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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 21:19:42 GMT -5
The only Subscription I ever had was in the very early 80's and it was to X-men (I know it was in the early 80's because I remember #150 was included, and that was 1981).
anyways, the issues often came with a big crease down the center from the way they were folded (even tho they shipped in a paper "sleeve" at the time), and I also remember that more frequently than not, the issue came out at the comic store a week before my subscription copy. . . so more often than not, I ended up buying two copies.
which I recall thinking was Marvel's marketing play.
so I never re-upped when it expired.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 9:42:17 GMT -5
Sigh. . .many years later, and STILL feel like "the THREAD-KILLER (Dun Dun DUNNNNNNN)"
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Post by DE Sinclair on Sept 18, 2015 9:55:33 GMT -5
Not to worry, it's not dead, just "mostly dead". "Mostly dead" is still a little bit alive.  As to subscriptions, there was only one time when I had any. It was when I was in the Navy and stationed/lived aboard a ship. There wasn't a comic book store in the area (they were fairly rare in the early 80's in South Carolina), so I subscribed to several comics that I wanted to make sure I didn't miss any of (New Teen Titans & Legion, for sure, don't remember if there were others). But since all the mail came to my division office (computer room) I also rented a post office box for the first and only time. Not because I was ashamed of the comics, because it was common knowledge that I bought and read them (one friend referred to reading them as "studying to be an officer"). The reason for the PO box was so that I got them intact and not pawed over and read by half the people in the office. |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 18, 2015 10:14:21 GMT -5
You didn't kill it, bert. You've reminded me that I've been meaning to add this tale of subscription woe: As a kid I was a major Legion of Super-Heroes fan (Silver Age) and after many tears and much begging, I finally convinced my parents to get me a subscription to Adventure Comics starring the LSH. Bad move. Not only did the comic arrive a few days after it was available on the newsstand...and not only did it arrive folded/bent/ripped...but three issues into my subscription, the LSH were out of Adventure and Supergirl was in!  |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 18, 2015 10:16:56 GMT -5
From 1987 to 1990, while I was growing up in a parisian suburb, I got a subscription to both Fantomen (the Phantom in swedish) and Kalle Anka (Donald Duck in swedish). That was merely a ploy to make my parents believe I wanted to learn swedish (my mom's mother tongue), but it was actually mostly becaus Fantomen used to be awesome, wit tons of swedish exclusive stories much better than the OG american ones, and tons of other stories developed for the mag or licensed. Donald Duck was the best opportunity to get DOn Rosa's Uncle Scrooge stories as they were first published there. By 1990, I think I had moved to punk rock and role playing games until I started to buy US floppies on a weekly basis in Paris. But I couldn't find any good Phantom stories there... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 10:43:57 GMT -5
yay!. .my pity party revived it!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 10:47:12 GMT -5
You didn't kill it, bert. You've reminded me that I've been meaning to add this tale of subscription woe: As a kid I was a major Legion of Super-Heroes fan (Silver Age) and after many tears and much begging, I finally convinced my parents to get me a subscription to Adventure Comics starring the LSH. Bad move. Not only did the comic arrive a few days after it was available on the newsstand...and not only did it arrive folded/bent/ripped...but three issues into my subscription, the LSH were out of Adventure and Supergirl was in! but was it at least the GOOD Supergirl costume?  or was it still the look prior to this one? |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 18, 2015 11:08:24 GMT -5
...but was it at least the GOOD Supergirl costume? or was it still the look prior to this one? LOL, it wasn't the GOOD one or even the Sekowsky one with the thigh-high boots. It was (drumroll please):  |
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Post by Trevor on Sept 21, 2015 2:45:18 GMT -5
I can't find my issues, and apparently stink at Google, but back in the 70s Cracked Magazine did a thing where they used names of subscribers in tiny print in blurbs on their subscription ads. I think it was the first time I ever saw my name in print.
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