Happy Mother’s Day! How did Mom/Grandmother shape your comics life 4 4

[cgcsketcherz]

Not until my high school years was there a real comic shop in town. The only way to get comics was a half hour drive into town to a Rite Aid that would have the Archie Hannah Barbara Series but I didn't always manage to make it monthly but at times, they also sold out of issues before I could make it. 

I had to wait till I grew up to buy online the missing holes in Scooby Doo Archie and Flintstones Archie.

In order to get the DC or Marvels, it was over an hour drive to Shop Rite, we used to do that once every two months......

Green Lantern did get me "grounded" or should I say banned from reading it since at the late 1990's early 2000's they allowed swear words in the book and being raised very catholic mom was not happy to see bad words in my comic book. (Plus, she was raised on the old Gold Key Donald Ducks, Uncle Scrooge, and Chip and Dale. When Donald got mad, he was properly censored with symbols. My aunt wasn't too happy to hear that my grandparents gave me the collection that she and mom built together.)

I did convince her to let me still read the new DC Scooby run at the time after proving that Scooby didn't have a potty mouth too. 

I am lucky to still have all of them in my life. Happy Mother's Day mom!

[ADAMANTIUM]

53 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

My mom always bought baseball cards for me, her and my step-dad both.

I was allowed to send my own cash through the mail to Marvel for a comic subscription.....

I think the first time, she said you can spend you're own money, and I was 7 or 8 and asked is it ok to send cash in the mail? what about a check?

She said something like, well send your cash this 1st time, if you end up with a subscription then next time we'll send a check......  

uh huh

So GOOD 'OLE MARVEL did get me a subscription to ASM "classics" and the Wolverine ongoing. I don't remember a "next time" that we ended up sending a check. But I had discovered video games and bicycles and girls and music and guitar, among a few smokables .....

Kind of quiet today hope everyone has fun with mom!

just thought that I'd add, it was 1993 when I got the sub, so I was more age 11 or 12. I remember Wolverine #66 being first and mom kind of flipped  at the cover...

then the ASM "classics" kicked in, and she warmed up because I could share those with my younger brother  Anyway!  

[Gaard]

When I was a kid,I had a savings account at the bank around the corner, but either I couldn't have a checking account or I just didn't want one - don't remember. Anyways, when I sent away for books thru the old CBG, my mom (or dad) would write out a check and I would reimburse them the next time we went to the bank.

[exitmusicblue]

My mom would take me to the LCS once a month.  The smell of the fresh books was paradise.

She also would occasionally get me bundles at Costco, and Archie digests galore. Much love to our moms!

 

 

[Buzzetta]

My mother was angry with me once so she tore up GI Joe 45 and Amazing Spider-man 311.   I must have been around 13 at the time. 

She kind of felt bad so she said she would take me to the comic shop and replace them.  Once she saw how much McFarlane Spider-mans were going for in the middle of the McFarlane hype she never tore a comicbook up again.  

 

Aside from that though, my mom took an interest in it and watched me talk to dealers and pick up Spider-man books.  She would take me to the Rockville Centre Holiday Inn that would host comic book shows from time to time.  I remember always asking for the classified section of the newspaper as these shows were always advertised there in Newsday.   She was always a good sport about schlepping me here and there to pick up a book.   

 

Before she tore up the GI Joe and the ASM books she had even helped me buy my first copy of Daredevil 1 with the understanding that I would pay it off when I was around 10-11.

I still have 'toasty' as my backup copy of the book.  

 

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by Buzzetta

[1950's war comics]

4 hours ago, MatterEaterLad said:

For me it was my grandma. She'd always go to garage sales and buy stacks of comics, box them up and send them to me.

In grade school the UPS man would arrive 3-4 times a summer bearing hundreds of comics.

what was the best one you ever got like that from Grandma ??

[Buzzetta]

@PeteFromPetesBasement has some good stories to tell if he would pay attention to the boards more often.  I will text him to draw him from hiding. 

[ChrispyC66]

My first issue I could remember getting was FF165 off a spinner rack at a local supermarket, which is long gone now,  but I still have that comic to this day.

[letsgrumble]

It was a friend of my mom's who got me into comics. He was into DC horror and used to give them to me after he read them. I was about 7 at the time.

So, my mom indirectly got me into comics. It used to irritate me that when I spread out comics on my bedroom floor to sort or look through them, my mom would come into the room and obliviously walk on them with her big slippers. She just didn't give a mess.

Fast-forward years later as an adult, about 15 years ago, I went to my mom's house to pick up about 10 longboxes I stored there. I was going through the books and had some on the floor. My mom stepped all over them.

At least she didn't throw them out.

[littledoom]

My mom would drive me to my comic shops after school on Wednesday.. which were not close to the schools I went to..

She bought me my first comic book at a bookstore and i trashed it like a golden age reader

Also when I was on my way to an estate sale early in the am my car tire blew out on the freeway so she drove me in her car which was definitely far for her.. she spent her whole morning and afternoon helping me pick out comics for 60 cents.. stuff like ASM 300, Harbinger 1, Hulk 340, etc. a couple of my best yard sale hauls have been with her

she doesn't really like violence like i do so it's saying a lot since a lot of the comics are violent

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by littledoom

[ChrispyC66]

2 minutes ago, letsgrumble said:

It was a friend of my mom's who got me into comics. He was into DC horror and used to give them to me after he read them. I was about 7 at the time.

So, my mom indirectly got me into comics. It used to irritate me that when I spread out comics on my bedroom floor to sort or look through them, my mom would come into the room and obliviously walk on them with her big slippers. She just didn't give a mess.

Fast-forward years later as an adult, about 15 years ago, I went to my mom's house to pick up about 10 longboxes I stored there. I was going through the books and had some on the floor. My mom stepped all over them.

At least she didn't throw them out.

Wow! Some things never change 

[ChrispyC66]

3 minutes ago, littledoom said:

My mom would drive me to my comic shops after school on Wednesday.. which were not close to the schools I went to..

She bought me my first comic book at a bookstore and i trashed it like a golden age reader

Also when I was on my way to an estate sale early in the am my car tire blew out on the freeway so she drove me which was kinda far for her.. she spent her whole morning and afternoon helping me pick out comics for 60 cents.. stuff like ASM 300, Harbinger 1, Wolverine 340, etc.

she doesn't really like violence like i do so it's saying a lot since a lot of the comics are violent

 

 

Was SW episode 2 #1 your first comic?

[littledoom]

1 minute ago, ChrispyC66 said:

7 minutes ago, littledoom said:

My mom would drive me to my comic shops after school on Wednesday.. which were not close to the schools I went to..

She bought me my first comic book at a bookstore and i trashed it like a golden age reader

Also when I was on my way to an estate sale early in the am my car tire blew out on the freeway so she drove me which was kinda far for her.. she spent her whole morning and afternoon helping me pick out comics for 60 cents.. stuff like ASM 300, Harbinger 1, Wolverine 340, etc.

she doesn't really like violence like i do so it's saying a lot since a lot of the comics are violent

 

 

Was SW episode 2 #1 your first comic?

yes i loved that movie ... best of the prequels

[NP_Gresham]

I am of an older vintage, there were no comic book conventions or LCS.

Everything was newsstand. I had a paper route when i was 10 that fed my comic book collecting habit.

And back issues were flea markets and classified ads in the newspaper. I remember my mom getting up first thing in the morning on Sunday to drive me to the Norton Flea market in MA. It was quite a ways from my house.

She never understood my collecting, lectured me all the time about wasting money on comic books, and yet never once interferred with my collecting. She just shook her head and drove me all over to look at comic books.

She is still the same, she was aghast I bought an AF #15 for 'That much money .. Really ??"  

My father would throw stuff out in a heartbeat, my mother would stop him. The price was eye rolling and a lecture about wasting money, but she just let me do what I loved to do.

Great memories!

[Hollywood1892]

I like parents that were comic collectors, unless they are like Mafia parents who don't want their kids traveling down the same road they took

[Kevin.J]

When I was a kid and first into comics my Dad told me of a time just after the war when the UK had lots of American troops stationed here, they would have lots of comics and give them to the kids when they were dating their sisters etc.

My Dad was born in 1935 so the comics he had as a kid are the comics of my dreams, not that I knew that much at the time, I just wanted any comics, I asked him what happened to the comics and he said that they were used as currency, there were paper shortages at the time, so they were used as toilet roll  or they were swapped with other kids for other toys etc, you could also use a comic to pay into the Cinema if the guy on the door was a reader.

Anyway I asked if he had any left and he said he didnt really know, he left home at 15 but he used to have a big chest with all his toys etc in it but never knew what happened to that.

So I asked my Granny what happened to my Dads old Toy chest, she said it was in her lockup but there were just old pisspots and toilet seats in it from the days she worked in a hospital, I asked if I could look, she said no as it was buried at the back and would make too much mess. No matter how much I moaned on and pleaded, she would never let me look for the chest, I probably asked her about it once a week for 30 years.

Eventually she sadly got dementia and moved into an old folks home and me and my missus went to help clear her apartment out, I guess I was slavering at the mouth the 4 hours it took to empty her lock up to get to the chest at the back

I dreamed of all the early Superman & Batman comics that would be inside it, maybe a few Timelys or Centaurs, I had been obsessed with this moment since I was a kid and if you have read this far, the story is about to have an anti-climax as it was exactly as she had told me so many years ago, it was full of old pisspots and toilet seats, wow talk about dreams shattered, I wish I had never got to look and just had the memory of what might have been.

I miss you Granny, you were always right 

[Larryw7]

First memories of my mother buying me a comic book was Batman 207 at the Acme supermarket. I was three years old, and I was a Batmaniac because of the TV show. I have vague memories of her buying me other comics, including .Justice League and Spider-Man(I loved the cartoon). One powerful memory concerns my grandmother. My dad and I were in a drugstore and they had Batman 233, an 80 page giant on the spinner. I wanted it so much, but my dad couldn't afford it(working for peanuts and living paycheck to paycheck was the norm for us in the early seventies until my father got a decent jon). I know he felt terrible. That weekend I visited my grandmother, and she said "I have something for you!" and it was the Batman 233. It's still one of my favorite books, and even though I know longer have my original, which I destroyed by reading and rereading, I did get another one later.

Happy Mother's Day to all moms. And Happy Birthday to my grandmother in Heaven.

 

[Paul © ® ⚽️💙™]

Started collecting in '64. By 1966 my mother had given all my collection away to a children's hospital. I have always had multiple collecting interests and whilst on a hiatus from comic books she disappeared the lot one day while I was at school.

She followed this up a coupla' years later by giving all my mint condition meccano/dinky/corgi toy cars away to a poor family. What made it worse was that it was a family consisting of several kids who were less than pleasant to me.

I was not consulted on either occasion and it was done behind my back.

My mum is very OCD and considered my possessions as unnecessary clutter.

Luckily for me I never sat in a chair for too long or doubtless I would have been donated to Oxfam.

[WolverineX]

10 hours ago, Hollywood1892 said:

She told me not to buy comics

She told me u had way too many and get them out of their house. 

[James J Johnson]