Wow, this thread has triggered some memories.
In the 80's, my allowance was $2 in food stamps a week. Comics were .60 cents. There was a lot of hemming and hawing on what penny candies to buy so I can get the change to purchase a comic. It was usually a pack of Now and Later's since they were .15 cents.
I lived in a few households growing up. My mother encouraged the comic books but when I lived with my Grandfather, he thought they were trash and insisted that I read authors like Jack London and Mark Twain. The classics. I remember buying newspapers to hid my comics in. I did this with ASM #252.
I appreciated both approaches.