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 Post subject: The first comic I bought for my self with my own money was
PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:20 am 
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MARVEL TEAM-UP #111 and ROM #24. I should not be proud of where I got those four quarters, but my angst over it was a nice growing experience. Hey, you were seven once, too! :oops:

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:01 am 
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Man that sounds jam packed! Did you buy it in Georgia? That's where I grew up.

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Um...Invisibles #6, vol. 2, is the first one I actually remembering picking out for myself. They visit the Invisible College! It's not actually an online institution, though admission is Barbelith. I attended on scholarship :-D

But the first one I remember reading, by name, was a Fanstatic Four :-D Megazine where
Doom shrinks everyone down in Liddleville and gives them an ideal life. That's the first one I really remember being bought for me, on the road to Colorado. The next thing was a stack of ROM, Spaceknight, ten cents each. I guess one of those might really be one I picked for myself, but Invisibles, I chose off the rack.

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Pretty sure it was this one. I definitely remember saving my allowance and sending in the little coupon to order it.

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Donald Duck #139. Still have it.
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I bought this comic on January 13, 1966, after seeing the premiere of the Batman TV series the night before.

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Um...Invisibles #6, vol. 2.


The only one in the thread so far that I don't own.

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Seeing those Batman covers above... Makes me wonder if you guys would've ended up as lifelong fans if you'd picked different comics. Those are three amazing comics. The Atom B&B is possibly the most fun/insane comic ever published. The Ra's ahl Guhl book is possibly the best Batman story ever produced, period.

April 1966. All of the comics that my brothers bought were shared among us, so I'd never had a comic of my own. One of my brothers bought Batman #181, took the Infantino and Anderson centerfold pin-up out of the book, put it up on the wall in his corner of the room and proclaimed it "his". I was so upset that I made my mom bring me to the drugstore to get my own copy of the same comic, so that I could have the pin-up too. (I did the same thing with the Batman 3-D giant that they reprinted in the 60's... he claimed the 3-D glasses that came with the book, so I had to have my own copy just to get the glasses.)

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What I didn't know, was that the same pin-up was in that month's issue of Detective. I could've just bought that issue and we would've have two different comics to read.

In my defense, it was an amazing pin-up that turned out to be one of the iconic images of the Batman and Robin of the 60's. And it was autographed!

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I was a lifelong fan before buying my first comic thanks to my Dad's comics.
Even that I bought Donald Duck was greatly influenced by having read his
copies of DOnald Duck and Uncle Scrooge.

I believe that it was the only issue I ever bought at 15¢. Prices rose to 25¢
shortly thereafter. I really didn't start buying comics then until Marvel drop
the price to 20¢. That was a big deal for me.

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I'm amazed at people's memories. I've been getting comics since before I can remember. The earliest I specifically remember getting was...

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Superman # 154, May 1962.
I was annoyed how little the cast resembled the people on TV
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Ryza Dawn wrote:
Man that sounds jam packed! Did you buy it in Georgia? That's where I grew up.


Yep. I grew up in Stone Mountain, and I was about 8 years old when I bought that comic.

(And it definitely was jam-packed!)


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It was allowance money, but I bought it!

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My first that I bought (although I read some my brother left before that):

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Nice one. James. I bought that one a year or so ago.

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I had a hard time trying to remember which was the first I bought and not borrowed from my older brother... pretty sure it's this one though:

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RobertSwanderson wrote:
Seeing those Batman covers above... Makes me wonder if you guys would've ended up as lifelong fans if you'd picked different comics. Those are three amazing comics. The Atom B&B is possibly the most fun/insane comic ever published. The Ra's ahl Guhl book is possibly the best Batman story ever produced, period.

April 1966. All of the comics that my brothers bought were shared among us, so I'd never had a comic of my own. One of my brothers bought Batman #181, took the Infantino and Anderson centerfold pin-up out of the book, put it up on the wall in his corner of the room and proclaimed it "his". I was so upset that I made my mom bring me to the drugstore to get my own copy of the same comic, so that I could have the pin-up too. (I did the same thing with the Batman 3-D giant that they reprinted in the 60's... he claimed the 3-D glasses that came with the book, so I had to have my own copy just to get the glasses.)

Image

What I didn't know, was that the same pin-up was in that month's issue of Detective. I could've just bought that issue and we would've have two different comics to read.

In my defense, it was an amazing pin-up that turned out to be one of the iconic images of the Batman and Robin of the 60's. And it was autographed!

Click for full size


I got that pin-up as a puzzle! At the same time I got the puzzle of the Adams shot of Batman bounding along the beach (I believe he's fighting the Joker and it's the one where he faces a shark, too) that got the BP treatment in the story. It's in Greatest Joker Stories if I am not mistaken.

I'm so glad I asked, people. I love questions that light up faces. The little kid in you should have the best time possible on IMWAN.

Strangely, the first comic Mom ever bought me was a Marvel Tales version of the issue of Spider-Man that came out the week I was born!

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Beachy wrote:
Godzilla surely kicked Devil Dinosaur's butt, right?


In a novel twist, they stopped fighting each other and turned on the bad guys :wink:


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I'm sure there were others, but this is the one I remember.

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I think it was this one, when I was about eleven years old, which I got with my pocket money. The Wendigo became a life-long preoccupation of mine (he was like bigfoot crossed with a werewolf, which was fine with me). Sasquatch was cool, and the Hulk was all intelligent, but really mean, and he'd just returned to Earth from a planet of talking cyborg animals - it completely bowled me over. Plus, the Wendigo's origin story was as creepy as hell. There was a lot going on in this comic.

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