For the knowledgeable ones

[DiceX]

I think there is a generation of us who subscribed to CBG in the 70's and 80's and that opened up fandom in general for a lot of us.

 

I always found the Comics Journal to be dense reading back then as well. More cerebral.

 

 

 

 

Cursed Birate Girl?

 

 

[sckao]

I think there is a generation of us who subscribed to CBG in the 70's and 80's and that opened up fandom in general for a lot of us.

 

I always found the Comics Journal to be dense reading back then as well. More cerebral.

 

 

 

 

Cursed Birate Girl?

 

 

Comic Buyer's Guide

 

(When it was a weekly newspaper.)

 

 

 

 

[DiceX]

I think there is a generation of us who subscribed to CBG in the 70's and 80's and that opened up fandom in general for a lot of us.

 

I always found the Comics Journal to be dense reading back then as well. More cerebral.

 

 

 

 

Cursed Birate Girl?

 

 

Comic Buyer's Guide

 

(When it was a weekly newspaper.)

 

 

 

 

I've got to work on my sarcasm.

Joke fail.

 

 

[Boozad]

I think there is a generation of us who subscribed to CBG in the 70's and 80's and that opened up fandom in general for a lot of us.

 

I always found the Comics Journal to be dense reading back then as well. More cerebral.

 

 

 

 

Cursed Birate Girl?

 

 

Comic Buyer's Guide

 

(When it was a weekly newspaper.)

 

 

 

 

I thought it was Comics Brice Guide...

[seanfingh]

 

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

[Boozad]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

[Foolkiller]

I was mostly self taught, but Gary Platt was my Obi Wan Kenobi and Bob Storms has been my Yoda.

[everlongcomics]

found an old overstreet guide & read it cover to cover, was hooked ever since

[seanfingh]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

 

Yeah, but I wouldn't have been able to paraphrase Animal House with only two.

[Boozad]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

 

Yeah, but I wouldn't have been able to paraphrase Animal House with only two.

 

I just realised, I am British. Your paraphrase is legitimate

[COI]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

 

I fit two as well.

[seanfingh]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

 

Yeah, but I wouldn't have been able to paraphrase Animal House with only two.

 

I just realised, I am British. Your paraphrase is legitimate

 

[Comicopolis]

Drunk, British and stupid is no way to go through life.

 

I think I only fit two of those criteria

 

Yeah, but I wouldn't have been able to paraphrase Animal House with only two.

 

I just realised, I am British. Your paraphrase is legitimate

 

Your parachute is faulty though.

[TheLiamSturgess]

My mom bought Archie comics for me from time to time and then I came across 5 comics (that I still own today) at a flea market. They were Bronze age. 2 Wonder Womans, 2 Legion of Super-Heroes and one Whitman Daisy and Donald (which I LOVE ) and I went to the local comic shop to learn about bags/boards etc. The rest came from online, mainly comicspriceguide.com

[Larryw7]

I read comics from an early age, learned from my father that the old ones were "worth something", and got an OSPG in '77. Soon after a comic book store opened in my neighborhood and all hell broke loose.

[underthebigw]

In this order:

 

 

• My dad, who never failed to bring home from work a few books every week.
   
  
• Jules Feiffer--By the time I was 5 (1969), I knew more about GA books than most of the U.S. population. And that was just from reading the reprint section of The Great Comic Book Heroes. I must have been 8 or 9 before I could really understand the text chapters.
   
  
• ]Bob Overstreet--by the time I was 11, I would beg my mom to ditch me at the library while she shopped. I would sit there and study each and every page of the guide.
   
  
• CBG--it was really the only way to know what other collectors, esp. older collectors and those in other parts of the country were doing. I used to scrounge every copy I could (I'd never pay), and it didn't matter if it was a week old--you just learned a tremendous amount every week.
   
  
• DC's 100 pagers
   
  

[rodan57]

Everything I know about the Golden Age, I learned from Comic Book Marketplace and Alter Ego.

 

A lot of great stories in these magazines -- Gold and Silver. (thumbs u

 

And some of the covers, alone, are worth "the price of admission".

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Larryw7]

Jules Feiffer--By the time I was 5 (1969), I knew more about GA books than most of the U.S. population. And that was just from reading the reprint section of The Great Comic Book Heroes. I must have been 8 or 9 before I could really understand the text chapters.

:thumbsup:

 

That book, along with the reprint anthologies like BATMAN/SUPERMAN: FROM THE THIRTIES TO THE SEVENTIES, the DC 100 pagers, and the Famous First Editions really made me interested in the Golden Age when I was really young. And yes, Feiffer's chapters were very hard to understand for a little kid-especially when he talked about Wertham and his reasons for disliking Batman and Wonder Woman!

[jimjum12]

Everything I know about the Golden Age, I learned from Comic Book Marketplace and Alter Ego.

 

A lot of great stories in these magazines -- Gold and Silver. (thumbs u

 

And some of the covers, alone, are worth "the price of admission".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Worth their weight in gold ( and silver). GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Miss.Filter81-migration]

Most of what I know, I learned from Adam (filter) , then reading through the guides over the last few years, different posts on these boards and from going to shows and talking to different collectors/dealers in the hobby!