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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 7, 2020 11:53:38 GMT -5
Are there any comics that you never collected back in the day, that you now think "wow, I really missed out by not collecting that great series"? Or, some character or series that you didn't care for back in the day, that you do appreciate more now.
I was almost exclusively into superhero comics, and mostly just team books at that, though I'd pick up a solo comic of the cover looked interesting. A few years ago I picked up a large number of Master of Kung Fu in a dollar bin and found out what a great series I'd missed out on. The writing, the art, the whole thing.
Also, All-Star Squadron is now probably my second all-time favorite DC comic. Since I just said about that I was mostly into superhero team comics, you;d think I'd be all over this one. Yet somehow, incredibly, I totally missed out on this comic back in the day. I picked up most of the run a few years ago. It's got everything I like, a large cast, lots of colorful costumes, very good art, even good characterization considering the size of the cast. I even had an affection for the JSA thanks to those JLA/JSA team-ups, so I have no idea how or why I didn't collect this series back in the 80's. I have no idea why I didn't collect this comic.
Tomb of Dracula is another one that I never collected at all that I started reading in the last few years and enjoyed.
As far as characters, I never much cared for Superman or Hulk, but, while they'er still not my favorite characters, I've gained a new appreciation for them. I always thought Superman too powerful and too goody-good. Well, he's probably still to powerful, but I now like the goody-good aspect, as he's the type of person we all, superheroes or not, should aspire to be. I'm not into the dark, gritty stuff nearly as much as I used to be. I can also sympathize with the Hulk as the lonely, friendliness brute who just wants to be left alone but darn society keeps messing with him.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 12:05:27 GMT -5
I didn't pay attention to Image's The Walking Dead initially...played catch-up when the tv series became a hit.
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Post by brutalis on Jun 7, 2020 12:33:51 GMT -5
Missed out on due to distribution here in Phoenix lousy but had a few issues: Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck, O'Neill/Adam's Green Lantern & Green Arrow, DC/Marvel Tarzan, Gold Key Star Trek & most ALL Gold Key/Dell goodness. Many others just cant think of at the moment.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 7, 2020 13:07:49 GMT -5
Missed out on due to distribution here in Phoenix lousy but had a few issues: Tomb of Dracula, Howard the Duck, O'Neill/Adam's Green Lantern & Green Arrow, DC/Marvel Tarzan, Gold Key Star Trek & most ALL Gold Key/Dell goodness. Many others just cant think of at the moment. Those are all good choice. I could have mentioned Howard the Duck myself, and most of those others you mentioned I've also enjoyed as far as the issue I have read in the past several years, even though they weren't titles I collected in my youth.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 13:47:34 GMT -5
Yeah, quite a few indies, when they were first being published.. I recall seeing the early Airboys on the stand but it was quite a while before I started picking them up; like around the time they did the Sky Wolf mini-series. That thing was right up my alley; but I was not biting. Same with Area 88. Nexus was another, though part of that was the ongoing nature of it and it was hard to find the magazine issues. I stumbled across the collected volume of the magazines and the firsst year of the monthly comic and went to town. They were way down the line, though, like past the point where Rude was drawing it.
Love and Rockets was another; but more due to never seeing it, anywhere, until I was out of the military and working for Barnes & Noble, where we had the last few issues of the original run.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 7, 2020 14:01:00 GMT -5
As I mentioned elsewhere, I missed the boat on Hellblazer initially, but beyond just that, I didn't read Sandman, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Mike Grell's Green Arrow series, Ostrander's Spectre, and a whole host of other DC/Vertigo titles until years after they were released.
Luckily, I was in on Preacher from the beginning, and Fables from fairly early on (which I only collected in TPBs instead of floppies, so I was always going to be a little behind).
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 7, 2020 14:35:48 GMT -5
I can’t think of anything. Whatever I didn’t buy , was because it wasn’t my cup of tea.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 7, 2020 15:44:15 GMT -5
I found out about all kinds of things from 1987 onward I would've totally missed at the time, so too many to mention. From when I was buying new the most, 1979-1987... Xenozoic Tales aka Dinosaurs & Cadillacs, and Bone may've been my very last 'discoveries' while pretty much on my way out the door in terms of buying anything. First two issues of one plus the first collected edition later, and the first five issues of the other.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 7, 2020 16:32:01 GMT -5
Actually, I stopped buying Thor in the middle of the Simonson run and got all those issues to the end of the series over the last 4 years.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jun 7, 2020 20:43:07 GMT -5
I missed the boat on everything because I was born in a time when comics (for the most part) were not great. It is why I love collecting through, so much to find and read and lots of time to do so!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 22:22:08 GMT -5
Bone, Strangers in Paradise and Love and Rockets. I turned my nose up at each of these when they first came out as I thought they were not my cuppa. Bone is now one of my all time favorites, and I am in the process of adding as much of the SiP run I can to my library, and I have absolutely loved what I have read of the run (the first two pocket editions). I only have 2 volumes of L&R now, but I have read a few more via hoopla and want to keep exploring them.
-M
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Post by berkley on Jun 8, 2020 0:30:46 GMT -5
I missed a lot of great stuff from what I'd consider some of the very best years of Marvel and DC in the early 70s, when I pretty much stopped buying comics for 2 or 3 years. All the Kirby Fourth World books, for example, I never read until a few years later in back issues. Similarly with a good chunk of the Englehart Avengers and Dr. Strange, Gerber's earliest stuff (e.g. Man-Thing), and other stand-outs from around that time.
Even though I became regular a reader of Love and Rockets in the late 80s and caught up with the earlier years pretty quickly, I still regret not having been in right with the first issue. There's something about the pleasure of seeing a brand new issue of a series you really love on the stands that can't be replaced - especially one like L&R that appeared at somewhat irregular intervals.
I missed all the Vertigo stuff in the 90s. All that was totally off my radar altogther and it wasn't until I joined the old CBR boards in the early 2000s that I started to hear about it and realise there might be some series and writers I'd want to have a look at. I still haven't gotten to some of it - e.g. Ellis's Metropolitan, Ennis's Hellblazer.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 6:19:06 GMT -5
Astro City. I still don't know how I overlooked it and now I am having a hard time finding inexpensive collections.
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Post by rberman on Jun 8, 2020 12:33:28 GMT -5
I only bought comics from spinner racks, and only in the first half of the 1980s. I followed X-Men, New Mutants, ROM, Micronauts, Fantastic Four, JLA, LSH, Alpha Flight, All-Star Squadron, Amethyst, Captain Carrot, Blue Devil, and Star Wars closely. I didn't pay attention to Miller's Daredevil, Simonson's Thor, or Wolfman's New Teen Titans. I bought the first issue of X-Factor and none others; it was stolen from my backpack at school. I knew about Elfquest but wasn't bothered to check it out, either from WaRP or Epic.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 8, 2020 16:01:40 GMT -5
I only recently found out about Johnathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards' Turf from 2010, and I couldn't believe how I missed it as it's mix of noir and sci-fi is amazing.
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