Your Comic Collection

[Emettman]

Re: Your Comic Collection

Never a great collector as opposed to reader, my early Victors (best) Valiants and Hotspurs vanished when tatty.
Alf Tupper, Braddock of Bombers, Morgan the Mighty and all...
Also a hardback volume of "Battler" Britain, at some point.

Some reconstituting of lost memories has occured, with interesting effects. (Not least finding out how many heroic and glorious liberties the Victor often took with its true war stories on the front and back cover.)

So, mainly materials re-gathered into graphic novels, rather than ancient original magazines. Even so. a few less usual ones:
"Fraser of Africa" from the Eagle.
"Tales of the Trigan Empire" (the best thing in "Look and Learn") by a mile.

From my university days, a good selection of Judge Dredd.
I did not have a crush of Judge Anderson, I did not have a crush on Judge Anderson...
But Bolland, Bolland was *the* Dredd artist as far as I was concerned.

Later still: Gaiman's Sandman Series, plus a few associated, spreading out from there.

[branny]

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FG, I started out with Shiver & Shake in 1973 IIRC, aged 7

But then 'Battle' came out, March 1975, and that was that.....I got every issue until June 1982, at which time I was doing my O-levels, oh and I was finding girls 'interesting'

I also picked up the odd Warlord & Victor along the way, but Battle was my no.1

I still have all my Battles, but many are scribbled in, and have cut-outs removed:cry:...but thanks to ebay I'm getting a collection of 'good-to-mint' to go alongside them

I still have lots of annuals, Battle, Victor, Warlord etc, also Knockout, Whizzer & Chips etc.

One aspect I really loved were the comics' 'Summer Specials' ...for some reason they hold special appeal

Dave

My god, it's so similar to mine I thought i'd already posted.

My dad used to get me 2 every week when i was 5 or 6 called Look and Learn and Now I know. One of them had Brer rabbit stories in which he used to read to me at bedtime. After that it was super heroes. I used to get a DC or Marvel comic every week. I built up quite a collection but ended up giving it away when i was about 14.

A neighbour bought me a shiver and shake annual for christmas 74 and i was hooked. I used to get Beezer as well and loved the summer specials. Used to get them when we went on holiday for the week.

I used to buy war comics like Warlord and Battle usually when they had freebies in. i remember collecting a medal chart and medals that came in warlord and one of them had a ring with interchangeable labels that i thought was really grown up at the time.

At around 9 i'd moved on to Look in and when Star wars came out i used to get Star wars weekly. Went rapidly downhill after that with Smash hits and Disco 45.

[culnara]

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only thing I really collected was 2000ad, started back in 1977 and had every single prog up untill about the age of 16 (1986) missed it out for a couple of years (during this time I discovered my father had thrown over half of them away prog 1 - 279 gone to the great landfill site :cry: I managed to gather the remaining progs and put them in a safe place) went back to it again till I was 30/31 lost intrest in it because the new characters weren't grabbing me, I still have them up in the attic all wrapped up in black bags along with quite a lot of 2000ad monthly's / megazines
last year I....ermm.....got hold of progs 1 - 1536 in digital format from the internet,
2000ad are still going strong and are currently up to prog 1623 now

only other thing I would have collected if I had money at the time were Tales of Suspense, Amazing Adventures, Strange worlds etc,etc (marvel books think) I see them on ebay but they aint cheap

[rossobantam]

Re: Your Comic Collection

FG, I started out with Shiver & Shake in 1973 IIRC, aged 7

But then 'Battle' came out, March 1975, and that was that.....I got every issue until June 1982, at which time I was doing my O-levels, oh and I was finding girls 'interesting'

I also picked up the odd Warlord & Victor along the way, but Battle was my no.1

I still have all my Battles, but many are scribbled in, and have cut-outs removed:cry:...but thanks to ebay I'm getting a collection of 'good-to-mint' to go alongside them

I still have lots of annuals, Battle, Victor, Warlord etc, also Knockout, Whizzer & Chips etc.

One aspect I really loved were the comics' 'Summer Specials' ...for some reason they hold special appeal

Dave

[Palazzo]

Re: Your Comic Collection

Never really collected a great deal but there was a fantastic series of X-Men comics I collected back in high school called X-Men The Age of Apocalypse. Every month I would run down to my local newsagents to get the latest copy, it was a fantastic series which lasted about 7-8 issues. From what I remember it was set in an alternate dimension and the overall tone of the story was very dark, there was an all-new X-men group as some of the originals remained, some had become villains and others were dead. I can't possibly describe the full story here or the scale of it but it was such a fantastic storyline which had me gripped and desperate to find out what happened next!

These days I keep an eye out for any Batman graphic novels, I have the likes of The Long Halloween, Year One, Hush, The Killing Joke and the new Joker title which is absolutely fantastic. With the movie coming out I treated myself to a copy of Watchmen which is fantastic and which I honestly could not put down!

[Flash Gordon]

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