A Difficult Decision...
I posed this question last year, on another forum, and it was interesting to read people's responses. I'll set the scene. It's 1961 and you're a kid with only 10 cents in your pocket. On the newsstand...
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I never had that choice. The Marvel title wasn't available in the UK. It wasn't one of the limited titles we were getting then. I bought the Adventure and would have done anyway if it was a straight...
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Danovi wrote:If it were today? I have 40 cents floatin' in my pocket right now, so I wouldn't have to choose. Right. If it were today, those comics would each cost $4, and with only 40¢ in your pocket...
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DennisDaMennis wrote:but I really didn't give a hoot about martial arts.How about Fu Manchu? I'm surprised his name wasn't on the cover.
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I bought the Spectre issue. I was in the Air Force at the time and was stationed at Monterey, California. Just off post (it was an army installation) was a small store that sold comic books. Being...
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Gotta love that pose in the corner box. Also, why did the Spectre need to retain the appearance of his manhood (in turn requiring green shorts)? Was that God's decision or was God just humoring the...
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The FF #1 cover would have attracted me more because I enjoy monsters. So, if that was the only choice I was allowed to have, it would have been that book based on that cover. The Atom was a pretty...
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VisualFiction wrote:Gotta love that pose in the corner box. Also, why did the Spectre need to retain the appearance of his manhood (in turn requiring green shorts)? Was that God's decision or was God...
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... okay, it is a comic, that is why he wears green shorts.
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Stu, my own questions were rhetorical. Are you just trying to heckle, because if so your line is so boring.
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This might be a Difficult Decision if you were young enough to not like girls, didn't know a superhero from Adam-12, and just wanted scary monsters.Hey, I vividly remember being in a grocery store...
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I like the Haunted House cover better, but I would have fallen for the "#1 Collectors Item" hype and have gone with She-Hulk!
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I would have picked She-Hulk. #1 by Stan Lee. What a stupid decision that would have been. At least She-Hulk had J.Buscema art.
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I bought She-Hulk #1. DC Horror and Mystery books were harder to find on the newstands of my usual haunts at the time, but that Orlando cover would not have grabbed me as a kid anyway.
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Interesting thread, I haven't read through it all, but looking through the first couple pages: Atom vs FF?! It's hard to say that I would've made the "wrong" choice, but I definitely would have gone...
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I also would have been drawn to the She-Hulk choice. It took me a long time to open up to choices outside of superheroes (unless, you know, I knew that they lived within the MU or DCU). Thinking over...
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VisualFiction wrote: This might be a Difficult Decision if you were young enough to not like girls, didn't know a superhero from Adam-12, and just wanted scary monsters. Hey, I vividly remember being...
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Thinking about how I was likening She-Hulk to a monster (at least in the eyes of a six-year old consumer), it made me realize that Hulk himself was called a "monster" on the cover of IH #1, and...
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