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Post by kirby101 on Jul 27, 2017 8:06:16 GMT -5
and a silver-coated man ride a surfboard to assist 4 people whom met the Watcher on the moon  For want of a better name. |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 8:08:26 GMT -5
and a silver-coated man ride a surfboard to assist 4 people whom met the Watcher on the moon For want of a better name. classy/clever guys like you are why i signed up to this site, lol |
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Post by MDG on Jul 27, 2017 8:51:23 GMT -5
Anyone else who got into comics in the 80's (or later) envious of the members who's first comics were classic Silver and Bronze Age issues? To be honest, I've never been able to understand how any "kids" got into comics after the mid-80s or so. By that time, it just seemed an expensive, inconvenient way to get entertainment. It seemed the only kids I saw at comic shops or shows were dragged there by their fathers. |
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Post by Warmonger on Jul 27, 2017 8:59:27 GMT -5
I remember it was one of the early Buscema-drawn Conan books.
Probably Conan the Barbarian #27 or #28
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 27, 2017 9:07:59 GMT -5
For want of a better name. classy/clever guys like you are why i signed up to this site, lol LIKE. (the ''like'' button won't work for me.) |
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 12:23:05 GMT -5
classy/clever guys like you are why i signed up to this site, lol LIKE. (the ''like'' button won't work for me.) see, that's classy. in humour and content. |
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Post by bor on Jul 27, 2017 13:21:06 GMT -5
Anyone else who got into comics in the 80's (or later) envious of the members who's first comics were classic Silver and Bronze Age issues? To be honest, I've never been able to understand how any "kids" got into comics after the mid-80s or so. By that time, it just seemed an expensive, inconvenient way to get entertainment. It seemed the only kids I saw at comic shops or shows were dragged there by their fathers. Speaking for myself it really was because of the animated series from the 90s. Batman, X-men, Fantastic four, Ironman, Spider-man and more. Those were what made me want to read comics. My first Marvel issue was the danish translation (Edderkoppen) of the Spidey/Mj wedding or two parts of Kravens last hunt. The danish issues consisted of two american issues or an oversized one in some cases. I gor these two issues because the local supermarker was selling old issues in double packs. I am not sure which issue I read first though. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 27, 2017 17:42:49 GMT -5
My parents owned a used book, record, and comic shop - The shop had closed by the time I have memories, but we had a lot of comics. I probably had 1-200 of my own: I got the doubles and the comics that were really beat up.
There's a really good chance I watched Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends at the neighbors before I started reading comics.
The first mainstream comic I remember buying on my own was New Teen Titans Vol 1. # 45. I think I bought it because my dad said the Teen Titans were popular?
First back issue was Tales to Astonish # 61, which I paid 2$ for. I was amazed I could get such an old (almost 20 years!) comic for so cheap. Probably not worth much more than that now.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 27, 2017 19:40:58 GMT -5
Anyone else who got into comics in the 80's (or later) envious of the members who's first comics were classic Silver and Bronze Age issues? To be honest, I've never been able to understand how any "kids" got into comics after the mid-80s or so. By that time, it just seemed an expensive, inconvenient way to get entertainment. It seemed the only kids I saw at comic shops or shows were dragged there by their fathers. When I started officially collecting in 1987, comics were still only 75 cents so it was more than affordable. I would usually get around ten issues a month, so you're still only talking about $7.50 for my stack. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 27, 2017 20:43:12 GMT -5
Anyone else who got into comics in the 80's (or later) envious of the members who's first comics were classic Silver and Bronze Age issues? To be honest, I've never been able to understand how any "kids" got into comics after the mid-80s or so. By that time, it just seemed an expensive, inconvenient way to get entertainment. It seemed the only kids I saw at comic shops or shows were dragged there by their fathers. I started in '75. But I didn't have access to a comic shop until I went to college in the fall of '86. You could still get DC and Marvel books off the spinner racks at the time and they weren't terribly expensive. But the late 80s to early 90s would have been the last time you could reasonably start buying comics without a comic shop around. |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 28, 2017 9:44:50 GMT -5
Star Wars #1.
I was 5 years old or so. My grandmother bought me the black polybagged three-pack containing reprints of SW #1-3 as part of my birthday present that year.
And yes, even though they're beat to hell, I still have all three of these books. Only one issue in my collection has greater sentimental value to me than these.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 28, 2017 10:25:04 GMT -5
Always good to start with the greats!  |
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Post by samurai32 on Jul 28, 2017 16:01:07 GMT -5
I believe it was Fantastic Four # 70, late 1967. The Mad Thinker's android appears to have "killed" the male members of the team at the end. 7-year-old me probably thought that they were dead, because I don't remember buying another issue until #93, although I know that a few issues were given to me by a friend during that general time period (issues 73 and 81).
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 28, 2017 17:27:40 GMT -5
Anyone else who got into comics in the 80's (or later) envious of the members who's first comics were classic Silver and Bronze Age issues? To be honest, I've never been able to understand how any "kids" got into comics after the mid-80s or so. By that time, it just seemed an expensive, inconvenient way to get entertainment. It seemed the only kids I saw at comic shops or shows were dragged there by their fathers. |
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 28, 2017 17:31:30 GMT -5
Sounds like you whine alot, MDG about us "kids" who in the early 1980s got into comic books.
Jeez what would you rather have us get into at the time back then? Pretty much me and everyone else we were glued to the tv watching He Man, GI Joe, Teen Turbo, the Incredible Hulk tv show repeating on WGN and TBS and HBO literally being our babysitter.
Whenever I saw a comic book at the grocery store in the newstands I would go nuts even though at the time back then all there was just X Men, Groo, Conan the Barbarian, Alpha Flight, Spider Man, Power Pack and whatever was around for Batman and Superman long before John Byrne rebooted with the Man of Steel and ongoing Superman and the other Man of Steel comic book series.
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