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Post by brutalis on Sept 4, 2019 8:34:46 GMT -5
September 1979: Starting up Senior Year of High school and a glorious time for comic book purchasing and reading!
Amazing Spider-Man 199 Avenger 190 Battlestar Galactica 10 Captain America 240 Defenders 78 FF 213 Iron Man 129 Machine Man 12 MTU 88 MTIO 58 MOKF 83 Micronauts 12 Micronauts annual 1 Powerman and Iron Fist 60 Rom 1 Shogun warriors 11 Peter Parker37 Spider-Woman 21 Star Wars 30 Warlord 28 What IF 18X-Men 128
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 4, 2019 20:37:30 GMT -5
In September 1979, I was starting a post-graduate year of Independent Studies at the University of Washington and actively working on a portfolio of samples to submit to Marvel.
Comics I Bought Via Subscription and Still Have: Machine Man #12, Marvel Premiere #51, Marvel Team-Up#88, Thor #290
Comics I Bought Via Subscription But No Longer Have: Amazing Spider-Man #199, Avengers #190, Conan the Barbarian #105, Doctor Strange #38, Fantastic Four #213, Iron Man #129. Power Man #60, Spectacular Spider-Man #37, What If #18, X-Men #128
Comics I Bought as Back Issues and Still Have: Batman #318, Brave and the Bold #157, Conan Annual #5, DC Comics Presents #16, Master of Kung Fu #63, Micronauts #12, Micronauts Annual #2, Shogun Warriors #11, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #1, World's Finest #260
Comics I Bought as Back Issues But No Longer Have: Captain America #140, Defenders #78, Elfquest #5, Marvel Team-Up Annual #2, Spider-Woman #21
Comics I Have Electronic Copies of: Action #502, Detective #487, Flash #280, G.I. Combat #217, Ghost Rider #39, Ghosts #83, Green Lantern #123, House of Mystery #275, Incredible Hulk #243, Jonah Hex #31,Justice League #173, Rom #1, Savage Sword of Conan #46, Secrets of Haunted House #19, Star Wars #30, Super Friends #27, Superboy and the Legion #258, Superman #342, Time Warp #2, Warlord #28, Weird War Tales #82, Weird Western Tales #62, Wonder Woman #262, plus all the others listed above except Elfquest.
Cei-U! Whew!
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Post by zilch on Sept 5, 2019 15:26:10 GMT -5
Amazing Adventures 1 Amazing Spider-Man 199 Avengers 190 Brave and the Bold 157 (Aparo Kamandi!) Captain America 240 (fill-in stuff?) Defenders 78 (why am i still buying this?) Doctor Strange 38 Fantastic Four 213 Fantasy Masterpieces 1 Ghost Rider 39 Green Lantern 123 Hulk 242 Iron Man 129 Justice League of America 173 Marvel Premiere 51 Marvel Super Action 14 (filling in the Avengers run!) Marvel Team-Up 88 Marvel Team-Up Annual 2 Marvel Two-In-One 58 Micronauts 12 Micronauts Annual 1 Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 1 Tales To Astonish 1 Thor 290 (digging the Celestials storyline) Time Warp 2 What If? 18 X-Men 128
'Lemme 'splain...
Started college in late August, living in a dorm for the first time. My creature comforts supplied by by scholarship, i was supplied with monies from my parents each week since my Dad had to retire and i was receiving SSI. Parents sent me $25.00 a week and a six block walk from the dorm was an actual Newsshop, carrying every single comic published (along with porn!)!!
-z
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 2, 2019 20:39:27 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2019 23:07:41 GMT -5
October 1979Conan the Barbarian #106 - I remember liking the cover to this one, with Bob Layton doing the inks. I'd like to have seen more of this Buscema+Layton combination, as I think it looked pretty good here. Don't recall the story off the top of my head. Daredevil #162 - bit of a novelty, seeing Ditko do Daredevil, though of course it would have been much more interesting if it had happened in 1969 rather than 1979. DC Special Series #20 (Swamp Thing) - it was great to have these Wrightson ST issues reprinted - and thankfully on the same kind of paper and colouring as would have been used in the originals earlier in the 70s. I'd read only 3 or 4 of the originals when they'd first come out, so most of these stories it was my first time seeing them. Fantastic Four #214 - remember the cover but not much else; didn't much like the combination of Sinnott with Byrne Fantastic Four Annual #14 - Perez and Sinnott, OTOH, looked better to me, though I thought he wasn't the ideal inker for this penciller either; actually their combination has started to look better to me the last few years than it did at the time. Fantasy Masterpieces #2 (Silver Surfer) - this was my first time reading most of these Silver Surfer comics, as I think I'd read only one or two issues of the original series back in the day. Too bad Marvel snipped the page count, though. An unforgivable practice, in my view. Hulk (magazine) #18 - memorable for the back-up Moon Knight story, if this is the one I'm thinking of, where MK fights his brother. Classic MK, for fans of the character. Marvel Spotlight on Captain Marvel #4 - more Ditko artwork; decent issue, from what I recall, but not outstanding. Marvel Super Special #13: Warriors of the Shadow Realm - I kept reading Moench's fantasy story wherever it appeared in spite of finding it a disappointment in general. Here it was Rudy Nebres's inks, which I didn't think meshed well with Buscema's style. But even the story itself never really grabbed me. Marvel Treasury Edition Featuring the Rampaging Hulk #24 - always liked the Treasury Editions and would usually buy them even if the reprinted stories were only middling. Master of Kung Fu #84 - this series was enjoying one of its best periods, after a couple years of inconsistency, mostly due to an ever-changing roster of artists after Gulacy left. The Zeck/Day team were just what the doctor ordered. Savage Sword of Conan #47 - by this time I was no longer a regular SSoC reader, trying instead to pick and choose specific issues based on the individual content that month; This was one of Norem's better SSoC covers, I thought, in spite of the clichéd "clinging damsel" pose. His "damsels" always had a lot of personality, if that makes any sense, rather than being just generically pretty/sexy girls. Thor #291 - well into the Celestials epic, another rare highlight for Marvel at the time. Tomb of Dracula (mag) #2 - I liked the short-lived ToD mag, even though it never reached anywhere near the heights of the comic series; Ditko's black and white artwork here I remember finding much more satisfying than his colour work for Marvel around this time. X-Men #129 - didn't see this earlier when I looked through Mike's list; I was a regular X-Men reader through most of the Claremont/Cockrum, then Byrne, then Cockrum again era, up to around #150 or a little beyond. Solid superhero stuff with the Byrne/Austin artwork especially making it a little more special than it would have been otherwise.hero
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Post by brutalis on Oct 3, 2019 7:48:54 GMT -5
October 1979
Adventure 467 Amazing Spider-Man 200 Avengers 91 Batman 319 Battlestar Galactica 11 Cerebus 12 Defenders 79 FF 214 FF annual 14 LOSH 259 Marvel Super Special #13: Warriors of the Sahdow Realm MTU 89 MOKF 84 Micronauts 13 ROM 2 Shogun Warriors 12 Spectacular Spier-Man 38 Spider-Woman 22 Star Wars 31 Warlord 29 X-Men 129
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 3, 2019 8:45:31 GMT -5
Here's what I bought off the stands in October 1979: Amazing Adventures #2 ($0.40): X-Men reprints of this vintage appealed to me. I'd always liked the team, and one of the reprint issues of the regular title was among my earliest comics purchases. Brave & Bold #158 ($0.40): Batman and Wonder Woman, featuring a sequence that inspired a scene in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, earning Jim Aparo a screen credit. Defenders #79 ($0.40): This one featured one of the most obscure of the Defenders, Aeroika, who had wings growing out of his head. Fantasy Masterpieces #2 ($0.75): I actually had a copy of the original Silver Surfer #1 that I'd obtained somewhere in my early collecting, and I loved the character, so the opportunity to get reprints of the rest of the run appealed to me. Howard the Duck? #2 ($1.25): I'd grown tired of Howard, but the concept still kept me a devoted buyer into his B&W magazine era under the new pen of Bill Mantlo. Legion of Super-Heroes #259 ($0.40): I liked the team, but was no longer a regular buyer. The departure of Superboy and change in formal title grabbed my attention this month. I would not be following Superboy into his retro solo series, though. Shogun Warriors #12 ($0.40): I just kept buying this one. I wanted to like this Moench/Trimpe giant robot book more than I did, but they must have been doing something right. Tales to Astonish #2 ($0.40): A chance to read the early Sub-Mariner comics. I didn't stick with it for long, because despite rather liking the character, I didn't care for Thomas & Buscema's take on Namor. Tomb of Dracula #2 ($1.25): Ditko's Dracula story was visually impressive, but I could sense this wasn't going to stand up to the classic color run. X-Men #129 ($0.40): I was hooked good on this, like almost everyone else. Total purchase price: $6.05. A good bargain. Cover of the month: Glancing through this month's offerings, the one that stands out the most to me is Marie Severin's Spider-Woman #22, an impressive composition with a cool downward-viewing angle. Seeing the lead character from behind probably would have rankled Stan Lee if he'd been directly involved, although he did allow a few covers with back shots of the star now and then. Comic I'd Most Like to Have but Don't: It'd probably be cool to have Star Reach #18, even though its contents don't appear to have been the best in its run (Lee Marrs cover looks a little crude to me, seems to be reaching for a Gray Morrow style and failing). I remember seeing several issues of this "ground level" (isn't that what they called it?) series, but I never picked one up.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Oct 4, 2019 6:09:59 GMT -5
(...) Cover of the month: Glancing through this month's offerings, the one that stands out the most to me is Marie Severin's Spider-Woman #22, an impressive composition with a cool downward-viewing angle. Seeing the lead character from behind probably would have rankled Stan Lee if he'd been directly involved, although he did allow a few covers with back shots of the star now and then. (...) That is a good cover; the Killer Clown story inside is also pretty solid. Again, I had well over 20 titles that month. Some highlights besides the series I was enjoying the hell out of at the time, like X-men, Iron Man, FF and Avengers, included DC Comics Presents #17, featuring a Superman & Firestorm team up - story is solid, but the art by Garcia Lopez (PBHN) is gorgeous, and Adventure #467 - I was a bit bummed that the dollar format had been dropped, but I took an immediate liking to both the new Plastic Man stories by Pasko and Staton and Starman by Levitz and Ditko.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2019 23:57:34 GMT -5
Wow; not a single comic this month, even with a birthday in it!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 5, 2019 6:27:08 GMT -5
Wow; not a single comic this month, even with a birthday in it! Boggles my mind that someone didn't manage to pick up a single issue in any month during the greatest year in comics. Looking over at the covers at Mike's, I counted 16 that I had for certain, and there were a few that I think I had because I was following the series, but the covers didn't look familiar. Here's some highlights for me:
Yep, I was quite a Marvel fanboy at the time, but I was really enjoying the Starman and Plastic Man features in Adventure (and I picked up a few other DCs then, but I just wasn't enjoying them as much). Marvel was, of course, churning out reprints at the time, and I was happy to get a chance to read the early adventures of the X-men and savor John Buscema's gorgeous art in the Silver Surfer stories in Fantasy Masterpieces. I snapped up She-Hulk because it was a first issue! A collector's item! And ... it was o.k. More nice art by Buscema - who didn't come back to do any more, so I dropped it after the second or third issue. Spiderwoman, though, was looking really nice with Trevor von Eeden's doing the pencils, and the stories were solid (not as good as the earlier stuff by Wolfman, though, and I recall dropping the series somewhere around #30). Although the Project Pegasus arc was over, Marvel 2-in-1 was still a top-notch fun series, and, of course, Michelinie/Layton's Iron Man was humming along nicely. Marvel Premiere was in the middle of the Black Panther story in which the little "editor's note" boxes got me so intrigued that I eventually tracked down and bought the Jungle Action issues that contained the original Klan story, so discovered the magic of McGregor's Black Panther.
And then there was that one book that frustrated the hell out of me... ...because I never got it! I had still not discovered comic book shops, and this one never appeared on the spinner racks of any of the grocery, convenience or drug stores that I frequented to get my comics fix. Many, many years would pass before I finally read this one.
By the way, according to Mike's Newsstand, X-men Annual #3... ...was on sale in November 1979, which can't be true. I know memory is a tricky thing, but I'm dead sure I picked this one up sometime in the summer of that year, probably July, or maybe even June, because I recall first reading it outside under the shade of a tree (there's no way I could have done that in Oregon in November). Also, I kind of remember that X-men were still in the Proteus arc when this annual appeared. This isn't the first time I've noticed that the "on sale" month cited for annuals at Mike's is a bit off...
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Post by brutalis on Nov 5, 2019 7:46:28 GMT -5
November 1979. The righteous winter of Senior year in high School and one of the best times ever for comic book collecting!
Amazing Spider-Man 201 Avengers 192 Batman 320 Battlestar Galactica 12 Captain America 242 Defenders 80 FF 215 Hulk 233 Iron Man 131 LOSH 260 Machine Man 13 MTU 90 MTIO 60 MOKF 85 Micronauts 14 Powerman/Iron Fist 61 ROM 3 She Hulk 1 Shogun Warriors 13 Spectacular Spider-Man 39 Spider-Woman 23 Star Wars 32 Thor 292 Time Warp 3 Warlord 30 X-Men 130
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 5, 2019 8:00:42 GMT -5
(...) one of the best times ever for comic book collecting! Yup.
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 5, 2019 12:48:15 GMT -5
Bought back in the day: Avengers #192 Fantastic Four #215 Justice League of America #175 Legion of Super-Heroes #260 Marvel Super Action #16 Micronauts #14 X-Men #130 X-Men Annual #3
Bought much more recently: Defenders #80 Machine Man #13 Rom #3 Shogun Warriors #13
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Post by dbutler69 on Nov 5, 2019 12:49:05 GMT -5
November 1979. The righteous winter of Senior year in high School and one of the best times ever for comic book collecting! I agree. This was a good time to be a comic collector!!
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 5, 2019 14:16:58 GMT -5
I was buying a lot of comics by this point, I might've even been up to 2 out of every 3 Marvels in a month. There were a few titles that I couldn't find the next issue. Defenders seemed to be like that for me. I think I tried a DC again now and then but didn't really get going on any of their titles until the last few 40 centers and first 50 centers... and yet I managed to miss New Teen Titans until #12. I bought Flash, Batman and Green Lantern regularly starting not too long after this time, and then All-Star Squadron #1 was the first DC #1 I think I got from off the racks, by then I had a bunch of Marvel #1s. Oh, and there were bagged 'Modern Comics' reprints of various Charltons... I first saw E-Man and some others this way. I even ended up with a couple duplicates of horror titles I gave to a friend whose father threw them out as trash, I found I knew a few kids who were banned from having any 'junk' comics (one was allowed Tin Tin in French though). Long time after Dr. Wertham, but I wondered if that was where that stigmatization for parents started?
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