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Post a Comment. Prior to that, comics were sold at bookstores, newsstands, drugstores, and thrift shops. The specialty shop allowed customers to gave fans a hub for their fantasy fix. However, after more than three decades of selling comic books, Barbasa sold his shop to some of his former clients who opted to retain the name for brand recall.

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When Barbasa first made his way to Manila after graduating from college in Capiz, Roxas City, during the early s, all he knew was he had dreams of making it big. While the big city left him in awe and sometimes troubled he once lost PhP to a pickpocket in Avenida and this was huge money at that time when a bottle of soda used to cost ten centavos , he saw what the city had to offer.

Fil first made a name for himself wholesaling bangus but he knew there was more to life than selling fish so he became an sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. While walking along Ayala Avenue one time, he saw a sign atop one of the windows that this company was looking for an account executive. Only, he did and in doing so, earned huge commissions that were even massive for the time.

As fate would have it, there were two chance incidents that put him on the path to comic books — one was while on his daily trips to the bank to deposit money or commissions, two, while watching a bunch of kids buy comic books by the stack in a shop from Greenhills. By now, Fil had left the magazine distribution company he worked for to put up his own.

Intrigued by the number of comic books selling at this shop from Greenhills, he learned that the source was at Avenida and Escolta. After a day or two, they had all sold out. Finally, he went to Olongapo, the source of the comics that came from American servicemen who discarded their books for some money.

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And since comic books were numbered and in sequential order, it was difficult to get them. What was the most popular comic book back then? Fil remembered the bank teller who had a relative who was a stewardess who made routine trips to the United States.