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    Hudson News in lobby of the Conde Nast Building, 4 Times Square, New York City, yesterday.

    Radar has sold out its "first" issue in New York, Los Angeles, and Tampa, Maer Roshan told WWD. We were skeptical, and so were you, our vigilant readers. So we took a look at our corner newsstand yesterday, where, sure enough, we found Radars for sale. We asked you: Was our discovery an anomaly, or is Maer's mag actually not sold out throughout the city?

    Thanks to your observant eyes and high-tech camera phones, we now know that, no, Radar is not sold out in New York. It's certainly availble at the Conde Nast newsstand, above. There's plenty more photographic and anecdotal evidence — including a homeless mag hawker and a Los Angeles sighting — all after the jump.

    But we'll give Maer this: We have no reason to doubt the mag sold out in Tampa.

    "Radar #1 sold out? Why did I see it in the Union Square B&N last night?"

    "Funnily enough the Universal News on Broadway in Soho is displaying Radar in its window. There must be about 10 copies lined up there."

    "There's a wall of 'em for sale on Broadway between Broome and Grand. But maybe that doesn't count as New York?"

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    Exterior of Universal News, Broadway and Broome Street, New York City, yesterday.

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    Interior of Universal News, Broadway and Broome Street, New York City, yesterday.

    "I definitely saw Radar at the Hudson News in Grand Central on Monday. If it's not sold out there, it's not sold out anywhere. That place is a revolving door of magazine greedy Westchester kids with nothing to do on their ride back to Larchmont. I should know. I am one."

    "Not only is Radar not sold out at the Hudson News located in the midtown office tower I "work" in, they are using many of their remaining copies as filler in displays behind magazines that actually sell, an honor previously reserved for that location's 5,000 copies of US News & World Report's Da Vinci Code Special Edition."

    "There are about 30 copies of Radar on display at the Borders in the Time Warner Center. In fact, the only reason I noticed them is because there were so damn many of them."

    "Sorry, my cell phone is so old I carry it in a briefcase, so no pictures. But I saw a copy of Radar in the Marina Barnes & Noble (in L.A.) yesterday while I wasn't buying it."

    "I spotted Radar at the Hudson News that faces the platforms at the 33rd St. PATH last night, just before midnight."

    "If you enter Port Authority at the doors just before 41st Street, make a left at the newsstand and head up the escalator, at the top you'll encounter another newsstand PLASTERED with copies of Radar. I hate being lied to and in the midst of a desperate attempt to get a mediocre brand in the headlines."

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    Hudson News, North Building of Port Authority Bus Terminal, Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City, yesterday.

    "Radar is still festering on the racks and even though I can't offer photographic evidence, here's my anecdotal addition: The store in the lobby of the building I work in at 51st and 7th most definitely still has multiple copies available. Granted, considering most of the people in the building are lawyers or bankers, this isn't Radar's prime demographic, but whatever."

    "Look Ma! It's Radar! At the 49th and 6th N/R subway stop at 4:30pm on Wednesday."

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    Newsstand in MTA Subway station, 49th Street and Sixth Avenue, New York City, yesterday.

    "I work at Borders bookstore on Wall Street, where the same five copies of Radar have been sititng on the shelf for months. It doesn't seem even to have been glanced through, unless of course a customer picked it up and then put it back where it belongs afterward. Which never, never, ever happens."

    "A Radar trifecta! From the news stand in the McGraw-Hill building. Thanks Maer! Keep up the good work! You're an inspiration to people everwhere!"

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    Newsstand, lobby of the McGraw-Hill Building, Sixth Avenue and 48th Street, New York City, yesterday.

    "It's official, they've arrived. I just saw a homeless man on Seventh Ave. selling the last two issues of Radar. I asked, 'How much?' 'One for 75 . Both for a dollar.' I passed but gave him a buck anyway."

    Earlier: The Greatest American Magazine Launch: 'Radar' Sells Out


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