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...postpubescent consumers snatched up all 250,000 copies with a WHOOOSH! Not even the X-Men are a match for Shonen Jump; issues of the most popular U.S. comic books rarely see print runs of more than 150,000. "It's a crazy amount of sales," says Robert Bricken, managing editor of the New York-based comic fanzine Anime Insider. "By all indications [Shonen Jump] is the best-selling product in the history of American comic publishing...
...years. For example, the archives of Dragon Ball Z?a tale of galactic war over a set of wish-granting orbs?run to 8,000 pages printed over more than a decade. But Shonen Jump may not need to appeal to hard-core superhero junkies. Anime Insider's Bricken says most people who bought the first issue were not regular comic buyers; sales came primarily from mainstream retail outlets, such as bookstores and newsstands. Japanese comics appeal to a wider audience because they "are more sophisticated, better drawn, the storytelling is more compelling and they're easier to get into...
...Gordon Bricken, mayor of Santa Ana, brought up another advantage of the get-together: "It looks great on my resume...
...years in the Senate, Young has been one of its most liberal members. His first feat, and by no means his least, was the unseating of Senator John W. Bricken in 1958. Few Ohio Democrats--none of consequence, anyway--had wanted to take Bricker on, and the 69-year-old Young won the nomination by default. During the campaign, he tried to use Bricker's conservatism for all it was worth, or not worth ("My opponent is John W. Bricker, the darling of the reactionaries."), and, to the surprise of one and all, he won the election handily...
...other conductors as Basil Cameron and Nikolai Sokoloff had left Seattle shaking their heads and wringing their hands. Halfempty houses, rickety budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition signed by 50-odd members of the orchestra asking that he be sacked, but he finally quit on his own last January...