Wild Card
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Post by Wild Card on Sept 28, 2014 21:38:42 GMT -5
I've never been in any position to buy or collect comics. I've always gone to friend's houses and read them there. However, this year, I put my foot down and four months ago I went and bought Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir the first day it hit the shelves:  I've kept up with this one, and earlier this month bought the final one of the set. They're tucked safely away. I'm still not in a position to buy and collect, but I'm still proud that I did this, and one day, when I can, I shall continue! (I'm sorry, I know this isn't classic in any way.) |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 28, 2014 21:43:05 GMT -5
The two dimes came out of my dad's pocket, but I directed the purchase. It was summer, '73 at Kresge's in Lockport, NY:
What an issue to start with! I think this would have made for an even more exciting entry point than #121. |
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Post by Randle-El on Sept 28, 2014 22:25:23 GMT -5
I always wanted the Star Wars one - the one on top so bad and I'm happy for you for owning that particular book. This is so freaking cool ... Thanks. I loved that book. I actually read the comic before I saw the movie. My parents didn't start taking me to the theater until I was 7 years old, so that would be 1984 which was after ROTJ had completed its theatrical run. I didn't see ROTJ until 1985 or 1986, when they did a second release to theaters. That was a comic I re-read constantly, and I have some vivid memories associated with it. I used to draw space battle scenes by copying panels out of that book. I also distinctly remember that comic as the first time I encountered the word "Sith", which was never spoken in any of the original movies, but one of the narrative passages in the comic referred to Vader as "the dark lord of the Sith". That was always something that bugged me for years -- what the heck was a sith??? At some point my parents got rid of a lot of my childhood stuff, including that comic, but I have since reacquired it in the original single issues. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 28, 2014 22:43:03 GMT -5
I got this about two years ago. It's one of the best comic books ever!
It's one of the earliest Batgirl appearances! (Second or third.)
Also, a rare appearance of Bat-Mite after the start of the New Look.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 28, 2014 22:44:40 GMT -5
My first comic, by the way, was Jungle Action #17!
PANTHER'S RAGE!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 28, 2014 22:45:06 GMT -5
Almost certainly this one...  |
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Post by shaxper on Sept 28, 2014 22:45:57 GMT -5
I got this about two years ago. It's one of the best comic books ever!
It's one of the earliest Batgirl appearances! (Second or third.)
Also, a rare appearance of Bat-Mite after the start of the New Look.
Now I need to get this issue. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 28, 2014 23:02:03 GMT -5
I got this about two years ago. It's one of the best comic books ever!
It's one of the earliest Batgirl appearances! (Second or third.)
Also, a rare appearance of Bat-Mite after the start of the New Look.
Now I need to get this issue.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 28, 2014 23:36:40 GMT -5
 Interesting how there's more DC here than Marvel and loads of JLA and Batman. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2014 23:55:56 GMT -5
Looking through the Newsstand on Mike's Amazing DC site, I saw a lot covers I had from around the same time as Batman #250, but I know when I got those, they were a hand me down from a neighbor who had comics for her grandkids, and they had "outgrown" comics and so gave them to me...but that was in the house we lived in circa '78-'79, and I distinctly remember having the Batman 250 at the house we lived at before that, and it was coverless soon afterwards, so it may have been an inherited comics as well. The next earliest comic I distinctly remember buying was this one....  but I remember buying it from a bin of "older" comics at a Genovese drug store (I think they were unsold issues someone had bought in bulk and sold cheap and they were 5/$1 (cheaper than the cover price so I was allowed to get it). It was the first MTA I got, and I had a bunch including #24 I did buy off a spinner rack, so it wasn't too long after it came out that I got this one. MTA is where I developed my love for the Avengers, which I didn't buy an issue off the racks of until #144 (though #109 and 124 were in the batch I inherited form that neighbor). A lot of my early off the rack Marvel purchases were the reprint books (Marvel Tales, Marvel Spectacular, MArvel Double Feature, etc.) so I early on developed a love of the history of Marvel. -M |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 29, 2014 0:06:50 GMT -5
I got this about two years ago. It's one of the best comic books ever!
It's one of the earliest Batgirl appearances! (Second or third.)
Also, a rare appearance of Bat-Mite after the start of the New Look.
Now I need to get this issue.  |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 29, 2014 0:11:02 GMT -5
Interesting how there's more DC here than Marvel and loads of JLA and Batman. Super Friends would be what drew me to the JLA comic. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 29, 2014 8:52:03 GMT -5
I bought these three in one swoop in a convenience store on a Saturday morning. Astonishing X-Men #1 X-Men 2099 #17 Spider-Man 2099 #29 Later that day I went to the local Woolworth's and bought X-Men #41. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 29, 2014 11:04:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure this is the first issue I bought with allowance money. That said, I was still a random reader at this point (I would turn 8 the next month) and wouldn't start actively collecting until early 1987 with another issue of The Incredible Hulk and an issue of Iron Man.  |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 29, 2014 11:11:50 GMT -5
As with a couple of others, this was not my own money, but I directed the purchase. This was just a little bit after I got my first comics, which were the first three issues of Star Wars in the polybag from some toy store chain; my grandmother had come to visit and had picked those up for me.  Interestingly enough, I just picked up a new copy of this over the weekend at the Pittsburgh Comicon as I'm working to put together a complete run of the series. The copy I got this weekend cost a little bit more than $.35, unfortunately.  |
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