Books that meant something to you and you had to search for a little extra.

I'll start. Living in Sweden it was very hard to find american comic books during the beginning of the 80's. But in central Linköping there was a small tobacco shop. They sometimes had Superman and DC Comics Presents! Those were my first american comic books. I was especially delighted with DCCP, since it featured a guest hero. I thought the more heroes, the better.

I can still remember cycling with my brother to the nearest town (Otford, Kent UK), only to discover a newsagents who stocked Marvel comics. Distribution was spotty to say the least, so there was no guarantee that you could get what you wanted on a regular basis. I often wonder if there was some other kid that was getting there after me, wondering why there was never an FF, DD, Alpha Flight or Iron Man on the shelf.

So that was the newsagent side of things. True joy was finding a stack of older comics at a jumble sale (that someone's mum had no doubt decided to throw out)!

Ahh the memories!