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Post by commond on Aug 18, 2021 21:49:17 GMT -5
These are the first comics I can remember choosing: Why did I choose these over everything else? I'm 100% certain that I was attracted to the costumes. In retrospect, it's amazing that I became hooked on the X-Men given how confusing that storyline is as a jumping on point. These books aren't as exciting as everyone else's firsts, but they bring back a lot of childhood memories. At that time, the comic book stores were about 6 months ahead of the newsagencies in New Zealand. I remember being blown away the first time I walked into a comic store and saw the latest issue of all these books I had been collecting from the newsagencies. I could only visit the comic book shop during school vacations, so I spent most of 1989 buying a stack of new issues and piecing together the back issues from the newsagencies. I would go back and forward between storylines, and being a child with limited means, I'd get these gaps in my collection. I vividly remember begging my mother to buy me Uncanny X-Men 237, but I didn't read the conclusion until years later.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 19, 2021 5:19:49 GMT -5
Why did I choose these over everything else? I'm 100% certain that I was attracted to the costumes. In retrospect, it's amazing that I became hooked on the X-Men given how confusing that storyline is as a jumping on point. These books aren't as exciting as everyone else's firsts, but they bring back a lot of childhood memories. I bought that issue of ASM off of the newsagent's stands back in the day too. Actually, that kidnapping of Mary Jane by Jonathan Caesar was a really good storyline and decidedly creepy too. Some good writing in that from David Michelinie.
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Post by commond on Aug 19, 2021 6:36:23 GMT -5
That issue had a really good cliffhanger.
Come to think of it, that Jonathan Caesar storyline, and the things the magistrates did to Rogue in Genosha, were pretty mature for a nine-year-old to be reading.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 19, 2021 10:22:35 GMT -5
This was right where I quit the X-Men after following them for several years!
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Post by jason on Aug 19, 2021 20:54:45 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Aug 20, 2021 7:19:29 GMT -5
My Mum would buy me UK reprints of Spider-Man, Batman and Superman comics in the late '70s when I was a 3 or 4 year old, but I was so young that it's not possible for me to remember exactly what they were. A little later, between the ages of, say, 5 and 8, I was being bought issues of Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly comic and issue #18 is the first one of them I remember owning... As for proper, U.S. comics (in colour!!), the first one I ever owned was Marvel Two-In-One #90, bought in 1982...
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Post by String on Aug 20, 2021 13:40:22 GMT -5
That issue had a really good cliffhanger. Come to think of it, that Jonathan Caesar storyline, and the things the magistrates did to Rogue in Genosha, were pretty mature for a nine-year-old to be reading. Definitely. Though to be fair, yes, the Genosha arc may not have been the best jumping on point hahaha but hey, it seemed to work for you. Really, UXM #236-237 is one of my favorite two-parters from that era. Say what you will about his writing style or playing the long game plot-wise but here Claremont was still demonstrating his ability to reveal new ideas and concepts that broadened and strengthened the X mythos.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 20, 2021 13:47:37 GMT -5
First book I bought on my own.
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Post by berkley on Aug 20, 2021 19:03:29 GMT -5
First book I bought on my own.
I want the lady cop to have her own series.
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