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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Five Years Later wrote:I tried reading All-Star Squadron (I like Thomas including most of Thomas' 80's DC output) but it was so overwritten I could only get through three issues I fear that A-SS was a...
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The debuts of two new features separated by only seven weeks (according to Mike's). The Marvel mag is well-thumbed by now. You have a quarter and a dime.19 pages of Englehart, Starlin, and...
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Damn!!! That is a difficult decision. As a kid I would have probably been scared by the Spectre and went with MoKF. As an adult thankfully I don't have to make the choice.
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VisualFiction wrote: The debuts of two new features separated by only seven weeks (according to Mike's). The Marvel mag is well-thumbed by now. You have a quarter and a dime.19 pages of Englehart,...
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I bought MoKF without hesitation for various reasons: It was Marvel. It was by Jim Starlin who I loved because of his work on Capt. Marvel and I was a huge kung-fu fan. It was just an automatic buy...
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As a youth, I loved the GA DC characters and wasn't so much into Kung Fu, so it would have been the Adventure issue. If it were today? I have 40 cents floatin' in my pocket right now, so I wouldn't...
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I wasn't a huge Kung Fu fan as a kid, but I did like monsters and bought a bunch of DC's mystery books as well as the Marvel monster reprints. Of course I was always willing to try a new #1 even when...
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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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