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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 13, 2020 10:50:29 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. Snitches get stitches.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 18, 2020 15:35:12 GMT -5
That Crumb page reminds me of the time my Mom tore my House of Secrets in half. It was around issue 125 iirc. She got me into horror and liked reading my comics, but I was finicky back then and kept yelling at her for bending the pages back on my comics. I think I said a curse word and it set her off one day, probably the most violent act I ever saw this normally gentle soul do. I taped it back together, each page, and probably still own it.
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 18, 2020 15:38:00 GMT -5
That Crumb page reminds me of the time my Mom tore my House of Secrets in half. It was around issue 125 iirc. She got me into horror and liked reading my comics, but I was finicky back then and kept yelling at her for bending the pages back on my comics. I think I said a curse word and it set her off one day, probably the most violent act I ever saw this normally gentle soul do. I taped it back together, each page, and probably still own it. Ouch. That hurt me in the heart more than you can think. Breaking a book/comic is too painful to me to see, even if it’s a memory of another person.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 18, 2020 16:38:20 GMT -5
Ouch. That hurt me in the heart more than you can think. Breaking a book/comic is too painful to me to see, even if it’s a memory of another person. Hmmm, probably shouldn't tell you, but back when I was just starting out as a comics reader, at about the age of 6, I used to cut out panels and sometimes just images of individual characters from my comics...
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Post by Trevor on Jan 18, 2020 17:09:25 GMT -5
That Crumb page reminds me of the time my Mom tore my House of Secrets in half. It was around issue 125 iirc. She got me into horror and liked reading my comics, but I was finicky back then and kept yelling at her for bending the pages back on my comics. I think I said a curse word and it set her off one day, probably the most violent act I ever saw this normally gentle soul do. I taped it back together, each page, and probably still own it. Ouch. That hurt me in the heart more than you can think. Breaking a book/comic is too painful to me to see, even if it’s a memory of another person. Oh, it’s not that bad of a memory for me. Maybe if I didn’t deserve it to some extent, and she did it more than once, or it was a valuable book. I think she and I both learned a lesson that day.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 18, 2020 17:19:13 GMT -5
Ouch. That hurt me in the heart more than you can think. Breaking a book/comic is too painful to me to see, even if it’s a memory of another person. Oh, it’s not that bad of a memory for me. Maybe if I didn’t deserve it to some extent, and she did it more than once, or it was a valuable book. I think she and I both learned a lesson that day. Probably told this story here before, and it sounds like sacrilege I know, but my favorite single comic book is a book I made myself in 1972 by cutting out pages from DC horror books. I loved the humor stories and gag strips, and made myself a best-of. It is pretty much Plop issue zero.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 20, 2020 7:34:47 GMT -5
Ouch. That hurt me in the heart more than you can think. Breaking a book/comic is too painful to me to see, even if it’s a memory of another person. Hmmm, probably shouldn't tell you, but back when I was just starting out as a comics reader, at about the age of 6, I used to cut out panels and sometimes just images of individual characters from my comics... You are not alone Edo. I used to cut out actual figures from comics that were on their last legs or falling apart and kept them in an old cigar box. Also would clip really cool panels or splash pages. During junior high we learned to create shadow boxes and actually made money doing that for awhile as lots of the kids in the school liked mine done up from comic books and wanted their own. It was my "sneaky" way of getting more comics, as part of the "job in creating" was that they had to supply the comic book they wanted the shadow box made from. So lots of times it was the cover they wanted to use, so I cut off the cover and voila I have another comic to keep and read.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 9:35:20 GMT -5
Hmmm, probably shouldn't tell you, but back when I was just starting out as a comics reader, at about the age of 6, I used to cut out panels and sometimes just images of individual characters from my comics... You are not alone Edo. I used to cut out actual figures from comics that were on their last legs or falling apart and kept them in an old cigar box. Also would clip really cool panels or splash pages. During junior high we learned to create shadow boxes and actually made money doing that for awhile as lots of the kids in the school liked mine done up from comic books and wanted their own. It was my "sneaky" way of getting more comics, as part of the "job in creating" was that they had to supply the comic book they wanted the shadow box made from. So lots of times it was the cover they wanted to use, so I cut off the cover and voila I have another comic to keep and read. Yeah, I used to cut up comics too and I would glue the panels/covers to the backs of thin cardboard or stiff paper and then cut out the figures to create my own (stiff/unmovable) action figures. I also did a lot of tracing comics with carbon paper. It all sounds so WICKED now!!
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Post by brutalis on Jan 20, 2020 9:52:45 GMT -5
I avoided carbon paper cuz it was just dang messy. Preferred using tracing paper, where I could outline the figures and then work on filling in the details myself. Much less damaging to the few comics I was allowed!
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 20, 2020 11:02:59 GMT -5
I'm happy to say that I never cut up a comic, though I could see how someone young enough might do so.
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Post by MDG on Jan 20, 2020 11:16:25 GMT -5
I'm happy to say that I never cut up a comic, though I could see how someone young enough might do so. Hell, I did it, and have a stack I'd cut up tomorrow if i had a suitable "art project." A natural outgrowth of cutting up my mother's magazines from when i was old enough to use a scissors. (She foolishly didn't bag and board her issues of McCall's and Better Homes & Gardens.)
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Post by Trevor on Jan 20, 2020 11:34:03 GMT -5
[wrong thread] When you can’t fathom the thought of letting go of or cutting up part a hobby, it owns you, not the other way around. [/wrong thread]
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Post by urrutiap on Jan 20, 2020 13:14:39 GMT -5
When I was a little kid in the 1980s I dunno what issue i had of Iron Man one time but I cut out someone in iron armor from the comic with scissors.
I was a naughty little boy. I never did it to my other comics i had like Power Pack and Alf and Spider Ham.
guess I wasnt into Iron Man comic book back then or something
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jan 20, 2020 13:26:48 GMT -5
Never cut up any comic books but I did make a monster movie collage by cutting out a bunch of images from monster mags (mostly Famous Monsters of Filmland) and gluing them to a piece of cardboard.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 7, 2020 14:10:37 GMT -5
I was Remembering When as a small child (the 6-12 yrs old range from around 1967 to 1973) when my dad was working part time on weekends at my Uncle's (actually his best friend growing up) Barbershop. Once in awhile my dad would take the family along to hang out at my Uncle/Aunt's home over the weekend and I would get to enjoy some comic book reading!
My cousin had a bunch of 1960's Superman/Batman comics, all were handed down to him from his dad's brother who grew up loving Superman/Batman. Once he went to college in another state he let my cousin have them all so weekends spent there was heavenly as I dug deep into classic Supes/Bats stories from the greats like Wayne Boring, Al Plastino, Curt Swan, Sheldon Moldoff, John Forte, George Papp, Jim Mooney, Bill Finger, Charles Paris, Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson to name a few. There were a lot of Giant size and Super Spectacular's with multiple stories which reprinted over and over and I would remember these comics over the years. Along with these spectacular comics I would also get to go hang out at the barbershop once in awhile as it was just a few blocks from my Uncle's home. They would take us boys over for the morning and take us back home for lunch and while at the shop I could dig through more current/new comic books. My uncle always kept a fresh supply of old and new comics in the shop for all the kids when parent's would bring them in for their monthly hair cuts, and that provided me with tons of comic reading. He would have a mix of Marvel and DC and Archie comics there and once they were used and torn up, then he would take them home for his son or give some to my Dad to bring home to us boys.
So, long before I was actually able to buy comics for myself I was able to read heroic exploits and teen tomfoolery and perhaps this is when my interest in comic books came from. These are my earliest remembrances of comic books and this may also explain that the versions of Batman and Superman I SEE in my head remain those from the 40s/50s/60s and why early 60's Marvel/DC/Archie comics hold such a strong place as my favorites to collect and read.
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