Thursday Afternoon

The electricity in my neighborhood just came back on after being out all morning so the second chapter of my Batman article will be a little tardy getting up here.

Several folks e-mailed to tell me, in case I didn't know, that a liquor store in New York sold only liquor and nothing else. One person informed me they didn't even sell tobacco products. I guess I knew that. I was just surprised back in 1970 that the head of DC Comics, after telling us they were dealing with all sorts of distribution problems didn't know that a substantial portion of their product being sold in California was sold in places called liquor stores.