Why not? I was a collector even when buying from drug stores and convenience store. I showed on new comic day and hovered like a vulture till some clerk put out the new comics. ( not always their top priority). Didn't see a Comic shop till 1977.
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US $1.00
But I was amazed going through the back issues, and discount bins seeing how quickly things went from 25 cents to a dollar.
http://www.comichron.com/vitalstatistics/mediancoverprices.html
Prices in New Zealand, where I am, back then was US price multiplied by 3.
But I was amazed going through the back issues, and discount bins seeing how quickly things went from 25 cents to a dollar.
http://www.comichron.com/vitalstatistics/mediancoverprices.html
Prices in New Zealand, where I am, back then was US price multiplied by 3.
That would be interesting.
It's more about being too young to look after the books, and only being able to buy comics by chance, during an amazing confluence of events that mum is willing to hand over a couple dollars for no good reason, when you both happen to be in the store, and that the books you want are actually there.
I don't think I received an actual allowance until I was 11, which was after I discovered speciality shops and was willing to spend 1/2 an hour on the bus each way, to do what was needed to be done to keep the monkey on my back happy.
Although if you are an Adult, arrangements can be made to make a convenience store (We call them dairies. Plural of dairy. As in milk.) perfectly usable. You explain to Mr. Hooper what the titles of the books are that you want every month, and that you will be very put out if expectations are not complied with to the letter. A child however, usually bashful around authority figures, in the same situation would get the short end of the stick constantly and might need to use more than 5 stores to ensure a seamless collection, if that is, that their parents will let them roam so far from home unescorted.
But still, whether you're a kid or an adult that's a shop keeper who you need to form a professional relationship with before they will give a shit about nickels and dimes if you want to secure a constant uninterrupted supply of four colour funnies.
Never cut any deals. I just showed up on the day the books arrived. They carried everything. I used my allowance and lunch money for comics. You can have milk for lunch four days a week and live.
Depends on which version of Power Girl they use. Back in the 70s, PG was a little younger than Supergirl, who was already in College and might have even graduated.
In the late 80s, Kara was an Atlantean Sorceress who had been in stasis for 20,000 years.
The real difference in our stories is how many titles were being printed.
The radical increase in Volume.
Marvel + DC combined in the 60s was less than 40 titles a year.
That's one or two books a week, if you got everything.
These days there's at bare minimum 10 books a week I medically need to read, several books I will read because they're there, ad then there are surprises I didn't know I wanted to read because I haven't picked up a previews in about 5 years.
The real difference in our stories is how many titles were being printed.
The radical increase in Volume.
Marvel + DC combined in the 60s was less than 40 titles a year.
That's one or two books a week, if you got everything.
These days there's at bare minimum 10 books a week I medically need to read, several books I will read because they're there, ad then there are surprises I didn't know I wanted to read because I haven't picked up a previews in about 5 years.
Right. It has always been thus. The Superman comics of the late '30s and early '40s drew the characters of Jimmy Olsen and Perry White from the radio series, but made Jimmy red-haired instead of blond, and did not adopt the pre-WWII radio series' portrayal of Superman as a clandestine hero whose existence was an urban myth, instead showing him as a quite public and famous figure from the start. They also drew the name Daily Planet from the newspaper comic strips; Clark's employer had originally been the Daily Star, but there were too many real newspapers by that name, many of them competitors of the newspapers that syndicated the strip. So even very early Superman stories drew influences from multiple alternative continuities.
Heck, look at the first FLASH tv series back in the nineties. That show debuted years after "Crisis on Infinite Earths," but it's not like the TV had to bog itself down with lots of complicated backstory involving Jay Garrick, Wally West, the heroic death of Barry Allen, etc. They just stuck to the basic premise of a guy in a red costume who is The Fastest Man on Earth.
Nobody cared if it was "pre-Crisis" or "post-Crisis" Flash . . .
Right -- and they gave Barry elements of Wally's character, like Tina McGee as a colleague/love interest and a need to eat heavily and frequently to feed his metabolism.
Not to mention all the Marvel movies that have blended elements from the classic and Ultimate universes, the animated series that have drawn on elements from different decades, etc. Batman: The Animated Series, for instance, was an amalgam of concepts, characters, and storylines from the '70s through the '90s, both pre- and post-Crisis (and occasionally the '60s with the reimagining of characters like Mr. Freeze and Clayface), plus the occasional element drawn from the Burton movies, and plenty of its own original ideas.
Ditto for the X-Men movies and animated series, which didn't feel obliged to start with the original crew in their original blue-and-yellow uniforms, but cherry-picked characters and concepts from umpteen years of comic-book continuity: Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, etc.
So the various comic-book reboots just give Hollywood more material to draw upon, they don't hurt the movies or TV shows in any way. (Says the guy who has novelized at least a couple of DC Crises . . .
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Worst post Crisis retcon ever! Words fail to describe how much it truly sucked.
My prime buying days were the 70s and 80s. In the 60s I was just a very young kid (under the age of 10) grabbing what ever caught his eye. Still I think DC has a lot of books out then. Looking at 1966:
Superman (7)
Superman
Action
Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen
Adventure
World's Finest
Superboy
Batman (3))
Batman
Detective
The Brave and the Bold
JLA (8)
Justice League of America
Green Lantern
Flash
Hawkman
Atom
Aquaman
Teen Titans
Wonder Woman
Super hero (6)
Doom Patrol
Showcase
Blackhawk
Challengers of the Unknown
Metamorpho
Metal Men
Romance (6)
Falling in Love
Girl's Love Story
Heart Throbs
Secret Hearts
Young Love
Young Romance
War/Western (7)
All American Men of War
Captain Storm
GI Combat
Our Army At War
Our Fighting Forces
Star Spangled War Stories
Tomahawk
Anthology (5)
House of Mystery
House of Secrets
Mystery In Space
Strange Adventures
Tales of the Unexpected
Humor (6)
The Adventures of Bob Hope
The Adventures of Jerry Lewis
Fox and Crow
Swing With Scooter
Sugar and Spike
That's 48 titles being published by DC alone. Not all were monthlies though. Plus variety.
Well, I wasn't counting war, humour, anthology, romance or western because that guff is for lining litter boxes.
I'm assuming that there would have been trouble from your less enlightened peers, if you were caught reading an issue of Girl's Love Story at school, even though once you were older you would have bought similar books for your girlfriend so that she couldn't make fun of you for reading comic books, or suggest that the money should be put towards buying a new third hand car, if she was also reading comic books?
(I've never understood bulling. It must be exhausting. I mean sure taking the smaller kids lunch money. That's a business. But emotional terrorism for no financial profit. Am I supposed to believe that these people get off on tears? It's just weird and almost certainly psychosexually homoerotic.)
Which brings us down to 24.
Meanwhile the 6 books in the super hero section... Look like circling the drain cancel bait, and some of them (Doom Patrol!) have been cancelled and reborn 10 times each since I was born. Why would anyone buy something that's almost certainly going to be cancelled in 6 months? (Yes, I know, we all do it. How many times can we place faith in Hawkman to carry a title? He's dead again by the way, in Justice League United, but I'm not sure if it will stick. Fingers crossed! Although, I have seen Challengers and Doom Patrol, black and white, news print, essential-collections at the library that you could choke a donkey with, so they must have been popular at some point.)
So that's 18.
Shouldn't Blackhawk be in war?
Maybe I should have said less than 40 books (DC + Marvel) about capes, but that would mean that I think about non cape books at all. Horror Comics just leave me cold. I don't see the point. The book starts with an idiot being an idiot who doesn't believe in monsters, and then at the end he's eaten by a monster. YAWN! And then there's no possibility of a sequel because all the humans are dead, or the monster is dead... Eddie Murphy has a bit about Casper the friendly Ghost. No matter how many friends Casper makes, next week at the beginning of his new cartoon he's back to being crying and mopy about having no friends. Exactly what sort of weird shit is Casper into, that he can't keep a friend for longer than a week?
So the moral to this story is that there are comics being made and sold that are not about about capes invisibly under my nose all the time, that are probably making DC, Marvel and the small press lots and lots of money.
I'm assuming that there would have been trouble from your less enlightened peers, if you were caught reading an issue of Girl's Love Story at school, even though once you were older you would have bought similar books for your girlfriend so that she couldn't make fun of you for reading comic books, or suggest that the money should be put towards buying a new third hand car, if she was also reading comic books?
(I've never understood bulling. It must be exhausting. I mean sure taking the smaller kids lunch money. That's a business. But emotional terrorism for no financial profit. Am I supposed to believe that these people get off on tears? It's just weird and almost certainly psychosexually homoerotic.)
Which brings us down to 24.
Meanwhile the 6 books in the super hero section... Look like circling the drain cancel bait, and some of them (Doom Patrol!) have been cancelled and reborn 10 times each since I was born. Why would anyone buy something that's almost certainly going to be cancelled in 6 months? (Yes, I know, we all do it. How many times can we place faith in Hawkman to carry a title? He's dead again by the way, in Justice League United, but I'm not sure if it will stick. Fingers crossed! Although, I have seen Challengers and Doom Patrol, black and white, news print, essential-collections at the library that you could choke a donkey with, so they must have been popular at some point.)
So that's 18.
Shouldn't Blackhawk be in war?
Maybe I should have said less than 40 books (DC + Marvel) about capes, but that would mean that I think about non cape books at all. Horror Comics just leave me cold. I don't see the point. The book starts with an idiot being an idiot who doesn't believe in monsters, and then at the end he's eaten by a monster. YAWN! And then there's no possibility of a sequel because all the humans are dead, or the monster is dead... Eddie Murphy has a bit about Casper the friendly Ghost. No matter how many friends Casper makes, next week at the beginning of his new cartoon he's back to being crying and mopy about having no friends. Exactly what sort of weird shit is Casper into, that he can't keep a friend for longer than a week?
So the moral to this story is that there are comics being made and sold that are not about about capes invisibly under my nose all the time, that are probably making DC, Marvel and the small press lots and lots of money.
Don't see why you would discount non-cape titles. A book's a book. It took up a slot in the publishing schedule. Marvel was publishing non capes as well. I bought westerns, horror, SF and war books. Tarzan and Kamandi were a couple of faves. Never did romance though. The only girlfriend I had that was even slightly interested in comics didn't read them either. She was into superheroes. The rest just put up with it.
Some of those non cape titles went for over a 100 issues. Better that many of the cape books. So yeah, there was a market.
The Blackhawks stopped being a war title after WWII. Going for SF, espionage and even superhero type stories. They even went full on superhero for a couple of years in the sixties.
Some of those non cape titles went for over a 100 issues. Better that many of the cape books. So yeah, there was a market.
The Blackhawks stopped being a war title after WWII. Going for SF, espionage and even superhero type stories. They even went full on superhero for a couple of years in the sixties.
My comic-book reading hit a sea change somewhere around age 12 or so. Before that, I made no effort to follow any particular series, month after month. If I had a quarter or two burning a hole in my pocket, I would buy whatever comic on the rack happened to catch my eye, depending on the cover. "Ooh, that Scarecrow guy looks scary! Guess I'll pick up this BATMAN comic and maybe a Three Musketeers bar."
At the time, I mostly preferred DC because there would be a complete story (or two) in each issue and not lots of boring soap opera stuff, whereas if I made the mistake of picking up a random issue of IRON MAN or DAREDEVIL I was likely to find myself in the middle of some ongoing story line that left me scratching my head.
But then, as I hit my teens, I got hooked on THE AVENGERS and THOR--to the extent that I was deliberately making a point to pick up each new issue as it came out. (This was around time of the first Kree-Skrull War.) Meanwhile, now that I was actually following the continuing stories, I outgrew DC's simpler fare and switched almost entirely to Marvel, so that I was a hardcore Marvel fan through most of my teens.
It wasn't until college, when the Marv Wolfman/George Perez TEEN TITANS debuted, that I was curious enough to start checking out DC again. And then "Crisis on Infinite Earths" shook everything up and DC got a lot more interesting to me . . . .
At the time, I mostly preferred DC because there would be a complete story (or two) in each issue and not lots of boring soap opera stuff, whereas if I made the mistake of picking up a random issue of IRON MAN or DAREDEVIL I was likely to find myself in the middle of some ongoing story line that left me scratching my head.
But then, as I hit my teens, I got hooked on THE AVENGERS and THOR--to the extent that I was deliberately making a point to pick up each new issue as it came out. (This was around time of the first Kree-Skrull War.) Meanwhile, now that I was actually following the continuing stories, I outgrew DC's simpler fare and switched almost entirely to Marvel, so that I was a hardcore Marvel fan through most of my teens.
It wasn't until college, when the Marv Wolfman/George Perez TEEN TITANS debuted, that I was curious enough to start checking out DC again. And then "Crisis on Infinite Earths" shook everything up and DC got a lot more interesting to me . . . .
Because I'm a snob.
I had one girlfriend who loved Preacher, and another one who briefly liked those European porno GNs, the rest sort of tolerated it from a distance.
Oh! lets not forget the girl with black nail polish who thought that I wouldn't come over to her place to get my Sandman comics just because we broke up.
My lending practices "changed" after that.
But I want to borrow, so I have to lend, other wise I'm a hypocrite.
(Or at least that was the thinking years ago when I had many close friends with comics.)
My problem now is that I have an 11 year old niece who has read all her fathers comics, and now it seems reasonable that she should, since she is family, read mine by the box.
Box after box after box.
(Or at least that was the thinking years ago when I had many close friends with comics.)
My problem now is that I have an 11 year old niece who has read all her fathers comics, and now it seems reasonable that she should, since she is family, read mine by the box.
Box after box after box.
Do they make clean suits that will fit an 11 yer old? Don't let her take them out of the hermetically sealed vault.
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