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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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    5/10/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    Right now, visit the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration site and find out if you might get to see the northern lights this weekend.

    https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

    But don't count on getting super powers!

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    8 graphic novel spines and one cover, featuring Marvel's Fantastic Four superhero team, as follows: Fantastic Four, Heroes Return–The Complete Collection, Volume 1. Fantastic Four 1: Fourever. Fantastic Four 3: The Herald of Doom. Fantastic Four 5: Point of Origin. Fantastic Four 8: The Bride of Doom. Fantastic Four–Visionaries: Byrne Fantastic Four–Visionaries: Péréz, Vols. 1 & 2.
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    2/13/24 — Happy Birthday, Grandma!
    Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    The ancestors are always near. Grandma Ruth Bonnett reminds me to straighten things up. The shop was her space. While Grandpa Harold was visiting publishers, Grandma kept the store in order, for almost 60 years.

    Color inset photo by Walter Bonnett, in the shop, ca. early-1980s.

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    A black and white photo of boxes piled high with a stack of books in the foreground and slightly to the right of frame. Above the books is a color inset photo of an elderly woman peering sternly over her glasses into the camera. A caption below her reads, "Get this place cleaned up..."
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    2/6/24 — after-work post. Open 2/7/24 from 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

    Working on really cool old LIFE magazines. This photo hit home today, 62 years after it's publication. Our shop was already about 23 years old when this magazine was new.


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    A picture of a large black and white photo across two pages of a February 2, 1962 "LIFE" magazine. In the photo, a young man with short dark wavy hair, wearing thick rimmed glasses, a light-colored collared shirt, a dark cardigan sweater, dark trousers with cuffs, white socks, and black Oxford shoes, sits crouched forward on a padded seat with chrome legs, reading a thick magazine, as follows: "128 pages of Tax Information that can save you money. NEW EXPANDED EDITION. $1 America's Favorite INCOME TAX GUIDE. The Tax Digest, Inc. New York." Most of the, then New, comics have a cover price of twelve cents. Titles and characters visible in the photo include: Woody Woodpecker, "GIRLS' ROMANCES," BATMAN, "Walt Disney's DONALD DUCK ALBUM," Dennis the Menace, "SUPERBOY," "Playful LITTLE AUDREY," "LIFE with Archie," King Leonardo, Barbie, Looney Tunes, Baby Huey, Archie Comics "LAUGH," "MYSTERY IN SPACE," "WORLD'S FINEST," "Mickey Mouse," "Huckleberry Hound," Bugs Bunny, "UNCLE $CROOGE," "Adventure Comics," "Archie's MAD HOUSE," "SUPERMAN'S PAL Jimmy Olsen," and more.
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