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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 23 March 2018 at 9:28am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
As I said, I’m no longer in LA, and I kept seeing what Meltdown was up to through multiple avenues. I thought they had a pretty broad reach.
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Not to belabor the point, but I'm a comic book fan living in Hollywood all my life and I never heard of the place until just a very few years ago.  Are any of those avenues you mention something that would have reached somebody not in the know?  

Come to think of it, I have no idea how I ever found the Golden Apple store as a teenager either.  I may have just come across it.

The comic book store I regularly go to now I only found because I happened to drive by it on Free Comic Book Day and they had a guy dressed as (movie) Thor waving outside.  That got me inside and the 20% discount (originally 15% for non-regulars) kept me coming back.
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 Shawn Kane wrote:
I agree with Eric. "Read the latest issue!" is great. I bought the G.I. Joe comic in 1982 specifically because I saw the commercial for the first issue. That was before I saw the toys!

I'm sure other toy franchises did the same.

I watched and read He-Man comics before I ever really knew about the toys. There was "cross-pollination".
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Right but Marvel had a commercial for the actual comic. I didn't even know about the action figures until I bought the comic. I want to say that the toy commercials started about a month or so later. I remember a buddy of mine had Zap and I was like "he doesn't look like that in comic!". Of course, Breaker (my favorite) looked different and didn't have the bubble gum, I guess it would have gotten in the action figure's beard :)
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Not to belabor the point, but I'm a comic book fan living in Hollywood all my life and I never heard of the place until just a very few years ago.  Are any of those avenues you mention something that would have reached somebody not in the know?   

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Yes. For the most part, this forum is really the only comic book specific site I spend any time on, yet I frequently encounter stuff that’s going on at Meltdown. 
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