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<DIV>In a message dated 6/14/2004 1:11:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bangfish@cableone.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>>Dell was in serious financial straits by the late 1950s</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>what's your source for this? Not saying that you're wrong, but it goes against conventional wisdom. My understanding is that Dell was still the number one selling comic publisher in the late 1950s (source: interview with Irwin Donenfeld, publisher of DC comics), and one of the leading publishers of magazines and paperbacks in the late 1950s. (source was advance look at summary of an article in an upcoming or recently out Alter-Ego quoting various newsources from the late 50s, when Dell broke away from distributor ANC to do their own inhouse distribution, thus leading to the collapse of ANC as a distributor.</DIV>
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<DIV>steven rowe</DIV></BODY></HTML>