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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2016 0:06:39 GMT
How did you get into comics?
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Post by kurumais on Aug 22, 2016 4:32:46 GMT
comics were everywhere when i was a kid. plus i had a very difficult learning to read. so i gravitated towards comics . captain america and the falcon was my fav. so i learned to read and was soon devouring books but i never gave up comics. as i got older and had more money i started buying more and more titles. i started loving more and more characters. now im addicted.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Aug 22, 2016 13:17:09 GMT
It was actually on my first visit to a Comic shop when i was younger with my Dad and my brother. The first comics i ever got were Aliens - Colonial Marines #8-#10  |
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Post by aemiliapaula on Aug 22, 2016 17:30:46 GMT
A friend lent me the Sandman Orpheus issue.
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Post by kurumais on Aug 23, 2016 0:01:01 GMT
i will say comics are my biggest fandom. i probably check all the boxes when it comes to geekdom sci fi fantasy kaiju anime D&D star trek etc but comics are my biggest fandom.
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Post by Ela on Aug 24, 2016 3:54:31 GMT
I started buying comics as a kid. The candy store at the end of our block that we visited after school on a regular basis had a big rack of them.
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Post by icecreamdf on Aug 24, 2016 6:18:28 GMT
I've always been a fan of superheroes. I grew up with the DCAU and super hero movies were everywhere when I was a bit older. Once I got my first iPad and discovered the DC app, I became very interested in learning about the source material that all of my favorite heroes originated in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 7:31:05 GMT
It may baffle young readers now but we had comics, and lots of them, in every corner shop and supermarket as readily available as newspapers. Here we had DC Thomson who made The Beano and Dandy. They were something more like Archie comics - funnies. Those were my first comics. Little Plum, Lord Snooty, Roger The Dodger, Minnie the Minx, Dennis The Menace (the real one, not the awful American one! )....those were comics for me as a young kid. Also a big part of Scottish comics, as well as the DC Thomson ones, were The Broons and Oor Wullie which don't travel well, I guess, but they're older than Batman or Superman and still going, so they've got their place and have had for 80 years. I suspect Bobod might be the only one who even knows them here! Not long after though, I fell for the (then still fresh) Keaton Batman, and Batman: TAS started a year or two after I got into comics. Sheer bliss. Death Of Superman was one of the first big arcs I remember (and I always missed half the story as I didn't know about - and my folks wouldn't have paid for anyway - all the tie ins). Lois And Clark was broadcast primetime Saturdays, in what is now the Who slot, so comics and superheroes were a big part of the culture even then and in various mediums. Great times. |
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Post by Timelord007 on Aug 24, 2016 7:49:30 GMT
Our local newsagents, i used to have the Dandy & Beano delivered then Transformers & Masters Of The Universe, then i started collecting Marvel & DC comics & been a fan of both ever since.
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Post by kurumais on Aug 24, 2016 15:35:21 GMT
yup my local candy store was the place i started too. i still remeber the lady that owned yelling at me "are you going to buy that or read it?" they made great egg creams too.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Aug 25, 2016 11:00:37 GMT
I started borrowing them from the local library and found I hugely enjoyed the Fantastic Four series. Now I borrow any Fantastic Four and other Marvel titles as I see them in the library alongside The Simpsons (although I have bought two Marvel titles myself - S.H.I.E.L.D. Perfect Bullets and S.H.I.E.L.D. The Man Called D.E.A.T.H.).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 20:28:19 GMT
Comics were everywhere when I was younger, not reading comics would have been harder!
I had tons of them; magazine size funnies like Whizzer & Chips and The Dandy etc, war comics like Commando and those smaller types of comic books, football got a look in with Roy of the Rovers, as well as staples like TV Action/Countdown... but I don't know what came first. (I do wish I'd kept them all though!) I eventually settled in to the Marvel way of doing things, and once I joined FOOM that was it! I couldn't afford anything else as Marvel kept me going with their countless US and UK titles...
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Aug 27, 2016 20:18:38 GMT
when I was young I read a variety of British comics - Knockout, Monster Fun, Thunder, Shiver and Shake, etc
While I had read a few American comics (mostly British reprints of Marvel) I didn't start buying them until a few issues into Star Wars weekly
back up strips included Jim Starlin's Adam Warlock, Star Lord, the early Micronauts stories
..and I started following them into other comics ... Adam Warlock's team-up with Spiderman, plus the showdown with Thanos reprinted in monthly series - which I continued reading
and Marvel UK brought out new Fantasy and science-fiction themed series Valour and Future Tense
and the multigenre Forces in Combat
and I kept expanding into other titles and moving on to the American editions
and in the mid-eighties I started trying out DC with the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans, and expanding from there to Justice League, Firestorm, Infinity Inc, the Legion, etc and getting a lot of titles after the post-Crisis reboot
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Post by theotherjosh on Aug 28, 2016 22:18:33 GMT
I was about six years old. We were visiting family out of town and my parents bought me a digest anthology that collected a number of origin stories from the Legion of Super-Heroes so I would stop pestering them with questions every three seconds. I've been a fan of comics in general and the Legion in particular ever since.
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