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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 17:07:41 GMT -5
I don't remember which was first, but I replied to a few. I know I got screwed more often than not, which soured me on the whole mail order deal. Too bad, I was into offbeat stuff and missed my chance to send away for early issues of SLAM BANG that are impossible to find now, because I was afraid they'd never show up.
I think the only person to have actually delivered my order was Mile High Comics.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 17:30:12 GMT -5
A fake arm cast.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 19, 2014 18:07:20 GMT -5
I think the only person to have actually delivered my order was Mile High Comics. I know I bought from both Mile High and Westfield with no problems. And from someone/place in Phoenix I think. I don't actually ever remember a mail-order comic order not coming. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 19, 2014 18:54:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that the first ad I responded to was to join the MMMS.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 19, 2014 18:57:00 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that the first ad I responded to was to join the MMMS. OMG! Did you get the record with the voices of the "Bullpen" artists on it?
Here it is on YouTube.
(Flo Steinberg's accent is adorable!)
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 19, 2014 18:57:38 GMT -5
Pretty sure it was for a Mile High catalog circa 1979. I ordered a veritable shitload of comics from them over the next few years, none of them graded higher than VG. They probably accounted for a quarter to a third of my collection at one point.
Cei-U!
I summon the good old days!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 19, 2014 19:06:47 GMT -5
![]()  Funny. They didn't look anything like the illustration... Think it's Fred Ray? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 19:07:05 GMT -5
I know that nothing I ever ordered from WaRP Graphics showed up
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 19, 2014 19:54:41 GMT -5
Ordered comics from East Coast Comics from an add in issue #1 of Venom: Carnage Unleased. They had ads all over comics in the 90s. It was my main source of comics before I got mobile and started going to a comic book shop.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 21:06:48 GMT -5
Ordered comics from East Coast Comics from an add in issue #1 of Venom: Carnage Unleased. They had ads all over comics in the 90s. It was my main source of comics before I got mobile and started going to a comic book shop. I got books from Clyde in the mid 90s...he'd send me a newspaper sized order sheet ever so often through the post and almost every order included a yellow credit memo with his scrawly red hand-writing on it  Still, their prices were far better than Mile High's and his new issue prices were a fixed 60% of cover. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 19, 2014 21:13:12 GMT -5
Mama didn't permit that foolishness. It was probably for the best.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 19, 2014 21:30:13 GMT -5
i got books from Clyde in the mid 90s...he'd send me a newspaper sized order sheet ever so often through the post and almost every order included a yellow credit memo with his scrawly red hand-writing on it Still, their prices were far better than Mile High's and his new issue prices were a fixed 60% of cover. Now that you mention it I remember those too when an issue I ordered was out of stock. Didn't they have raised lettering too? Oh the memories you started Miss Jezebel. :-) I can remember having nothing but a positive experience buying books from ECC. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 22:19:28 GMT -5
Sea-Monkeys. I remember being disappointed that they didn't look as they were portrayed in the ad. I bought some again recently for my kids but they never hatched!  |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 19, 2014 22:19:53 GMT -5
A catalog actually sold on the newsstands as a comic. I paid for it ! It looked cool. Eventually it swayed my brother and I to send away for a package of stuff, including then-new Star Wars figurines, a Darth Vader Halloween costume, an inflatable light up yellow light saber, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Dr Strange Pocket Books, Micronauts, Mego Aquaman, Shazam, Green Arrow, and Spider-Man, and Spidey utility belt, the Spider-Man bronze coin, Star Trek collected Gold Key volumes, and probably a couple others things I can't remember.
We'd never ordered anything.
It came to our house via UPS. We'd never seen these guys before in our lives.
Mom went nuts. Where did we get it money ? Of course we stole it from her.
Furious. "Wait til your father get's home."
Not a good feeling.
While she's on the phone with my aunt, my leaves the box of loot unattended. We spirit it away and start tearing into it.
They offer us a deal : Keep this or get Christmas.
We picked the current swag.
This was summer.
"We'll still get Christmas..." Of course we did.
She tried to get us to give it back. No way !
She sent a letter to them saying how they've corrupted her sons and turned them into lying thieves and admonishing them pandering to children.
My brother and I caught the letter in the mail box, ripped it open and read it in the ditch, laughing hysterically.
Good times. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 22:35:02 GMT -5
Sea-Monkeys. I remember being disappointed that they didn't look as they were portrayed in the ad. I bought some again recently for my kids but they never hatched! I got a sea monkey kit at Pic N Save and went home and promptly killed them all by not reading the directions and dumping all the food in there at once. |
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Still, their prices were far better than Mile High's and his new issue prices were a fixed 60% of cover. 