Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 lots of lazy time on my hands today, and pulled a seldom-opened box from the back of a shelf. i've often posted my spidey annual 1 and m.t. 1 from my childhood, as they are the two earliest books i still have that i actually bought off a spinner. but there is another little stack of books that have come with me since the 60's, and i've just taken pix of them for the first time this morning. so, here we go. i was a marvel guy, but also dug jfk, who was assassinated when i was 8; so i got this one and kept it. all the rest are marvels. MrBedrock, frozentundraguy, MGsimba77 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) first spidey i bought was 16, but my back-issue searching got me as early as #5; that one i traded to my best friend, but this pair have been with me a loooong time. still remember the barber shop i found them at; traded him two brand new archies to get them. condition didn't mean much to us as kids. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man Albert Thurgood, namisgr, Morganmi and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) the other spidey annual that made it from my childhood to medicare-me. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man MrBedrock, pemart1966, Morganmi and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) one more spidey cover cut muster. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man Larryw7, jimjum12, mec3437 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) after the spider, i loved the sarge and the ff best. a few came along for the trip. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man MrBedrock, Morganmi, Austin_t_a and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) .. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man Austin_t_a, MrBedrock, bc and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) . Edited July 31, 2022 by Straw-Man mec3437 and MrBedrock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) a single s.t. made it. Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man Morganmi, KirbyJack, Larryw7 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MattTheDuck Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 I can't say I'd never sell them, but these are the first two books I ever bought. These were from Joe's Market, an independent grocer a few blocks from the house in which I grew up. My memory's fuzzy, but I believe they kept the comics in a cardboard box on the bottom shelf of a wooden magazine rack. One will note the nice spine roll on the ASM - as a youngster, I would fold books over as I read them. For 5 years, these were the only comics I had (although some of the covers I see on this site look really familiar) and then I "discovered" there were places you could buy back issues. Previously, I had only daydreamed that Joe's had a bunch of comics in the back storage room. mec3437, jimjum12, MGsimba77 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 (edited) i still remember sancho getting hold of the subby 1... Edited July 5, 2021 by Straw-Man ThothAmon, KirbyJack, Larryw7 and 4 others 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 kept this one cuz of the top-right ditko story; blew little-boy me away. mec3437, Larryw7, bc and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Nice, My original collection is long gone but for two books. I kept my Avengers 57 and years later I found a Lomax/Police Action that had been stuck in the bottom of drawer. mec3437 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 and, finally, the 2 books that show "comic artist" was not my calling. lost the covers of avengers 3 and ff ann. 5, and gave 'em a try... bc, frozentundraguy, MatterEaterLad and 18 others 18 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straw-Man Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 kinda proud of the cca stamp!!! Primetime and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan H Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Good thread - nice stories and pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro. Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 24 minutes ago, Straw-Man said: and, finally, the 2 books that show "comic artist" was not my calling. lost the covers of avengers 3 and ff ann. 5, and gave 'em a try... Better covers than I've seen on some new Marvel books Larryw7 and Ltpink2002 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCOComics Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Straw-Man said: and, finally, the 2 books that show "comic artist" was not my calling. lost the covers of avengers 3 and ff ann. 5, and gave 'em a try... That's really cool! Glad you still have them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicjack Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Love seeing this stuff we read our books to death as kids Great idea for a thread it shows our love for the hobby after all these years Larryw7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KCOComics Posted July 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 5, 2021 As a kid, my earliest memories of comics were of my father telling me the story of "The coming of Galactus". He had read the story as a kid and it stuck with him all those years. So when I was 16 and transitioned from a reader to a collector, these were the first big books I bought (48 and 49) and I've kept them ever since. I had a raw 50 that was more beat up than the others, so I upgraded the 50 just a few years ago. MatterEaterLad, comicjack, Austin_t_a and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
