Comics you remember seeing on a spinner rack as a kid!

[Gatsby77]

I remember having my 11 year-old mind warped by a spinner rack in an Encore Books bookstore back in the summer of 1988.

 

The rack had

 

Batman: The Killing Joke (Barbara Gordon gets her spine blown out by the Joker, crashing backwards through a glass table in slow motion)

 

Captain America # 345 (Replacement Cap John Walker beats several bad guys to death)

 

Wonder Woman # 20 (investigative reporter spends whole issue trying to discover who killed soap opera star Mindy Mayer, only to discover at the end that she committed suicide).

 

I didn't read another comic book for over a year.

[toro]

Avengers #4, 5

ASM #10

FF #2, FF #10

JIM #87

Hulk #4

Sgt Fury #1

DD #3

TOS #48

TTA #57

 

There were early DC War, Supes and Bats, but I can't remember the issues, most started in 1962.

[NP_Gresham]

I distinctly remember Avengers Annual #6.

I remember it, because it sat there until Avengers Annual #7 came out.

[Ron_Nasty]

Every single Silver Age comic. I grew up in the 60s.

[ChasingKingKirby]

I grew up in the 70/80s. I do remember buying ASM238, actually still have my original spaghetti stained copy somewhere. That's about the best of the early 80s when I started buying my own books. I, unfortunately, grew up in a time of pretty crappy books. I do also remember reading the first few Moon Knights when I was recuperating from Chicken Pox.

[Prince Namor]

Giant Size Superstars at the drug store across the street from my school. I was 11. But that was on the magazine stand.

 

A year later I remember very vividly walking into the drug store by the public library and seeing Strange Tales 178 and that Jim Starlin cover on the spinner rack. What a great era for comics!

[unmovedmover]

Amazing Spiderman 333 was the first comics I bought off a spinner. I also vividly remember Kelley Jones Batman issues and Giffen JLA. I still have all that stuff too.

[500Club]

My 'golden age' occured when the Marvel books with the 'Win A Toys'R'Us Shopping Spree ' banner were on the racks. To this days, seeing that banner triggers memories of spinner racks with those books.

[NightGallery1]

Most of the mid 60's to early 70's Marvel's and some DC comics where bought at a drugstore (Brow's) in Fall River, MA. I only have a few left in my collection that I actually picked up off the rack - a Conan the Barbarian #1 and Marvel Feature #2 - though I did buy, and still own the original spinner rack from my childhood when the store went out of business around 1980.

[ninanina]

There's a couple I remember - Amazing Spider-Man 298 at a 7-11. I thought the art was pretty good and wondered if this is one of those comices that will ever be worth anything because of the new artist. Then I fugured...naaahh...Never did buy it.

 

Also remember thinking of buying a stack of Star Wars 107...there was about 10 of them. I was thinking that hey...maybe because it's the last issue of the series it might be worth a few bucks someday. Then I figured...naahhh....But, I did buy 1 copy to finish my run.

 

Also remember Dazzler #1....I went ahead and bought 200 copies 'cause I thought if it was only available in the direct market it would be worth a few bucks down the road.

[PurpleZeke]

Just a quick follow up on this thread and why I started it the other day. Captain America #200 came out around 1976 and I used to go to work with my father when I was a kid in Clinton, SC as he was a manager of a store and I would stand at the entrance on Friday nights and Saturday mornings selling Grit newspapers and there was a spinner rack near the checkouts where I would stand and I would browse the comics when business was slow, I remember seeing advertisements for selling Grit newspaper inside of the comicbooks and thought that was cool at the time.

I was good at saving money when I started selling Grit newspapers, but once I started buying comics my job turned into how many comics I could by each weekend and I remember seeing comics on the rak that I just had to have and once I earned enough profits I would buy comics each week and spend Saturday nights reading them.

[ComicConnoisseur]

HULK 181

STAR WARS 1(who didn`t from that era)

Giant sized X-men 1

 

[Spiderturtle]

My 'golden age' occured when the Marvel books with the 'Win A Toys'R'Us Shopping Spree ' banner were on the racks. To this days, seeing that banner triggers memories of spinner racks with those books.

 

Winning a toys r us shoppping- I always had that dream back in the day. Transformers and GI Joe were my memories of the 7-11 spinner rack

[Wally's Comics]

It's kind of wild but I don't remember which books per sey

but I will always remember the smell of my 7 eleven that had one...

 

It was like bubble gum, slurpeee, sticky floor scent...

 

 

 

 

 

[Hepcat]

Les' Variety on Wortley Road had a spinner rack for a while. The comics I specifically remember purchasing from Les' in the summer of 1962 were these:

 

Batman 150

Detective 307

Jaguar 8

Justice League 14

 

Les' eliminated its comic rack within a few months. Ken's Variety on Wharncliffe Road had a spinner rack. The comics I specifically remember purchasing from Ken`s in the summer of 1963 were these:

 

Aquaman 11

Atom 8

Batman 158

Flash 139

Justice League 22

Wonder Woman 141

 

A year later I also specifically remember purchasing Green Lantern 31 from a spinner rack at a variety store at the corner of High Street and Grand Avenue. Most of my other comic book haunts displayed comics with their magazines on wall racks.

 

[Comixroc]

Picked up ASM #280 right of the spinner rack at my local candy shop.

 

.......those were the days.....

[jerome34]

My collection started when my father got me 4 comics when I was home sick. The

two I remember were All Star 13 and Mutt & Jeff 5. Later I got every All Star as they

came out (up to #53? <50-57>) and remember some specifically 18, 23, 27, 33, included.

I also remember getting All American 61 (Solomon Grundy) when it came out.

 

I got what I could afford new and got a lot second hand. The oldest in that collection

was Action 6.

 

Eventually, I sold the bulk of the collection and what I did not sell, my brother took and

sold so when I started collecting again in1983 I had not owned a comic in at least 25

years. Early items from that period included Wolverine (MS) 1 -4 & Ronin 1-6.

[Ghost Rider]

Hulk 181, ASM 129. Seems like it was yesterday

[Sekowskyfan10]

I remember specifically grabbing Superman 295 at my local 7-Eleven in late '75. I took the one that fell on the floor below the spinner rack, as the other copies on the rack were bent.

 

A few months later I went to another store and got World's Finest 236 and was saddened to see the price hike to 30 cents.

[Yellow Kid]

l wasn't a kid any more, except at heart, but I was walking down Bourbon St. in the French Quarter in New Orleans with my wife in the early 1970's when I was stopped in my tracks. Right next to my eyes in a tall spinner was a copy of Mickey Mouse Four Color 16, the Phantom Blot. This had always been one of my favorite comics, a bonafide grail, and to have it appear unexpectedly right next to me was truly amazing. It turns out that Roger Nelson, a long time collector turned dealer, had just opened a store and had put the spinner in front with some great comics in it to attract attention. He sure attracted my attention.