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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 1, 2017 12:28:32 GMT -5
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Post by zilch on Mar 1, 2017 19:16:36 GMT -5
March:
Subscription books: Avengers #160 Defenders #48 Inhumans #11 Invaders #17 Iron Fist #13 Marvel Presents #11 X-Men #105
Off the racks: Challengers of the Unknown #81 Justice League of America #143 Kamandi #51 Logan's Run #6 Metal Men #52 Nova #10 Rampaging Hulk #3 What If #3
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 3, 2017 11:44:33 GMT -5
Even living very close to the bone, I was always able to scrape up enough cash to buy a few old favorites and give some new off-the-beaten-path stuff a try. Old favorites from Marvel and DC: The Invaders; Conan; Howard the Duck; Daredevil; MOKF; Tomb of Dracula; Batman; JLA; Superboy/Legion; DC Special
New favorites: X-Men (this was getting interesting, and I hoped it would catch on...); Ragman; Hercules (a couple of oddball titles that I had a soft spot for) Gave them a shot: John Carter; Marvel Premiere (3-D Man); What If?; Challengers; World's Finest (one the new "Dollar Comics" that to me brought back a touch of the antholgy titles of the Golden Age. Plus J'onn J'onzz was in it!) It dawns on me that I'd been buying Daredevil off and on awhile, beginning when Gil Kane and Klaus Janson became involved back in mid-'75. He'd never before been a big favorite of mine, but for whatever reason, I had started to buy DD fairly regularly and was liking it. I remember that the cover of Conan 75 made me hopeful about a book that I bought out of longtime love and loyalty for the character. It was so different from the usual Conan covers, which always looked heavy: packed with figures from corner to corner and darkly colored. The beautiful contrast between Conan and the hawk-rider against a white background made this cover jump out and even made Ernie Chan's illustration look graceful and light, traits I don't usually see in his artwork. Alas, the cover proved an anomaly. It was back to dark, crowded covers from then on. Nice array of books I bought that month. They provided lots of fun for six bucks and change, from the silly fun of Roy Thomas's 3-D Man, no doubt green-lighted to cash in on the 50s fad ( Happy Days was TV's top show, Laverne and Shirley was second, and Grease would be a summer movie a year after) to the satisfaction of reading JLA again now that Steve Engelhart was at the helm. However, it was another Engelhart book, Detective, that was making me really happy. After too many wasted years, The Batman was apparently coming back. And the best was yet to come!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2017 15:21:49 GMT -5
Time to wallow in nostalgia again... April 1977 off the racks I had... Avengers 161-the return of Ant-Man and the first half of one of my favorite Ultron stories Captain America 211-Kirby gotten in a polybagged 3 pack Captain Marvel 51-no clue what was going on in this one but it looked cool to me Conan 76-came in the polybagged 3 pack with Cap 211 and my comic book intro to CONAN-i.e. the one that started it all for me as a Conan fan Marvel Team Up 59 I think this was the third comic in the polybag 3-pack of Marvel gold Marvel Triple Action 36-I was digging early Avengers as much as the (then) current book and the 2 combined made Avengers THE MARVEL BOOK for me, it's what gave me my sense of Marvel's history and scope as a kid Nova 11- a hand me off form my cousin who got far more comics than I did Thor 261 another polybag acquisition but the other books in that bag were form a different month a healthy dose of Marvel in the spring of '77, though I got most of them a few months later when the polybags hit stores that summer/fall. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 1, 2017 20:00:02 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 2, 2017 16:21:37 GMT -5
Many of the usual suspects made it into my ink-stained hands that month, but the one that has stayed with me is this one: What a treat this story was! Just as Engehart had resurrected The Batman over in Detective, he was restoring the JLA to its proper grandeur. The Fifties! Aliens! UFO scares! J'onn J'onzz! A cover right out of All-Star, with a giant villain and a bunch of heroes fighting him! Respect at long last for the adventure stars who had carried DC between the Golden and Silver Age superheroes! Even Rex, Congorilla, and Roy Raymond were in the mix! Had this been illustrated by someone other than the Dillin-McLaughlin team (They were looking tired, even with this great subject matter), this would be considered a classic. I know it's warmly regarded, but that isn't because of the art, I'm sure, and had an art team knocked it out of the park, too, this would have been reprinted in special formats half a dozen times. Probably played too much havoc with continutiy for some fans' tastes, but given the depths to which late 70s DC had sunk, this was like the nectar of the gods. Clearly an influence on Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier. Oh, why couldn't Alex Toth have drawn this?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 3, 2017 10:34:03 GMT -5
On sale in April 1977 (although in some cases our local news outlets would get the mags quite a bit later...)
Amazing Spider-man #170... Dr Faustus might have been a Captain America villain, but I didn't care. I loved those issues where the hero would face a whole lot of his old enemies, even if it was all in his head.
Captain America #211... I was really not a fan of the Kirby Cap, having grown with the Sal Buscema version. It did have a certain light-hearted sense of fun about it, though. But did we need to have yet *another* version of a non-dead Hitler? This time he was the brain kept in the body of an android. (Wasn't Hitler supposed to also have been the hate Monger?)
Conan #76... I remember the day that this subscription issue came to my door. It was already a great day, but seeing Conan wear his green Barry Smith-era skirt once more really made it better. (I was a huge fan of the Smith Conan).
Hulk #213... Reading the title out of habit, I missed the days of Hulkbuster base and Herb Trimpe's art. And the Quintronic Man? As I recall it was just five guys in a robot.
Marvel Preview #10 I didn't buy (curse me!!!) but I remember seeing at the newsstand. How I wish I had been more proactive (or richer).
Master of Kung Fu #54... Well, what can be said? I was still mourning Paul Gulacy's leaving the title, and this issue didn't make things easier.
Thor #261... Not up to what I regarded as the title's heyday (which wasn't the Lee-Kirby era, on account of me having been too young to know it) but at least Thor was once again in space instead of fighting bank robbers.
Tomb of Dracula #58...Oh, how I felt butthurt that this Hannibal King fellow could beat up Blade, whom I regarded as the coolest character in the mag!
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 3, 2017 10:47:46 GMT -5
On sale in April 1977 (although in some cases our local news outlets would get the mags quite a bit later...) Captain America #211... (Wasn't Hitler supposed to also have been the hate Monger?)Conan #76... I remember the day that this subscription issue came to my door. It was already a great day, but seeing Conan wear his green Barry Smith-era skirt once more really made it better. (I was a huge fan of the Smith Conan). Hatemonger was some kid of double or clone or something, IIRC. Although in his first appearance, I'm pretty sure we were supposed to think it was Hitler himself. Ah, yes, the Smith Era of Conan... One of the great runs, and perhaps the most sudden and stunning change and improvement in an artist's style. Although we paid the price in missed deadlines and a variety of inkers just as his time was ending.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 3, 2017 11:12:04 GMT -5
Sure that I purchased at the the time...
Marvel Tales 81 (great Gil Kane cover) Secret Society of Super-Villains 8 Shazam 30 (this one perplexes me).
Possibly bought at the time...possibly at a yard sale thereafter...I can't remember.
Fantastic Four 184 (probably yard sale) Flash 251
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Post by brutalis on Apr 3, 2017 13:46:17 GMT -5
April 1977 and high school freshman 14 year old me is in full blown comic collecting mode though at the time i don't think i would have recognized myself as a collector. All i was doing was my best to get series that i enjoyed on a limited spending budget consisting of hoarding lunch money and doing odds and end jobs for friends all around my neighborhood. Mowing yards, clearing out cluttered garages, being an extra set of arms and hanging with a couple of friends who dad's ran junk yards down the street where they would pay us kids for climbing all over the collected beat em up vehicles and scavenging and pulling whatever parts we could for customers.
Mostly getting DC and Marvel since as stated before mom only allowed so much of comics in the house and i was becoming quite the expert hider within the closet making it look like less when i actually had more. It was good times during school as there was time each morning before school began to walk to 2 Circle K's near the school since i was i rode a local grade school bus into high school at 6am 2 hours before classes. I could run during lunch about a 1/2 mile from the school to hit a 7-11 and a Super-X drugstore to peruse their comic selections as well. Once home i had 2 Korean markets which were the neighborhood's only equivalence of "grocery" stores out in the lower south side of town at the edge of the city where we lived.
Book reader and Science Fiction Geek me was in heaven at the time: Star Wars, Logan's Run, John Carter and Tarzan all from Marvel had me excited and eager every month!!!
2001 8 Amazing Spider-Man 170 Avengers 161 Batman 289 Capt Marvel 51 Champion 14 Defenders 49 Eternals 13 FF 184 Hulk 213 Invaders 18 Iron Man 100 John Carter 2 JLA 144 Logan's Run 7 MTU 59 MTIO 29 MOKF 54 Ms. Marvel 7 New Gods 12 Nova 11 SSSV 8 Peter Parker 8 Star Wars Tarzan 2 Thor 261
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Post by zilch on Apr 6, 2017 15:40:39 GMT -5
Fantastic Four #184 (very cool looking villain on the cover... and Perez... just getting anything with him as artist now!) Freedom Fighters #9 (boy, those Crusuaders REALLY look familiar....) John Carter, Warlord of Mars #2 (ehh... why not?) Logan's Run #7 (no Perez, but following the post-movie plotlines and hoping for the best...) Marvel Team-Up #59 (so, Yellowjacket's dead, but attacking the Avengers in their own title? Gotta love continuity!!! Byrne artwork kicks ass here!) Marvel Triple Action #36 (fillin' in the Avengers run!) Omega the Unknown #9
Subscription books: Avengers #161 (WoWWW!!!!) Champions #14 Defenders #49 Invaders #18
and last but not least .... Justice League of America #144! One of my favorite books of all time!!!
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Post by dbutler69 on Apr 7, 2017 12:54:50 GMT -5
I was only 8 years old and just getting going in my comic collecting, plus I hadn't yet discovered my LCS, so I didn't get a lot this month: Avengers #161 Fantastic Four #184 Marvel Team-Up #59 Star Wars #1 Superboy #229
This I bought as a back issue in the late 70's/early 80's after discovering my LCS:
Justice League of America #144
This I bought as a back issue recently Master of Kung Fu #54
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Post by Bronze age andy on Apr 7, 2017 13:38:30 GMT -5
In my collection,
2001: A Space Odyssey 8 Black Lightning 3 Captain Marvel 51 Champions 14 Defenders 49 Eternals 13 Fantastic Four 184 Invaders 18 John Carter 2 Marvel Super Action 2 Marvel Team Up 59 Marvel Triple Action 36 Marvel Two in One 29 Ms. Marvel 7 Nova 11 Omega 9 Power Man 45
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2017 21:43:54 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on May 2, 2017 8:07:41 GMT -5
MAY 1977
I was a teenage Marvel Zombie since the largest batch of comics i was purchasing would be from Marvel with a few sprinklings of the odd DC. Looking back, i remember getting the occasional Archie and Gold Key comics but none of the covers remind me of any that i had. Usually those were just received as gifts from my grandparents when they would visit or traded with cousins or neighbors just to have something new to read. A fun time collecting going from store to store around my highs school trying to find whatever i could to last through the summer where i would only have 2 stores near my home to visit with a very limited shelf selection. These are the days of going without for 2-3 months creating gaps and then hoping to find those missing issues hanging around in stores before being pulled and sent back. 2001 9 Spider-Man 171 Avengers 162 Challengers of Unknown 82 Daredevil 148 DC Special 29 Defenders 50Detective 471 Eternals 14 FF 185Ghost Rider 25 Godzilla 1, 2 Human Fly 1Hulk 214 Inhumans 12Invaders 19, 20 Iron Fist 15 Iron Man 101 Iron Man Annual 4 John Carter 3 Marvel Premiere 37 Marvel presents 12 MTU 60 MTIO 30, 31 MOKF 55 Ms Marvel 8 New Gods 13 Nova 12 Rampaging Hulk 4 Shade Changing Man 2 Showcase 94 Spectacular Spider-Man 0 Star Wars 2 Superboy 230 Warlord 8 What If 4 X-men 106
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