tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post4698820403190605606..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: My Comic Book DNA, Part II: Buying Comics... IN SPACE!Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-15784059845139028782013-08-20T13:09:57.860-03:002013-08-20T13:09:57.860-03:00Ah, yeah, I have that too - I particularly enjoyed...Ah, yeah, I have that too - I particularly enjoyed the way they'd sneak in flashback/retcon panels from more current issues that fit in around the Silver Age stuff. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-33063837166761992732013-08-20T13:05:15.204-03:002013-08-20T13:05:15.204-03:00Yeah, I think I even have a full run of Marvel Sag...Yeah, I think I even have a full run of Marvel Saga, which was just a retelling of Silver Age Marvel Comics in text form with illustrative panels.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-71788276980501904052013-08-20T11:57:29.022-03:002013-08-20T11:57:29.022-03:00Those old Handbooks were instrumental in pulling m...Those old Handbooks were instrumental in pulling me further into comics as well. I didn't discover them until after I'd started reading some stuff (mainly X-books) regularly (lured to comics themselves from baseball cards via the Marvel Universe trading cards), but once I did, it was like a whole world (or, indeed, a universe) had opened up to me. <br /><br />It was tough to find a lot of those old stories back then, but the Handbooks were a perfectly acceptable substitute at the time, and were a perfect combination of the raw stats I liked in baseball cards and the more fleshed out narratives I loved in comics. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-41209240513958851342013-08-13T23:10:00.065-03:002013-08-13T23:10:00.065-03:00No easy comic book store access for me either. I ...No easy comic book store access for me either. I road around on my bike hitting up convenience store racks all over my side of town looking for various titles. It made a bit of an adventure out of collecting. Mostly Marvels. I think I started with the X-Men with the issue preceding your first. <br /><br />I also did an amateur audio version of a comic book, Phil Foglio's illustrated Myth Adventures.jdh417https://www.blogger.com/profile/14541882649762424101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-48598730444329998962013-08-13T10:58:16.084-03:002013-08-13T10:58:16.084-03:00All-Star Squadron, Secret Origins, Booster Gold, B...All-Star Squadron, Secret Origins, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Fury of Firestorm, the JLI family of books, Suicide Squad, Power of the Atom, Starman (Will Payton), Manhunter... just remembering more of the DC stuff I was reading in the 80s.<br /><br />And basically, if it was available at newsstands (no comic book shop), I probably had an issue or more.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-83552362112553304852013-08-13T10:52:58.944-03:002013-08-13T10:52:58.944-03:00I read books from both houses. In my teen years, I...I read books from both houses. In my teen years, I was reading Legion of Super-Heroes, New Teen Titans, and after the Crisis, all the Superman books. It was probably half and half by the time I left for college.<br /><br />A more complete conversion would come, but that's Part III's story (no spoilers!).Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-22570357263692905772013-08-13T10:44:55.571-03:002013-08-13T10:44:55.571-03:00It's interesting, I started reading comic book...It's interesting, I started reading comic books about the same time as you did. My first was Uncanny X-Men 197 but I quickly went back and found a bunch of the older ones. Branched out into other Marvel titles. Like so many others, I burned out in the early 90's. <br />I'm curious, what moved you from Marvel to DC?Pederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979481342103258777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-5775030120770568202013-08-13T07:12:28.861-03:002013-08-13T07:12:28.861-03:00My comic reading during high school was limited to...My comic reading during high school was limited to a few daily newspaper strips and the occasional Simpsons comic or Mad magazine at my library. The day I really started collecting was about a week shy of my 20th birthday, so... I'll save it for next week.Toby'chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01298458468488781568noreply@blogger.com