rick
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Post by rick on May 1, 2014 23:53:57 GMT -5
My mother was a collector in the 40's and 50's. She was a big fan of Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and Maryjane & Sniffles. It was because of her that there was never a time in my life where comics were not a part of it. All three daughters read comics, but only Jessie collects, and then it's mostly very expensive EC comics that I then drool over. My granddaughter reads comics as well, in fact several years ago, the Classics Board helped me get a huge pile of old kids comics from the 60's to send to her.
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Post by crazyoldhermit on May 2, 2014 0:06:14 GMT -5
Pretty limited in my family. I'm getting my younger cousins hooked on the good stuff (is there a better Christmas present for a 9 year old than the entire Lee/Ditko Spidey run?).
My step-grandfather is the most anti-comic man you could hope to meet this side of Wertham. Watchmen is silly fantasy (incidentally, he thought Veidt's plan was unambiguously the right thing to do), V For Vendetta is socially irresponsible, Maus "might be interesting if it wasn't a comic book" and he laughed when I said Sin City was inspired by film noir. But when I showed him Batman Chronicles Vol 1 he had a good flip through it and seemed to get a little nostalgic. Him and grandma both remember Batman comic books from that period, which is pretty insane when I think about it (there are people who remember a time where superheroes didn't exist).
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 2, 2014 8:55:35 GMT -5
My dad was a sports guy, and my mom a romance novel reader. Comics were all me. I've got my brothers into comics enough to love the mutli-media superhero stuff, and one of them will buy trades now and them.
I think my oldest daughter will be at least a casual fan for life. the younger ones (9 and 6), like the concepts, and have watched and enjoyed the Dini cartoons, Avatar, and Duck Tales, but are still a work in process.
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 2, 2014 9:17:02 GMT -5
he thought Veidt's plan was unambiguously the right thing to do I've heard a lot of opinions about Watchman, but I've never heard that one before. I don't mind saying he scares me a little. |
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Post by crazyoldhermit on May 2, 2014 17:53:30 GMT -5
he thought Veidt's plan was unambiguously the right thing to do I've heard a lot of opinions about Watchman, but I've never heard that one before. I don't mind saying he scares me a little. He's a very logical guy. His stance on the atomic bombings of Japan is "We saved more lives than we killed so it was the right thing to do." No more discussion beyond that. He applied the same math to Veidt's plan and got the same answer. Rorschach could learn a thing or two about compromise from him. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2014 8:28:55 GMT -5
Neither of my parents read comics . And when I started buying with my allowance they were not to impressed , but I enjoyed reading them . My son read when he was younger but now not so much . The wife got into some indies revolution comics the rock series and a few other obscure title about movie stars bio's . Parents still can,t believe that I still collect ( just turned 50 a few months back ) .
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 14, 2014 8:58:53 GMT -5
Neither of my parents read comics . And when I started buying with my allowance they were not to impressed , but I enjoyed reading them . My son read when he was younger but now not so much . The wife got into some indies revolution comics the rock series and a few other obscure title about movie stars bio's . Parents still can,t believe that I still collect ( just turned 50 a few months back ) . Neither did dither of my folks and they had similar reaction to finding out I was buying comics. Unfortunatly for me it was because Jesus turned water into wine not scared scripts into comics. Otherwise I would have had a free pass. My oldest son is getting into them some. But it's very sporadic. He doesn't read anything in a regular basis. Last night it was Knightsend he was grilling me about so I pulled out the issues for him to read. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 14, 2014 14:29:30 GMT -5
American comics were sparse finds in India, though Archie has a HUGE following there. My dad grew up reading Archie every now and then back in the 70's.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 14, 2014 22:48:05 GMT -5
My Mom didn't read them and in fact didn't like that Dad supported our comics reading. He'd read ours, mostly sword & sorcery (Conan, Solomon Kane, Kull, Warlord, Tarzan).
My six younger siblings grew up with them but none read anymore. My son is an active enthusiast. My oldest daughter and her fiancée both love Fables, and the older twin daughter loves Transmetropolitan.
My youngest twin rarely communicates since we forbid her a few years back from getting married too early, at 19, so I can't really say.
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 15, 2014 19:47:49 GMT -5
My parents were both comic book and comic strip fans in the late 30s- early 40s. My dad liked the aviation heroes like Tailspin Tommy and Smilin' Jack, and my mother and her sister had one of the first comic shops ever - they took an unused shed in their back yard and sold used comic books for five cents or two-for-one (that's how they built inventory). World War II put an end to comics for both of them; my dad never saw one after he turned 17 and joined the Marines in 1942, and my mom's store inventory went to the paper drives.
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 15, 2014 21:45:57 GMT -5
My dad had a collection of Silver Age comics from both DC and Marvel. I have a couple of photos of me sitting on his lap looking at Justice League of America #19 and Green Lantern #40. He sold them when I was four and World's Finest #88 is the only comic of that collection that I have.
My moms contribution is not throwing away the ones I collected as a kid.
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Post by ghastly55 on Sept 28, 2014 11:51:53 GMT -5
My father was a comic book reader in the early 1940s (he was born in 1932, so he may even have been a comic book reader in the late 30s).
But it wasn't him that got me involved in comic books, directly. No, the credit for that goes to George Reeves. I became fascinated with the old Superman live-action show, in syndication every afternoon, and so I began seeking out Superman books, when comics crossed my field of vision.
I remember being about 5 years old in Eldridge's Drug Store in Edgemere, Maryland, circa 1960, and standing at the magazine stand crying inconsolably because I saw no Superman comics for sale. My father picked up another comics and tried to convince me to buy it. "Look, he flies like Superman!" But I couldn't be fooled; Superman was red and blue, this flying dude was green and black. Too bad, I might have been the proud owner of Green Lantern #1 if my dad had been a better salesman. (I suspect he wanted to read the book himself.) Eventually my tears were dried by a Jimmy Olsen title buried behind a Popeye or something.
And my father would always read my comics on our front porch, to my mother's everlasting regret. She HATED comic books (although she never did the "throwing these trashy things out" meme).
I introduced my first wife to comics in 1981; she loved Silver Surfer, Conan, and ROM. And when each of my sons reached the appropriate age, I did my best to get them interested. It worked with the two eldest boys, now 32 and 27 -- in fact the 27-year-old recently posted on Facebook that he had just finished reading the last 17 years worth of Deadpool comics. Now I know what to get him for Christmas.
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