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David Schimmel
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Family Pharmacy, Sarasota, FL - 1975 (it's still there today!)!
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Chris Yeoman
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My Dad collected comics, so I read his books when I was about 11, then started my own.
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John Wilcox
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Tough to nail down. I recall vividly reading an issue of Marvel's Greatest Comics in a barber shop. However, at that same time I read, or looked at, comics my brother & oldest sister had. I started buying around '68 - mostly Marvel, but the odd DC, Archie & Harvey in there as well. Oh, and those teeny Marvel comics in the plastic eggs in a quarter vending machine.
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Jon Juzan
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THe X Men confused the HECK out of me at the time...cause the Beast was...Hairy AND Smooth (in the reprints), and ...they kept switching costumes on them! Often using the ORIGINAL Blue & Yellow ones...
e.g. the used the "Newer" ones in Avengers #110-111, the "Older" in Capt Amer #172-175 & Hulk #172 and almost NONE AT ALL(!) in MTU #4
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<sigh> And I was SO looking forward to an explanation for it all in X:HY.
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Darren De Vouge
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Nova Bookshop 1201 Cresent St. , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and back in 1979 was when and where I started collecting seriously.
Regretfully, the building burned down in 1995, but not before Nova had moved elsewhere though.
I started reading comics some years before that though, mostly these
were bought by my older brother and sister and read on vacation car
trips and such. Superman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Archie, and Richie Rich were common fare even then.
Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America and the little pocket book
reprints of early Marvel were among the things I started buying on my
own.
The first series, I collected regularly was All-Star Squadron.
Edited by Darren De Vouge on 10 January 2006 at 5:21pm
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Luca Too
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Late Sixties' M*****'s - I remember well the splash page from the first Neal Adams X-Men, Sal Buscema's Avengers (Kang & Scorpio) and John Buscema's Silver Surfer (Abomination & Spider-Man). Not a bad start..!
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John Price
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My older brother was a huge comic book fan, he collected X-Men, Fantastic Four, Justice League of America etc. (This was around 1964) So I have no idea what the first comic I read was but he says I used to nag him to read them to me before I myself could read. So for me it's been a lifelong love.
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Casey Sager
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I got started at my local 7-11 which in turn led me to my first comicbook store for back issues.
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Simon Abbey
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Here's a very likely candidate, a few years before I spun the racks there:
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Jacob P Secrest
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October or November 2004, bought from Things from Another World, made my first purchase
of a monthly book on a series I continued reading on December 26, 2004,
I bought issues 5 and 6 of Doom Patrol, bought from The Laughing Ogre in Columbus, Ohio.
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Darren Ashmore
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Started out with the Beano & Dandy from a very young age (my brother is 8 yrs older than me and was onto Valiant and Lion at this point). Then Uncle Stan Lee brought out his UK reprint title Mighty world of Marvel in 72, which got us both interested. It would be 73 when I got my first US comicwhich was Justice League of America 106 (featuring the dramatic return of Red Tornado, no less) from Hibberts newagents (not there anymore sadly) from a old spinner rack, and I would be around 7yrs old at this point. I later learned my Bother also read US comics when he was younger such as the late sixties Flash, Green Lantern and JLA. Still continued with the UK Marvels, and remeber getting very confused when I saw the US editions (which were maybe, 10 yrs ahead continuity wise from the B&W reprints). Still have very fond memories of the secondhand book stall in Sheffield, which sold secondhand comics, particularly siver age stuff, so I found out an awful lot, history wise quite quickly. First US Marvels were Captain America 176-180 which were at the secondhand stall. Ah... the nostalgia of it!
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Ron De Marco
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I bought this issue from a mini mart at the corner of Schaefer and Gould in
Dearborn, MI.
A couple of friends whose older brothers collected comics told me of a
comic book store, Comics Plus (now Green Brain), where I went and bought
the rest of that series. An addiction was born.
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