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Post by Action Ace on Jun 2, 2015 21:16:29 GMT -5
Hey! Jungle Action #17! That's the first super-hero comic I ever bought! The next month, I got Daredevil #126. And within the next few months I was picking up Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Captain America, Thor and I don't know what-all. I was doomed! You buy one and then the next time you look you've got an entire paper grocery bag full of them! |
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Post by berkley on Jun 2, 2015 21:37:12 GMT -5
here is the link from Mike's News-stand for June 1975:Amazing Spider-Man #148 Captain Marvel #40 Daredevil #125 Defenders #27 Doc Savage #1 (b&w mag) Eerie #67 Fantastic Four #162 Incredible Hulk #191 Jungle Action #17 Marvel's Greatest Comics #58 Swamp Thing #18 Thor #239 Tomb of Dracula #36 Werewolf by Night #33 Still mostly going back to favourite series and characters from before I quit comics, but pretty early on I could see that Spider-Man, Daredevil, the FF, the Hulk, Swamp Thing, and Thor, though all still enjoyable, weren't quite up to the level they had been a few years earlier. OTOH: Jungle Action starring Black Panther - I was very excited to see one of my favourite characters with his own series, though unfortunately I came in on the very last issue of the epic Panther's Rage storyline - was excellent, and something new and different from the comics I remembered; Tomb of Dracula looked better than ever and the writing, again, seemed to have taken a step forward from the early issues I had read before Werewolf by Night also looked good - though I missed Mike Ploog's artwork, I quickly became a fan of Don Perlin, and I really liked this new character, Moon Knight As for the others I listed: Captain Marvel I had been a fan of from the old green & white uniform days; the change to the new look was just taking place when I stopped reading comics, so I had missed all the Jim Starlin stuff and came into the series when it was in a bit of a downswing. Doc Savage - I had always been intrigued by the character from admiring those Bama paperback covers, even though I never read any until years later. I must have liked this black & white series well enough, because I think I bought almost every issue, in spite of never being a huge fan of Tony DeZuniga's partnership with John Buscema on the art. Eerie #67 I never actually bought myself, but our (adult) neighbour across the street gave me a coverless copy he had a few months later. It was my intro to the Warren stuff which I had of course often seen on the shelves but never read. I was lucky to start with a pretty high-quality issue, but the expense and the inconsistency of the anthology format kept me from becoming a regular reader. |
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Post by Confessor on Jun 3, 2015 14:56:42 GMT -5
I was too young to be buying comics at this point, but I own the following issues from June 1975...
Amazing Spider-Man #148
E-Man #10
Ghost Manor #25
Marvel Tales #61 (reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #80)
Marvel Team-Up #37
Sherlock Holmes #1
Weird Western Tales #30
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 2:11:51 GMT -5
Welcome July, let's launch off the nostalgia trip for July 1975I was turning 6 and just really getting into comics..what I had off the stands included: FF 163 Invaders 2 Iron Man 79 JLA 123 Marvel Double Feature 12 Marvel Super-Heroes 53 Thor 240 and what I currently have in one format or another... Action Comics 452 Beowulf 4 Beyond the Grave 2 Brave & the Bold 122 Champions 1 Conan the Barbarian 55 Dr. Strange 10 1st Issue Special 7 Giant Size Daredevil 1 Invaders 2 JLA 123 Kamandi 34 Ka-Zar 11 Kull and the Barbarians 3 Marvel Chillers 1 Marvel Feature 1 Marvel Premiere 25 Marvel Presents 1 Marvel Preview 3 Marvel Spotlight 24 Master of Kung Fu 33 Phantom Stranger 39 Plop! 17 Power Man 27 Savage Sword of Conan Special 1 Savage Tales Annual 1 Skull the Slayer 2 Stalker 3 Star Trek 33 Superman Family 173 Supernatural Thrillers 15 Super-Villain Team-Up 2 Warlock 9 Wonder Woman 220 X-Men 95 just a few more now than then. -M |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 1, 2015 10:56:38 GMT -5
JULY 1975:
1st Issue Special #7: The Creeper: I loved this character since the first time I saw him. I was really hoping for this to lead to a new series for him and Ditko. This one has a naughty visual on the cover, if you look hard. Astonishing Tales #32:Deathlok: Buckler's cyborg felt new and exciting and different. Brave and the Bold #122:Batman and Swamp Thing: Aparo draws my favorite swamp monster. Champions #1: I was excited to see a new superhero team. Defenders #28: Never missed an issue! Fear #30: Morbius was one of my favorite Marvel monsters, but this series was always a let-down. Hercules Unbound #1: I loved this new DC series. Neat premise, and I liked the post-apocalyptic setting. Inhumans #1: Another new team comic from Marvel. I wanted to like it, I liked the characters, but it never delivered for me. Invaders #2: I don't know why I was still buying this. I guess I figured it had to get better. Justice League of America#123: I still loved the JLA but it was losing its luster, even in the annual JSA team-up. Kull and the Barbarians #3: I was fascinated with Solomon Kane. Marvel Movie Premiere #1:The Land that Time Forgot: I got this as summer vacation car reading. I didn't usually care for the Filipino style but I remember kind of liking Sonny Trinidad's work here. Marvel Presents #1:Bloodstone: I was excited for this debut, but it wasn't as good as I'd hoped for. Marvel Spotlight #24:Son of Satan: I kept waiting for this to achieve the promise of its early Trimpe-drawn installments, but it kept drifting farther away from what I wanted. Marvel was trying to make it more palatable, but I wanted something edgier. Marvel Team-Up #38:Spidey and The Beast: Hank McCoy was one of my favorites in those days, and we didn't see much of him since his series had been cancelled. Marvel Treasury Edition #7:Avengers: The team was never my favorite, but it was a treasury with some of their most legendary issues reprinted. Well worth it. Phantom Stranger #39: I knew this had to be nearing its end, but I still loved it. Fred Carillo's art was even less satisfying than Talaoc's, though. Planet of the Apes #12: I would not miss an issue under any circumstances. Plop #17: Again, a don't-miss series for me. Sandman #5: I loved the first issue, and I was glad it was continued, but...this was really kiddie stuff. Skull the Slayer #2: The debut issue was promising, so I committed to the full run, but this book kept changing directions, losing most of what I found appealing. Super-Villain Team-Up #2: One of the more unusual of the team-up comics. I liked Dr. Doom and the Sub-Mariner, so I figured I'd like this. Never really did, that much, though. Superboy and the Legion ofSuper-Heroes #212: It seemed like this comic was *always* good. Swamp Thing #19: Hoping in vain that this would bounce back. I was beginning to perceive that maybe I didn't like Gerry Conway's writing. Tomb of Dracula #37: I’m really glad I figured out that this wasone of the best comics being published in the mid-70’s. I started buyingseveral issues earlier and didn’t stop until the end.<o:p></o:p> Warlock #9 : Seemed pretty mind-blowing at my age, then. The only Starlin work I ever really dug. X-Men #95: This was clearly going to catch on. I was excited for this series, and looked forward to it a lot. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 1, 2015 11:50:02 GMT -5
Still two months from buying comics for myself.
And this month is kind of a blank slate. I know there are comics in there I've read in one format or another. But none stand out and I'm not sure I own any in anything other than reprints.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 1, 2015 12:31:11 GMT -5
With DC Comics, I bought anything with reprints, so the titles like DC Special, Super-Team Family (God, what a stupid title for a comic) and the tabloids of Superman and the Origins of Super-Villains were right up my alley. Always enjoyed Brave and the Bold, and loved Swamp Thing, too, so that was a no-brainer. (Plus the “crucifixion cover” is always cool: good idea for a future cover contest, perhaps…) Hercules was one of the new DC titles that I wound up enjoying. Somehow this odd little comic (probably devised to cash in as a “sword and sorcery” type) was able to make it to the end of its two-year run with art by Wally Wood, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Walt Simonson. It also managed to avoid having Ernie Chua-Chan do any of its covers. He was DC’s go-to guy back then and could make any potentially interesting story look awful. Check out the absolutely blah cover (lousy drawing, lousy composition)on the first part of that summer’s JLA-JSA team-up. How anyone could make one of those look dull, I’ll never know, but Chua-Chan did.  Inertia choices: Batman, JLA, Detective, Superboy and the Legion, Swamp Thing, Tarzan (without Kubert writing and drawing, it was at best a loyalty pick for me). Marvel titles I looked forward to buying: Warlock, War is Hell, Savage Sword of Conan; Tomb of Dracula; Master of Kung Fu. Inertia choice: Conan (Monster of the Month Club) Curiosity choices: Loved all of the weird titles, try-outs, and one revival in particular: Bloodstone, Modred the Mystic, Champions, Skull, X-Men 95. Distribution was still an issue in my area then, so many of the Marvel reprint titles never seemed to be on the stands, or I’d’ve been picking those up. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 1, 2015 12:49:40 GMT -5
JULY 1975:
1st Issue Special #7: The Creeper: I loved this character since the first time I saw him. I was really hoping for this to lead to a new series for him and Ditko. This one has a naughty visual on the cover, if you look hard.
Okay, I give up. If I look at this much longer, I'll feel like a real perv. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 1, 2015 20:13:24 GMT -5
bought back then: Superman #292, an excellent issue to start my Superman purchases
original issues I now own
Action Comics #452
Batman #268
Brave & the Bold #122
DC Special #18
Detective Comics #452
Invaders #2
Justice League of America #123
Limited Collector's Edition C-38 and C-39
Spidey Super Stories #13
Super Team Family #1
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #212
Superman Family #173
Wonder Woman #220
World's Finest #233
own as a reprint
Amazing Spider-Man #149 (as Marvel Tales and Essential Volume)
Avengers #140
Captain America #190
Fantastic Four #163
Iron Man #79
Marvel Team-Up #38
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Post by JKCarrier on Jul 1, 2015 21:50:27 GMT -5
Bought at the time:
Limited Collectors' Edition C-38
Limited Collectors' Edition C-39
Super-Team Family #1
Superman Family #173
Wonder Woman #220
World's Finest Comics #233
Bought later:
1st Issue Special #7
Action Comics #452
Avengers #140
Brave and the Bold #122
DC Special #18
Defenders #28
Doctor Strange #10
Invaders #2
Justice League of America #123
Kull and the Barbarians #3
Man-Thing #22
Marvel Feature #1
Marvel Presents #1
Marvel Treasury Edition #7
Master of Kung Fu #33
Stalker #3
Superboy #212
Superman #292
Vampirella #45
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2015 5:42:02 GMT -5
I was still too young to be buying comics at this point, but I own the following Spidey issues from July 1975...
Amazing Spider-Man #149
Giant-Size Spider-Man #6
Marvel Tales #62 (reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #81)
Marvel Team-Up #38
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Post by paulie on Jul 2, 2015 9:28:41 GMT -5
Marvel titles I looked forward to buying: Warlock, War is Hell, Savage Sword of Conan; Tomb of Dracula; Master of Kung Fu. Time and time again... whether it is on this board, some other board, or one of the many Facebook forums... this is the consistent answer is it not? Not many comics before or since were as good as these. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 2, 2015 14:29:27 GMT -5
JULY 1975:
1st Issue Special #7: The Creeper: I loved this character since the first time I saw him. I was really hoping for this to lead to a new series for him and Ditko. This one has a naughty visual on the cover, if you look hard.
Okay, I give up. If I look at this much longer, I'll feel like a real perv. There's a tiny drawing of a dog urinating on a fire hydrant on the street far below the Creeper and the Firefly. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 2, 2015 14:37:34 GMT -5
>phew!< I feel better. Never caught that one. So glad that what I thought I did see wasn't really there!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2015 14:39:12 GMT -5
>phew!< I feel better. Never caught that one. So glad that what I thought I did see wasn't really there! Or maybe it was...FNORD!  -M |
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