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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 20, 2019 14:28:44 GMT -5
Oh, man. I can so relate. The first issue of a comic book I ever had was this one: Of course, at the time I was still 6 years old and had no idea what 'reprint' even meant. I figured it out, later, though, and pretty regularly picked up Marvel Tales along with the ongoing Spidey titles, and Marvel Triple/Super Action reprinting the Avengers, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 19:15:55 GMT -5
I started out with reprints in the early '70s that were DC, not Marvel, and though I didn't know it at the time the Scamps and Chip N' Dales I bought were pretty much all reprints from the '50s. DC reprints were in the 52 page and 100 page comics, and in Shazam, I remember stories of Kid Eternity, Super-Chief, Murphy Anderson Hawkwman, Gil Kane Atom, Air Wave, really old Aquaman and Green Arrow, Vigilante, John Forte Legion, Marvel Family... a great random selection of material from '40s-'60s, and then there were the giant tabloid sized things with the oldest Superman and Batman (and also Zatara and Slam Bradley!) Some of these didn't have covers though, neighborhood kids would trade stuff, there would even be '50s and '60s comics in with the current comics, I remember some older dated seeming Archies and Millie The Model, and one Kirby Fantastic Four that even had it's cover (#77) which made no sense at all to me. I did buy all the late '70s-early '80s Marvel reprint titles as well when they appeared, so Spider-Man, The Hulk, X-Men, Avengers and Fantastic Four were embarked upon as regular or semi-regular habits with two versions at once, plus I bought the Sub-Mariner and Silver Surfer/Warlock reprints. I also remember a reprint of Not Brand Ecch stuff under the title Crazy which you could say added a third dimension! Thanks to a very plain looking second hand bookstore with boxes and boxes of old comics all pretty affordable i did get a lot of the '60s 25cent Marvel reprint titles, the best was Fantasy Masterpieces after the first couple of monster issues which had these great golden age and '50s reprints including Bill Everett Sub-Mariner! Wow! I think I had all of them too. It turned into Marvel Super-Heroes with #12 and started having new lead stories (like the first Captain Marvel in green and white, Medusa, Phantom Eagle, Guardians... never had the Dr. Doom issue though, sob!). I LOVED DC and Marvel reprints back in the 60's & the 70's. It was an excellent way to read Golden Age or early Silver Age stories that I would never been able to read at that time. Great way to catch up and appreciate both DC's & Marvel's vast library of stories since the late 30's.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 26, 2019 9:14:55 GMT -5
I wish that I had more of the Marvel/DC Giant reprint stuff. Had a couple of the Marvel-Superheroes and 1 Fantasy Masterpiece without covers I found at a thrift store. Never had any of the DC but a cousin had a bunch of Superman Giant's that I would read over and over whenever I would visit him on weekends. Both Marvel and DC provided a way of seeing some fantastic 40's and 50's goodness you would never have seen otherwise.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 4, 2019 16:51:58 GMT -5
I had a strange dream last night which included meeting and talking to Sal Buscema. It involved larger hectic events that could only make sense in a dream. (I might have been running from someone or fighting someone) But it shows what a geek I am that of people who could inhabit my dreams, Our Pal Sal came into my head. (and I actually talked to him about inking Barry Smith on Conan) There is no hope for me.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 12, 2019 9:56:55 GMT -5
Do you Remember When your 1st exposure to an ongoing series was actually the monthly reprint series from earlier on? Actually, my first exposure to the X-Men was in Marvel Triple Action #45, which reprints X-Men #45, with their battle with the Avengers (as Marvel Triple Action was actually an Avengers reprint comic, not an X-Men reprint comic). I got that about a month or so before discovering my local comic shop and picking up Uncanny X-Men #117, my first X-Men issue. The images of that issue of Marvel Triple Action had quite an impact on me. I remember making my own comic and swiping some panels from that comic.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 12, 2019 13:07:21 GMT -5
Do you Remember When your 1st exposure to an ongoing series was actually the monthly reprint series from earlier on? Actually, my first exposure to the X-Men was in Marvel Triple Action #45, which reprints X-Men #45, with their battle with the Avengers (as Marvel Triple Action was actually an Avengers reprint comic, not an X-Men reprint comic). I got that about a month or so before discovering my local comic shop and picking up Uncanny X-Men #117, my first X-Men issue. The images of that issue of Marvel Triple Action had quite an impact on me. I remember making my own comic and swiping some panels from that comic. Oddly enough my 1st X-Men issue was the 1968 X-Men issues 41 and 42 reprinted in X-Men 89/90 in 1974 as I traded for them with a neighbor kid across the alley from my house in the summer of 1975. That is if I can remember correctly. Both had their covers torn off, but boy did i read the heck out of them both.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 12, 2019 14:13:07 GMT -5
Actually, my first exposure to the X-Men was in Marvel Triple Action #45, which reprints X-Men #45, with their battle with the Avengers (as Marvel Triple Action was actually an Avengers reprint comic, not an X-Men reprint comic). I got that about a month or so before discovering my local comic shop and picking up Uncanny X-Men #117, my first X-Men issue. The images of that issue of Marvel Triple Action had quite an impact on me. I remember making my own comic and swiping some panels from that comic. Oddly enough my 1st X-Men issue was the 1968 X-Men issues 41 and 42 reprinted in X-Men 89/90 in 1974 as I traded for them with a neighbor kid across the alley from my house in the summer of 1975. That is if I can remember correctly. Both had their covers torn off, but boy did i read the heck out of them both. Speaking of coverless comics, I think that the first Batman comic I had (well, I believe it was Detective Comics, actually) was a coverless issue, which I seem to no longer have, even though I have most of my old comics. It starts with Batman buried alive inside a coffin. He uses yoga and some super flexibility to escape. I don't remember how I cam across it. Unfortunately, I don't know what issue it was. I wish I could figure out the issue.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 12, 2019 14:20:39 GMT -5
Oddly enough my 1st X-Men issue was the 1968 X-Men issues 41 and 42 reprinted in X-Men 89/90 in 1974 as I traded for them with a neighbor kid across the alley from my house in the summer of 1975. That is if I can remember correctly. Both had their covers torn off, but boy did i read the heck out of them both. Speaking of coverless comics, I think that the first Batman comic I had (well, I believe it was Detective Comics, actually) was a coverless issue, which I seem to no longer have, even though I have most of my old comics. It starts with Batman buried alive inside a coffin. He uses yoga and some super flexibility to escape. I don't remember how I cam across it. Unfortunately, I don't know what issue it was. I wish I could figure out the issue. Could it have been World's Finest #269? Because he did that in that issue.
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Post by chadwilliam on Mar 12, 2019 14:51:08 GMT -5
Speaking of coverless comics, I think that the first Batman comic I had (well, I believe it was Detective Comics, actually) was a coverless issue, which I seem to no longer have, even though I have most of my old comics. It starts with Batman buried alive inside a coffin. He uses yoga and some super flexibility to escape. I don't remember how I cam across it. Unfortunately, I don't know what issue it was. I wish I could figure out the issue. Could it have been World's Finest #269? Because he did that in that issue. I think Slam's nailed it. Does this ring a bell? The story was reprinted in the tpb The Strange Deaths of Batman in case you're interested.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 12, 2019 16:07:03 GMT -5
Speaking of coverless comics, I think that the first Batman comic I had (well, I believe it was Detective Comics, actually) was a coverless issue, which I seem to no longer have, even though I have most of my old comics. It starts with Batman buried alive inside a coffin. He uses yoga and some super flexibility to escape. I don't remember how I cam across it. Unfortunately, I don't know what issue it was. I wish I could figure out the issue. Could it have been World's Finest #269? Because he did that in that issue. Hmmm, I checked it out. It's not exactly as I remember it, and I really thought it was a 70's issue of a Batman only title,but I haven't seen that thing in decades, and how many times could Batman have been buried underground in a coffin in the Bronze Age, so that's probably it. Good job, Slam!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 18, 2019 8:46:00 GMT -5
Remember When you discovered monsters roamed the earth as a child? Likely your very 1st monsters were the dinosaurs seen in books or movies on television. If you were lucky your 2nd monster finding is a gigantic type known as Kaiju in Japan like Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidora, King Kong and their brethren found within the science fiction movies. The 3rd encounter would be found in comic books of the atomic era delivered from the imagination of Kirby and Ditko. I love me all sorts of the very humongous monstrosities, but a handful of Marvel’s reprints during the 70's inspired the most fun for me. Titles that said it all: Where Monsters Dwell, Monsters Unleashed, Monsters on the Prowl and Creatures on the Loose.
Full of outlandishly sounding alien names which once spoken, never leave your mind: Bombu, Bruttu, Dragoom, Fin Fang Foom, Gargantus, Giganto, Glop, Googam,, Goom, Gorgilla, Grogg, Groot (yes a monster long before a Guardian of the Galaxy), Gruto, Klagg, Kraa, Mechano, Monsteroso, Monstro, Monstrom, Moomba, Oog, Orrgo, Rorgg, Sporr, Tim Boo Ba, Torg, Trull the Unhuman, The Two Headed Thing, Ulvar, Warlord Kaa, Xemnu the Titan, Zetora and ZZutak. Such outlandish names inspiring awe, fear, wonder and so much excitement. Monsters wandered the dark shadows and into the bright sunlight of day and into the imaginations of us readers, holding us captive in anticipation of their rampages and destructive onslaughts.
From a mere few issues grew my love of these behemoths found in caves under the ground, from outer space, the frozen lost lands and of the farthest unexplored parts of Earth. I was soon dreaming of all these beasts and beginning to draw and create my own imaginative monsters. These early creatures fell to the wayside over time as the superhero took over. Marvel had a rich abundant monster history in their hands and Stan and other writers were creative in finding new ways to incorporate them into the heroic world. Many monsters led to heroic starts: Reed Richards and Henry Pym having their origins tweaked as starting in the age of monsters. Other beasts altered to becoming super-villains or alien invaders bent on conquest of our world only to fail time and again as our heroes defeated them. A monster of mankind’s own making; The Incredible Hulk became a fearsome monster fighter taking on alien creatures who were larger or more menacing to Earth than himself. The alien villain of Defenders called Nebulon took on the form of humanity to fight but was in all reality a giant alien snake/slug tentacled monster. Fin Fang Foom became an Iron Man nemesis. Eventually with a series of his own in the Marvel Universe Godzilla strode across our American countryside confronting sinister evil aliens and scientists with their own gigantic creations as “Zilla showed he was the true King of all the Monsters.
Gigantic Monsters roam across my imagination and dreams to this very day. My love and adoration for these humongous beasts still holds a special place in my heart and mind. Listen closely and you may hear the thumps of their ground shaking presence or the low distant growls and howls across the vast distances. Keep your eye out for signs of these beloved monsters as you roam the countryside while on vacation in journeys, for you never know when a giant beast may suddenly appear from behind that looming mountain beside you…
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 18, 2019 10:52:00 GMT -5
My first exposure to giant monsters in the movies: The Giant Behemoth, on "Million Dollar Movie," where they ran the same picture about ten times during the week. Loved it! (Of course, I was probably about 8 years old.)
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Post by beccabear67 on Mar 18, 2019 23:15:28 GMT -5
We had some sort of illustrated dinosaur book which I remember as having a lot of gray/yellow/green art but very detailed with scenes of them each in their habitat. We also had some chunky hard plastic toy dinos... the t-rex was grey, the brontosaurus was purpley-brown, the triceratops and ankleosaur were grey-blue, and there was a pinkish-purple dimedon and a pal green allisoarus (off the top of my head). I'm sure they came together in a pastic bag from a K-Mart or similar type store. Then we saw Godzilla, Mothra, and Gamera (rocket turtle) on tv, and the Krofft Land Of The Lost. The original Godzilla scared me, the sequels progressively less so until we had Godzooky (there was a Godzooky cartoon too)! I loved the Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim movie with both giant robots and monsters (Kaiju)!
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Post by brutalis on Mar 27, 2019 8:08:25 GMT -5
Most assuredly my earliest gigantic monster sighting's would likely have been a book of dinosaur's while playing with my multi-color plastic dinosaurs ( I remember a purple T-Rex, blue triceratops, red stegosaurus and yellow brontosaurus) and on television seeing Ray Harryhausen movies like 20 Million Miles to Earth, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms along with King Kong and any Godzilla movie whenever they would run. I still have a dictionary my mom saved from when I was a wee little tad of a monster myself that has my dino drawings in the spaces and blank pages of it. I do LOVES me the big bad beasties!
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 27, 2019 8:29:10 GMT -5
Had to be dinosaurs when I was very young. I can't remember the first book or movie. But by the time I saw the Flinstones when I was around 5, I knew understood the dino jokes.
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