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joehonkie
Jan 12, 2006

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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:

In the early '80s, when I was first learning to read, my dad used to bring me home boxes full of comics from used bookstores he would frequent, constantly trading in Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force novels and gun magazines for them. Most of them were Richie Rich at first, along with pocket-sized collections of Peanuts comic strips checked out from the public library.

My first "real" comic was Transformers #5 with the classic "The Transformers ARE ALL DEAD" cover with Shockwave on it. Purchased from a spinner rack at a Miami newsstand called The Front Page, which has been closed for over 30 years.

Yeah, that Transformers with the best cover ever and an Iron Man with (I think) Rhodes acting as Iron Man that I got the same day are the first I really remember being "mine." But I had a sister who was way into comics and those came out was when I was like 9, so I surely had more before then.

I definitely had the comics you got at school with toothbrushes when they taught you about dental hygiene, and the Radio Shack ones where kids saved the world by programming stuff on their trash-80s. And of course I also had the one where Spider-Man recounts being molested by his babysitter. I'm not sure I'd count such freebies.

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joehonkie
Jan 12, 2006

I'm a member of STARS.

Lurdiak posted:

Where's my pro wrestling superhero universe.

That's Imagine Stan Lee Created Batman. And none of the rest of the Imagine Stan Lee Created The DC Universe. Unsurprisingly it's the only good one.

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