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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 28, 2017 17:50:05 GMT -5
Before pestering my Dad to buy Amazing Spider-Man #122 for me at a Kresge in mid-73, I had read Disney, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, and a few DC comics (World's Finest primarily). Those were comics that I simply "encountered" at friends' and relatives' homes, Doctors' offices, the Library, etc. It's entirely possible that there were some Marvel books among them, but I have no memory of them. ASM #122 was the first comic book that was "mine."
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jul 28, 2017 17:53:16 GMT -5
If I had to pick the "best" eras to have gotten into mainstream comics, I'd say 1959-1969 followed by 1977-1987.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 28, 2017 18:04:19 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. I didn't see any whining at all. Just a question as to how kids got into comics then. |
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Post by urrutiap on Jul 28, 2017 18:14:40 GMT -5
Well comic books back then in the mid 1980s they werent even "expensive"
you call 75 cents or even just a dollar that expensive for a comic book made out of trees and newspaper printing ink yada yada?
an Apple or IBM computer back then was more expensive than a comic book
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jul 28, 2017 18:49:14 GMT -5
Well comic books back then in the mid 1980s they werent even "expensive" you call 75 cents or even just a dollar that expensive for a comic book made out of trees and newspaper printing ink yada yada? an Apple or IBM computer back then was more expensive than a comic book I don't think anybody's denigrating the 1980s comic fan's experience. Not to speak for MDG, who's quite capable of it on his own, but there seems to be quite a bit of mystery about the internal, visceral workings that draw fans of different generations to the hobby. It works in both directions. It's extraordinarily difficult for me to imagine myself as a fan in the sixties. Or the forties! I harbor no resentment for those fans that came before me, just as I have no disdain for younger fans. In fact, I'm grateful for both, as they collectively elevate my own continuing experience with comics. Your own experiences as a fan of your generation are real and valuable. Share them! This forum is a wonderful opportunity to "bridge the gap."  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 28, 2017 19:11:18 GMT -5
Well comic books back then in the mid 1980s they werent even "expensive" you call 75 cents or even just a dollar that expensive for a comic book made out of trees and newspaper printing ink yada yada? an Apple or IBM computer back then was more expensive than a comic book Unlike today, where you can get, like, 8 apple computers for the price of a comic book. But, yeah, spinner racks were still a thing until waaay into the '90s, and even at a buck fifty comics were a decent entertainment value. (I'm not sure how kids would get into comics NOW, but us '80s kids had plenty of access to comics, even in the tiny little town that I grew up in.) |
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Post by MDG on Jul 29, 2017 9:46:38 GMT -5
Sounds like you whine alot, MDG about us "kids" who in the early 1980s got into comic books. Actually, l think I said mid-80s, and I wasn't whining, I was just reflecting surprise that younger readers came in at a time when comics weren't available in many places as in previous years, prices were rising, comic shops were often in hard to get to places, often weren't kid and parent friendly, Marvel and DC didn't seem interested in selling to younger fans, storylines were often Byzantine and incomprehensible for new readers, dependent on readers buying every issue, etc. |
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Post by bor on Jul 29, 2017 17:00:18 GMT -5
Sounds like you whine alot, MDG about us "kids" who in the early 1980s got into comic books. Actually, l think I said mid-80s, and I wasn't whining, I was just reflecting surprise that younger readers came in at a time when comics weren't available in many places as in previous years, prices were rising, comic shops were often in hard to get to places, often weren't kid and parent friendly, Marvel and DC didn't seem interested in selling to younger fans, storylines were often Byzantine and incomprehensible for new readers, dependent on readers buying every issue, etc. Honestly I think quite a lot of fans got in to it because of the very thing a lot of us look back at with dread: The speculation market. I knew a descent amount of people who started because "There is this thing with more then on front page and you have to collect them all". Or "Superman DIED" this has to be awesome. Some of these people did not just start reading because of any idea of being able to make money but just the hype that these books managed to create at the time. Even in here in Denmark the publishers tried that with having different versions for those who subscribed to titles compared to the normal ones you would buy in stores. Not only that but atleast here in Denmark at the time you could still buy these comics in normal stores or supermarkets, you did not have to go to a Lcs. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Aug 4, 2017 8:35:44 GMT -5
First marvel comic I read was a swedish edition read during the summer. I don't remember which one, but it was aither one of those : a Buscema Conan, a Windsor Smith X-Men, or Hellraiser story the one by Whrightson. The Buscema comic honestly left me cold, and I bought it solely because of being a kid fascinated by heroic Fantasy. The X-men issue wihch was obviously the middle of a story was a tad more interesting and caught my imagination, I seem to remember Polaris and Storm...
The Hellraiser story was in a horror anthology that also published stories from Eclipse and such companies. There was a buzz Dixon story I enjoyed in it. But the Hellraiser story had a strong impact, and I hadn't even seen the movie back then (I think/hope).
First marvel comic I bought is more difficult. Too be perfectly candid, I bought hundreds of DC comics before I had my first Marvel, as I was always more writer focused than artist, and that was the early 90ies. My first comics bought in a LCS were pre vertigo Sandman, Shade The Changing Man and Hellblazer back in 1990. So i would say my first Marvel coics were either Bachalo's Ghostrider 2099 or Alic Cooper's Last Temptation because of Gaiman. Or maybe something else I forget.
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Post by lunarape on Aug 5, 2017 8:48:59 GMT -5
The first Marvel comic I picked for myself off a spinner rack was Amazing Spider-Man 101. A guy with six arms fighting a creepy looking vampire? What 5 year old wouldn't want to read that?
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Post by Confessor on Aug 5, 2017 9:06:09 GMT -5
The first Marvel comic I picked for myself off a spinner rack was Amazing Spider-Man 101. A guy with six arms fighting a creepy looking vampire? What 5 year old wouldn't want to read that? This issue and the whole "6-arm saga" doesn't get much love round these parts, but I thought that story was great. I first encountered it in the late '70s in the Marvel UK black and white reprint mag, Super Spider-Man, but these days I have U.S. colour versions in some mid-90s issues of Marvel Tales. Anyway, it's good stuff, as far as I'm concerned. |
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Post by lunarape on Aug 5, 2017 9:17:04 GMT -5
The first Marvel comic I picked for myself off a spinner rack was Amazing Spider-Man 101. A guy with six arms fighting a creepy looking vampire? What 5 year old wouldn't want to read that? This issue and the whole "6-arm saga" doesn't get much love round these parts, but I thought that story was great. I first encountered it in the late '70s in the Marvel UK black and white reprint mag, Super Spider-Man, but these days I have U.S. colour versions in some mid-90s issues of Marvel Tales. Anyway, it's good stuff, as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, after grabbing that issue, I didn't get to read 102 until six years later in the Marvel Treasury Edition #14, which collected 100-102. One of my childhood favorites, for sure. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 15:12:34 GMT -5
This was the first Marvel comic I ever read. I was hooked ever since. Really great reprints in that one and that Black Widow! Ooh la la!  |
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Post by Farrar on Aug 23, 2017 17:12:22 GMT -5
These were my first two Marvels, obtained at the same time in Aug. 1967.   |
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Post by Bronze age andy on Aug 23, 2017 19:11:44 GMT -5
Marvel - The Defenders 48-51. I've owned 4 separate copies of these over the years.
DC - Weird War Tales. Can't remember for the life of me which one.
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