Encountering Classic Comics in different ways
Mar 8, 2017 0:30:14 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 0:30:14 GMT -5
Based on some thoughts I had while responding to Shaxper's Does Condition matter thread.
Most of my first experiences with classic Marvel Silver Age stories came in other formats than comic books...
Among my first Silver Age Marvel stories was the View MAster reels available for Captain America telling the classic Cap vs. Red Skull Sleeper saga...
and as you would see one of the panels/pictures through the Viewmaster...
I think these may have been taken form the MArvel Super-Heroes animated series which adapted these stories as well, but I am not certain on that.
There was also Iron Man in Wrath of the Black Widow which told the story in TOS 57 introducing Hawkeye...
some panels/pics form that...
and the last one I had was Thor: The Wrath of Odin pitting him against the Grey Gargoyle, I believe form the pages of Journey into Mystery...
As a kid, I didn't think these were any better or worse than owning the actual comics, it was just a way I could experience the stories.
My next exposure to Marvel's Silver Age was in Son of Origins and after that in the Pocket Books Marvel Series of paperbacks collecting the Silver Age runs of books like Spidey, FF and Hulk. Again just a different way of getting these stories and I adored Son of Origins because it had so many different stories inside for me to read and experience.
Even from the earliest age-I got these View Master reels when I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade, so I was 5 or 6 at the time, I never felt the original comic book "floppy" was a more pure form of the story, a superior way to experience them or even a necessary to experience the story. It was just one of many ways to do so. Most of my early experiences with these stores was in a different way than the original comic or even a reprint like Marvel Tales or Marvel Triple Action (and I read those too when I was a kid). I think its why the floppies or nothing mentality baffles me. It was about the characters and stories, not the format for me. As I got older, it became easier to get floppies and back issues, but I still got stuff in whatever way was easiest to get it, and my focus shifted more to the works of certain creators more than the characters, but it was still about having different ways to experience the stories themselves not about the format I experienced them in, let alone what condition those formats were in.
So have others discovered classic comic stories for the first time in ways other than reading the actual comics they were published in? How old were you at that point and how did it affect your overall view of experiencing comic stories overall?
-M
Most of my first experiences with classic Marvel Silver Age stories came in other formats than comic books...
Among my first Silver Age Marvel stories was the View MAster reels available for Captain America telling the classic Cap vs. Red Skull Sleeper saga...
and as you would see one of the panels/pictures through the Viewmaster...
I think these may have been taken form the MArvel Super-Heroes animated series which adapted these stories as well, but I am not certain on that.
There was also Iron Man in Wrath of the Black Widow which told the story in TOS 57 introducing Hawkeye...
some panels/pics form that...
and the last one I had was Thor: The Wrath of Odin pitting him against the Grey Gargoyle, I believe form the pages of Journey into Mystery...
As a kid, I didn't think these were any better or worse than owning the actual comics, it was just a way I could experience the stories.
My next exposure to Marvel's Silver Age was in Son of Origins and after that in the Pocket Books Marvel Series of paperbacks collecting the Silver Age runs of books like Spidey, FF and Hulk. Again just a different way of getting these stories and I adored Son of Origins because it had so many different stories inside for me to read and experience.
Even from the earliest age-I got these View Master reels when I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade, so I was 5 or 6 at the time, I never felt the original comic book "floppy" was a more pure form of the story, a superior way to experience them or even a necessary to experience the story. It was just one of many ways to do so. Most of my early experiences with these stores was in a different way than the original comic or even a reprint like Marvel Tales or Marvel Triple Action (and I read those too when I was a kid). I think its why the floppies or nothing mentality baffles me. It was about the characters and stories, not the format for me. As I got older, it became easier to get floppies and back issues, but I still got stuff in whatever way was easiest to get it, and my focus shifted more to the works of certain creators more than the characters, but it was still about having different ways to experience the stories themselves not about the format I experienced them in, let alone what condition those formats were in.
So have others discovered classic comic stories for the first time in ways other than reading the actual comics they were published in? How old were you at that point and how did it affect your overall view of experiencing comic stories overall?
-M
