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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 29, 2020 15:14:24 GMT -5
1. Batman: TAS, Spiderman: TAS and X-Men: TAS, mostly. They got me interested in trying the actual comics they were based on.
2. 1994
3. Around 2010, I think. I finished Abnett and Lanning's GotG and haven't bought anything new since. Just back issues now.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 29, 2020 15:59:43 GMT -5
1. Two comic books were put into my hands when I was 6 years old, one featuring Spider-man and the other Captain America.
2. That was in early 1975.
3. I stopped and then resumed buying monthlies several times; my first big break (the end of my personal golden age) was sometime in 1984. I came back to getting a limited number of monthlies several times after that, but my definitive break with monthly comics was sometime in 1990.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 16:53:33 GMT -5
1. My dad bought me some Batman, Hawkman and All-Star Squadron comics when I was around 5 years old.
2. 1985
3. I didn't really start buying them until about 1995 and that was when I started reading and collecting them full time. I've not stopped since although the number of titles I read waxes and wanes.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 17:41:14 GMT -5
1) Reruns of the Adam West Batman and the '60s Spider-man cartoon.
2) About 1977, but I wasn't much of a collector. I probably owned only a dozen comics. I kept buying Mad occasionally, though.
3) I stopped sometime before 1980, the picked back up in the '90s. I joined the Marines in '89, and was in infantry training school in September of '89, and seeing how we had enough down-time when we were training in the field (and actually had some time off on the weekends), I went shopping for a book to take with me for the next week, and picked up an issue of Conan Saga on a whim. Infantry training school is home to drill-instructor wannabes, and before we hiked off that next morning, the corporal in charge decided to perform a contraband check and made everyone dump out their backpacks. There was no prohibition against reading material, but the guy got in my face because of that Conan Saga, like he was auditioning to be a drill instructor right there. "DALTON, YOU THINK YOU'RE BARBARIAN?!", and on and on. I still hear that line in my head sometimes when I break out a Conan comic. He did let me bring the comic after he got done barking at me (maybe I am a barbarian after all!) I didn't have any more access to buy comics the following year, but in '91 I was back in civilization and started picking up Conan again. A lot of the guys in my unit were big Punisher fans, and although they didn't make a Punisher fan out of me, they sometimes picked up Wolverine too, which I liked well enough that I decided to explore more of the comics world. I've been picking up new comics regularly since then, up until a couple years ago.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 29, 2020 19:49:14 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. There were already comics in our house when I came along. Not only did my siblings read them, but my parents collected the paperbacks reprinting Pogo, Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, B.C. et al. And of course, as I've mentioned many times, my mother taught me to read at age 3 using an issue od Dell's "Rocky and Bullwinkle." You could say comics were in my DNA.
2. I started actively collecting in 1968.
3. 1986 the first time. I started up again in '94 but gradually lost interest again. The last series I bought off the stands (figuratively speaking) was the 2007 version of "The Brave and the Bold," which I ropped after the 12th issue (Perez's last).
Cei-U! I summon the look back!
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Post by zilch on May 29, 2020 22:17:10 GMT -5
1. According to Ma, i was terribly bored with reading Golden Books and TV Guide, they brought me Harvey stuff, but was thoroughly unimpressed. They started buying me super-hero stuff and i was off! This would be circa '64.
2. I remember becoming aware of storylines, artists and characters around 1968 or so. My first active act of collecting was starting to get back issues of Avengers around #89 or so.
3. Finally quit around December, 2013.
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Post by Duragizer on May 30, 2020 2:47:58 GMT -5
- Became a Batman fan through B:TAS and the Adam West show, which made me want to check out the comics. It was my father who really catapulted me into the funny books, though.
- 1993.
- 1999. Growing dissatisfaction with most of the superhero titles I had been reading up to that point along with the loss of comics in supermarkets pretty much put a kibosh on my collecting. I still bought Simpsons comics up to 2003, then that, too, ended. I started collecting again in 2016 — back issues and trade paperbacks only.
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2020 2:53:07 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. The Super Friends cartoon, more than anything. My 7th birthday party one of the guys from my class gave me one of those poly-bagged 3 packs of comics including The Little Monsters, Bugs Bunny and Road Runner.
2. My mom bought me the first comic off a spinner rack at Piggly Wiggly's one cold winter night after catechism picking up a few quick groceries. It still amazes me when I think about it because we never got anything unless it was birthday or Christmas and my mom was a huge deadbeat when she was young. Justice League of America # 115 was the magical gateway issue that put the 4 color monkey on my back.
My brother and I literally read the hell out of that issue dozens of times until the cover came off and the spine was seriously rolled. Memories ! I ordered another copy from mail order dealers Joseph & Peter Koch back in high school. That would have been late 1974.
3. I've never ever in my life stopped buying regularly but have way cut back my new purchases to just being Hawkman, Legion of Super-Heroes and Shazam ! I love Valiant and buy the entire line, but wait for when Comixology has them on sale a few times a year and pick up the most recent issues for $ .99 each, which I think is very reasonable. More than anything I buy back issues now, which I've always bought. Marvel pretty much lost me about 30 years ago with a few exceptions and my DC buys have dropped considerably to the lowest they've ever been under Didio and Lee. I've always been more of a reader than a "collector" and definitely never was a speculator, so in the last 10 years or so I've bought my new comics and thousands of back issues digitally, mostly on Comixology, and some Dark Horse directly from digital.darkhorse.com from before they joined Comixology. I continue to buy directly from them as the creators get more money that way. Like many of us, space has become a consideration and having access to comics digitally is wonderful, and I love the enhanced experience of having the panels exploded to fill the screen. Honestly, I got the same rush reading them as I had as a kid when I first started reading and falling in love with comics.
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Post by kirby101 on May 30, 2020 7:26:02 GMT -5
1. Arthur Of Camelot, King of Britain
2. I seek the Holy Grail
3. African or European swallow?
Oh, different three questions.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 30, 2020 8:19:10 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. My parents read us the Sunday paper comics, Tintin and Asterix even before we could talk. Comics were always a part of my life. Yay!  2. I forget what titles we received, but by clipping cereal box coupons we could get Tintin books by mail... That would have been in 1968 or 1969. The first American comics I recall collecting were translations, starting around 1974. The first genuine Marvel comic I got was Conan #68, 1976. 3. January 2001, when we moved back from the U.S. to Canada. There was no LCS close by, and Canadian prices were prohibitive anyway. |
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Post by kirby101 on May 30, 2020 9:50:07 GMT -5
I read sporadically throughout the Silver Age. Mostly Marvels. Then my older brother made a good friend in High School who was really into comics. I started reading some of theirs. But in 1970 I bought Conan #1 and fell in love. I bought and read Conan for a year while also reading some my brother's books. After a year I started buying most of Marvel's books. Then some DC like Swamp Thing. Within a few years I was buying back issues while buying more and more books off the racks. I eventually accumulated a very large Marvel Silver Age collection. (recently sold)
I have given up on the books from the Big Two, but I still buy a dozen or so books a month.
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Post by DubipR on May 30, 2020 10:55:33 GMT -5
To answer your questions:
1. Along with the usual stuff (Batman TV show, Wonder Woman TV, and cartoons) I posted about this in the 2014 Classic Comic Christmas 2014 event.
Richie Rich 206
Why This Is a Classic:
This book is a vital classic comic (in my eye) to who I am and it's a tribute to someone special. My non-collecting friends and my collecting friends ask me this question...what's the first comic that got you into comics and eventually collecting. And this is it. This is the one that started it all. And given to me by a special person... my grandfather.
My grandfather was a pediatrician. His office in Bakersfield, CA wasn't always a fun place to visit when we'd go up and visit my grandparents. Like most waiting rooms, they're cold and sterile. But his waiting room had something no others had...comic books for the kids to read. Mostly Archies and Harveys he'd buy from the local Safeway. When the grandchildren came and visited, he'd take some of the comics to the house (most of the time, he gave them to his patients), but we'd read them and give them back. This one...this Richie Rich #206, my grandfather said take to me, take it home. I took it home it and studied it like a scholar studies an ancient text. I knew every inch of that cover, because it had baseball on it. I remember my mom throwing it out because I probably did something bad (probably true), but that cover was emblazoned my brain. I found it years later in the 90s, when I was rummaging through dollar bins and the memories came back to me.
My grandfather passed away in 1982, when I was seven. By him giving me that comic, it started me on my love of the medium and who I am today. I told this recently to my mom and she cried as I said to her how important he is in my life, only knowing him for such a short time.
2. 1981/82. Started buying my own comics about 1988
3. I haven't 'stopped' per se. I'm more selective on the books I buy and keep. I buy one or two comics a year from the shop, Love and Rockets. Other than that it's certain back issues and trades.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on May 30, 2020 11:06:21 GMT -5
1. The 90s Spidey cartoon combined with dad taking me to a comic shop in the early 90s. I didn’t want new stuff though I wanted old. As old as I could get and afford and still do to this day.
2. I would guess 1995 or 1996
3. Never bought new because the paper and art never grabbed me. I have since acquired a long box of “modern” books but they are the last thing I seek out.
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Post by james on May 30, 2020 13:51:22 GMT -5
1. My best friens in Elementary school. 2. I was 10. 3. I e stopped reading new titles about 2 years ago but continue to buy silver age and bronze age. Trying to finish current 3 runs. AMAZING SPIDERMAN, AVENGERS, AND UNCANNY XMEN
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Post by beccabear67 on May 30, 2020 16:42:22 GMT -5
We had the 'Sunday' funnies as well as dailies from two daily papers here, and they had totally different strips. My grandparents' morning paper had Tumbleweeds, broom Hilda and Beetle Baily, and my parents got the afternoon paper which had the funnies in the Saturday edition, it had Nancy, Andy Capp, Peanuts. I even collected them for awhile but someone threw them away on me. My grandfather would read the funnies to kids. Some of the stranger comics I remember were Our Boarding House with Major Hoople (and there was a Canadian rock band calling themselves Major Hoople), Henry with silent bald kid always wearing a red shirt, Mel Lazurus strips that were very scribbled looking (Momma, Miss Peach), Mark Trail an educational nature strip, The Bitter Half about an arguing married couple named The Lockhorns, Uncle Art's Funland game page, and Mutt And Jeff (which I found somehow notably boring). The two newspapers merged later and I think I started a delivery route not too long after they did, it was a 5:00 am start time and if I was lucky (and the bundles were actually there waiting for us at the drop off) I could get back and sleep another couple of hours. One time they had a screw-up and the Sunday funnies went out with no color at all. I kept that one and have it still I think. I can remember some of the old comics that were around me way back before I had any of my own choosing... there was a coverless Little Lulu Giant of some kind, it had a summer camp story and maybe that was the theme? A 'summer fun'? There was a Lone Ranger by Dell from the late '50s with a photo cover, a Classics Illustrated on Pompeii, a Deadman I figured out later was Strange Adventures #207, a late '60s Marvel girl comic titled Chili, two or three Supergirl Adventure Comics, some with Schaffenbeger art, a possibly British smaller sized comic with a cartoon squirrel character in two colors and a text story of Uncle Wiggly, and whatever funny animal, Archies and Dennis The Menace along with Mad, Cracked, Sick are remembered as being quite generic individual numbers. To this I would add my own early '70s choices of Scamp, Supergirl, Chip N' Dale, Plop and Shazam. I remember very much wanting to get the next issue sometimes but couldn't seem to figure out how to connect with a shop that might have it at the right time if I even had any money for it. I just had to get Star Wars #25 though so for that I finally had figured out that these things were periodicals and you had to try two or three locations to actually find a specific issue within that window of possibility, even so I would still miss issues of things for the next couple of years, but X-Men #134 I managed to find on the other side of the city basically. "Why I rememeber..." going to go practice my old lady cackle for awhile now.  |
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