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Is it bad to collect Copper books?

Started by Reno McCoy,

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Toz

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The Copper Age was actually my second go around with collecting.I had a pretty good run of most BA books from 74-78 and then quit when I graduated high school to chase girls & see what all I could get into.My first taste of copper was The Death of Captain Marvel.I picked up a copy when I went to Daytona Beach.Truly one of the best stories ever released and I admit,I did tear up when I read it.

 

Around 1985 I saw an ad for a comic shop opening up in Kingsport,Tn. and I decided to check it out.For crying out loud.A whole store for nothing but comic books.One of the first ones I bought was Dreadstar #1 and needless to say I was pretty much hooked.I drove there at least once a week(45 miles),and at the height of my collecting I was buying around 100-150 new books a month,not counting back issues.

 

I did get caught up in the frenzy,buying multiple issues of every new book that came out.buying the Overstreet Update and seeing how much my collection had increased in value,pitching a fit when Wizard of Time didn't go past 3 issues.Good times indeed.

 

In 1988 I got married for the first time and sold off most of my indy books to a friend of mine for pennies on the dollar.By the time I quit in 1992 I was down to only 2 or 3 titles and they were Marvels.Now I find myself revisiting the 1980's for the pure pleasure of the diversity and innovation of the Smaller press books.I've since completed a complete run of Pacific titles and load up on Eclipse & First books when I find them.AC books are a lot of fun too and I'm finding a lot of Epic titles that didn't interest me then are pretty darn good now.

 

So,to coin MTV & VH1"I Love The '80s"

 

Interestingly enough,I visited the guy I sold the books to this past week and bought about a hundred books from him.When I asked what he did with those boxes of "oddball" stuff I sold him he said he probably still had them.Gonna have to check this out more closely.Hmmmm.

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Gatsby77

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I remember going to an Encore Books as a wee little 10 year old and picking up three books off the spinner rack: Batman, Wonder Woman and Captain America.

 

They were:

 

Wonder Woman # 20 (Who killed Mindi Mayer? Answer: suicide)

 

Captain America # 346 (Captain America gets into trouble for brutally--and graphically--killing bad guys. Turns out it was John Walker, not Steve Rogers, and Walker was a psycho).

 

Batman: The Killing Joke: featuring Joker blowing out Barbara Gordon's spinal column and falling backwards in slow motion through a glass table.

 

Good wholesome American fun that was.

 

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Several of you mentioned GI Joe :cloud9:

 

Happy to see some respect for Hama's work - :applause:

 

Copper does rock! Great characters created during that time!

 

I always thought Marvel missed the ball with that series by giving it to, shall we say, uninspiring artists. For a while there, it had all those great Zeck covers but the interiors were mediocre at best.

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From a reading standpoint, it's a gold mine.

 

There is so much fantastic stuff to read. I would hazard a guess that the stories stand up better today than Bronze and Silver age books. Nostalgia and good reads. :cloud9:

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If it is bad I must have been very,very bad this weekend.I just purchased well over 300 copper books.Eclipse,Pacific,Epic,a run of Atari Force and the first 20 issues of The 3-D Zone.You know what's in that run don't you? #16 is the Dave Stevens Space Vixens cover :cloud9:

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