What were the big deals when you were a kid comic wise? 3 3

[djpinkpanther67]

On 1/18/2022 at 2:29 PM, KirbyJack said:

Kirby returning to Marvel in 1975 was a big deal. 
I also enjoyed all the bicentennial stuff.

You’re OLD 

[djpinkpanther67]

On 1/18/2022 at 11:40 AM, Robot Man said:

I’m older than you. My first Spidey was #3. Never seen a Marvel up until then.

And in my day $10. Bought you a 3 finger bag of Mexican dirt weed. Lots of seeds and stems. 

ASM 3? Jeez I feel like a spring chicken now.

As a kid I always had dreams of inventing a time machine to go back every month and buy like 5 copies of each book coming out. I believe that was common amongst young comic collectors.

Tijuana Trash

 

[kav]

On 1/18/2022 at 6:32 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

For me it was long-ways Spidey UK weeklies (which at the time I had no idea were reprints)...

...the Spidey '67 Cartoon, which was repeated daily, seemingly every year, during the UK six week holidays, and which I would watch like a ritual with a can of coke and a Mars Bar (cold from the fridge)...

Surely the best theme and incidental music of any TV show ever.

And then my trusty toy web-shooters which, of course, practically made me Spidey:

To this day, I can remember shitting my pants with excitement when the Spidey cartoon had the Rhino in it.

Those days of innocence will never be bettered.

 

It was the cartoon reruns in 1975 that got me buying spider man and marvel.  That show was huge and I was like 17 at the time.

[kav]

On 1/18/2022 at 5:02 AM, 1950's war comics said:

i still have a soft spot for Richie Rich ,, Duck comics and of course Little Lulu !!

I bought those too and Mad magazine.  

[Get Marwood & I]

On 1/18/2022 at 8:48 PM, kav said:

It was the cartoon reruns in 1975 that got me buying spider man and marvel.  That show was huge and I was like 17 at the time.

I can still watch them now. I often have this playing in the background while pottering on comics...

 

[kav]

On 1/18/2022 at 1:16 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I can still watch them now. I often have this playing in the background while pottering on comics...

 

I dont care for the ralph bakshi ones the animation is awful.  but great music compilation there.

Edited January 18, 2022 by kav

[The lips]

Early - mid 90s so, 

Mcfarlane Spider-Man 

jim Lee - X Men

foil / embossed covers 

Comics in sealed bags

wizard

Image comics 

[catman76]

as a kid in the early and mid 80s comics weren't really on my radar really and I have no clue what was going on in comics then. I had some heathcliff and gi joe comics that were always around that came from somewhere but other than that comics just weren't a thing in my childhood. The only comics I remember even seeing around was one kid I went to school with seemed to always have issues of Mad which I read a few times but just didn't care really. I mainly liked the back cover fold in things.

By the time I was into comics in the late 80s, it was old comics when I was searching flea markets and thrift shops and stuff all the time when I was 12. I had no interest in new comics of the time, they bored me, I just was after anything from before the 70s. I would bring old 40s and 50s comics to school and read them then. I'd get c-rap for reading old disney comics in study hall. Once I really got made fun of when this kid that hated me saw I was reading a 60s Lois lane comic.

[Bird]

On 1/17/2022 at 9:42 PM, EastEnd1 said:

When I first discovered comic book shops in the late 1970s, all the rage was John Byrne "New" X-Men and Frank Miller Daredevils.  Oh and I remember a clamoring for Neal Adams to get back to comic books and when he finally did it was Ms Mystic from Pacific Comics (and it hardly had any Neal Adams art!)!

I recall being excited this new thing coming out by Frank Miller and vividly remember sitting in my bedroom during high school and wondering WTF? What is going on? What is happening? What is this stuff he is drawing?

Ronin

I didn't give it another try for at least a decade.

The electricity around Frank was amazing. Elektra was off limits for any other creator for many many years as it was understood she was FMs baby.

[1950's war comics]

On 1/18/2022 at 3:49 PM, kav said:

I bought those too and Mad magazine.  

@kavdo you remember your first issue of MAD bought of the rack  ?? here is the first one i bought... 40 cents , i only made 35 cent allowance a week for loading and unloading the dishwasher(which i never did) so i had to save a nickel from the previous week to  buy a MAD which was my favorite !!

 

 

 

[1950's war comics]

 

Bub's Daddy were a BIG deal back in my neighborhood in grade school , for a nickel you got this huge piece of gum !! i can still taste one now !! my favorite was cinnamon, and then watermelon.... !!

so if i could scratch up 50 cents i could get a 20 cent comic book , a 10 cent pack of football cards two Bub's Daddy and a HUGE three Musketeers candy bar for a dime = total 50 cents !!

[1950's war comics]

On 1/18/2022 at 4:18 PM, kav said:

I dont care for the ralph bakshi ones the animation is awful.  but great music compilation there.

i liked it but we didn't know any better at the time ...we didn't get this channel unless we went to see my cousins in Detroit , it was on channel 50 in Detroit and it was a heavenly special treat to watch when we were there!!

[1950's war comics]

On 1/18/2022 at 2:29 PM, KirbyJack said:

Kirby returning to Marvel in 1975 was a big deal. 
I also enjoyed all the bicentennial stuff.

Kirby DC Kamandi was a big deal back then , but they never did pan out value wise ...hmmmm

Edited January 18, 2022 by 1950's war comics

[NoMan]

Dazzler #1 was a big deal. First direct market book, they said. X-men #94 and up were always on the wall behind the corner. First went to a comic store in mid to late 70s There was a superman #17 not in bag or board hanging from wooden clothes pins on a clothes line that ran across the store. The drive in across the street was playing a porn movie.

[KirbyJack]

On 1/18/2022 at 2:30 PM, djpinkpanther67 said:

You’re OLD 

[Bird]

not a kid, but in college we were all obsessed with The Twelve in X-Men. Who was one of the twelve and who wasn't? And Beast is a human, no he's a Beast again!

 

[Montezuma]

On 1/18/2022 at 5:40 PM, 1950's war comics said:

 

Bub's Daddy were a BIG deal back in my neighborhood in grade school , for a nickel you got this huge piece of gum !! i can still taste one now !! my favorite was cinnamon, and then watermelon.... !!

so if i could scratch up 50 cents i could get a 20 cent comic book , a 10 cent pack of football cards two Bub's Daddy and a HUGE three Musketeers candy bar for a dime = total 50 cents !!

You were buying the wrong brand. 

 

[Browns81]

When I was young, Spawn, The Maxx, The Tick and anything X-Men were as hot as you could get among my friends.

[Randall Ries]

Curt Swan Supermans
Weird War
Ghosts
Neal Adams Batman
Green Lantern Adams run
Archie Comics. MAN those things were funny. Plus the little reprint digests were hot. Archie was HUGE in the 1970's.
Captain America
Spiderman
Classics Illustrated became collectible but it was tough for us to determine 1st prints

[iggy]

Howard The Duck

Byrne X-Men

Miller Daredevil

Star Wars

Marvel KISS comic mags

 

Edit to include:

Assorted #1 issues … I ordered out of Mile High and Lone Star catalogs, prices were great on specials they ran and condition actually decent.

Edited January 21, 2022 by iggy