And Adventure People. Anyone have any of those.

P.S. This thread is awesome.

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Plus back then we could take a "chance" on a new comic for the price.  Nowadays, it's too much out of my pocket. 

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I know, 4 bucks for a new title usually makes me think twice before getting it.

Anyway, my father had a nice collection of Conan the Barbarian so probably the first comics I ever read were the Roy Thomas - Barry Windsor Smith stories. And I loved them.

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I just recently read those Conan the Barbarian stories for the first time, Arc. They probably were too mature for me at the time, but reading them now as an adult, I thought they were fantastic. Pure pulp fantasy goodness, with swords 'n' sorcery, buxom wenches and scary monsters. That's some good readin'!

I hadn't been in a comic book store in years, really.  The last thing I bought in a comic book store was GENERATIONS (the first).  I gave up on comics around the time of Electric Superman -- though JB's departure from WW and JK4W broke my heart...

There's a comic book store near my new house that I stopped in to buy JB's ANGEL and did the stroll around, willing to buy anything that caught my eye -- the way books used to as a kid, jump off the shelves and beg to be read. 

But nothing did -- nothing!   Not even the SUPERMAN titles looked exciting. 

I was so depressed I came home and read a book.  A BOOK!

Comics used to be everywhere and you could buy three for $1.05.  And these were JB's X-Men.  Man, if I'd known then...

One time I was home sick and my mom, on her way out to the store, asked if I needed anything.  "Comic books!" I said, adding the exclamation point even though I felt like crap. "Superman!"

So she came back and tossed five comics to me.  "This was all they had," she said.  They were the first five issues of STAR WARS, drawn by Howard Chaykin.  I read those comics to TATTERS -- wish I had them now.

Most of them are tatters from multiple readings and a few even have fallen in the tub while I was reading them.

I remember Byrne wrote in one of his NEXT MEN essays that comics should fall apart from multiple readings, a transient experience that we remember more fondly than the issues themselves.  There were specific comics that I've hunted down that were "important" to me as a kid. 

In particular, there was an issue of SUPERBOY & LEGION that featured Ultra Boy (always a favorite) on the run from the law, after being framed for the death of his girlfriend, Ayn -- didn't get that reference as a kid.  I remember thinking the art was awesome in that ish.  About a decade ago, I found a copy quite by accident in the dollar bins someplace and the art horrified me -- the proportions were wrong, faces were terrible.  I remember thinking it was so dynamic as a kid, but as an adult...

The memory of that comic was WAY better than the comic.

But nothing did -- nothing!   Not even the SUPERMAN titles looked exciting. 

Try this one out for size Tom!  I think you might enjoy it.  Part of the best Superman run since JB's tenure in the 1980s (in my opinion of course)!

I hate comics that look they were just pulled off the press.  Gimme a comic with a loose cover, some dog ears, maybe a coke circle on the cover and yellowing pages.  Then I know its a good-un!

Is this first pages long comics discussion we've had in this thread?