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When I was growing up began reading the old pulp novels from the twenties through the fifties.
The Shadow.
Doc Savage.
The Avenger.
The Spider.
The phantom. On and on.
Reprints were on several imprints, notably Bantam, Pyramid, and Ace.
But as they came out, the publishers didn't ship each title everywhere. Booksellers couldn't even order them.
In the late nineties many of the titles which had originally been published in magazine format had the copyrights lapse, and I was able to get complete collections.
When ereaders came a format shift allowed me to make my collection portable.
Then I got hooked and started spending lots of money.
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