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General Comics Chat: HOW DID YOURS START?

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    So how and/or why did you start reading or collecting comics? Was it reading the stash of an elder brother, sister or cousin? Was it the films or TV series of a particular hero? Did your dad have some comics stored away in an old box? And besides the desire to dress up in costume hinted at by some of you in other discussions did they have an influence on other interests?
    • CommentAuthorSilver Fox
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006
     
    *resident Wolverine fan*!!

    For me, I am former Art student (about 10 years ago now) so i am always looking for new stuff to draw. Something that was a change from flowers.
    A couple of years ago, my mate Laura stayed over and we watched the X-men movie and once you start unlocking Wolverine`s past it snowballed...*cough*
    yeah I have been studying his history the past 2 years through comics, the Fox cartoon, everything.

    Then through the comics and my art, I started to get back into my drawing/painting and really got into painting X-men. I would love to do it as a career but have a long way to go yet.
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      CommentAuthorArseface
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006
     
    I started off reading essential x-men for about 8 years then only just in the last 2 years have i started reading more stuff .
    • CommentAuthorCraig L
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006
     
    I started nearly 14 years ago, when I was 12 - Jeez im an old geezer
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    i think its either 3-4 year iv been in the game now i got into it hoping to make a profit i was young what did i know so i was in comicville and i bought an issue 18 of spiderman 2099 read it liked it and then got into spiderman and from there i went crazy and sold eveything of value (games dvds electricals and did any job i could) so in the end this has been one of my least succesful profit scemes ever
    • CommentAuthorSpinface
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006
     
    It's been profitable for someone...

    I have absolutely no idea how I got into comics. The possible first comic I owned was a UK Superman/Batman reprint (we're talking in about 1980 here), but I might have imagined that. The earliest I remember that I still own was a UK A4 Superman thingy with "Matrix" (who became a Supergirl) in it, and then the Exploits of Spiderman. I remember when I first discovered there was such a thing as a "comic shop"... after scrounging stuff off newsagent shelves: oh my God! 'Twas truly amazing. Then I discovered girls and quit at 14.

    Yeah, I had a life once. Then I discovered Vertigo graphic novels at Judecca in Wakey when I was 17, started getting monthly singles at 18 from mostly the same guys who'd been writing the awesome '90s Vertigo stuff, and then one fateful summer got bitten by a radioactive comic shop, realised with great comics comes great responsibility, and started working there. The rest, as they say, is history.

    That's it. I've exposed my secret origin.
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      CommentAuthorgeorgiana
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2006
     
    i cant remember my first comic or who really introduced me... probably a mixture of people when i was about 14. i do remember my friend matthew showing me junko mizuno for the first time.

    i probably got into them for boys... i do that, hey i'm even reading superhero stuff now to imperss one :) haha
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    Read the stash of my older brother, back in the mid 1990's. He kicked the habit ages ago.

    Also i was handed down some graphic novels and comics in the mid to late 90's, mainly old'ish spiderman graphic novels, including the spiderman wedding, death of superman, world without a superman, onslaught and DC vs Marvel.

    I started my comic collecting with the simpsons, in my early teens and continued to now. But i only really got stuck in with other comics a couple of years ago.
    • CommentAuthorPopbot
    • CommentTimeJun 17th 2006
     
    I Think my first comic was an xmas pressie, it was the death of superman book when I was in primary school, but I didn't get into comics till I became a fan of the early 90's X-Men cartoon, which still to this day has the best theme tune for a cartoon ever! I started buying the british reprints at X-Men #9 with an Andy(?) Kubert cover of Wolvie fighting Omega Red! I found the comic shop in Meadowhell when it opened and bought American issues occassionally but stuck with the British ones as they were a couple of years behind with the stories, so I was playing catch up! I've had a couple of lapses probably but have been reading comics for about ten years...Jeesus! I actually survived the post Image boom, comic market crash when mainstream comics went shit for a few years towards the end of the 90's which is when alot of people stopped reading, which makes me feel pretty die-hard! Yippee-ki-yay!
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    Some interesting reasons. Been a reader & collector for most of my life, my dad buying second hand comics for me from a bookstall in the old Kirkgate market in the 60's. Parents gave the first collection to Killingbeck after they shipped me off to the grandparents one weekend. Didn't really get back into comics until the Mighty World of Marvel weekly during the seventies. That collection was sold as I discovered music, drink, etc. (Nimbus Thitherward is the name of the very first bootleg LP I bought).
    I bought the odd comic, Heavy Metal or Epic ilustrated after that but didn't really start collecting again until I picked up the Rog 2000 reprint published by Pacific at the beginning of the 80's (from the old Dell's stall in Bradford). And I haven't stopped since then. Which is all the wife's fault really because she persuaded me to keep buying comics after Pacific stopped publishing. That's my excuse anyway.
    • CommentAuthormoorlan
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2006
     
    The first comic I read was a jim lee uncanny x-men that a friend called Neil lent me, I think it was issue 275, the issues with Wolverine, Gambit and Jubilee in space and Rogue and Magneto in the savage land. A short time later I got a yearly subscription to a PC magazine which came with a free gift. You could choose between 2 videos, 'Dominion Tank Police' or 'Akira', I got Akira and after lending it to neil he mentioned that there was an akira comic. The next time I was in Leeds with Neil, he showed me the shop he got his comics from and he X-Men and I got Akira.
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    Captain America told me if i did read his comic he'd shove the red skull up my anus...or the real truth i've been reading the x-men (2nd series) since i was like i dunno 5 when they actualy had them in news agents this country but i seriously started collecting in 1998 when i saw the cool cover to one of the batman no mans land comics was like hell that looks cool and from there on in i was destined to waste all my hard earned money on comics
    • CommentAuthorOften
    • CommentTimeJun 21st 2006
     
    I seem to remeber waking up aroud six or seven years ago with a pile of uncanny X-men at the side of my bed. I never did find out who gave them to me but I sure with I could thank them ... With a big stick to the head because I'm addicted and I don't have the funds to support my habbit ... Oh well you only live once, unless no one actually sees you die then ... well you know
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2006
     
    I was born in 1974, same year as Wolverine, Punisher and Deathlok. My Grandma bought me comics from the newsagents throughout my childhood. I became quietly obsessed with how each superhero got their powers. It wasn't until years later that I stumbled across a shop that would supply answers to many of my questions.
    One wet afternoon I was walking through Leeds and took a shortcut down Harrison Street. I found Odyssey, or maybe it was called Odyssey at that point.
    I became a regular customer there. A friend recomended that I have a look at Skyrack comics and books in the Merrion Centre Market. Which I did. There Ron and Tony guided me through many years of comics buying. And when Millenium opened in the Grand Arcade I regularly bought comics from all three shops.
    After I left college I started working at Space Odyssey (which was the new name for newly relocated Odyssey 7). I became the manager there shortly after.
    Forbidden Planet took over Space odyssey a few years later and it was a great place to work. The whole time I'd built up a substantial comic book and graphic novel collection. Friends told me that working with my hobby would sap my enthusiasm, but it never has.
    Eventually, I left Forbidden Planet and set up on my own. First trading on the internet at www.ikisscomics.co.uk while working part time at Quicksilver back issue warehouse in Wakefield and then opening OK Comics in Leeds in partnership with Richard, the owner of Quicksilver.
    Over the last few years my collection has dwindled from about 20 boxes down to 4 boxes of essential comics I can't part with. Most of the stuff has been sold off to friends or customers.
    Now, in my role as manager at OK Comics, read between 20 or 30 comics and a few graphic novels every week to keep up to date with what's going on.
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      CommentAuthor16610
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2006
     
    your cool. I first stared collecting before OK was open. I was buying from Forbidden Planet, and there silver age stock which they had there (Jarerds when he worked there, before he got scaked... i think...). The silver age stock was soon to be gone from FP, and those where of which i liked the most down to there fine smell and texture. Shortly after a store named OK comcis opened, i was very happy indeed, the only problem is that i had a phobia of being in a small shop with just you and the owner. This was the kind of feeling when you are last out of the classroom and alone with the teacher, you know what im talking about. Anywho, it all comes down to finaly a decent comicbook store on the highstreet... although it was in a stinky piss alley. I hated that 'Comicvill', im glad they dont sell comics anymore... i've scraped better things off the soul of my shoe... exploiting little kids into buying there over priced grade crap comics... same upon them... and hes fat... both of them... Anywho, ironic that the 'ComicVill doesnt sell comcis anymore :D

    Most of my buying of comics is on ebay now as i have got lazy and i dont come into town that often, writing a homegrown scratch CMS on your own is hard, (back on topic) but i still love OK comics. <3 ... I also dont have any money left after buying a laptop, so if you want to send me some my paypay address is ozzy@spywire.net. Thanks, just 2 pounds a month. :D <3
    • CommentAuthorWalkin-X
    • CommentTimeJun 22nd 2006
     
    hmm

    well I can't remember how it started...my first comic. I mean there are vague recollections of of old comics knocking around the place. I remember a Btamn annual and a superman comic somwhere on holiday. Then I remember a comic that had the origin of the Hulk, a Captain America story and another Hulk story...

    Then I got into X-Men. I think the first X-Men comic was one I found abandoned in a department store I used to go to with folks. I handed it in, waited a week I think then saw if anyone claimed it. They hadnt and I got it. Loved it and got as many X-Men's as I could. Picke dup the odd random comic son the way.

    Then we moved and I was forced to sell them. I came here and then after a bit I got into Spiderman comics and read the Clone Saga and other classic spidey tales. Then I moved on from that in my teen years. Didn't touch a comic for ages. Then sometimes a year or more agao, I found OK Comics.......

    and got back into comics again.

    I realised how much I loved Rogue back in the day. Bought the graphic novel of her solo adventures and decided I would collect key issues of her life and pick up graphicnovels I fancy.

    I now have Secret Wars, Daredevil: Guardian Devil, Spiderman and Black Cat: The evil that men do, Rogue: Going Rogue, Rogue: Forget me not, X-Men: Bizarre Love Triangles, Clerks and 3 Ultimate X-Men novels. And an extensive singles collection of Rogue central tales.

    Looking to buy more soon, when I get paid. ...
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      CommentAuthorArseface
    • CommentTimeJun 23rd 2006
     
    you should get wolverine enemy of the state, it's classic.
    • CommentAuthorWalkin-X
    • CommentTimeJun 23rd 2006 edited
     
    I want to, was waiting for part 2 to come in TPB :-)

    oh and I have Marvel vs DC comics as well, I left off the list by mistake lol
    • CommentAuthorEffluvia
    • CommentTimeJun 25th 2006
     
    I got hold of a copy of Sarah Dyer's 'Action Girl' at some point in the mid- 90s and it introduced me to a host of amazing female comic book artists who I grew to love and follow in their own projects. Had I not stumbled into Action Girl then I know for sure that I'd not have found some of the most wonderful comics creators, or have been inspired by them to work on my own projects. I still seek out anthology collections today cuz I think it's a great way to find out about independent comic artists and writers who's hard work may otherwise have passed under my radar. I recently interviewed Sarah Dyer and she's just as much as an inspiration today as she was then.

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