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Post by The Gangsta on Nov 8, 2014 9:55:25 GMT -5
So, yesterday, I found out that my uncles were really into comic books during the Golden Age. In fact, when I showed her a couple of the issue covers (she has photographic memory), she point out the exact ones her brothers had. So, I eventually came down to the first issues of Superman and Batman. She recounted actually reading them as a kid, saying in Action Comics #1, Superman lifted a green car off his Earth father, Jonathan Kent. She also recounted the Detective Comics #27 story plot. I then proceeded to ask her whether is was a reprint or not since she had a vast knowledge of these comics. She said no because her father, as a teen, bought them to look at them and had kept them ever since. That sparked me to ask her whether it is in our house and she said probably not. She then said her mother probably threw them out after they went out in the working field.
Thought it was a pretty good story. My grandfather was also an artist so there are paintings of the comic book covers, very accurately, in my attic. I just found them today and looked at how could my grandmother throw away something as good as that?! Haha, well, do any of you have a story of your own about your childhood and rare comics?
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Post by garbagemon on Jul 12, 2016 1:52:44 GMT -5
As for rare, I can't speak much to that. However, when I was a kid, we had a little book shop on a corner of a coupe of main roads called the Bookery. The owner kept piles of Marvel and DC comics in a corner, where kids could sort through the piles and pick out issues for a fraction of their original cover prices. I remember getting a lot of Spider Man and some Fantastic Four at that point. It wouldn't be until later that I would appreciate books like Captain America and She Hulk, or the offbeat adventures of Red Sonja. I never got any of the Conan magazines he had, since I was young, and the stories seemed a bit gory. Nowadays, I wish I'd gotten a few, just because they're classics. As a nice twist, many years after that store has gone, there's now a gaming store there, with comic bins you can sort through, and find some random reads for $1-$2 each. Not quite as cheap as when I was a kid, but hey, at least they had some more old Red Sonja for a good deal.
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Post by bad guy™ on Jul 12, 2016 9:01:58 GMT -5
Please don't bump old posts. Thanks.
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