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<\/a><\/p>\nI can’t count the times someone in the Bullpen would cry out, “I’m heading up to Supersnipe” as the day wound down, and we’d march en masse from 575 Madison Avenue to 84th Street and Second Avenue to squeeze into the tiny store (seen above in an image borrowed from Sean Howe’s blog<\/a>) that was the<\/em> comics shop of the day. And when I say tiny, I mean it. In my memory, no more than half a dozen people could squeeze inside at a time, as most of the narrow store was behind the counter.<\/p>\n This was long before the Forbidden Planet superstore made its appearance, so early in the history of comics shops, in fact, that it was perhaps the first comics shop in Manhattan, and according to some, the first comics shop in all of New York City. Yes, there were plenty of used magazine and book stores back then that had comics sections, but this was the first store entirely dedicated to them.<\/p>\n Ed named his business after Supersnipe<\/em><\/a>, a comic published in the ’40s about “the boy with the most comic books in the world.” (Something I think we all wanted to be.)<\/p>\n Though I never got to know him well, he was always a friendly guy the multiple times per month I’d see him, and when I’d run into him at NYC-area conventions. We’d only talk comics, so I never learned until later about a whole other side of him, a cinematic side much more important to the wider world. It’s one hinted at by the wonderful photo below, via the 13th Dimension blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n