Why do YOU focus on a certain genre? Here is why I do.

[BassGMan]

Hi guys (and those very few girls), I was just wondering what was your reason (or excuse ) for collecting a certain group of comics, or time period (Gold, Bronze, etc). I imagine alot of it has to do with your age, as well as your interests as a kid, and new interests as an adult.

 

For example, I'll tell you why I collect what I collect. I am 40 and was born in 1963 pretty close to the start of the Silver Age. I didn't really get into comics until the Bronze Age was well under way, around '72 or '73. Back in those days (and throughout the 70s) the big news for me was when the new issues of Tomb Of Dracula and Werewolf By Night hit the stands. And even MORE SO when I witnessed that first issue of Howard The Duck #1 and Star Wars #1 with that cool black cover. These were the days when Spider-Man (the real one, not an actor) made an appearance at a local 7-11 standing atop a 6-foot ICE machine handing down autographed copies of ASM #151 to the kids reaching up to him as if he was a Rock Star. Trying to convince my mom to drive me 15 minutes to the nearest comic shop was what my life was all about in those days. Even though I only had an allowance and a few dollars here and there for doing extra "chores" my parents still tried to limit my comic book purchases as if it was a problem of some sort. They had no such luck.

 

So, after trying to stay with current books throughout the 80s and 90s I finally gave up on them because they just didn't mean as much to me as the earlier books. It was just about a year or so ago that I thought I would really go back and concentrate on "my generation" of books. Sure, I'll buy non-bronze books now and then and I realize the investment potential of Silver and Gold, but for me I'm just gonna put my money (for the most part) in the Bronze age. Funny how alot of people seem to be doing that these days.

 

So, how about YOU? ------Sid

[s-man]

My very first comic was UXM #172 and fell in love with the title ever since then. I grew up in the modern era and have always loved the books that come from that era. I have started expanding my horizons into the older Bronze age a bit, but still like Modern the best.

[Foolkiller]

I think the age when you were something like 8-16 are the years when I remember comic collecting... or should I say reading... at its best. For me, that's the mid 80s til about the early/mid 90s. Those are the years I remember the most. Stuff like the Infinity Gauntlet, the Lim Silver Surfers, Cap 332-350... that's what I remember most fondly. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of real money in those books, and they're incredibly common.

 

So, for me, I collect certain silver/bronze to obtain pieces of history about the characters that I feel were important to me growing up. Avengers 4, JIM 112, Kirby Thors, Captain America, and then characters who I thought were cool, but only now getting to read the stories behind (MOKF and the like).

[chromium]

Growing up in Belgium in the late 70's and early 80's....US comics were VERY hard to come by, I certainly didn't know of any shop selling them.

 

Luckily my mother took us to the UK about 4 times a year and then I tried picking up as much Marvels and DCs as possible, which almost meant the ones that came out that particular month and some that were left on the shelves from the previous months...

 

I had the weirdest collection, never more than two consecutive issues and absolutely nothing else than spandex, spandex and more spandex...

 

Three years ago I started collecting again (I had a meager 250 books from my childhood to start me off) and probably because I could never get longer runs of any series and it was so frustrating never to find any comics for months, I now am a ferocious completionist....

I've completed about 13 series so far and am close in completing FF, Avengers and ASM. Grade isn't important to me, I just have to get all of them

 

All Marvel at the moment, but once I complete all Marvels that interest me, I'm starting on LoSH, Green Lantern and a host of other DC books, yes I was a frustrated kid and yes I'm an obsessive completionist...

 

But at least I don't wear Short Shorts, porno ties or fake Magneto Helmets, run over deer in my car or have a QP obsession

[BassGMan]

Cool stuff Chromium, I love hearing personal experience stories like that. Glad that you can now find what you need. -----Sid

[Timely]

Check out my first comic experience in the Golden Age section. Thread titled, "How a Kid born in 1972 comes to collect Golden Age."

 

Timely

[Mushroom]

Because I am an addict and a compulsive obsessive.

[blowout]

Nostalgia.

[Darthdiesel]

Modeern comics just rock? (Bronze comics - close 2nd )

[blowout]

Modeern comics just rock?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[chromium]

Modeern comics just rock?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He talks like that as well you know....

[Rocketeer]

Modeern comics just rock?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He talks like that as well you know....

 

Yeah,...but I always figured it was a speech impediment thing....