Often used to display magazines, paperbacks,[1] greeting cards, postcards, hats, or seeds, the spinner rack is closely associated with the comic book industry.
A typical spinner rack is composed of a metal central spine with wire pockets, baskets, or pegs.
)[2] Author George R. R. Martin, in writing about the spinner racks he knew as a child, notes that they offered a hodge-podge of titles (in his case paperbacks) regardless of genre, and thus exposed readers to a wide variety of writing, as opposed to the modern bookstore, where books are generally categorized by topic.
[6] Spinner racks also suffered in reputation because, as The Thought Balloon blog notes, they: "...typically exposed comic books to potential physical damage by virtue of how they display them.
[8] In the years 2018–2019, however, nostalgia[7] for comic book spinner racks[a] motivated some manufacturers to offer them again, both for stores, conventions, and for individual collectors to keep in their homes.