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Back in high school days (1988-1990), I really liked Wolverine and Batman. I was always drawing them. I was never particularly good, but I didn't care. All these are from 32-34 years ago.
I also was into Felix the Cat. I loved that he was created before Mickey Mouse.
I also enjoyed the Aliens movies (only two movies were made by 1990)...
I was also into the "V" mini-series that was on television at the time. I don't know what the heck I was doing here, but I was a teenager. So, whatever... Some sort of 'take' on the show.
I played tennis in high school, so I drew tennis action from time to time...
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Loved the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman. The television shows eventually went a bit off the rails, but for kids, it was good stuff. The toys were very imaginative for the time, I think.
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Back in the mid- to late 1980s, I watched Spider-man and his Amazing Friends on television. I was blown away by Iceman. Just thought that he and his powers were so cool. So, I've always had a special place in my heart for Spider-man, Iceman, and Firestar. As I grew older in the 80s, I couldn't be without Flash (Wally West version at the time), Batman, Punisher, and Iron Man (in this last case, especially during Bob Layton's stint penciling the comic). Oh, and the 1980s was all G.I. Joe, so Duke, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Destro were my favorites in that comic. Finally, having recently re-read George Perez's work on Volume II of Wonder Woman, I've gained an immense respect for that character. His treatment of her was really great work -- way more mature than my teenager mind could possibly comprehend back at the time.
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On 10/7/2022 at 8:42 PM, Galen130 said:
Welcome to the boards!!
I know what it’s like to haul around long boxes of comics during military moves….and storage locations. I remember shipping 8 long boxes through the USPS from Germany. I refused to include them in my household goods shipment. They all arrived safe and sound.I mainly collected during my time in the service, only getting as high as about 21 long boxes. 4000 comics is a lot. 🤣
I finally got married after I retired…was married to my career first. Now I’m slowly selling them off because it’s time to ‘move along’. Now I stick to mainly silver and pre-code slabs…a much smaller collection.
Again, welcome!!! 👍🤙🖖
That was almost the same with me -- pretty much married my career first, then got married late (when I was 35). I'm also thinking of selling off most of my collection, albeit slowly, and just focus on a few very small areas. Still have my AF15 and X-Men #1, though. Not sure I can part with them, yet. I did promise myself I would sell the AF15 when I was ready to retire for good; take the wife on a nice expensive vacation...
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Hello, everyone. I'm Nick. I collected during the mid-80s to about 1994 when I got commissioned and concentrated on the military. However, I lugged my 4,000+ comics with me through every military assignment despite having stopped collecting. I got somewhat nostalgic last year and started to explore my boxes again. I re-inventoried my collection and discovered that at some point during one my military moves one of my comic long boxes never made it (part of my "M" and "N" titles; thankfully not my "X" box). I'm slowly getting reacquainted with the characters I grew up with, but am somewhat leery of falling back into that black hole of comic collecting. I may never find my way out! I have a 7-year old son, so I suspect if he ever gets into comics, I will simply just jump in with both feet and that will be it. I've been buying various omnibus collections to more rapidly catch up on what happened to some of my favorite heroes. I may buy a few random issues here and there, but I may keep to omnibuses/trade paperbacks for the time being. At one point in the early 2000s, I also went a bit nuts re-connecting with my love of the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman. So I have a variety of loose and boxed 12" figures (my son keeps asking when he can have the boxed ones -- I say "later"). Neal Adams' covers for some of the Bionic Man comics are quite nice, too.
I've enjoyed reading a lot of the postings here and look forward to participating.
This Week In Your Plastic Crack, Action Figures and Toy Collection
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The whole Maskatron/Fembot concept creeped me out as a kid. Even watching those episodes as an adult today I can understand the spook factor for a child. But super original toy concept and, of course, a remarkable television show for its time. I'll be on the look out for the Mego post!