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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 19:07:26 GMT -5
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #18
Cerebus #65
Conan The Barbarian #164
Epic Illustrated #26
Kitty Pryde And Wolverine #1
Marvel Super Special #34
New Mutants #22
Spectacular Spider-Man #96
Uncanny X-Men #187
I clearly remember finding that ASM annual in a back issue bin and being thrilled.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 14, 2014 16:03:57 GMT -5
August 84
All-Star Squadron #39
Alpha Flight #16
Avengers #249
Avengers Annual #13
Batman and the Outsiders #15
Beauty and the Beast #1 (don't judge me)
Crossfire #4
Defenders #137
DNAgents #15
Dreadstar #14
Epic Illustrated #26
FF #272
Firestorm #29
GL #182
Iceman #1 (I said don't judge me)
Infinity, Inc. #8
JLA #232
Kitty Pryde & Wolverine #1
LSH #4
Machine Man #3
Marvel Fanfare #17
Marvel GN #11
Secret Wars #8
New Mutants #22
New Teen Titans #3
Omega Men #20
Omega Men Annual #1
Tales of LSH #317
Tales of NTT #48
Thing #18
X-Men #187
West Coast Avengers #3
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 14, 2014 16:24:02 GMT -5
Beauty and the Beast #1 (don't judge me) Too late.  |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 15, 2014 9:13:12 GMT -5
Beauty and the Beast #1 (don't judge me) Too late. We've all done (and bought) things we're not proud of. Moving on... |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 0:45:51 GMT -5
Well since the 40 years ago thread was revived, time to revive it's younger sibling.... So in May 1985...I wouldn't turn 16 and start working for another 2 months, so I was very cash strapped at the time, 3 months later with paycheck in hand I started a pull list at a comic shop for the very first time... At the time I bought... Avengers 258 Doctor Who 11 Flash 348 Justice League of America 241 Shadow War of Hawkman 4 Thor 358 I currently have in one form or another... Amethyst 8 Arak, Son of Thunder 47 Arion, Lord of Atlantis 34 Aztec Ace 13 Conan the Barbarian 173 Conan the King 30 Crisis on Infinite Earths 5 Deadman 4 Dreadstar 19 Elfquest 1 Flash 348 Green Lantern 191 Jon Sable, Freelance 28 New Mutants 31 Nexus 12 Rocket Raccoon 4 Shadow War of Hawkman 4 Starslayer 32 Swamp Thing 39 Sword of the Atom Special 2 Thor 358 X-Men 196 Warlord 96 Warlord Annual 4 Who's Who in the DC Universe 6 -M |
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Post by berkley on May 14, 2015 2:38:50 GMT -5
I was having a hard time finding comics I wanted to read around then. I had long since given up on Marvel and some of the DC series I had been reading were either cancelled (Night Force) or lost my interest (teen Titans). The only things I recognise from Mike's News-stand for May 1985 are Ambush Bug #3 and Swamp Thing #39. Pretty sure I bought those, though I no longer have my copies of them. I think I originally gave Ambush Bug a try because of Keith Griffen, whose art I liked from his 70s work at Marvel. Not sure how AB would read to me now, but at the time I remember enjoying the humour. Moore's ST was excellent, but it wasn't until Watchmen, Miracleman, and V for Vendetta that I really was blown away by his talent. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 14, 2015 20:34:11 GMT -5
Has it already been 30 years? I look at these titles and remember those books as if I had bought them, say, three-four years ago.
Life goes by so fast.
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Post by JKCarrier on May 14, 2015 22:39:29 GMT -5
All-Star Squadron #48
Ambush Bug #3
American Flagg #24
Avengers #258
Aztec Ace #13
Batman #386
Blue Devil #15
Cerebus #74
Crisis on Infinite Earths #5
DC Comics Presents #84
Deadman #4
Detective Comics #553
Life of Captain Marvel #2
New Mutants #31
Squadron Supreme #1
Swamp Thing #39
Sword of the Atom Special #2
Thor #358
Who's Who #6
Secret Wars had killed a lot of my enthusiasm for Marvel at this point, and Crisis would soon do the same for DC...
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 23:33:44 GMT -5
Groo and Uncanny X-Men are the only two I'm 100% sure were in my collection. Neither would have been off the newsstand though. A couple other series in there I follow, or have followed, and might have owned. But also a lot of series I followed that I know for a fact I never had the 5/85 issue of.
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Post by berkley on May 15, 2015 1:51:20 GMT -5
Nightmares from Eclipse looks like it reprinted a couple of outstanding horror stories by Don MacGregor and Paul Gulacy that had originally appeared in the Warren mag Eerie a few years earlier. I wonder if they were coloured in this new format? If so, I'd recommend seeking out the originals first, though I admit to some curiosity as to how they might look in colour..
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Post by Confessor on May 16, 2015 17:27:25 GMT -5
I only own three comics that were on the stands this month 30 years ago and none of them were bought at the time...
Atari Force #20
Marvel Tales #178 (reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #39)
Star Wars #98
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 19, 2015 11:53:00 GMT -5
30 years ago I was almost 24 and on my last year in the Navy, living in Newport, RI:
All-Star Squadron #48
Avengers #258
Batman and the Outsiders #24
Cloak and Dagger #2
Crisis #5
Deadman #4
Defenders #146
DNAgents #22
Dreadstar #19
FF #281
Gargoyle #4
Green Lantern #191
Infinity Inc #17
Jonni Thunder #4
JLA #241
LSH #13
Life of Captain Marvel #2
New Mutants #31
New Teen Titans #11
Omega Men #29
Red Tornado #2
Secret Wars II #2
Shadow War of Hawkman #4
Squadron Supreme #1
Sword of the Atom Special #2
Tales of the Legion #326
Tales of the Teen Titans #56
Thing #27
X-Men #196
Who's Who #6
Total spent: $28.80 for 30 comics, at an average price of 96 cents per comic. Over 10 times what I spent in May, 1975, and over 3 times the price per comic. Amazing what having your own income can do, along with inflation.
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Post by Pharozonk on May 19, 2015 12:24:58 GMT -5
From May 1985, I have:
Tales of the Legion of Super-heroes #323
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Post by Prince Hal on May 19, 2015 18:08:38 GMT -5
Deadman, because the originals in Strange Adventures were spottily distributed in my neck of the woods
Batman and Detective, mostly out of loyalty
Hawkman, because I wanted him to come back somehow
Jemm, which I thought looked interesting, but still haven't read. Should I?
Swamp Thing, because I enjoyed reading it
All-Star Squadron, ditto
Who's Who, b/c it was a comic nerd's fun hour or two, filled with trivia and ret-cons disguised as unrevealed info
Marvel Tales, a passable gap-filler
Thor, b/c of Simonson
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2015 23:27:33 GMT -5
Memory lane beckons... Comics on sale in June 1985...Looking at what I got at the time.... Avengers 259 Conan 174 Dr. Who 12 Fantastic Four 282 JLA 242 Power Man and Iron Fist 119 West Coast Avengers 1 I was still pretty heavily a Marvel Zombie and except for Dr. Who was getting all my books off the newsstands still(I had discovered a comic shop about this time just to get Dr. Who at this point), but was beginning to pick up JLA and Flash, but I missed that month's Flash off the newsstands.... currently I have way too many books form this month, including... Alien Encounters 1 Amethyst 9 Arak 48 Arion 35 Aztec Ace 14 Batman and the Outsiders 25 and Annual 2 Black Dragon 3 Conan 174 Crisis 6 Crossfire 12 DC Comics Presents 85 Deadman 5 Detective Comics 554 DNAgents 23 Elfquest 2 Elric Sailor on the Seas of Fate 3 Further Adventures of Indiana Jones 31 Green Lantern 192 Groo the Wanderer 7 John Bolton's Halls of Horror 1 Jon Sable 29 JLA 242 Losers Special 1 Micronauts New Voyages 12 Ms. Tree 20 New Mutants 32 Nexus 13 Power Man and Iron Fist 119 Sabre 14 Savage Sword of Conan 115 Solomon Kane 1 Starslayer 33 Starstruck 4 Superman 411 and Annual 11 Tales of the Teen Titans 57 Thor 359 Uncanny X-Men 197 Vigilante Annual 1 Warlord 97 Who's Who 7 like I said way too many form this month now... -M |
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