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“The Amazing Spiderman is coming to JCPenny”

Philip Reed February 14, 2016

Do superheroes still make appearances at stores? I only ask because this 1981 Spiderman newspaper advertisement had me starting to wonder when the whole “visit your favorite character at the mall!” thing ended. This sounds like the sort of information that Plaid Stallions would have already researched and posted, right?

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