Wanderer Owl
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| Name: | Wanderer Owl |
| Owner/Maintainer: | |
| Dates: | 2005 – c. May 2017 |
| Type: | doujinshi vendor |
| Fandom: | various |
| URL: | http://www.wanderer-owl.com wanderer_owl Yahoo! group (defunct) |
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Wanderer Owl was a "doujinshi and comic goods" vendor based in Thailand. They shipped internationally and their website was available in both Thai and English.
The site primarily sold Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Fullmetal Alchemist doujinshi, but also sold products from a number of other fandoms.
The site officially closed in early 2017.[1]
History
Before moving to wanderer-owl.com, Wanderer Owl's webpage was located at GeoCities. It moved in 2009, shortly before GeoCities's closure in late October.[2] The Wayback Machine first archived the site in April 2005, which shows updates back to March 2, 2005.[3]
Wanderer Owl's Yahoo! Groups mailing list was founded on May 5, 2005. As of 2013, the group had been last updated in May 2012, with the last new doujinshi announcement in August 2011.[4] As of June 2017, the Yahoo! group has been deleted and the website states that it has "closed shop".
References
- ^ The Wayback Machine last archived the site on 08 October 2016, at which time it was still open. As of 04 June 2017, the site's main page states: "CLOSED SHOP. Thank you for your support all these years. ^^" Google cache results suggest that the site was still online as of 14 May 2017.
- ^ geocities.com/wanderer_owl/, archived by the Wayback Machine 19 October 2009.
- ^ geocities.com/wanderer_owl/, archived 12 April 2005.
- ^ wanderer_owl : Messages at Yahoo! Groups. (Accessed 07 April 2013.)