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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 13:41:48 GMT -5
1. Who or what got you started on comic books? 2. What year did you start? 3. If you stopped buying them regularly what year?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 13:42:57 GMT -5
1. My Dad and the 1966 Batman TV show. 2. 1966. 3. Still read new ones.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 13:50:22 GMT -5
1. Who or what got you started on comic books? 2. What year did you start? 3. If you stopped buying them regularly what year?
1. Had access to several thousand when I was small, so it was a logical progression when I went snooping in a box. I was attracted to brightly coloured covers.
2. About 1990
3. Had a lull of about 3 years or so when I was in my teens but still went to a cosplay event (as Lara Croft). And that set the ball rolling again.
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Post by The Captain on May 29, 2020 13:51:20 GMT -5
1. My maternal grandmother. Brought me the black polybagged three-pack of Star Wars #1-3 reprints for my birthday.
2. 1978 or so
3. Still buy regularly, although the pull list is down from a high of 25 books per month in 1994/95 (I was working in, then managing, comic book stores, first in college and then right after I graduated) to 4 books right now (Captain America, Firefly, Marauders, and X-Men).
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 13:51:45 GMT -5
1/2. Sunday comics pages with my dad, lead to me reading comic book and paperback collections of strips that people brought to the bowling alley on Sunday nights when my parents bowled in a league and they didn't have a babysitter. This lead to me buying my first comic off a spinner rack when I was 4 (Batman #250 in 1973).
3. I've stopped buying new comics regularly several times over the year, and those hiatus have lasted months to years. I always seem to come back though.
-M
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Post by rberman on May 29, 2020 13:51:47 GMT -5
1. I can't remember which happened first. Either I stumbled upon my cousin's early 1970s comics stash (as profiled in this thread here) or my parents got me the latest issues of ROM, Micronauts, and Star Wars for Christmas 1980. Both were about the same time. 2. 1980. 3. As I've mentioned here before, I got a CD player for Christmas 1986, and my hobby habit shifted immediately from comic books to music. |
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Post by MDG on May 29, 2020 13:54:43 GMT -5
1. The Superman TV show and my uncle
2. 1965
3. Buying more lately than in the previous 20 years, but haven't bought a new DC or Marvel since probably the mid-90s
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 14:02:38 GMT -5
1. Watching Batman live on television and in cartoons.
2. Difficult to say: as late 68 around age 7 I would get Golden Books from my grandmother who worked at a Thrifty's store. Son after that she bought me a Batman paperback collecting some of the early Kane stuff. Then my mom and grandparents would buy me comics as a treat when I would be home ill or for a birthday gift. I actively began buying for myself August 1971 when I was 9 years old. 1st 2 comics bought when my Grandmother sent me to neighborhood convenience store for milk and cigarettes (yep, with a note and they sold the cigs; to me) and she said I could spend the change. Bought Thor #123 for 25 cents with Thor/Silver Surfer teaming against a gent called the Destroyer, and Underdog 38 with Simon Bar sinister in an adaption of the Phoney Booths along with some candy. Thanks Grandma for setting me down the path!
3. Stopped buying monthly comics regularly around 10 years ago? Exact date unknown. Was still following series but busy in life and began to drop into the LCS only monthly, then every 2-3 months picking up 2-5 issues at a time. Gradually the series I liked were all being cancelled or replaced so I eventually stopped all together in regular purchases. Before the Covid pandemic I was following maybe 4-6 different monthly comics but ordering online from MyComicshop.com same as I would at the LCS: ordering 2-5 issues at a time months after they came out.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 29, 2020 14:05:00 GMT -5
1. Star Wars #24/Battlestar Galactica #4
2. 1979 regularly, many sporadic single issues before that
3. 1987, began trailing off dropping titles in 1985
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Post by Icctrombone on May 29, 2020 14:11:34 GMT -5
1. My brother brought me some old Avengers issues #29 or so and some FF's around 47, when I was sick as a youngster.
2. My Grandma bought me FF # 102 and my pop bought me Superman # 227 and the first issue I got for myself was in 1971 I think it was FF # 112.
3. I stopped buying new issues in 2019.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 29, 2020 14:31:47 GMT -5
1. Reruns of the Batman TV show. Though my older siblings usually had a few comics (usually funny animals or Archies) around.
2. I started buying my own comics in the fall of 1975.
3. I stopped buying floppies in 1999 when I graduated from law school and moved to a place with no comic shop. I never stopped buying collected editions though. And I buy the odd e-comic now.
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Post by badwolf on May 29, 2020 14:40:47 GMT -5
1. Who or what got you started on comic books? 2. What year did you start? 3. If you stopped buying them regularly what year? I don't remember what got me started, but it was 1975 (almost 5 years old) and already a reader. I stopped buying them weekly/monthly around 2010. But I never stopped reading them, just transitioned to the collected editions.
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Post by dbutler69 on May 29, 2020 14:42:31 GMT -5
1. I don't really remember. I'm sure I loved the brightly garbed characters and the escapist fantasy.Reruns of the 60's Batman show, Super Friends, the live action Spider-Man feature on the Electric Company, and reruns of the 60's Spider-Man cartoon may have all played a role.
2. I got my first comic in 1975. I don't think I got a lot of comics that year, though, but certainly a few. My buying increased in 1976-77
3. I first stopped collecting in August of 1987, when I went off to college. However, I started collecting again the following year. I finally stopped "for good" around 1989 or so. I started collecting new comics again for about 8 months in 2008, then stopped, and haven't started up again.
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Post by impulse on May 29, 2020 14:48:40 GMT -5
1. A childhood friend was into them, though in hindsight the parents may have just been into collecting/prospecting. I tagged along with them to the stores which is my first memory of becoming aware of them. Not sure what prompted me to actually start buying and reading.
2. Circa late 80s/early 90s. I don't precisely remember.
3. First time after middle school, to divert my efforts towards failing to date girls. Got back into them in college. Dropped again about 4 years ago due to lack of time, money and interest.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 29, 2020 15:03:23 GMT -5
1. At Cohen’s, the candy store on the Avenue my maiden aunt bought her Sunday papers, she also let me pick out a comic book. Back at my grandmother’s house, just a short walk from Cohen’s, both my maiden aunt and her younger sister, a new bride, are amazed (or pretend to be), at their firstborn nephew’s facility with the big words in Star Spangled War Stories 105.
2. My best guess is Sunday, August 26, 1962.
3. Depending on the title, between 1988 and 1990. After that it was just "special events," like New Frontier.
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