Growing up - What was your Comic Book money's Competition?

[Aman619]

[embarrassing lack of self control]

[Rip]

Star Wars stuff

Laserdiscs

Sports Cards

[Wally's Comics]

[embarrassing lack of self control]

 

 

 

[Norrin_Radd]

Two words......... Video Arcade.

 

Imagine the cool comics I could have gotten with the roughly $500 I spent between 1980-1989.

 

[Probably another $200 since then. ]

[DKB]

I was lucky enough to have parents who embraced me reading comics, I think because I READ the comics. I had a $20 allowance, supposedly, but really I was free to buy as many comics as I wanted every Wednesday (especially if it was my Mom that took me). It was that way until college really, cause I didn't get a job until after my freshman year was over.

 

Ahh, the wonders of being a spoiled only child.

[thorxtz-migration]

action figures and m;y meager allowance that and I live in the

country and comic books are hard to find ,still a few drugstores, very few that carry comicbooks and just superman and usual stuff, but the internet has cured some of that!.

[october]

Grade school: baseball cards

 

High school: beer

 

College: beer

 

Law school: beer

 

Now: beer

[Ringfinger]

Porn.

[sterlingcomics]

Arcades and video game consoles (Atari 2600, ColecoVision). Dragon's Lair and Space Ace are pretty much when arcades died for me, cause they went up to 50 cents. Now they take dollar bills

 

After I got a job at 16 it was all down hill from there...

[Norrin_Radd]

Now they take dollar bills

 

Now they take cards with credits so you don't know how much you're really paying.

[sterlingcomics]

Now they take dollar bills

 

Now they take cards with credits so you don't know how much you're really paying.

 

Yeah--there's a local joint that does that. For a minute there I thought you said "Credit Cards". And with home gaming consoles surpassing arcade quality, it's no wonder arcades died.

[FFB]

Pot and beer.

[Fan4Fan]

Porn.

 

So I started early and everything was available by mail-order then...

[Deathlok]

I used to spend quite a bit on RPG games also. D&D and Rolemaster being the favorite.

[BassGMan]

Since as a kid the only thing I really collected was comic books, it wasn't until my mid-teens when I started getting into music and noticing girls that my comics had some real competition. At 17 comics really lost out and I sold everything in order to buy more musical gear and have some spending money. It wasn't until I turned 20 that I let comics back into my life. But at the time, say age 10-15 or so, outside of a few records here and there, comics really didn't have much competition with my small amount of money, and because of that I was able to build up a pretty nice collection for a youngen.

 

Funny thing is, at 41 I'm still balancing out the same three things in my life now: wife, rock band and comics. And I can't complain about that.

[Wally's Comics]

With so many guys saying Porn on here, no wonder

there are Porn Chicks gracing the conventions these days...

 

Comic Geeks just might be a big percentage of their fan base.

 

 

[BassGMan]

With so many guys saying Porn on here, no wonder

there are Porn Chicks gracing the conventions these days...

 

Comic Geeks just might be a big percentage of their fan base.

 

 

 

 

Surprisingly I never really spent any money on that until I found some that related to comics and trading cards (outside of a few Playboys, of course).

[skybolt]

With so many guys saying Porn on here, no wonder

there are Porn Chicks gracing the conventions these days...

 

Comic Geeks just might be a big percentage of their fan base.

 

 

 

Speaking of porn.........anyone remember "ON TV" back in the early 80's? I used to play around with the TV antennas for 30 minutes so I could get a semi-clear picture late at night (without sound).

[Wally's Comics]

With so many guys saying Porn on here, no wonder

there are Porn Chicks gracing the conventions these days...

 

Comic Geeks just might be a big percentage of their fan base.

 

 

 

Speaking of porn.........anyone remember "ON TV" back in the early 80's? I used to play around with the TV antennas for 30 minutes so I could get a semi-clear picture late at night (without sound).

 

dude you are thinking about

American Pie the Movie...

 

 

[skybolt]

With so many guys saying Porn on here, no wonder

there are Porn Chicks gracing the conventions these days...

 

Comic Geeks just might be a big percentage of their fan base.

 

 

 

Speaking of porn.........anyone remember "ON TV" back in the early 80's? I used to play around with the TV antennas for 30 minutes so I could get a semi-clear picture late at night (without sound).

 

dude you are thinking about

American Pie the Movie...

 

 

 

I'm talking about real life here. It was on Channel 44 in Chicago and they scambled the picture. I think it came on either on Friday or Saturday nights back in 1982/83.