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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 18:57:34 GMT -5
For me it was a tobacco shop that sold magazines and other stuff including comics. I still associate the smell of pipe tobacco with comic books.
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Post by Dr Johnny Fever on Mar 8, 2021 11:43:25 GMT -5
For me it was a tobacco shop that sold magazines and other stuff including comics. I still associate the smell of pipe tobacco with comic books. This! In my small home town it was a store called "The Huff & Puff" and as a parent today I can't believe how easily I went to and from that store as a minor to get my Batman comics. It was in the mall so I'd head there while my mom got unimportant stuff like milk. I'd forgotten about that store until you made this post. Thanks of helping me remember my comic book remembrance
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 8, 2021 12:28:28 GMT -5
That's where Beth Harmon got her Chess Magazines.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2021 14:51:01 GMT -5
This! In my small home town it was a store called "The Huff & Puff" and as a parent today I can't believe how easily I went to and from that store as a minor to get my Batman comics. It was in the mall so I'd head there while my mom got unimportant stuff like milk... We lived uptown in a big city; my mother would have been horrified if she knew that as a 6, 7 year old kid I regularly left the confines of our block and went three blocks north to the candy store to get my comics.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 8, 2021 20:39:06 GMT -5
That's where Beth Harmon got her Chess Magazines. Ha! I was jumping off the sofa shouting, "Oh my God, look at the comics!" when my wife and I watched Queen's Gambit a few weeks back. It's a wonderful, really well made mini-series, but I was saying "forget the chess magazines, look at all those cool old comics" during those scenes in that convenience store.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 8, 2021 20:52:14 GMT -5
But of course, the comics are not period appropriate. But still cool having that spinner rack.
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 8, 2021 21:32:15 GMT -5
But of course, the comics are not period appropriate. But still cool having that spinner rack.
Don't bore the set designer with historical geek details... they're just trying to earn a living on the lower end of the Hollywood pay scale.
But little things like this happen all the time, especially in films that take place some time after WWII.
Another example... Back to the Future...
Marty McFly's guitar, borrowed from Marvin Berry, actually WAS from the future. The dance scene takes place in 1955, and Marty is playing a Gibson ES-345, which wasn't introduced until 1958!
But that's just something that only guitar geeks like myself would notice...
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 8, 2021 21:52:11 GMT -5
Well that is 3 years. The Queens Gambit in 1960 had Avengers 341 from 1991.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 14, 2021 13:15:26 GMT -5
Today I Remember When I was a teen finding out favorite novels were being made into comic books. Talking about DC putting out the Shadow and Justice Inc (aka the Avenger) out and Marvel putting out Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Doc Savage, John Carter and Tarzan. Yes there were others before but I missed out on those in being too young or no disposable allowance. By the mid to late 70's I was finally able to indulge my comic collecting and grabbing up the glorious adaptions.
Today these comics are collectable Classics but when I was buying them that was further from the truth. Myself and others bought these series up out of love of their novel exploits and were now seeing them drawn as amazing comic creations. I wouldn't sale my sets of these bought new off the spinner rack comics as they are worth more than just money to me. They are part and parcel of my youth and start in comic collecting.
I was most excited over Marvel producing Warlord of Mars and Tarzan. Sadly the cost of licensing and lack of sales only kept them around for around 2 years. But those were really grand times for finding brand NEW comic adventures of them. The DC books were quite fun but having read fewer of the Shadow or the Avenger it was Marvel which had my interest.
The REH properties benefitted from having Roy Thomas in their corner. I think without his contribution that they too might have gone away quickly like the ERB titles. But ALL series from DC and Marvel were lucky to having superb artistry as well found between the staples. I mean who can argue over the likes of Kaluta, Robbins, Kirby, BWS, the Buscema brothers, Kane, Colon, Andru, Vosburg and others creating exciting comic art to bring these heroes and villains to life?
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 14, 2021 18:35:38 GMT -5
(...) I was most excited over Marvel producing Warlord of Mars and Tarzan. Sadly the cost of licensing and lack of sales only kept them around for around 2 years. But those were really grand times for finding brand NEW comic adventures of them. The DC books were quite fun but having read fewer of the Shadow or the Avenger it was Marvel which had my interest. (...) I've made no secret of my fondness for Marvel's brief tenure with the ERB license elsewhere on this forum. Marvel's Tarzan, with art by John and then Sal Buscema, is still my all-time favorite comic book version of Tarzan.
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Post by majestic on Apr 1, 2021 12:29:54 GMT -5
I remember when I "discovered" the JSA in Flash and JLA. Suddenly a whole new world of heroes were there for me to search for. I loved any reprints of DC 40's stories. It was great. And at Marvel I remember realizing Namor and Capt America had stories in the 40's to discover.
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Post by berkley on Apr 1, 2021 12:44:55 GMT -5
Today I Remember When I was a teen finding out favorite novels were being made into comic books. Talking about DC putting out the Shadow and Justice Inc (aka the Avenger) out and Marvel putting out Conan, Kull, Solomon Kane, Doc Savage, John Carter and Tarzan. Yes there were others before but I missed out on those in being too young or no disposable allowance. By the mid to late 70's I was finally able to indulge my comic collecting and grabbing up the glorious adaptions. Today these comics are collectable Classics but when I was buying them that was further from the truth. Myself and others bought these series up out of love of their novel exploits and were now seeing them drawn as amazing comic creations. I wouldn't sale my sets of these bought new off the spinner rack comics as they are worth more than just money to me. They are part and parcel of my youth and start in comic collecting. I was most excited over Marvel producing Warlord of Mars and Tarzan. Sadly the cost of licensing and lack of sales only kept them around for around 2 years. But those were really grand times for finding brand NEW comic adventures of them. The DC books were quite fun but having read fewer of the Shadow or the Avenger it was Marvel which had my interest. The REH properties benefitted from having Roy Thomas in their corner. I think without his contribution that they too might have gone away quickly like the ERB titles. But ALL series from DC and Marvel were lucky to having superb artistry as well found between the staples. I mean who can argue over the likes of Kaluta, Robbins, Kirby, BWS, the Buscema brothers, Kane, Colon, Andru, Vosburg and others creating exciting comic art to bring these heroes and villains to life? I think the REH characters enjoyed many more and brighter highlights than the ERB in their Marvel comics versions. The DC I don't know as well, but can't think of much there to match the best REH work of BWS, Buscema and Alcala, Mike Ploog, Tim Conrad, the Severins, Vicente Alcazar. Kaluta was close, and probably would have done so had he been a little older and more experienced at the time he drew the Carson Napier back-ups.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 1, 2021 13:40:59 GMT -5
I think the REH characters enjoyed many more and brighter highlights than the ERB in their Marvel comics versions. The DC I don't know as well, but can't think of much there to match the best REH work of BWS, Buscema and Alcala, Mike Ploog, Tim Conrad, the Severins, Vicente Alcazar. Kaluta was close, and probably would have done so had he been a little older and more experienced at the time he drew the Carson Napier back-ups. The first year or two of DC's ERB books were fantastic. My mental picture of the ERB characters comes from those comics - Tarzan by Joe Kubert, Korak by Frank Thorne, John Carter by Murphy Anderson, Pellucidar by Alan Weiss, and those Carson of Venus stories by Mike Kaluta. After a few years DC seemed to lose interest, unfortunately.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 19, 2021 19:01:55 GMT -5
I was Remembering When I bought my very 1st Treasury Edition. It was the DC and Marvel collaboration Superman versus Spider-Man. Not only is it a larger size format showing off the art, it is and was something I or others never thought they would see. The BIG TWO putting aside their corporate ego's was incomprehensible to us fans and readers. How could they ever unite and approve a story which would make both publishers happy?
But dang if it didn't come to happen. It was phenomenal and exciting. A teaming of the 2 biggest superstars in comics. Both clad in iconic red and blue, larger than life and now larger than a regular comic book. This was a spectacular moment and comparable to the biggest summer movie events. Historical in its significance as an important moment uniting creators and readers in providing us the largest fan dream being fulfilled.
After many readings over the decades now I still get goosebumps, chills and shivers of excitement when I open the treasury up. Once more I am the youngster saving up all my change, waiting for the day when I could convince my dad in taking me to the mall so I could buy it. Picking up this larger than life tabloid at B Dalton's bookstore was a life changing moment. I was no longer just a kid reading comic books for fun. I was now moving up in the world becoming a true COLLECTOR, seeking out new and old unique, elusive and missed comic books. The thrill of the hunt was now in my blood...
There was no turning back now.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 19, 2021 20:07:03 GMT -5
My first Treasury-size book was the Famous 1st Edition All-Star Comics #3 reprint in late 1975. I followed with several others after that, including the Howard the Duck in '76 and the Famous 1st Edition of Superman #1 in '79. Unfortunately, I never even saw the Superman/Spiderman or Hulk/Batman books when they came out.
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