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79987 Posts
18 years, 2 months ago
I started collecting comics when they were 25 cents. Now they are $2.99-$3.99 each (GULP) and I buy them at specialty stores...when I was a kid, my mom would give me 10 bucks and I could buy 20-30 books with that at the corner drug store and/or B. Dalton book store at the shopping mall...I was in kid heaven....inflation sux!
I used to buy some comics from the newstand, but I also got a lot of older comics from second-hand book stores and thrift stores. Obviously, this was when people still saw comics as disposable, before they decided that anything with 32 pages was instantly worth a million dollars.
Now I get all of my back issues from eBay, and new comics from my local comics store (Comics 'R' Us :lol:)
Now I get all of my back issues from eBay, and new comics from my local comics store (Comics 'R' Us :lol:)
The 7-11 that used to be by me had a whole one side of an aisle dedicated to comics (the other being magazines, sports papers, newspapers and the like)
I used to get all the old Spiderman comics, I still have most of them.
I used to get all the old Spiderman comics, I still have most of them.
I got all my Moon Knight comics from a nearby gas station. Good stuff, all the kids in my neighborhood loved to read them.
VIDEO_JIMBO
I started collecting comics when they were 25 cents. Now they are $2.99-$3.99 each (GULP) and I buy them at specialty stores...when I was a kid, my mom would give me 10 bucks and I could buy 20-30 books with that at the corner drug store and/or B. Dalton book store at the shopping mall...I was in kid heaven....inflation sux!
1st off, awesome. thats back when the price was right and the stories/art we sweet.
2nd off, prior to the early 1990s meltdown of talent and books, i too bought mine at the corner drugstore/grocery store.
now, i dont buy them at all. only as a TPB, or graphic novel for those uninformed. why? well, i have no need to buy them in any other form and in the long run, it saves me money as there is no longer a need to save them. so, unless we have another war , where we need to conserve or what ever...and comics AGAIN become a issue of being rare...well...
blackcat_0_1
The 7-11 that used to be by me had a whole one side of an aisle dedicated to comics (the other being magazines, sports papers, newspapers and the like)
I used to get all the old Spiderman comics, I still have most of them.
again, awesome.. i miss the old 7-11s. ...it genreally sucks eggs that they dont have them hardly anywhere. i always could find them there to... forgot about good old 7-11.
DrkKnyt911
91 Posts
18 years, 2 months ago
1984megadeath
blackcat_0_1The 7-11 that used to be by me had a whole one side of an aisle dedicated to comics (the other being magazines, sports papers, newspapers and the like)
I used to get all the old Spiderman comics, I still have most of them.
again, awesome.. i miss the old 7-11s. ...it genreally sucks eggs that they dont have them hardly anywhere. i always could find them there to... forgot about good old 7-11.
I was in Orlando a couple of months ago and 7-11's were everywhere dwon there.
Wal mart, kmart and target used to have them where I live back in the 90's. Now, in the 2000's, there aren't any new comics in these stores save for a few collected sets of comic in book form at target. Now the only way I could get any new issues in my area would have to be at the specialty stores.
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System
79987 Posts
18 years, 2 months ago
I am constantly amazed...blown away actually...at how many comics and TPBs are being published now and how anybody but a very very rich person can keep up with all of them...this civil war thing with Marvel...it is one of the most complicated crossovers ever....i am convinced that 80% of the comics out there are not for kids anymore...how could they be? Kids can't afford them...the thing that kills me is that when I was a kid the comics were 25-50 cents and took me 10-20 min. to read...now many comics cost $3-$4 and take about 3 min. to read....i could go on 4ever about this stuff...
The comics companies have realized that all the kids have their noses so far up the asses of power rangers, yu-gi-oh, pokemon, naruto and other anime imports that DC, Marvel and every company now gears all of their comics towards the old school adult fans. Look at the way super heroines dress now. Those aren't meant for the kiddies. I don't mind how super heroines dress and encourage them to dress as scantily as possible. *drools*
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