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Post by badwolf on May 23, 2022 13:07:46 GMT -5
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 23, 2022 14:33:53 GMT -5
I own more Marvel TPBs than DC, but I have more DC Omibuses than Marvel.
But, I own more Marvel over-all. Guess that makes mine Marvel.
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Post by Confessor on May 23, 2022 15:45:31 GMT -5
When it comes to American comics, as a kid I was definitely a Marvel guy, as the only DC's I ever picked up we're Action/Superman and Detective/Batman, and only sporadically. As I've gotten older, I've definitely read more of DC's output, but I remain at heart a Marvel guy.
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Post by berkley on May 23, 2022 17:59:36 GMT -5
I was a Marvel kid in the 60s and 70s and in one sense, as far as the Big 2 are concerned, I suppose I still am since most of the big DC characters have never appealed to me. OTOH, I'm not that interested in reading new stories of the Marvel characters I used to like either.
As far as comics in general go, I'm an independent guy now and have been since the late 1980s.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 23, 2022 18:54:09 GMT -5
In an Archie World......?
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Post by zaku on May 26, 2022 1:01:53 GMT -5
I'm a General Comics guy. Living in Italy, I have always been exposed to a greater variety of comics than just the superhero genre. If I have to reduce the field to Marvel Vs Dc, I suppose I have bought more comics of the former in my life (but for a simple matter of availability) but in terms of general quality I have always preferred the latter.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 2:14:09 GMT -5
As a kid in the 70s and early 80s, I was a Marvel kid. I had a handful of DC books and a few Charlton and Gold Keys, but probably 85% of the stuff I owned was Marvel. Most of my DC fix came form TV shows and cartoons.
In high school in the mid 80s, circa '85-'86 right around the time I discovered comic shops and pull lists, I became much more of a DC guy. I still bought some Marvel and indies, but about 75% of what I was pulling was DC, though my main back issue focus was still my Avengers run (New Teen Titans and Dreadstar were the other books I was hardcore back issuing). When I left for college, back issuing stopped and it was all new stuff only, and it was mostly DC. After college, in the 90s, I started getting more Marvel, but DC was still 50/50 for the new stuff, more of the DC stuff was Vertigo forerunners and Vertigo books once the label launched. When Heroes Reborn launched, I basically stopped buying Marvel until Heroes Return, and slowed on DC a lot too. When Heroes Return hit, I was picking up a few Marvels it was only select titles (Avengers, Cap, Iron Man) and one of two DC hero books (Starman and such). But in that year gap I began to explore a lot more. I got turned on to Eisner and Scott McCloud and Joe Sacco and Dylan Horrocks and Herge and Gary Spencer Millidge and Carla Speed McNeil and Linda Medley and a lot of others and really began to dive deep into comics outside the big 2. By the early 2000s I had started the big sell off of a large chuck of my back issues (mostly Silver & Bronze Marvels). It started with finally reading McCloud's Understanding Comics and digging deep into creators and books he talked about there, particularly Will Eisner. I still enjoy some Marvel and DC stuff (I've been on a bit of a Marvel kick lately) but I tend to follow my mood in reading now.
If asked the not question, I often answer I am a fan of the medium, of words and pictures arranged in panels and pages to tell stories in several genres. But I like comics guy. That's good. I may have to use that answer instead.
-M
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Post by tonebone on May 26, 2022 7:00:44 GMT -5
In an Archie World......?
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Post by tonebone on May 26, 2022 7:09:20 GMT -5
I was an Archie boy. I was a master at begging my parents for Archie digests in the supermarket line, and would pick up Archies at yard sales and flea markets. They were always cheap and plentiful, back then. My grandma would buy me the "Archie Spire" Christian comics when she went to the fabric store. They were weird, but hey, it's still Archie! As a matter of fact, it's one of the few interests I had in common with my 4-years-younger sister. We would read them and swap them, and I would read them to her, when she was too young. We both loved the Filmation cartoons, and loved the music. When she was older, and I was really into superhero comics, I got her interested in Teen Titans, because I told her it was like Archie with superpowers. When I had kids, I COULDN'T WAIT to buy them Archie digests! I loved the fact that (at least then) they were the exact same as they were when I was a kid.
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Post by tonebone on May 26, 2022 7:12:09 GMT -5
As a kid (70s), I was a DC kid... Superman, Legion of Superheroes, etc. As I got older, I became a Marvel kid... KISS, Fantastic Four, Hulk, then Micronauts, Star Wars, Star Trek, Fantastic Four again, etc. Then, in high school, I was back to DC... Teen Titans, Swamp Thing, Blue Devil, Blue Beetle, Amethyst, Star Trek again, Blackhawks, Captain Carrot. Then in college, I was a fan of girls. After college, Sandman, Death of Superman, Batman, JLA, Marvels, Kingdom Come. Now... I would say everything, nothing modern, I'm most nostalgic for DC. What happened to the girls? Bagged and boarded, in a very long box. I kid. Don't swat me.
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Post by tonebone on May 26, 2022 7:18:08 GMT -5
I was always a "comics guy." From the start, I had quite a bit from companies other than DC and Marvel. Archies, Harveys, Gold Key, Charlton; if it was a comic I read it. That continued into my later years, though fewer Archie and Harvey and Gold Key and Charlton petered out, by the end of the 70s. However, it wasn't too long into the 80s that I discovered First and Pacific, Americomics (before they settled on AC Comics), the Archie Red Circle and even the brief life of Capital Comics. Went off to college and found Eclipse, Comico, Fantagraphics, Renegade, Now, Deluxe and finally got to see Cerebus, Elfquest and the Turtles. I can relate. Something about the words/pictures artform really hooked me as a kid. I had an aunt who worked in a thrift shop, and she would set aside anything comics related and give them to me. Now you know why you never find juicy comics at thrift shops. She would show up about once a month, with a big cardboard box full of Dennis the Menace, Harveys, Archies, misc. DC and Marvel, even a Herbie the Fat Fury! She would also feed me paperback comics collections.. tons of Peanuts, Mad, Hagaar, Tumbleweeds, Andy Capp, just about everything. I have no idea what happened to all of that stuff over the years, but they really shaped me and I could read like a champ by the age of 5. Now, picture a 5 year old trying his best to decipher what's going on in a Doonsbury paperback.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 26, 2022 7:43:41 GMT -5
I've never professed undying loyalty to one brand, because choices and options are what make life worth living in general. I did a quick breakdown of my collection numbers, and it came out as follows:
DC & related (Vertigo, Wildstorm, etc)-- 44% Marvel & related (Epic, etc)-- 24% Independents (everything else including Charlton, Archie, Harvey, Dell, "comix", etc)-- 32%
So while I may be top-heavy in DC titles, it wasn't always that way. At one point it, indy titles trailed quite a bit, but then surpassed Marvel, and will likely catch up with DC-- especially as my numbers in Charlton and golden-age titles increase.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 26, 2022 11:08:20 GMT -5
In an Archie World......?
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Post by codystarbuck on May 26, 2022 11:12:58 GMT -5
My personal favorite of their catalog....
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 13:06:39 GMT -5
I was an Archie boy. I was a master at begging my parents for Archie digests in the supermarket line, and would pick up Archies at yard sales and flea markets. They were always cheap and plentiful, back then. My grandma would buy me the "Archie Spire" Christian comics when she went to the fabric store. They were weird, but hey, it's still Archie! As a matter of fact, it's one of the few interests I had in common with my 4-years-younger sister. We would read them and swap them, and I would read them to her, when she was too young. We both loved the Filmation cartoons, and loved the music. When she was older, and I was really into superhero comics, I got her interested in Teen Titans, because I told her it was like Archie with superpowers. When I had kids, I COULDN'T WAIT to buy them Archie digests! I loved the fact that (at least then) they were the exact same as they were when I was a kid.
I've been picking up some of the MASSIVE 1000 page digests....love them....
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