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Article: Comic book collectors gather up.(General News)(A show draws all manner of experts to partake in this annual hunting ritual)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2006
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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard
If you don't know who Carl Barks is, if you subscribe to the misguided notion that comic books are to be read and not entombed in plastic, if you stopped collecting action figures before you reached your teens - well, then, you don't know what you're missing.
What you missed was the fourth annual Eugene Comic Book and Collectible Show at the Lane Events Center.
More than 300 visitors and 55 vendors attended the Sunday show, a benefit for the Cottage Grove Lions Club. The gathering was part of a time-honored ritual in the comic book subculture - one of at least 15 comic book conventions held over the ...