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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 12:29:22 GMT -5
Fantastic Four ... Fabulous Cover featuring the HULK and THE THING  It was epic beyond proportions! ... I believe it was the first time they met! I wished I still have it.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Oct 5, 2014 13:51:58 GMT -5
A few months into dating a woman back in '96, it was becoming increasingly difficult to conceal my shameful addiction. I decided to bite the bullet and arranged for us to tour the Golden Age room at a large comic book store in Chattanooga whose name escapes me. This was by appointment only. She seemed a little over-whelmed, but was a good sport. As we left, she handed me a book she had slyly purchased for me while I was distracted. It was Tales from the Crypt #25 and it wasn't cheap. I was gobsmacked. We celebrated our 16th anniversary last July.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 5, 2014 14:32:46 GMT -5
A few months into dating a woman back in '96, it was becoming increasingly difficult to conceal my shameful addiction. I decided to bite the bullet and arranged for us to tour the Golden Age room at a large comic book store in Chattanooga whose name escapes me. This was by appointment only. She seemed a little over-whelmed, but was a good sport. As we left, she handed me a book she had slyly purchased for me while I was distracted. It was Tales from the Crypt #25 and it wasn't cheap. I was gobsmacked. We celebrated our 16th anniversary last July.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Oct 5, 2014 14:42:25 GMT -5
A few months into dating a woman back in '96, it was becoming increasingly difficult to conceal my shameful addiction. I decided to bite the bullet and arranged for us to tour the Golden Age room at a large comic book store in Chattanooga whose name escapes me. This was by appointment only. She seemed a little over-whelmed, but was a good sport. As we left, she handed me a book she had slyly purchased for me while I was distracted. It was Tales from the Crypt #25 and it wasn't cheap. I was gobsmacked. We celebrated our 16th anniversary last July.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 5, 2014 15:18:16 GMT -5
I told this story at least once when we were at our old home, so if you've read it before, feel free to skip it.
When I was in high school, there was a rinky-dink LCS just down the street from the drug store where I worked. I stopped there one Saturday night after I got paid, and on the wall behind the counter was a whole new group of comics that had never been there before; it was two rows of early X-Men books that they'd taken in on consignment. I had just enough extra from my pay to buy the book above for $25, which was the oldest one they had, and I took it home, so happy that I was able to buy something of such great vintage in great condition for relatively nothing.
When I went away to college, I started dating a girl from a fairly poor family who was putting herself through school by working a couple of jobs. Just before our junior year, she broke down and told me that she did not have enough money for books that semester and that she was probably going to drop out. I was so in love with her (we would wind up getting engaged the following spring), so I sold that comic for $150 and gave the money to her so she could buy her books for the semester.
What I found out much later on was that she had more issues than I currently have in my collection <rim-shot>. She didn't have the money for her books because she had a drug addiction that she'd developed while she was screwing around with a number of guys behind my back.
When I first starting dating my wife, we were discussing our past relationships and I told her this story. One time when we were in a comic shop, I pointed out this comic and told her that was the one that I'd sold in college for this other girl.
Unbeknownst to me, she went and found a VF copy of this book and gave it to me as my wedding present at our rehearsal dinner. I broke down and cried like an infant in front of my family, her family, our bridal party, and a restaurant full of people, and I really didn't care. I would burn the other 8500 books in my collection and never buy another book for the rest of my life if it meant saving this book from any harm. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Oct 5, 2014 15:44:11 GMT -5
Aww. That's a great story, Rich. If you're anything like me, I imagine you marvel each day at your incredible (and in my case, undeserved) good fortune.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 5, 2014 15:49:28 GMT -5
Aww. That's a great story, Rich. If you're anything like me, I imagine you marvel each day at your incredible (and in my case, undeserved) good fortune. Phil, you have no idea. My wife rescued me from a path that was leading to nowhere but my own destruction. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't thank God for Him putting her in my life. |
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Post by ghastly55 on Oct 5, 2014 19:34:51 GMT -5
This was a hard question for me to answer. The first comic I read would be a forever forgotten issue of a Disney/Casper/Baby Huey or something of that nature comic that someone handed to Baby Ish to keep him busy or quiet The first I purchased myself is on a different thread So after some hard thought the one that comes to mind was from the summer of 1968.I was 14 years old and an uncle of mine had a small yacht. For 2 weeks I was to accompany him on a trip up the Hudson river from New York City to Lake Champlain Vermont. A great time, learning about boating and navigation.And upon stopping at a small town for an overnight stay, going to a newstand to pick up some new comics. And this was the one I remember-a freakin great comic for one of the best summers of my life  I've got very fond memories of that Annual as well, I recall reading it when it came out (I turned 13 in the summer of 1968 and was just a little northwest of lake Champlain over in Toronto). It was memorable for me because the only pre-Caps-Kooky-Quartet Avengers story I had read up to that point was the Space Phantom story that had been reprinted in a 1966 Annual. The time travel in this annual, of course, took the contemporary Avengers to the last page of that earlier story. As far as my own sentimental favorite --- meaning one that I cherished as a kid but does not stand up to adult scrutiny -- it would likely be the issue of Adventure Comics where Proty (disguised as Saturn Girl) sacrifices himself to bring Lightning Lad back to life. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 19:53:40 GMT -5
A very touching story indeed Richard Bishop . You've got yourself a fine woman there. Very lucky indeed . I would have to say that my most sentimental comic in my collection would be The Death's-Head Knight by John Byrne published by ACA Comix in may of 1971 . It was my first comic given to me on my 6 th birthday by John Byrne . My dad went to the same college (SAIT) in Calgary . John gave it to my dad to give to me . And it has survived all the years and all my moves in between. There was only 500 produced and to date only 5 copies have surfaced . Not sure of value but that's not a concern cause I wouldn't part with it .
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Post by benday-dot on Oct 5, 2014 20:28:31 GMT -5
100 pages to keep me company in the back seat of a car in a sweet summer in 1974 that itself seemed to last forever.  |
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Post by Earth 2 Flash on Oct 5, 2014 20:38:16 GMT -5
A few months into dating a woman back in '96, it was becoming increasingly difficult to conceal my shameful addiction. I decided to bite the bullet and arranged for us to tour the Golden Age room at a large comic book store in Chattanooga whose name escapes me. This was by appointment only. She seemed a little over-whelmed, but was a good sport. As we left, she handed me a book she had slyly purchased for me while I was distracted. It was Tales from the Crypt #25 and it wasn't cheap. I was gobsmacked. We celebrated our 16th anniversary last July.
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Post by Earth 2 Flash on Oct 5, 2014 20:41:36 GMT -5
I told this story at least once when we were at our old home, so if you've read it before, feel free to skip it.
When I was in high school, there was a rinky-dink LCS just down the street from the drug store where I worked. I stopped there one Saturday night after I got paid, and on the wall behind the counter was a whole new group of comics that had never been there before; it was two rows of early X-Men books that they'd taken in on consignment. I had just enough extra from my pay to buy the book above for $25, which was the oldest one they had, and I took it home, so happy that I was able to buy something of such great vintage in great condition for relatively nothing.
When I went away to college, I started dating a girl from a fairly poor family who was putting herself through school by working a couple of jobs. Just before our junior year, she broke down and told me that she did not have enough money for books that semester and that she was probably going to drop out. I was so in love with her (we would wind up getting engaged the following spring), so I sold that comic for $150 and gave the money to her so she could buy her books for the semester.
What I found out much later on was that she had more issues than I currently have in my collection <rim-shot>. She didn't have the money for her books because she had a drug addiction that she'd developed while she was screwing around with a number of guys behind my back.
When I first starting dating my wife, we were discussing our past relationships and I told her this story. One time when we were in a comic shop, I pointed out this comic and told her that was the one that I'd sold in college for this other girl.
Unbeknownst to me, she went and found a VF copy of this book and gave it to me as my wedding present at our rehearsal dinner. I broke down and cried like an infant in front of my family, her family, our bridal party, and a restaurant full of people, and I really didn't care. I would burn the other 8500 books in my collection and never buy another book for the rest of my life if it meant saving this book from any harm. That is very romantic and touching. You have a great wife. Thank you for sharing this story with us.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 20:49:16 GMT -5
Richard Bishop - your story is so touching and wonderful tribute of your wife. Thanks Richard!
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Post by Pharozonk on Oct 5, 2014 20:57:45 GMT -5
I told this story at least once when we were at our old home, so if you've read it before, feel free to skip it.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 6, 2014 6:09:09 GMT -5
Thank you to everyone for your kind words. My wife is not only the love of my life and the mother of my daughters, but she is my best friend as well; I've never had as much fun with another person as I have with her. She has the most caring and giving heart of any person I've ever known, and if not for her, I would definitely not be the man I am today and I very likely would not be here to write this.
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