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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 20:04:02 GMT -5
First read this when I was in single-digits in the early 90s. Finally back in my hands again after some 23 or so years.  What's the longest you ever took to reacquire a book from your past? |
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Post by Action Ace on Aug 12, 2014 20:08:54 GMT -5
I can't think of a comic I owned as a kid (including the one above) that wasn't still with me by the time I reached adulthood. Now most of those 1970s copies were read to death so I now own two copies.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 13, 2014 16:11:40 GMT -5
I haven't managed it yet, but this is one I'd like to reaquire. Sadly, I never find it for less than $50:  |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 13, 2014 16:38:13 GMT -5
My Uncle had this one in his collection when I was a kid. A swell guy, he let me read his books when I visited my Grandparents each summer (yeah, he still lived at home). 
That story affected me profoundly, producing a mixture of shock, horror, and amazement. Uncle said he'd give me the book when I got a bit older, but Grandma threw the whole lot in the dustbin one Spring (she was like that). Finally picked up a copy in '93 for $40. Some 18 years later, that story still had the power to shock and horrify me. As I flipped through it, I found myself absently reaching for my (long discarded) Teddy. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 17:12:37 GMT -5
Not sure I've done that yet. I'd like to get the Father Tree Elfquest books again, I think I had 6 of them. Also the four TMNT books by First. I did get one of those since.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 13, 2014 18:10:53 GMT -5
In college, I used to let people borrow my comics. The only one that didn't come back was Howard the Duck #1, which was hard to find in some areas because of distribution shenanigans. 25 years later, when I found online fandom, I encountered one of the people who used to borrow my comics. He actually asked if he had any books "overdue" from my "library", and I told him about the missing HtD #1. And he promptly mailed me a copy!
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Post by The Captain on Aug 13, 2014 18:27:20 GMT -5
I'm currently recollecting the entire Marvel Star Wars series little by little.
As I chronicled at least once at our old home, I had acquired about 80% of the full run by the time I finished high school (1991), including most of the key issues and all of the hard-to-find issues at the end of the series except for #107. I went away to college, and at some point in the following 4 years, all of those books disappeared from my parents' house (I hadn't taken them with me like I had most of the rest of my small collection at the time). They both deny to this day throwing them out, but if not that, the only other reasonable explanation is that the Comic Book Gnomes stole them for profit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 19:09:21 GMT -5
In college, I used to let people borrow my comics. The only one that didn't come back was Howard the Duck #1, which was hard to find in some areas because of distribution shenanigans. 25 years later, when I found online fandom, I encountered one of the people who used to borrow my comics. He actually asked if he had any books "overdue" from my "library", and I told him about the missing HtD #1. And he promptly mailed me a copy! That's cool  |
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 13, 2014 22:26:09 GMT -5
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Post by Phooey on Aug 14, 2014 11:06:57 GMT -5
First bought 1967, thrown out in my absence, along with most of the rest of the collection (thanks, Mum - not that I'm bitter..) 1973. Reacquired 2010.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 15, 2014 10:29:22 GMT -5
Since I didn't start collecting until I was almost out of my parents control, I never had anything get thrown out... guess I'm lucky  |
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Post by SJNeal on Aug 15, 2014 11:31:08 GMT -5
I recently scored a huge run of JLA from this era in a $1 box! #'s 190-236 to be exact... |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 15, 2014 12:44:35 GMT -5
The only comic I ever read of a friends before I started buying them myself was an issue of Kraven's Last Hunt. I don't remember the particular issue now to post the cover, but it was the battle with Kraven and the giant spider made up of regular spiders. And there's this one close up panel showing him gnashing his teeth with spider bits and goo in his teeth and mouth. And with already paralyzing fear of spiders, that panel stuck with me. I was probably 10-12 or so. I was 5-7 years later that I started buying comics. Soon enough I found a comic store and one day in there, when I had gotten to know one of the employees I remembered that scene and ask if he knew what book it was from. I bought all six issues that day.
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Post by berkley on Aug 16, 2014 22:26:39 GMT -5
Basically everything I read from around 1968, when I first started getting into Marvel, to around 1971, when I gave up following comics for 3 or 4 years. That would include a lot of Thor, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, FF, Spider-man, and the Avengers, though I had nothing like complete runs of any of them during that span. At that age comics were something you'd get as a treat now and then or that you saw at someone else's house - I remember reading one of my first FF comics (FF 83) and playing Beatles records (I Saw Her Standing There) at the house of my slightly older female cousins who used to babysit us sometimes. I can't remember when my parents first started giving us kids an allowance but it was some time after I had already begun my hiatus from comics. I think I still have the vast majority of anything I bought after getting back into them in 1975, with the exception of a few things I stupidly got rid of during moves.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 15, 2014 21:59:12 GMT -5
In 2001, my (then) wife split from my household and money became tight. I remember selling lots of my comic collection on ebay. I am finally reacquiring my Alan Moore Supreme books. From #41-56 and Supreme The return 1-6 , I am only missing 3 books.
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