Topic: May 5 Free Comic Book Day

[LadyVirginia]

Check out your local comic book store for a free one tomorrow!  Haven't ever participated before but if I can fit it in I'll take the kids.

store locator link here

[AlanS]

I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is.

[Sectionhand]

I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is.

I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .

[Alphabet Soup]

My dad did me an inadvertent favor when I was young. He threw out my comic book collection once when we were moving. I was really torqued at the time but it served to break the early hoarder spirit in me (don't worry - it reasserted itself later on!).

Nowadays I can still appreciate a well-crafted "graphic-art" story but the spell is broken on mindlessly collecting them. And with no children to share them with or bequeath to what's the point?

[Libertas]

I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is.

I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .

As well as Cracked & National Lampoon?   

[Weisshaupt]

Nowadays I can still appreciate a well-crafted "graphic-art" story but the spell is broken on mindlessly collecting them. And with no children to share them with or bequeath to what's the point?

Oh, I think you could always find a willing taker. Many a comic shop started with just such a collection.
Of course, even in my younger days I was so cheap I would wait for Cerebus to be published in a "phone book" collection  rather than buy individual issues - much to the Chagrin of the indie shop that produced it. I was always way more interested in the story than in collectibility.

Did you know that  Spiderman 583 was reissued 5 times with different covers?  I guy I met at a customer ran a comic shop and he showed them all to me. It was his best seller at the time, and these collectors would reflexively buy each time a new cover was offered. Same issue. New Cover.  Over and over. $5 a pop, and more once its shelf time expired.  Looks like the collection is running at $8 an issue now.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMAZING-SPIDER-MAN-583-1-2-3-4-5-NM-CONDITION-/150810924695?_trksid=p4340.m263&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUCI%252BIA%252BUA%252BFICS%252BUFI%26otn%3D15%26pmod%3D251002451877%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8249568023607414814#ht_500wt_1080

[Sectionhand]

I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is.

I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .

As well as Cracked & National Lampoon?   

Gee ... I didn't know "Cracked" was still being published !

[Libertas]

I'm at that odd stage in life. The kids are too old and the grand kid isn't quite old enough. Although I should have passed this on to my eldest. He does have a collection, but I think he fancies himself a comic connoisseur. What ever that that is.

I have my "Mad Magazine" sent to the house in a plain brown wrapper .

As well as Cracked & National Lampoon?   

Gee ... I didn't know "Cracked" was still being published !

Hell if I know.  But those three are about all I read as a kid.

[trapeze]

I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.

[BMG]

I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.

Spy vs Spy rocks! 

[Libertas]

I recently bought myself the complete National Lampoon and Mad Magazine on DVD. Great memories.

Spy vs Spy rocks! 

 

[AlanS]

I can vividly remember in grade school and Jr. High it was Mad magazine. Then came High School and National Lampoon. Of course it was only for the articles.

[Libertas]

Yeah, and I liked those Rigid tool calendars just for the...umm...tools!