Background
Hollinger was born in Chapman, Kansas, and lived there through his high school years.
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He played football and baseball for the McPherson Bulldogs until he graduated in 1912 with a liberal arts degree.
Career
He set up his retail and mail order shop for new and used comics in Concordia, Kansas, in the late 1930s. After high school, he purchased a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and camera, then proceeded to travel the Midwest earning money for gas and food by selling photos he took along the way. In 1908, Hollinger married and in the same year enrolled at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas.
In 1933 he retired from his teaching job to become self-employed running a service station and operated a secondhand store as a sideline in the basement of a local grocer.
In 1939, People’s transitioned to selling mainly periodicals and comic books People’s Hollinger ran his used comic book store from 1939 until 1971.
People’s bought and sold old comic books throughout the Golden Age and Silver Age. People’s was in business when SUPERMAN #1, BATMAN #1, CAPTAIN AMERICA #1, AMAZING SPIDER-Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg #1, FANTASTIC FOUR #1 and all the other classic Golden Age and Silver Age books hit the stands.
Inventions Hollinger held several patents, including a Tray Dispenser (patent 4323168), a method and apparatus for dispensing flexible trays.
