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Post by MDG on Aug 11, 2020 10:20:08 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 dbutler69 on Aug 11, 2020 12:56:26 GMT -5
If they never had Galactus's world eating stopped by a big plate of Twinkies, they really missed an opportunity. Good job, MDG! Did I call that or what? Fruit pies, indeed.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 11, 2020 13:05:03 GMT -5
Good job, MDG! Did I call that or what? Fruit pies, indeed. Yeah yeah yeah. Galactus likes cream filled worlds! Guess Twinkies are a lighter less filling option for Big G to appease those hunger pangs between planets...
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Post by tonebone on Aug 19, 2020 14:05:39 GMT -5
Good job, MDG! Did I call that or what? Fruit pies, indeed. Yeah yeah yeah. Galactus likes cream filled worlds! Guess Twinkies are a lighter less filling option for Big G to appease those hunger pangs between planets... According to Neal Adams, Earth is ever-expanding with a big, cream-filled center. Hence Galactus' perpetual attraction to it.
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Post by tonebone on Aug 19, 2020 14:07:07 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:
Yeah!!! I loved these! I think by the time these came around, I had more sense than to slice up my funnybooks.
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Post by starscape on Aug 24, 2020 22:36:12 GMT -5
My first visit to the USA, I immediately went to a shop to buy some Twinkies. Being vegetarian, I scanned the ingredients, only for them to say: contains animal or vegetable fat.
Whaddayamean 'or'?!?
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Post by brutalis on Sept 8, 2020 0:38:38 GMT -5
Was digging through a long box today and it was filled to the brim with British goodies from when those dang Brit's were playing in their own pond. Characters new, bizarre and uniquely curiouser and curiouser as they would say. I Remember When the new British Comic Invasion began with a sudden black and white with a dab of color. 2000 A.D. arrived at my LCS with amazingly wild characters and zarjaztic lingo exploding off the pages.
The exceedingly cool looking judge, jury and executioner, Dredd himself on many of the covers and in every issue with artwork which was so unlike anything America was putting out. Along with his brethren like Rogue Trooper, Strontium Dog, The A.B.C. Warriors, Stainless Steel Rat, Slaine, the Robo Hunter, Nemesis the Warlock, Halo Jones and so many more a brand new wild and insane world of deadly dark humored science fiction took me prisoner in its addictive and controversial attitude.
2000 A.D., Warrior, Captain Britain, Action Force (British GI Joe) and Doctor Who were on my pull list. There were only a handful of us at the LCS buying these up and the owner had only added them as part of a sweet and cheap initial promotion deal he received from Bud Plant. His initial delivery was I found out later that he would receive 3 of each series for a 6 months committment. As soon as the 1st issues arrived myself and 2 others had them held for us. Advantage of being a loyal weekly Thursday shopper back in the day was for us being given priority as these British comics were unknown and potentially a cash loss.
We 3 were all freshman college guys and his LCS monitor for him judging what was good or potentially great sellers for his new quickly growing store. With all 3 issues being guaranteed sales for him he took the plunge and risk in ordering heavily on the British invasion. Boy did it pay off for us and him big time. He couldn't keep them in stock and they were selling out fast as he had been the only LCS in town to take that pre-order deal. By the time other shops had caught on by word of mouth he had the best lion's share of sales.
Other smaller LCS would carry 2000 A.D and maybe Doctor Who (thanks to PBS and Tom Baker syndication in America just taking off) but none of the other series. It was nearly impossible for many here in Phoenix to get these insanely HOT Brit stuff, but I was one of those few enjoying the new wave of writers and artists when they were all a bunch of unknowns. Now names well known and considered as classic greats that there is no need to even start naming them. Soon all of them were creating American comics using their imagination to expand the boundaries of traditional superhero comics. And I was there for the ride from the start...what an amazing and incredible time that was to be a young collector!
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 8, 2020 12:17:10 GMT -5
I remember seeing 2000 A.D. and feeling like I would be lost following it for some reason. I got Doctor Who Weekly from the first issue so that was safe. I also saw Warrior and Captain Britain and didn't buy either, British titles that were weekly seemed a bigger commitment to get into to me than a monthly? I even dropped Who and only started again when it went monthly. I remember seeing Brian Bolland covers on U.S. Green Lanterns and knowing he was British, and then Dave Gibbons (I knew from Who) took over GL inside and out later on! I didn't buy any Judge Dredd until the American style color Eagle comics imprint started.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 8, 2020 18:40:52 GMT -5
I read 2000 AD regularly back in the '80s. But I didn't buy it: my best friend used to get it every week and since we used to read each other's comics I was always up to date. My favourite strips were Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, Robo-Hunter, and Tharg's Future Shocks. Strontium Dog and Nemisis the Warlock were alright, but I really disliked Halo Jones at the time. These days I'm a big fan of Halo Jones, but yeah...teenage me found it quite boring.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 5, 2020 17:25:52 GMT -5
After spending the last 2 weeks working my way through my destroyed and stolen comic book collection of last year, it brings me to Remembering When I actually knew and could remember what I already had in my collection. No list was needed. Memory was my main guide through purchasing new from the store or finding back issues I missed out on. The start of collecting a limited few comics and the beginnings of choosing how best in spending my limited change or in trading with others was my focus.
Not having access to an LCS crammed to the walls or the internet to shop from meant I was only capable of buying what was on the rack each week those few new comics came around. Many times I never knew or heard of various series until they had came and went away. Older series I may know of were just a dream as the possibility of ever owning them seemed impossible.
Now you can spend a day going through the last 3-5 weeks of new issues, burrow your way through long boxes of sporadic issues or seek TPB's or Omnibus through the local LCS's or Amazon or various Ebay or internet sellers. It is simpler, easier and yet at the same time ever more complicated. Where to begin and choose from so many titles? If I had it all to do over in the past, would I tell my younger self to do things in a different way?
Part of me missed those days of ignorance in NOT caring over what I was missing out on in my collecting. Having what I might find any day meant if nothing new or old caught my attention, I read those issues I already had. Happiness in its simplest form and also the WHY and HOW many characters or series became my favorites. Now it is damn near overwhelming in the choices. And as my current sorting of ALL my past comic books is showing me, much of it is no longer part of what I want. Too much was bought, read and put in a box and never been read again to this day.
Time to minimize, savor those comics which I will treasure and WANT to read again. The rest are just taking up space...
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 6, 2020 13:50:53 GMT -5
Quality is always better than quantity I think. Sometimes quantity has it's appeal though, which might be what grabbed me about a Legion Of Super-Heroes.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 6, 2020 22:36:05 GMT -5
After spending the last 2 weeks working my way through my destroyed and stolen comic book collection of last year, it brings me to Remembering When I actually knew and could remember what I already had in my collection. No list was needed. Memory was my main guide through purchasing new from the store or finding back issues I missed out on. The start of collecting a limited few comics and the beginnings of choosing how best in spending my limited change or in trading with others was my focus. Not having access to an LCS crammed to the walls or the internet to shop from meant I was only capable of buying what was on the rack each week those few new comics came around. Many times I never knew or heard of various series until they had came and went away. Older series I may know of were just a dream as the possibility of ever owning them seemed impossible. Now you can spend a day going through the last 3-5 weeks of new issues, burrow your way through long boxes of sporadic issues or seek TPB's or Omnibus through the local LCS's or Amazon or various Ebay or internet sellers. It is simpler, easier and yet at the same time ever more complicated. Where to begin and choose from so many titles? If I had it all to do over in the past, would I tell my younger self to do things in a different way? Part of me missed those days of ignorance in NOT caring over what I was missing out on in my collecting. Having what I might find any day meant if nothing new or old caught my attention, I read those issues I already had. Happiness in its simplest form and also the WHY and HOW many characters or series became my favorites. Now it is damn near overwhelming in the choices. And as my current sorting of ALL my past comic books is showing me, much of it is no longer part of what I want. Too much was bought, read and put in a box and never been read again to this day. Time to minimize, savor those comics which I will treasure and WANT to read again. The rest are just taking up space... I really wish it were that easy for me. I've been blessed/cursed with an archivist mentality just about my entire life... which is probably why I have so many darned different collections of things.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 8, 2020 19:40:47 GMT -5
I was trying to remember the first time I saw the term "collector's item" on any comic... I'm torn in thinking it was either one of those DC oversized tabloid comics, or a special Cracked magazine. In either case all or mostly reprints, and yet a 'true' collector would ideally have original editions of everything, not reprints. I doubt the words even for a second kept me from cutting up anything I got the idea to cut up back then.
Older fans might remember the Marvel Collector's Item Classics reprint title of the '60s as the first place they ever came across the term?
The first #1 I think I ever had of a comic title was Richie Rich & Jackie Jokers #1. I didn't really like Harvey comics much, and that one less than most. I may've had Plop! #1 as a kid, but not from buying it new, as a coverless in trade. I did buy Plop! #2 and Shazam #2 though. Later I bought Rom and She-Hulk #1 when they first came out, it did make me try to stay with the titles because of it, but I did tire of 'Shulkie' before too long.
Anyone remember their first #1 and if it made them more committed to collect them all?
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Post by brutalis on Oct 8, 2020 19:53:19 GMT -5
Anyone remember their first #1 and if it made them more committed to collect them all? I was always unlucky when a youngster and finding series after issue 3 or 4. Having only limited convenience store access was the primary cause. Once in High School it became much easier with so many stores near the school. In the end of the late 70's these were my 1st I followed: John Carter Warlord of Mars Godzilla Shogun Warriors Micronauts ROM Spaceknight Peter Parker the Spectacular Spiderman Star Wars All fresh and new on the spinner racks! It became a bigger and easier deal the fall of 1980 when I could hit the LCS regularly across the street from college. And after I got my 1st car and began driving after Thanksgiving it was GAME ON!
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 8, 2020 22:43:48 GMT -5
I was trying to remember the first time I saw the term "collector's item" on any comic... I'm torn in thinking it was either one of those DC oversized tabloid comics, or a special Cracked magazine. In either case all or mostly reprints, and yet a 'true' collector would ideally have original editions of everything, not reprints. I doubt the words even for a second kept me from cutting up anything I got the idea to cut up back then. Older fans might remember the Marvel Collector's Item Classics reprint title of the '60s as the first place they ever came across the term? The first #1 I think I ever had of a comic title was Richie Rich & Jackie Jokers #1. I didn't really like Harvey comics much, and that one less than most. I may've had Plop! #1 as a kid, but not from buying it new, as a coverless in trade. I did buy Plop! #2 and Shazam #2 though. Later I bought Rom and She-Hulk #1 when they first came out, it did make me try to stay with the titles because of it, but I did tire of 'Shulkie' before too long. Anyone remember their first #1 and if it made them more committed to collect them all?
The first #1 issue I remember buying off the drugstore rack-- I was five. Probably explains why I still have a soft spot for the green/white Kree uniform.
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