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5/29/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

By request, a little flashback to a 1966 newspaper article about the shop. This story mentions Dad (Walter Bonnett) too, so – early Happy Father's Day!

We've got great Father's Day Gift ideas on hand for all types of Dads!


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[article text carefully edited for length] "10 Cents Worth Of Batman Will Bring You $75 Now" by Tim Bleck, Journal Herald staff Writer. Look. Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's the price of old comic books. For the price of a small set of encyclopedias you can purchase the 26-year-old original version -volume I, number one of the adventures of Batman at Bonnett's book store, 502 East Fifth street. Well, maybe you can. "We don't really want to sell it," said Walter Bonnett, son of proprietor Harold Bonneft. They have a volume I, number one of "The Complete Story of the Daring Exploits of the One and Only Superman," too. That dates to 1939 and sells for $60. The original Walt Disney comic (1940), with Donald Duck on the cover, is available for $30. "We've got quite a few $10 ones. That's about as much as most people will go," said Harold Bonnett. "I've been here over 30 years and built up quite a collection. This comic book collection craze started about 10 years ago, I guess." When his son returned from the service a year ago, he began exploring his father's gold mine and answering the requests, mostly from out of town, from collectors. "Right now the hot thing is Marvel Comics" said Harold. "This is the age of super-heroes I guess. And Marvel has them-the Fantastic Four, Thor and Captain America.

From page 20 of the JOURNAL HERALD, Wednesday, April 27, 1966 in Dayton, Ohio; Staff Photo by Ed Johnsey. "Harold Bonnett Displays Collector's Items. ... Prices of original comic books up in the sky, too." A black and white photo of my grandfather in front of a rack of paperbacks in our family shop, Bonnett's Bookstore. He's holding four old comics fanned out. The comics are: BAT MAN № 1, SUPERMAN № 1, FLASH COMICS № 1, & WALT DISNEY COMICS and Stories № 1.
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    4/23/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    It's insect season. Some are good, some aren't. These will help you know the difference. You might look the bugs up on your phone; but real books are better... You can swat the bad bugs with an old book. Try that with your phone and you could be out a few hundred bucks!

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    A composite image of 3 books about insects, arranged side by side and overlayed on a motion-blurred background. The first two books are the classic Golden Nature Guides: Insects and Insect Pests; the third is Simon and Schuster's Guide to Insects. The Golden books both appear to have seen better days, each sporting creased covers and worn edges from decades of use; and the cover of Pests is considerably sun-faded. The last book is newer and in much better condition.
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    4/12/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    New to our Biographies... In '72 Hughes' Corp. built the Glomar Explorer mining/salvage vessel. To build it, a giant crane barge was made by Sun Shipbuilding. It was all a CIA cover, to recover a wrecked Soviet sub. That crane, the Chesapeake 1000, still works today at the MV Dali-shipwrecked Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, MD.


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    A composite image of 2 paperback books, side by side. On the left: NOW IT CAN BE TOLD. "The Real HOWARD HUGHES Story: His Life and Death 1905-1976" by NELSON C. MADDEN. A bold red tabloid-style banner holds the white-lettered title above a small black and white bust portrait photo of Hughes. On the right: A CLOSEUP VIEW OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST RECLUSE. "I CAUGHT FLIES FOR HOWARD HUGHES – THE FIRST INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE BIZARRE BILLIONAIRE" BY RON KISTLER, A PERSONAL AIDE TO HUGHES FOR THREE YEARS. A close-up illustration of a greying bearded man's face with a fly on his nose, eyes crossed to see the bug, a look of magic annoyance on his face.
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    4/6/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    If "The Spirit of '76" makes you think of Will Eisner instead of America's birthday, you might be a pulp fan.
    When you hear "Psycho" and think of Robert Bloch instead of an ex, you might be a pulp fan.
    Will Eisner's Spirit Casebook 1: True Haunted Houses & Ghosts (1976, 1st print, 1st ed).
    Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (1962, 1st/1st).


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    A composite photo of 2 vintage paperback books. On the left is Will EISNER'S Spirit CASEBOOK 1. TRUE HAUNTED HOUSES & GHOSTS. DOCUMENTED CASE HISTORIES ASSEMBLED FOR YOUR FRIGHT AND ENJOYMENT BY THE GREAT CRIMEFIGHTER. A small tabbed manila folder in the upper left contains the title and a drawing of The Spirit, a detective character created by Will Eisner that began in 1940. The subtitle fills the top half of the cover with ghostly lettering. The lower half features a buxom blonde ghost in a white gown, with a look of terror on her face, flying above a stone parapet at night. A rickety wooden house is visible in the background. The woman's hands appear to have been severed, blood staining the ends of the gown's long sleeves. Cover & interior art by Will Eisner. 1976. On the right is Yours truly, JACK the Ripper. TALES OF HORROR by ROBERT BLOCH, author of PSYCHO. L92-527 Belmont 50¢. The text appears as roughly brushed lettering on a very old brick wall. 1962.
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