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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 12:20:21 GMT
Thinking more of the bronze period and before. Have any full runs? Any key issues? Focus on any particular characters/titles/publishers?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 12:34:09 GMT
Used to, not anymore. Every once in a great while I'll poke around my collection and fill in some holes here and there. Major focus on Avengers, Defenders and GI Joe, but a ton of Marvel titles from the late 80s-early 90s. The majority of the back issues from before that time are X-Men, Thor & Avengers (earliest issue is #24, not in great shape which probably explains how I could afford it as a kid). I recently came to the realization that we're farther away from the time I started reading/collecting superhero comics than Avengers #24 was to me when I bought it as a back issue in 1989. Mind blown.
But yeah I have a ton of Avengers comics from the entire run up to around the year 1993, and every Defenders issue from #122 to the end of the title at #152. That was a hell of a run, and featured some incredible cover art as well. I read GI Joe comics for years before I segued into superhero comics, and I continued reading GI Joe until I stopped reading comics on a regular basis, again probably somewhere around 1993ish.
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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 12:54:23 GMT
Used to, not anymore. Every once in a great while I'll poke around my collection and fill in some holes here and there. Major focus on Avengers, Defenders and GI Joe, but a ton of Marvel titles from the late 80s-early 90s. The majority of the back issues from before that time are X-Men, Thor & Avengers (earliest issue is #24, not in great shape which probably explains how I could afford it as a kid). I recently came to the realization that we're farther away from the time I started reading/collecting superhero comics than Avengers #24 was to me when I bought it as a back issue in 1989. Mind blown. But yeah I have a ton of Avengers comics from the entire run up to around the year 1993, and every Defenders issue from #122 to the end of the title at #152. That was a hell of a run, and featured some incredible cover art as well. I read GI Joe comics for years before I segued into superhero comics, and I continued reading GI Joe until I stopped reading comics on a regular basis, again probably somewhere around 1993ish. My collection also seems to focus mainly on Marvel (about 5,000 of the 11,000 I have). Full runs of Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two In One, Luke Cage, The Invaders and a few others. Some pretty hefty chunks of The Avengers, X-Men and especially Daredevil (about 90% of the first 500)
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 13:03:48 GMT
Used to, not anymore. Every once in a great while I'll poke around my collection and fill in some holes here and there. Major focus on Avengers, Defenders and GI Joe, but a ton of Marvel titles from the late 80s-early 90s. The majority of the back issues from before that time are X-Men, Thor & Avengers (earliest issue is #24, not in great shape which probably explains how I could afford it as a kid). I recently came to the realization that we're farther away from the time I started reading/collecting superhero comics than Avengers #24 was to me when I bought it as a back issue in 1989. Mind blown. But yeah I have a ton of Avengers comics from the entire run up to around the year 1993, and every Defenders issue from #122 to the end of the title at #152. That was a hell of a run, and featured some incredible cover art as well. I read GI Joe comics for years before I segued into superhero comics, and I continued reading GI Joe until I stopped reading comics on a regular basis, again probably somewhere around 1993ish. My collection also seems to focus mainly on Marvel (about 5,000 of the 11,000 I have). Full runs of Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two In One, Luke Cage, The Invaders and a few others. Some pretty hefty chunks of The Avengers, X-Men and especially Daredevil (about 90% of the first 500) Daredevil was consistently one of the best comics out there for my money, at least during the time I was an active comic reader. Did you ever read Marvel Comics Presents? It had some fun one-off stories or continuing stories featuring characters who couldn't carry their own title. It's fun to read through the history of Avengers comics to see how the writing has changed over time. Comics are always going to be criticized as not being real literature, but there's a big difference between the way those stories are written in the 60s as compared to the 80s, or the 80s as compared to today. It's sad that comic shops are an endangered species (the local shop went out of business a couple years ago). But as a collector I guess the upside is the internet makes literally anything available to you at any time.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 18, 2019 13:12:03 GMT
I collect Graphic Novels. Currently working on collecting all the available Walking Dead volumes.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 13:14:42 GMT
I collect Graphic Novels. Currently working on collecting all the available Walking Dead volumes. NERD!
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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 13:19:23 GMT
My collection also seems to focus mainly on Marvel (about 5,000 of the 11,000 I have). Full runs of Marvel Team Up, Marvel Two In One, Luke Cage, The Invaders and a few others. Some pretty hefty chunks of The Avengers, X-Men and especially Daredevil (about 90% of the first 500) Daredevil was consistently one of the best comics out there for my money, at least during the time I was an active comic reader. The Frank Miller period of Daredevil was pretty exceptional That's the one with the early GOTG stories right? I have the first 12 or so issues. Marvel Spotlight and Marvel Premiere were very similar as well. (just looked them up..GOTG were in Marvel Presents..the Marvel Comics Presents came a bit later) Some don't stand up to well now. They were still head and shoulders over DC though. The writing on a lot of their titles in the 60s and some of the 70s were terrible by comparison. Highly entertaining though I'm in Central London so in walking distance of at least 3 comic stores, but only 1 has a decent back issue collection, and it is less stores than say 10 years ago. I usually find my old copies at car boot sales. Have picked up some real treasures at bargain prices. Don't really shop for them online, but have sold plenty of doubles online in the past.
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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 13:23:42 GMT
I collect Graphic Novels. Currently working on collecting all the available Walking Dead volumes. Been buying Walking Dead since issue #1, so am in the groove as it were of getting a new issue every few weeks. If I was catching up I certainly would have bought the Trades instead.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 13:38:24 GMT
There was a title called Solo Avengers that eventually became Avengers Spotlight. It was a similar vehicle for Avengers not popular enough to carry their own title. There was also a title called Classic X-Men, which was just reprints of earlier X-Men comics, but they would also throw in separate new one-off stories at the end. Kind of like the 'Marvel Tales featuring Spider-Man.' Yeah comics from the 60s are unreadable now, but it's still interesting to see how far they've come. I bought a few comics in a comic shop in Chicago recently, basically just because it was fun to be in a comic shop. I live in the middle of nowhere so when the local shop goes out of business, it's a bit of a trek to find the next one. Good on you for supporting your local stores.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Mar 18, 2019 14:14:48 GMT
I buy and read physical comics from Marvel, DC, Image (and a handful of smaller indie publishers) but, I no longer collect comic books. That is to say, every quarter I give away all of the books I've acquired during that period to a local charity. On occasion, I will filch an issue or two that I thought was exceptional. I don't and never have seriously engaged in speculation, so I never keep comics for their potential "value."
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Post by Lord Death Man on Mar 18, 2019 14:24:21 GMT
There was a title called Solo Avengers that eventually became Avengers Spotlight. It was a similar vehicle for Avengers not popular enough to carry their own title. There was also a title called Classic X-Men, which was just reprints of earlier X-Men comics, but they would also throw in separate new one-off stories at the end. Kind of like the 'Marvel Tales featuring Spider-Man.' Yeah comics from the 60s are unreadable now, but it's still interesting to see how far they've come. I bought a few comics in a comic shop in Chicago recently, basically just because it was fun to be in a comic shop. I live in the middle of nowhere so when the local shop goes out of business, it's a bit of a trek to find the next one. Good on you for supporting your local stores. X-Men Classics (as I believe it was originally titled) was my introduction to the All New, All Different era of the X-Men (as I was not alive when those stories were originally published). The backup stories are seriously underrated (especially John Bolton's artwork).
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 14:31:20 GMT
There was a title called Solo Avengers that eventually became Avengers Spotlight. It was a similar vehicle for Avengers not popular enough to carry their own title. There was also a title called Classic X-Men, which was just reprints of earlier X-Men comics, but they would also throw in separate new one-off stories at the end. Kind of like the 'Marvel Tales featuring Spider-Man.' Yeah comics from the 60s are unreadable now, but it's still interesting to see how far they've come. I bought a few comics in a comic shop in Chicago recently, basically just because it was fun to be in a comic shop. I live in the middle of nowhere so when the local shop goes out of business, it's a bit of a trek to find the next one. Good on you for supporting your local stores. X-Men Classics (as I believe it was originally titled) was my introduction to the All New, All Different era of the X-Men (as I was not alive when those stories were originally published). The backup stories are seriously underrated (especially John Bolton's artwork). Yeah I really dug some of those one-offs. It was a great way to showcase characters and give writers the opportunity to tell smaller, more personal stories. Not everything has to be on an epic scale.
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Post by cwsims on Mar 18, 2019 14:49:07 GMT
I don't read them or collect them i just read info about them on wikipedia
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Post by Lord Death Man on Mar 18, 2019 14:57:53 GMT
X-Men Classics (as I believe it was originally titled) was my introduction to the All New, All Different era of the X-Men (as I was not alive when those stories were originally published). The backup stories are seriously underrated (especially John Bolton's artwork). Yeah I really dug some of those one-offs. It was a great way to showcase characters and give writers the opportunity to tell smaller, more personal stories. Not everything has to be on an epic scale. Agreed, I wished they would have continued with the concept of canonical stories set in-between significant events that helped further define the characters and potentially fill in gaps in story information. I really loved the small-scale intimate feel of those stories.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 18, 2019 15:45:47 GMT
Yes. I collected as many Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men comics as I could get my hands on as a kid. When the Ultimate line started, I hopped onboard a few months in and bought Ultimate Spider-Man for pretty much its entire run, along with a bunch of shit off and on over the years: Batman, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Runaways, Ultimate X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Saga, and a bunch more I'm prolly forgetting.
The only thing I still read currently is Saga, and for that I just buy the trades when they come out. I stopped buying floppies altogether and downsized my collection a few years back, when Marvel ended the Ultimate universe.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 18, 2019 16:33:02 GMT
Yes. I collected as many Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men comics as I could get my hands on as a kid. When the Ultimate line started, I hopped onboard a few months in and bought Ultimate Spider-Man for pretty much its entire run, along with a bunch of shit off and on over the years: Batman, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Runaways, Ultimate X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Saga, and a bunch more I'm prolly forgetting. The only thing I still read currently is Saga, and for that I just buy the trades when they come out. I stopped buying floppies altogether and downsized my collection a few years back, when Marvel ended the Ultimate universe. I still buy trades every once in a while, to get a feel for what's going on in the comics. I can't imagine anyone buys physical comics on a monthly basis for reasons other than collecting. As an adult it's going to take what, 3 minutes to read? It would be like reading three pages of a book once every month, it isn't worth the time let alone the price tag.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 18, 2019 16:52:17 GMT
Yes. I collected as many Batman, Spider-Man, and X-Men comics as I could get my hands on as a kid. When the Ultimate line started, I hopped onboard a few months in and bought Ultimate Spider-Man for pretty much its entire run, along with a bunch of shit off and on over the years: Batman, Uncanny X-Men, Daredevil, Runaways, Ultimate X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Saga, and a bunch more I'm prolly forgetting. The only thing I still read currently is Saga, and for that I just buy the trades when they come out. I stopped buying floppies altogether and downsized my collection a few years back, when Marvel ended the Ultimate universe. I still buy trades every once in a while, to get a feel for what's going on in the comics. I can't imagine anyone buys physical comics on a monthly basis for reasons other than collecting. As an adult it's going to take what, 3 minutes to read? It would be like reading three pages of a book once every month, it isn't worth the time let alone the price tag. The comics place in my city at the time was in the same building as a killer pizza place, so I would hit the pizza place and put and an order in, then hit the comic shop and pay for all my pulled books after a quick sweep of the new Marvel and DC stuff, then grab my steaming hot personal pie, and head back to my car, where I would ravenously consume the new Ultimate Spider-Man issue while waiting for the pizza to cool and, finally, enjoyed the pizza while contemplating the issue. The others I'd usually read later that night, along with the issues from the prior month. I prolly read each issue about three to six times before it was "archived."
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Mar 18, 2019 17:32:40 GMT
Thinking more of the bronze period and before. Have any full runs? Any key issues? Focus on any particular characters/titles/publishers? I do. What dates do you consider the Bronze era?
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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 18:16:34 GMT
Thinking more of the bronze period and before. Have any full runs? Any key issues? Focus on any particular characters/titles/publishers? I do. What dates do you consider the Bronze era?
70s up to probably mid 80s
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Post by sostie on Mar 18, 2019 18:19:02 GMT
The only thing I still read currently is Saga, and for that I just buy the trades when they come out. I stopped buying floppies altogether and downsized my collection a few years back, when Marvel ended the Ultimate universe. I'm still buying Saga but well behind on the reading. The first 20 or so issues that I have read were great
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