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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 7:59:36 GMT -5
The Adventure digests!!! In the early 80s I was very much into the LSH. I wanted to know all about first appearances, costumes--everything to do with the Legion. Those Adventure digests with the LSH reprints were like gold to me!
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Post by brutalis on Aug 22, 2017 8:11:48 GMT -5
My time with Adventure Comics in the day was always short. I would find them only sporadically missing 1-3 issues at a time only to find a surprise issue reminding me to keep looking. Followed runs were The Legion, a couple of Black Orchid
, a few Spectre and Aquaman's. The most issues being during the Dollar Comics run and the Dial H for Hero. Only ever had 2 of the digests but enjoyed all issues I have. These days you can't even find many of them in back issues here in Phoenix except for Aquaman and Spectre.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 22, 2017 8:29:58 GMT -5
I'd read earlier Adventures starring the Legion courtesy of my cousins and like a lot of young 'uns, fell head over heels in love with the LSH. The first Adventure I ever owned was #357. However it was tough finding subsequent issues; none of the candy stores I had access to seemed to carry the comic on a regular basis. At some point I managed to persuade my (comic book-hating) parents into gifting me with a subscription to Adventure. The Legion was by far my favorite DC feature, so I was ecstatic! Adventure remains the only comic I've ever subscribed to. Of course, a couple of issues into that subscription the lead feature switched to Supergirl  (with the LSH being shoved into a few pages in the back of Action). To this day I remember how dazed and shocked I was when I read that accursed "special announcement" about the switch in the Adventure lettercol.   Needless to say, when that Adventure subscription lapsed I didn't renew (though later on when Sekowsky took over the Supergirl feature, I managed to pick up an issue here and there. I was a huge Sekoswky fan and I really liked his "mod" Wonder Woman, so I thought lightning would strike twice. But it didn't; IMO his work on Supergirl was tiresome and sloppy). I hear you, brother! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 22, 2017 12:15:54 GMT -5
The Legion of Super-Heroes was by far my favorite, but I also loved the Spectre and Aquaman series, as well as the reprints of the Challengers of the Unknown. And yes, Dollar Comics are always a good thing!
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 22, 2017 15:02:26 GMT -5
The Adventure digests!!! In the early 80s I was very much into the LSH. I wanted to know all about first appearances, costumes--everything to do with the Legion. Those Adventure digests with the LSH reprints were like gold to me! I loved those Adventure digests! I had bought them mostly for the LSH stories, but wound up enjoying the other stories in them as well. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 22, 2017 15:18:34 GMT -5
* The 3-issue Black Canary story by Alex Toth. Yeah, this is my pick. I think Alex Toth is the best artist ever to work in American comics and I always liked him as a superhero artist, specifically. I've been reading a bunch of Silver Age Legion stuff lately and that's quite good fun. Don't think I ever read a dollar issue of Adventure. Huh. |
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(with the LSH being shoved into a few pages in the back of Action). To this day I remember how dazed and shocked I was when I read that accursed "special announcement" about the switch in the Adventure lettercol. 
