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 Does anyone know about Whitman from the seventies?
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I used to have some Whitman version comics from the seventies and i just saw some for sale on Ebay. Hadn't thought about that in years.
Does anyone know anything about it? If you do I would love a rundown. Was it just a company that bought reprint rights?
Thanks.
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My understanding is that Whitman was a Canadian company that had the rights to publish the DC line in Canada. I've run across them a few times. If I'm not mistaken, most times it was in those three for one plastic wrapped comicbook sets that you could often find on sale at stores like K-Mart etc.
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ah, the good old Whitman comics. They turned up frequently in supermarket/convenient store 3-packs. Many were grab-bags, sorted for no particular reason; the middle comic would be a mystery. Unfortunaltey, the first 6 Star Wars issues were packaged that way, in 2 labelled 3-packs; thus I got those instead of the more valuable first editions.
The 2nd part of the Earthwar was a popular 3-packer; I've seen numerous Whitman editions of that. In fact, my current copy is one. #248 or 249, too.
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Whitman 3 packs were how I got my Legion issues for the first year or so. Once I read an issue of Legion off a spinner rack and bought it, I searched every 7-11, bookstore and drugstore and toy store that I could find comics in for more, and I found me a whole bunch of 3 packs of Legion in the #240s and 250s. Gobbled them up quickly!!! 
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A Whitman 3-pack was how I got my first Legion comic! I didn't know what was coming out of that three-pack, but a (nearly) life-long connection was born.
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Now that I think about it, I think one of my first Legion comics was in a Whitman pack.
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Whitman was the same corporate entity that sold Children's books under the "Little Golden Books" Banner amongst others. They reprinted comics for distribution outside the news stand system. I remember them displayed in the toy departments of the discount department stores back in the day.
May have even bought a few. They were promptly dsetroyed in the reading process.
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