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Post by urrutiap on Mar 18, 2017 11:06:54 GMT -5
What "youth" you speaking of exactly?
I'm 36 and grew up reading fantastic Four starting at 345 the weird dinosaur island issues.
These days I'm getting back into Fantastic Four by buying the really old issues to catch up on their old adventures whether in outer space or wherever.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2017 11:51:41 GMT -5
What "youth" you speaking of exactly? I'm 36 and grew up reading fantastic Four starting at 345 the weird dinosaur island issues. These days I'm getting back into Fantastic Four by buying the really old issues to catch up on their old adventures whether in outer space or wherever. Let me qualify "youth " by saying people younger than 20. Heck, even some of the older people on this forum have bashed some of the earlier stories. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 13:34:13 GMT -5
What "youth" you speaking of exactly? I'm 36 and grew up reading fantastic Four starting at 345 the weird dinosaur island issues. These days I'm getting back into Fantastic Four by buying the really old issues to catch up on their old adventures whether in outer space or wherever. AT 36 you are officially in the too old that Hollywood and entertainment media doesn't care about you anymore demographic. 18-35 is the desired youth demographic, anything older than that is the old fart demographic as far as they are concerned and your likes, desires, preferences and dollars no matter factor into their decision making. Welcome to the old fart demographic. -M |
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Post by String on Mar 18, 2017 17:02:43 GMT -5
My trouble was, back then in the 80s, there was no real way to read the early FF issues other than by acquiring low-grade copies of the actual issues (I certainly wasn't going to read the first 20-25 issues). There were no Masterworks, no trades, little to nothing in the way of reprints. And I wanted to read them. My first FF issue was #199. Byrne was really coming into his own on the FF book (#249-250 remain personal favorites) but I had to settle for titles like Marvel Saga and the Official Marvel Index to the Fantastic Four to learn of their adventures under Lee/Kirby.  The Index was summaries but something's better than nothing. |
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Post by urrutiap on Mar 18, 2017 19:24:02 GMT -5
It amazes me that old issues of faith Mmm static four and uncanny. X Men where a few issues in the issue 100+ they're pretty cheap now at 2 to 3 bucks while an issue 1 still costs like thousand dollars or whatever.
I'm just grateful and lucky that I found issue 150 of uncanny x Men dirt cheap at 8 bucks while fantastic four 174 I bought for 2.50.
Still disgusting uncanny x Men 266 costs alot still expensive
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 18, 2017 19:48:55 GMT -5
My trouble was, back then in the 80s, there was no real way to read the early FF issues other than by acquiring low-grade copies of the actual issues (I certainly wasn't going to read the first 20-25 issues). There were no Masterworks, no trades, little to nothing in the way of reprints. And I wanted to read them. My first FF issue was #199. Byrne was really coming into his own on the FF book (#249-250 remain personal favorites) but I had to settle for titles like Marvel Saga and the Official Marvel Index to the Fantastic Four to learn of their adventures under Lee/Kirby. The Index was summaries but something's better than nothing. There were the reprint books like Marvels Greatest Comics and Marvels collectors Item classics in which to get the first 116 issues or so. That's how I built my FF collection. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2017 0:05:18 GMT -5
My trouble was, back then in the 80s, there was no real way to read the early FF issues other than by acquiring low-grade copies of the actual issues (I certainly wasn't going to read the first 20-25 issues). There were no Masterworks, no trades, little to nothing in the way of reprints. And I wanted to read them. My first FF issue was #199. Byrne was really coming into his own on the FF book (#249-250 remain personal favorites) but I had to settle for titles like Marvel Saga and the Official Marvel Index to the Fantastic Four to learn of their adventures under Lee/Kirby. The Index was summaries but something's better than nothing. If you were buying the FF index as it came out, you wouldn't have had long to wait, as the first FF Masterworks was released just a few months after #12 hit the stands and before Marvel Saga completed its 25 issue run. -M |
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