshaft: Asking Permission
> https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/07/13
>
> I used to ride my bike down to the Pik-n-Pak back when I was 10 years
> old (1970) to buy a carton of cigarettes for my grandfather for $1.90.
> He would give me $2.00, I would scrounge up another 15 cents and buy a
> Spiderman or a Iron Man comic book.

The comments are pretty toxically masculine
from people that I imagine would clean their
butt with your comics in school days.
Is that representative of this strip's readership?