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[valiantman]

The time from Action Comics #1 to Hulk #181 was LESS than the time from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 to today.

What are some other fun facts about 2021?

(If you were told there would be no math, they lied.) 

[valiantman]

Action Comics #1 to Amazing Fantasy #15 was 24 years. 

Doomsday killed Superman over 28 years ago.

[s-man]

[valiantman]

Here's a crazy one, since I'm "valiantman".

Valiant Comics has now existed in five decades, not counting Dell and Gold Key earlier Dr. Solar, Magnus, and Turok.

Valiant was created by Voyager Communications in 1989 - the 1980s

Valiant sold 80,000,000 comics during the 1990s

Valiant/Acclaim went bankrupt and was sold/restarted with some hardcover reprints during the 2000s

Valiant returned to publishing in 2012 and throughout the 2010s

Valiant published multiple books in 2020 and another this month to start the 2020s

[Mercury Man]

Not hobby related, but there is a video out there, from very early 1900's Manchester, England, showing factory workers walking on streets, and little kids milling about etc.  Somebody pointed out, there are people in that video who either were alive when Napolean got defeated at Waterloo, and there were people in that video who could have seen the Beatles play in the Cavern Club in Liverpool.   Kind of time-trippy. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Just now, Mercury Man said:

Not hobby related, but there is a video out there, from very early 1900's Manchester, England, showing factory workers walking on streets, and little kids milling about etc.  Somebody pointed out, there are people in that video who either were alive when Napolean got defeated at Waterloo, and there were people in that video who could have seen the Beatles play in the Cavern Club in Liverpool.   Kind of time-trippy. 

I believe that cause my great grandfather's great grandfather fought in the napoleon war, failed to hold a bridge and retreated, went and laid down his sword to the general and the general told him pick it up he did the right thing

 

[valiantman]

7 minutes ago, Mercury Man said:

Not hobby related, but there is a video out there, from very early 1900's Manchester, England, showing factory workers walking on streets, and little kids milling about etc.  Somebody pointed out, there are people in that video who either were alive when Napolean got defeated at Waterloo, and there were people in that video who could have seen the Beatles play in the Cavern Club in Liverpool.   Kind of time-trippy. 

A man named Harrison Ruffin Tyler is 93 years old.  His grandfather (not great, not great-great, just grandfather) was President John Tyler, born in 1790.

(It is not known whether or not Harrison Ruffin Tyler ever owned Action Comics #1, but it would have been new when he was 10 years old.)

Edited February 3, 2021 by valiantman

[Microchip]

8 minutes ago, valiantman said:

Here's a crazy one, since I'm "valiantman".

Valiant Comics has now existed in five decades, not counting Dell and Gold Key earlier Dr. Solar, Magnus, and Turok.

Valiant was created by Voyager Communications in 1989 - the 1980s

Valiant sold 80,000,000 comics during the 1990s

Valiant/Acclaim went bankrupt and was sold/restarted with some hardcover reprints during the 2000s

Valiant returned to publishing in 2012 and throughout the 2010s

Valiant published multiple books in 2020 and another this month to start the 2020s

This a true comic publisher story right there!  Rags, riches, and back for another run at it.

80,000,000 books is crazy.  I was there, and they were huge, topping the mighty marvel machine at times for hype, and excitement around their books.   

[valiantman]

3 minutes ago, Microchip said:

This a true comic publisher story right there!  Rags, riches, and back for another run at it.

80,000,000 books is crazy.  I was there, and they were huge, topping the mighty marvel machine at times for hype, and excitement around their books.   

The best Valiant ever did on the monthly sales charts was #3 behind Marvel and DC, but my own collection in the early 1990s had more Valiant than any other company. 

Edited February 3, 2021 by valiantman

[s-man]

All kidding aside, time really does fly as I bought my first comic 37 years ago.

[Microchip]

Just now, valiantman said:

The best Valiant ever did on the monthly sales charts was #3 behind Marvel and DC, but my own collection in the early 1990s had more Valiant than any other company. 

From the collectors view, their books were red hot for so long, because they got it right.  Titles, artists and stories were top notch, even their book quality stood out.  

And they were the first of the era to have obscure hard to find issues.   For collectors, they had all the right ingredients.  The irony is that I personally didn't collect them, as I "missed the boat" when they hit the market.   Playing catchup was outside of my budget at the time.

[vheflin]

The last Civil War pensioner died in 2020.

She was a teenager in the 1940s so she probably read comics.

[1950's war comics]

when i was a kid we only got two channels on our television

[HotKey]

In June it will be only 14 years since the debut of the iPhone. Probably the biggest single piece of tech that has changed nearly all of society in less than a decade. 

[Xenosmilus]

Less hair and more gut...

[marmat]

4 hours ago, Xenosmilus said:

Less hair and more gut...

I call it wisdom

[davidpg]

Next year it'll be 40 years that I have purchased the Wolverine limited series off the shelf at the Perette's local store on the corner on 90th Ave. and Lasalle Blvd.  On the shore of the St. Lawrence river right where Jacques Cartier sailed past to found Montreal a few miles down back in 1534.  

The white fence in the pic is where the store was...and I still have the copies of those books I bought 

 

[comicginger1789]

I bought my first comic online around 2001 or 2002 (my dad did for me, as I was underage and could not set up an account). I remember it was a lot of PPTSS with some early issues including a ragged copy of issue 3. I got it for 99 cents with like $5-6 shipping for a dozen comics. 

That was 18+ years ago...more than half my life ago!

[AJLewandoski]

14 hours ago, valiantman said:

Action Comics #1 to Amazing Fantasy #15 was 24 years. 

Doomsday killed Superman over 28 years ago.

Wish I could have lived through that...but I was born a few years too late to have come into a Superman-less world 

[theCapraAegagrus]

Spawn is 29 years old in May...