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Post by Farrar on Jul 25, 2020 16:34:38 GMT -5
Yeah, but how many kids buy a comic without at least opening the cover and looking at the pages? No kid in my neighborhood ever did, I can tell you that. LOL, the only time I did that was for that DC Super DC Giant with the Brave and Bold (which I mentioned recently in other threads). I was so enamored of that cover--actually just a portion of that cover!--that I just snatched the thing off the stands as soon as I saw it. Very disappointed in the comic itself (as I'm sure you're sick of hearing...)
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 25, 2020 16:41:46 GMT -5
Yeah, but how many kids buy a comic without at least opening the cover and looking at the pages? No kid in my neighborhood ever did, I can tell you that. LOL, the only time I did that was for that DC Super DC Giant with the Brave and Bold (which I mentioned recently in other threads). I was so enamored of that cover--actually just a portion of that cover!--that I just snatched the thing off the stands as soon as I saw it. Very disappointed in the comic itself (as I'm sure you're sick of hearing...) No, cover-loving is an inherent characteristic of being a comics fan. I love the irrational attraction we sometimes have for a cover, despite the enormous disparity of beauty between it and the pages it disguises. Cover-loving is a fine reason for buying a comic book; it' when the cover is meh, and you haven't investigated what lies within that you deserve much less pity.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 13:04:29 GMT -5
Yep, DC pulled the ol' "Tomahawk Two-step" with that issue! Now I happen to like Tomahawk, but any kid who bought that book under DC's deceptive cover art definitely got scalped.
Yeah, but how many kids buy a comic without at least opening the cover and looking at the pages? No kid in my neighborhood ever did, I can tell you that. I bought it on the basis of A: That image of Superman with the eagle was badass; B: It's a Superman book, and would be about Superman. Let me tell you, this 8 year old NEVER bought another comic without taking a peek inside. For sure!
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 13:05:59 GMT -5
LOL, the only time I did that was for that DC Super DC Giant with the Brave and Bold (which I mentioned recently in other threads). I was so enamored of that cover--actually just a portion of that cover!--that I just snatched the thing off the stands as soon as I saw it. Very disappointed in the comic itself (as I'm sure you're sick of hearing...) No, cover-loving is an inherent characteristic of being a comics fan. I love the irrational attraction we sometimes have for a cover, despite the enormous disparity of beauty between it and the pages it disguises. Cover-loving is a fine reason for buying a comic book; it' when the cover is meh, and you haven't investigated what lies within that you deserve much less pity. If I had been an attorney at 8, I would have sued. Exhibit A: Would you LOOK at this cover!
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 29, 2020 13:12:52 GMT -5
Yeah, but how many kids buy a comic without at least opening the cover and looking at the pages? No kid in my neighborhood ever did, I can tell you that. I bought it on the basis of A: That image of Superman with the eagle was badass; B: It's a Superman book, and would be about Superman. Let me tell you, this 8 year old NEVER bought another comic without taking a peek inside. For sure! That classic Superman drawing you liked so much is by Fred Ray, the same guy who drew all the Tomahawk stories inside!
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 13:43:43 GMT -5
I remember when, in 1980, I was perusing the spinner rack at my local Kerr Drugs in rural North Carolina. There, in among the Conans, Micronauts, Supermans, and Sgt. Rocks, was a comic I had never heard of. Something I could never even conceive of. A comic book that was not produced by Marvel, DC, Charleton, Harvey, Whitman, or Archie... And it was from CANADA! There on the rack before me was a little book by the name of Captain Canuck #10. Just the sheer weirdness of having a comic from Canada at my disposal was almost too much to comprehend. It was an instant buy. After getting the comic home, I poured over it, and read and re-read it a hundred times. The art was incredible (who is this George Freeman guy?!?!). The coloring was water-colory and subtle and unlike anything I had seen in a comic. The story was concise and self-contained, a done-in-one with a couple of cool twists. The setting was a slightly futuristic Canada (so exotic!). And the hero was a HERO, a huge towering majestic man in a sharp red and white supersuit. The backup story was the second installment of a series called Beyond!, sort of a sword and sorcery feature with more beautiful art and coloring. Even the ads and editorial matter was fascinating. What this comic did for me was open my eyes to a whole (literal) world of comics that I knew nothing about. My 12 year old self could only really fathom the comics I saw before me on the spinner rack, but now I began to seek out everything else I could... the less mainstream, the better... Elfquest, Lightrunner, Heavy Metal, Judge Dredd, Cerebus, the Warren magazines, etc. To this day, it is my favorite single issue of any comic. Best 50 cents I ever spent.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 14:14:26 GMT -5
I remember when, in 1980, I was perusing the spinner rack at my local Kerr Drugs in rural North Carolina. There, in among the Conans, Micronauts, Supermans, and Sgt. Rocks, was a comic I had never heard of. Something I could never even conceive of. A comic book that was not produced by Marvel, DC, Charleton, Harvey, Whitman, or Archie... And it was from CANADA! There on the rack before me was a little book by the name of Captain Canuck #10. Just the sheer weirdness of having a comic from Canada at my disposal was almost too much to comprehend. It was an instant buy. After getting the comic home, I poured over it, and read and re-read it a hundred times. The art was incredible (who is this George Freeman guy?!?!). The coloring was water-colory and subtle and unlike anything I had seen in a comic. The story was concise and self-contained, a done-in-one with a couple of cool twists. The setting was a slightly futuristic Canada (so exotic!). And the hero was a HERO, a huge towering majestic man in a sharp red and white supersuit. The backup story was the second installment of a series called Beyond!, sort of a sword and sorcery feature with more beautiful art and coloring. Even the ads and editorial matter was fascinating. What this comic did for me was open my eyes to a whole (literal) world of comics that I knew nothing about. My 12 year old self could only really fathom the comics I saw before me on the spinner rack, but now I began to seek out everything else I could... the less mainstream, the better... Elfquest, Lightrunner, Heavy Metal, Judge Dredd, Cerebus, the Warren magazines, etc. To this day, it is my favorite single issue of any comic. Best 50 cents I ever spent. I too bought Capt Canuck off the news stands. I started with #1. And yeah it was pretty cool to read something that was not viewed thru a United States view point. The character was revamped in 2015 by Chapterhouse Comics. I bought the IDW compendium about 8 yrs ago that had all the CC stories. Then I kept up with the Chapterhouse series but lost interest when the 3rd volume was delayed.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 15:23:09 GMT -5
I remember when, in 1980, I was perusing the spinner rack at my local Kerr Drugs in rural North Carolina. There, in among the Conans, Micronauts, Supermans, and Sgt. Rocks, was a comic I had never heard of. Something I could never even conceive of. A comic book that was not produced by Marvel, DC, Charleton, Harvey, Whitman, or Archie... And it was from CANADA! There on the rack before me was a little book by the name of Captain Canuck #10. Just the sheer weirdness of having a comic from Canada at my disposal was almost too much to comprehend. It was an instant buy. After getting the comic home, I poured over it, and read and re-read it a hundred times. The art was incredible (who is this George Freeman guy?!?!). The coloring was water-colory and subtle and unlike anything I had seen in a comic. The story was concise and self-contained, a done-in-one with a couple of cool twists. The setting was a slightly futuristic Canada (so exotic!). And the hero was a HERO, a huge towering majestic man in a sharp red and white supersuit. The backup story was the second installment of a series called Beyond!, sort of a sword and sorcery feature with more beautiful art and coloring. Even the ads and editorial matter was fascinating. What this comic did for me was open my eyes to a whole (literal) world of comics that I knew nothing about. My 12 year old self could only really fathom the comics I saw before me on the spinner rack, but now I began to seek out everything else I could... the less mainstream, the better... Elfquest, Lightrunner, Heavy Metal, Judge Dredd, Cerebus, the Warren magazines, etc. To this day, it is my favorite single issue of any comic. Best 50 cents I ever spent. I too bought Capt Canuck off the news stands. I started with #1. And yeah it was pretty cool to read something that was not viewed thru a United States view point. The character was revamped in 2015 by Chapterhouse Comics. I bought the IDW compendium about 8 yrs ago that had all the CC stories. Then I kept up with the Chapterhouse series but lost interest when the 3rd volume was delayed. I kept up with the series over the next few issues (it only lasted four more) and managed to find them all, right there on the spinner rack. Eventually, I filled in the gaps in my collection, and when IDW reprinted them, I missed out on the compendium, but they also published it in hardcovers, in two volumes, which I did get. That first volume, with the reprint of #10 is the one I find myself pulling off my shelf the most out of my whole collection.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 15:27:59 GMT -5
Back when new comics were 30-35 cent cover prices a local convenience store used to sell them 5 for $1!! Today, new comics at $2.99-3.99 (even with a discount) are too expensive! If I see a collected edition at a reasonable price with a good discount of 40-50% off (instocktrades.com) I will get it if it is something I really want. I have been sooooo over new comics for years now! I remember when they were 35cents... I would get an allowance for mowing the lawn... $11. I was (and still am) terrible at math. It was a unique form of torture to be standing at the spinner rack in the drug store, trying to figure out how many 35 cent comics I could get for 11 dollars. Especially when figuring in tax, and the random issue being a little more or less, depending on the number of pages. Torture....
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Post by tonebone on Jul 29, 2020 15:38:42 GMT -5
Remember When you were the lone reader of comic books in your childhood? Being the nerdiest geek around and there was nobody to discuss the comic books you read with? Neither of my 2 brothers were into comics, a couple of cousins bought a few comics but we never talked about them. Only neighbor that read comics around me was across the alley behind my house and he was deaf. For the very longest time until high school the only discussions about comic books were from my mother condemning me for reading the dang juvenile things. Reading Stan's soapbox and the ads inside each comic were about the only thing keeping me looking ahead for what new and interesting comics might be coming. Reading the monthly listings in Marvel and checking off in my brain which comics might be worth me looking for after the fact. Pondering over the solicitations of past months and imagining what each issue might hold as all I had was the small blurbs to draw your attention. High school delivered me 2 new friends who read and saved comic books. Sadly both were only available to talk comics at school. We would gather in the morning before classes began trading issues back and forth to read. At lunch we sat in the library reading over and again whichever comics we could bring to school each day. One friend was a Marvel ONLY guy and had no liking for anything coming out from DC or other publishers. The other was strictly reading war comics from ANY publisher as his dad had died in WWII and he wanted to know everything he could about war from comics, television shows, movies and books. Occasionally the 2 of them would read some of what I brought in and become slightly interested enough to asking me to bring those issues back during other weeks of school. It's still strange looking back as we 3 NERDS to everyone freshman year became better known in the next 4 years. I was on the school newspaper and yearbook all 4 years and used my comics passion doing artwork and design and layouts for both that drew attention towards me and others began borrowing my comics to read along with teachers taking note and utilizing my comics in our classes. I watched as one friend became a football player and pulling team mates into reading his Marvel comics. I saw the other friend become a true historical historian of sorts as he expanded from all things WW II and started exploring other aspects of history while other war aficionados were reading his war comics. Suddenly we 3 amigo's where no longer ridiculed and laughed upon as the oddball's but were instead influencing others with our comic book ways. Now I find in today's world comic books themselves have become the ridiculed cast aside and left behind as their characters have moved onto the small and big screens. Things I grew up reading and fantasizing about are now displayed each week on television and garnering large sell out crowds at the theaters. While I gladly partake of whatever comic book fun there is whether it is in cartoons, television or movies I still find myself remembering the simpler times when comics were my own special unique entertainment that only a handful really understood the joy and fun of. How time changes and evolves everything around us, eh? I knew no kids growing up who even looked twice at comics. I lived in a rural area and there were no comics stores within 50 miles of me. In high school, I began making my own comics and had a couple of pen pals (1000 miles away) who created comics with me. They collected comics, but were acquaintances, at best. I subscribed to the Comic Buyer's Guide, but was the odd man out throughout high school. In college, I met a couple of guys who bought and read comics, and sporadically visited a dingy local comics shop. It wasn't until after college, when I was a professional, that I met comics enthusiasts that I could actually talk to about comics. I still read comics every day (as I have for the past 50 years), and now have a (too) large collection of trade paperbacks and hardcovers. I have long since given away or sold the vast majority of my floppies and have nearly zero interest in current comics.
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Post by tonebone on Aug 10, 2020 12:12:50 GMT -5
I remember when, at about the age of 11, I became enamored with the Hostess ads in Marvel and DC (and others) comics... and decided to collect them. By "collect them" I mean I cut them out of the original comics and put them in a binder. I made some effort to cut pages that had another ad on the back, but in some cases, I had to cut a page of story. I did this to my whole collection. And, as I reviewed my handiwork, neatly hole-punched and in a 3 ring binder, it dawned on me what I had done. I CUT UP ALL MY COMICS! I just sat there thinking "What were you thinking???" To this day, I get a slightly uneasy feeling whenever I see one of those ads. True story. This one is my favorite, by the way...
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 10, 2020 15:20:02 GMT -5
I remember when, at about the age of 11, I became enamored with the Hostess ads in Marvel and DC (and others) comics... and decided to collect them. By "collect them" I mean I cut them out of the original comics and put them in a binder. I made some effort to cut pages that had another ad on the back, but in some cases, I had to cut a page of story. I did this to my whole collection. And, as I reviewed my handiwork, neatly hole-punched and in a 3 ring binder, it dawned on me what I had done. I CUT UP ALL MY COMICS! I just sat there thinking "What were you thinking???" To this day, I get a slightly uneasy feeling whenever I see one of those ads. True story. This one is my favorite, by the way... If you didn't collect the parody versions that First Comics ran in the early 1980's, then you really missed out.
Here are but a few of them:
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Post by MDG on Aug 10, 2020 16:05:32 GMT -5
Along those lines:
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 11, 2020 8:33:43 GMT -5
If they never had Galactus's world eating stopped by a big plate of Twinkies, they really missed an opportunity.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 11, 2020 9:26:36 GMT -5
If they never had Galactus's world eating stopped by a big plate of Twinkies, they really missed an opportunity. Galactus strikes me as more of a fruit pie guy. More filling and variety of tastes😋
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