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SkyMall is back!

Jessica Durando
USA TODAY
SkyMall is coming back to airplanes by the end of the year.

Is SkyMall the comeback kid of the retailer industry? You bet your 100-watt hand-held garment steamer with travel pouch and accessories ($29.99) it is.

On Twitter, SkyMall said that folks can purchase products online at SkyMall.com and is expected to be back on planes by the year's end, according to the Huffington Post.

The eccentric catalog announced early this month on social media that "we have new owners who are working on bringing it back."

The former parent company of the airline catalog, Xhibit Corp., filed for bankruptcy in January, citing a funding crisis.

In April, SkyMall was purchased by New Jersey-based company C&A Marketing for under $2 million.

"There's a lot to do with a well-recognized brand that has a certain DNA, a certain expectation and a certain promise, Chaim Pikarski, C&A's executive vice president, told NJBIZ in April. "It's just that the delivery and the catalogs were a little stale and outdated, both in terms of people having other forms of entertainment and the changing of the times."

When the HuffPo spoke with Pikarski about the return of the catalog on planes, he confirmed that it would be by the fourth quarter of the year. Which airplanes will carry the catalog is not public knowledge yet.