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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2020 8:23:54 GMT -5
Still have my small suitcase from my childhood that I filled with reading material (comics books, Hardy Boys, Tarzan novels, etc) whenever we went on vacation.
I even had a small reading light to read them in the back seat of the car at night!
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Post by MDG on Jan 10, 2020 9:28:39 GMT -5
When I was first married, I had to pick up my wife at the train station after work. In case the train was late or she missed her regular one, I kept a couple DC digests in the glove compartment.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 10, 2020 13:21:01 GMT -5
Yep, I took comics with me to school, too, to read during recess when the weather was lousy - but also to share around with a few other guys in the earlier grades, when it was more than just me and one other guy in my class who read comics. And yep, I used to take 'em, especially DC and Archie digests or the Marvel pocketbook reprints, with me whenever there was some family activity that entailed a long drive. I loved the collected format even back then - lots more pages of stories, and very convenient to carry around.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 10, 2020 13:29:00 GMT -5
I got in trouble for that and had comics taken away from me, by parents, teachers... I didn't necessarily get them back either.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 10, 2020 14:19:16 GMT -5
I got in trouble for that and had comics taken away from me, by parents, teachers... I didn't necessarily get them back either. That's terrible!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 10, 2020 14:52:11 GMT -5
I got in trouble for that and had comics taken away from me, by parents, teachers... I didn't necessarily get them back either. Yeah, that happened a few times - most (hell, all) of the nuns in my elementary school a low opinion of comic books. However, they were usually returned to us at the end of the school day.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 10, 2020 15:32:32 GMT -5
I got in trouble for that and had comics taken away from me, by parents, teachers... I didn't necessarily get them back either. Yeah, that happened a few times - most (hell, all) of the nuns in my elementary school a low opinion of comic books. However, they were usually returned to us at the end of the school day. Yep, schools can confiscate your stuff but it is "personal property" and required being returned to you. Had that occur at my grade school with one of the girls in my class around 4th grade. She had brought a barbie and stuff to school and had them taken away during a class and NOT given back at the end of the day. Next morning School Principle and teacher doing the confiscating had a nice long conversation with her father who was an attorney. Oh yes, the girl got her Barbie/items back before going home. By end of the week there was all kinds of school notices posted and sent home for parents to sign acknowledgements in attempts to smooth over the issues and help parents and students being more aware about NOT bringing personal items to school. Nowadays I am certain that schools wish kids would bring comics instead of guns. Comics don't kill people, they help reading comprehension!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2020 15:57:37 GMT -5
I even had a small reading light to read them in the back seat of the car at night!
I did that too.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 10, 2020 17:56:54 GMT -5
I did get one back later, sneaking it out of the teacher's capture drawer on their desk and stealing back my own property. I hadn't gotten to finish it! Later at a Christian school where they made it clear they disapproved of comics I never had anything confiscated, so go figure. I remember one girl had some Epic magazines with some fairly graphic content too. I seem to know a few kids whose parents banned them from having comics, I bet they would've liked this back cover page from a Zap Comix...
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Post by badwolf on Jan 10, 2020 18:18:11 GMT -5
When I'd been bad enough to warrant punishment my mom would take away my comics and put them in her closet. My collection was small enough at the time that they could all fit in a standard paper grocery bag. Of course it wasn't hard to find them and since I got home from school before she got home from work I'd sneak in and look at them, being careful to leave them looking the same when I was done. I may have even spirited a couple away if they were new ones I hadn't had a chance to memorize yet. One time I got into further trouble for getting my subscription copies out of the mail before she got home and putting them in my desk, and she had found them while looking in there for some reason.
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Post by Farrar on Jan 11, 2020 12:30:56 GMT -5
^^^ Oh yeah, whenever I misbehaved--wouldn't eat my peas or some other such nonsense--my mother would take a handful of my comics from the top of my comics pile and throw them out. I kept my comics in a big cardboard box, organized by series (and within that by issue number). I couldn't have her tossing out any of my Legion or Avengers or FF or JLA, so I started putting my Archies at the top of the box even though it ruined my meticulous ordering. It worked; now when she punished me none of my revered comics were discarded!
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 11, 2020 14:09:17 GMT -5
^^^ Oh yeah, whenever I misbehaved--wouldn't eat my peas or some other such nonsense--my mother would take a handful of my comics from the top of my comics pile and throw them out. I kept my comics in a big cardboard box, organized by series (and within that by issue number). I couldn't have her tossing out any of my Legion or Avengers or FF or JLA, so I started putting my Archies at the top of the box even though it ruined my meticulous ordering. It worked; now when she punished me none of my revered comics were discarded! At the risk of ruining a four Yorkshiremen skit, you win! You had it the worst of any kid with that story. Yikes!
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 12, 2020 10:42:50 GMT -5
^^^ Oh yeah, whenever I misbehaved--wouldn't eat my peas or some other such nonsense--my mother would take a handful of my comics from the top of my comics pile and throw them out. I kept my comics in a big cardboard box, organized by series (and within that by issue number). I couldn't have her tossing out any of my Legion or Avengers or FF or JLA, so I started putting my Archies at the top of the box even though it ruined my meticulous ordering. It worked; now when she punished me none of my revered comics were discarded! I did the exact same thing. Got rid of a bunch of Harvey and Archie comics while my Claremont/Byrne X-Men collection rested comfortably at the bottom of the stack.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 13, 2020 8:09:24 GMT -5
Whoosh you all got some harsh parents! My mom limited me to one brown grocery bag but thankfully she never threw out any as a punishment. Then again, she didn't know about (i think?) about ally my stashes and hidings either. Eventually she gave in to my odd collecting habit since she couldn't stop it. She is probably watching me now from heaven just shaking her head over my room devoted to comics...
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Post by MDG on Jan 13, 2020 10:31:45 GMT -5
Whoosh you all got some harsh parents! My mom limited me to one brown grocery bag but thankfully she never threw out any as a punishment. Then again, she didn't know about (i think?) about ally my stashes and hidings either. Eventually she gave in to my odd collecting habit since she couldn't stop it. She is probably watching me now from heaven just shaking her head over my room devoted to comics... There was some tension when my sister narced on my underground comix collection (including a Zap 4) when I was about 16, but I got to keep them.
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