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Post by Farrar on Oct 6, 2017 15:49:29 GMT -5
So weird. I had the same experience maybe a year later; I'd finally started to see Avengers on the stands with #50 and become a big fan. Then in some out of the way candy store I no longer remember, I found #s 45-48! All at once! All for cover price! Such were the vagaries of comic collecting in those days... Wasn't it fun? I felt as if I had stumbled upon some buried treasure. Guess the store owner forgot to send back #44, or tear off the cover. The issue was beautifully intact and on sale for the cover price (as yours were). My first back issue  Unfortunately that never happened again (or maybe it did, but not for any of the series I was reading back then--Avengers, FF, X-Men, plus some DCs). But I loved that I had snagged an older issue, even if it was only just a few months old. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 7, 2017 0:55:30 GMT -5
Thor #147 - This is the only one I'm pretty sure I did read at the time. I remember the scene with Loki in the cab and Thor snatching his glasses off and thinking Loki looked cool in a sinister way in street clothes. Great cover: I don't know if any other comic artist can get across the impression of force the way Kirby does with Loki punching through that brick wall.
Spider-Man #56 is a possibility as well, but I'm not nearly as confidant on this one. I don't have the issue here to check, but I know my first Spider-Man comics would have been around this time or a few months later, and the idea of him seemingly going bad and joining Dr. Octopus rings a vague bell. OTOH, the cover doesn't jump out at me as something I remember reading at the time, so without looking at the interior pages I can't say for sure.
I'm even less sure about FF #70. Here the situation is reversed from Spider-Man: the cover does look familiar, but I do have a copy and leafing through the pages it seems to me I did not read this story back in the day but rather years later, though I could be wrong. So my tentative conclusion is that I saw the cover somewhere, whether on a corner store rack or at someone's house, but never actually read the comic through. Or if I did, it didn't leave an impression, which seems unlikely, because other FF comics I read around this time definitely did.
As for my other then-near-future favourites, I know I didn't get to read this month's Daredevil until sometime in the late 70s when I was able to find several back issues from the early Colan days. And I didn't read the multi-part Yandroth story from Dr. Strange until it was reprinted in a DS Annual sometime around I think 1975. This month's Avengers cover and story don't look familiar at all, so I don't think I ever even saw it until decades later in the internet era.
A couple other random comments/questions:
had the Galactic Gladiator from that Doom Patrol cover ever shown up again? I would have liked thata t the time and still think it's a cool name and look.
Not sure I ever knew there was an Invaders comic. I was a big fan of the show as a small kid and also read the Whitman(?) book - this was a company that put out a lot of books based on tv shows, all aimed at a young audience as far as I know. I actually remember the book better than the tv show, since I've never seen the show since it ended, while we still have the book on a shelf somewhere back home (must remember to salvage that next time I go home).
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 7, 2017 11:35:46 GMT -5
Thor #147 - This is the only one I'm pretty sure I did read at the time. I remember the scene with Loki in the cab and Thor snatching his glasses off and thinking Loki looked cool in a sinister way in street clothes. Great cover: I don't know if any other comic artist can get across the impression of force the way Kirby does with Loki punching through that brick wall. Spider-Man #56 is a possibility as well, but I'm not nearly as confidant on this one. I don't have the issue here to check, but I know my first Spider-Man comics would have been around this time or a few months later, and the idea of him seemingly going bad and joining Dr. Octopus rings a vague bell. OTOH, the cover doesn't jump out at me as something I remember reading at the time, so without looking at the interior pages I can't say for sure. I'm even less sure about FF #70. Here the situation is reversed from Spider-Man: the cover does look familiar, but I do have a copy and leafing through the pages it seems to me I did not read this story back in the day but rather years later, though I could be wrong. So my tentative conclusion is that I saw the cover somewhere, whether on a corner store rack or at someone's house, but never actually read the comic through. Or if I did, it didn't leave an impression, which seems unlikely, because other FF comics I read around this time definitely did. As for my other then-near-future favourites, I know I didn't get to read this month's Daredevil until sometime in the late 70s when I was able to find several back issues from the early Colan days. And I didn't read the multi-part Yandroth story from Dr. Strange until it was reprinted in a DS Annual sometime around I think 1975. This month's Avengers cover and story don't look familiar at all, so I don't think I ever even saw it until decades later in the internet era. A couple other random comments/questions:
had the Galactic Gladiator from that Doom Patrol cover ever shown up again? I would have liked thata t the time and still think it's a cool name and look.Not sure I ever knew there was an Invaders comic. I was a big fan of the show as a small kid and also read the Whitman(?) book - this was a company that put out a lot of books based on tv shows, all aimed at a young audience as far as I know. I actually remember the book better than the tv show, since I've never seen the show since it ended, while we still have the book on a shelf somewhere back home (must remember to salvage that next time I go home). berkey, that Galactic Gladaitor did indeed have a great look to him. He did not reappear in the original run, which only lasted another five issues, and AFAIK, not in any of the successive incarnations of the DP. SPOILER ALERT: I say this with confidence only because the GG was essentially a robotic shell that encased one of the characters, who was using it as away to dissuade three grotesque mutants from destroying the Earth. The clue to the readers about the identtiy of the GG was that he supposedly came from the planet "Selin." Get it?  |
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2017 19:55:43 GMT -5
Thor #147 - This is the only one I'm pretty sure I did read at the time. I remember the scene with Loki in the cab and Thor snatching his glasses off and thinking Loki looked cool in a sinister way in street clothes. Great cover: I don't know if any other comic artist can get across the impression of force the way Kirby does with Loki punching through that brick wall. Spider-Man #56 is a possibility as well, but I'm not nearly as confidant on this one. I don't have the issue here to check, but I know my first Spider-Man comics would have been around this time or a few months later, and the idea of him seemingly going bad and joining Dr. Octopus rings a vague bell. OTOH, the cover doesn't jump out at me as something I remember reading at the time, so without looking at the interior pages I can't say for sure. I'm even less sure about FF #70. Here the situation is reversed from Spider-Man: the cover does look familiar, but I do have a copy and leafing through the pages it seems to me I did not read this story back in the day but rather years later, though I could be wrong. So my tentative conclusion is that I saw the cover somewhere, whether on a corner store rack or at someone's house, but never actually read the comic through. Or if I did, it didn't leave an impression, which seems unlikely, because other FF comics I read around this time definitely did. As for my other then-near-future favourites, I know I didn't get to read this month's Daredevil until sometime in the late 70s when I was able to find several back issues from the early Colan days. And I didn't read the multi-part Yandroth story from Dr. Strange until it was reprinted in a DS Annual sometime around I think 1975. This month's Avengers cover and story don't look familiar at all, so I don't think I ever even saw it until decades later in the internet era. A couple other random comments/questions:
had the Galactic Gladiator from that Doom Patrol cover ever shown up again? I would have liked thata t the time and still think it's a cool name and look.Not sure I ever knew there was an Invaders comic. I was a big fan of the show as a small kid and also read the Whitman(?) book - this was a company that put out a lot of books based on tv shows, all aimed at a young audience as far as I know. I actually remember the book better than the tv show, since I've never seen the show since it ended, while we still have the book on a shelf somewhere back home (must remember to salvage that next time I go home). berkey, that Galactic Gladaitor did indeed have a great look to him. He did not reappear in the original run, which only lasted another five issues, and AFAIK, not in any of the successive incarnations of the DP. SPOILER ALERT: I say this with confidence only because the GG was essentially a robotic shell that encased one of the characters, who was using it as away to dissuade three grotesque mutants from destroying the Earth. The clue to the readers about the identtiy of the GG was that he supposedly came from the planet "Selin." Get it? No! Is it something to do with the Doom Patrol or whoever that character inside it was? |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 8, 2017 22:32:58 GMT -5
berkley, it does indeed. 'Ll say no more so I don't spoil it.
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2017 23:57:10 GMT -5
berkley , it does indeed. 'Ll say no more so I don't spoil it. OK, I'll have to restrain myself from trying to look it up on the internet before I have a chance to read the actual comic. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 31, 2017 15:57:01 GMT -5
(Putting this up early b/c tomorrow's the first day for oystering and I'll be busy.) November, 1967.Finally I’m starting to find Marvel Comics with some regularity thanks to the various new candy stores I can visit while walking to the Public Service bus to get home from high school.    And even though I can’t find them all, I can keep up with what’s going on in the Marvel Universe thanks to Bullpen Bulletins… another of Stan’s brilliant PR devices.  Two more I'd never bought for myself, but really enjoyed.   Had seen this one below years before, but never had seen one on the stands.  Over at DC, I pick up comics I’ve never been able to find before.    House of Mystery, which I grabbed because I had always liked the Martian Manhunter. At last, it seemed, I’d be able to follow his adventures, which I hadn’t seen since he’d been switched to HoM from Detective three years earlier. Naturally, J’onn J’onzz would lose his slot in HoM 173. Spectre 2 was my first encounter with Neal Adams (outside of the cover of Superboy 143, which had made me buy that issue), and I was stupefied. Never had I seen artwork like this; Adams, quickly followed by Steranko, became the first “event” artists of the Silver Age. Revolutionary, and he finally was turned loose on Batman, DC Comics shifted on its axis. Showcase 72 was my first DC Western. The genre had bled dry years before at DC, with only Tomahawk – set during the Revolution -- still hanging in there. ( Still had never seen one of those on the stands!) The beautifully violent cover alone (one that has remained among my all-time favorites) was enough to make me buy it, and I hoped that my buying it would mean that DC would put out a Western comic. And maybe it did, because Bat Lash appeared the next summer in Showcase and two months later in his own book. And speaking of favorite covers, and comics, there’s Batman 198, which I have rhapsodized about enough before if you care to read about it: Suffice it to say that in addition to that cover, which could not have been more compelling in its power and urgency, the story of Batman’s hunt for Joe Chill was every Warner Brothers crime movie I’d ever watched come to life. That story alone was worth my quarter of a dollar. I can still remember falling into that comic the first time and many times later. Those 80-pagers offered a total immersion in tradition, history and excitement that few other reading experiences offered. |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 1, 2017 16:37:03 GMT -5
November 1967. DCThe only DC I obtained back then was Adventure #364. To underscore how hit-or-miss comic availability was in my neighborhood, the most recent Adv. comic I'd manage to obtain had been #360. However, I recall being somewhat disapppointed with #364's story after #359-360's epic two-parter; and the interior art (by Pete Costanza) was definitely a step down IMO from those Curt Swan issues. Still, I was glad to finally find a Legion comic on sale at the candy store!  MarvelI had much better luck with Marvel and I managed to pick up Avengers #48, Fantastic Four #71 and X-Men #40. I must've had some extra pocket change that month or something. I was always far more interested in team books and not the solo books; but as Prince Hal mentioned above, the Bullpen Bulletins/Marvel Checklist kept readers up to date, so I knew the various characters and felt as if I was reading many other Marvel mags, even though these three team series were the only Marvels I sought out and bought on a regular basis. Milestones: As I mentioned last month, I'd read X-Men #39 courtesy of a classmate; but #40 was the very first X comic I actually owned I owned FF #68 and #69, but had missed #70 (though again, I'd read it at school courtesy of the aforementioned classmate). Anyway, starting with #71 and over the next few years I was able to buy every subsequent issue of FF at the newsstands/candy stores, all the way through #117 (1971), which is when I stopped reading the series.    The bonus for me this month was Not Brand Echh #6, with its cover featuring Johnny and Crystal and a bunch of very colorful strangely-garbed characters. I knew Spidey from the TV cartoon and I'd remembered seeing Medusa and the other Inhumans previously in the intriguing house ads for FF Annual #5.  This NBE issue actually filled in some of the blanks for me regarding the Inhumans, such as the fact that Crystal and Medusa were sisters.  All in all it was a great month for me comics buying-wise.
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Post by zilch on Nov 1, 2017 22:18:49 GMT -5
Well, it's official.
It's the earliest comic i can remember reading.
Marvel Tales #13.
Coverless in the back seat of the '67 Dodge Dart (Dad hated that car. Engine too small. Paid too much for it, ect.) i can remember reading the Spidey story and the square spine with Marvel Tales on it.
We were picking up a large stand up chrome Art Deco style fan (Mom and Dad's house never had air conditioning or window units, we used fans) and i shared it with a sibling while the youngest sat on Mom's lap in the front seat. I had been reading for three years already, and they were constantly looking for stuff i would like. They tried Casper and his ilk, but i didn't like 'em (and i read the TV Guide every week), so they started picking up super-hero comics occasionally, and we probably promptly ripped off the cover in a fight for it. I guess they figured that the 25 center would last longer with more stories to read.
The next book i remember reading comes along in January, but i'll keep an eye out till then and see if anything jogs a loose memory circuit.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 2, 2017 7:41:53 GMT -5
November 1967 and still several years away from collecting comics. bought years later: Avengers 48 and FF 71.
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 17:56:57 GMT -5
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 3, 2017 17:59:00 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 30, 2017 18:23:06 GMT -5
December 1967
  
Adventure 365Jim Shooter, at 17, is shaking things up nicely. We don’t even notice that with Superboy as part of a five-hero team, the Legionnaires don’t have to endure most of the travails they endure on their Mission Impossible-style exploit. (Which, come to think of it, was pretty popular then.) He knew that smaller teams were much better for story quality; you can’t do a space epic every issue. It’s too bad that the cover blurb gave away the identities of the villains who’d be released at the end of the story, because it would have been a great reveal. (Wonder if Shooter was ticked at Mort?) B and B 76And thus begins an uninterrupted string that lasts till this old favorite fades away with #200. Blackhawk 239Like many another Blackhawk fan, I was thrilled to see this return (even if it was for just one issue) to the glory days. Even if this was a test to see if there still were any Blackhawk readers left after the ill-fated “Junk-Heap Heroes” experiment, it was all for naught, as the title would be cancelled four issues later.    Challengers of the Unknown 60 First time for me with this one, too! I distinctly remember buying this and other comics this month at the little newsstand/candy store I discovered on an alternate walk to the bus stop on Broadway in Newark, NJ! (Yes, Virginia, there’s a Broadway in Newark, too!) DP 117 So psyched to get two issues of this in a row. Loved that cover! (But how many times did the DP stalk off angrily in a cover picture?) Flash 176 The cover’s an appropriate and beautiful farewell (after eight years and 70 or so issues) for Carmine Infantino to the character with whom he’ll be forever identified.    Fox and Crow 108 Another first-timer for me. Don’t remember if I’d ever even heard of this one, but I grabbed it, gain just in time for it to end. I liked it, too, but I don’t think I ever saw any of the final few issues on the stands again. Hawkman 24 Another title I finally was able to buy that was already on its last legs. Dick Dillin was no Murphy Anderson. I don’t remember the story now, but now that I see it’s by Arnold Drake, I’ll dig it out and reread it! JLA 60 Hadn’t seen an issue of JLA since forever and was so glad to be able to buy it again. Loved seeing my old favorite Green Arrow on the cover.(Didn’t miss an issue until it all came crashing down with the Vibe Era 17 years later.)    Metal Men 30 See DP, Fox and Crow, and Hawkman. Enjoyed this issue and became an immediate fan of a series headed for a shark-jump. OAAW (Giant) 190 An old reliable. Love that cover. It’s the Mlle. Marie story that I most remember. World’s Finest 173 Loved this issue! Don’t know if it still holds up, but hell, how well does anything 50 years old hold up? ☺ Still mystified by Kralik, who was supposedly the foe Superman feared more than any other. I figured I’d missed this guy along the way, but it turned out that, despite a flashback that showed Superman defeating Kralik in a showdown on an alien world, this was actually his one and only appearance.   Marvel Super-Heroes 13 Boy, did I love this title! My favorite was Maneely’s Black Knight, but between Cap, the Torch, Namor, the Vision, and the new Captain Marvel, this was hours of pure entertainment. X-Men 41 And my first X-Men! Cool heroes headed for lots of changes in the next few months and I was happy to jump on board. Elsewhere in pop culture, I’m sure I was watching this Yuletide double-header on Saturday, December 16:   And I definitely watched the Ice Bowl, (minus-13 degrees in Green Bay) and remember this moment, forever frozen in time with a smile, as the Cowboys were the NFL team I most despised. (It killed me that one of my athletic heroes, Roger Staubach, who had been drafted by them in 1964, would be playing for them after his hitch in the Navy.) ![]()  
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Post by brutalis on Dec 1, 2017 8:24:58 GMT -5
5 year old me may not know about comic books yet but i was drawing away in family books we had. Mom hated me doodling but when i saw a blank spot i thought it needed filling. A cartoonist before i even knew what a cartoonist was!
Bought in the future for reliving the past:
Avenger #49
Fantastic Four #72
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 9:42:15 GMT -5
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