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    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    When I was at school i used to have a regular order every saturday of Transformers,Secret Wars/Secret Wars II,Action Force,Spider-Man and Zoids and Thundercats,when I was 8 I used to have the uk versions of Thor and Fantastic Four and Spider-Man and....THE THING IS BIG BEN!!!!

    Put my mind at rest and tell me these comics aren't worth anything today
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    I'd pay money for the Action Force comics.
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    Why the Action Force?Because they haven't been reprinted?
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    Because I loved them when I was a kid!
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    Some of the UK Transformers and Action Force stuff is worth a little bit, if you find the right American collectors. And especially the Garth Ennis and Bryan Hitch stuff.

    I still have loads of UK Transformers and Action Force/GI Joe comics, but probably in no condition to sell to anyone (not that I'd want to) cos they've been read to death.
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    Didn't Grant Morrison write Zoids?

    The Zoids toys were ace. You had to make them yourself!

    The Spidey Comic from my local newsagents was the first ever comic I got regularly when I was like 7 or something. The Vulture seemed to be in it every issue.
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    Grant did indeed write Zoids. A secondhand bookshop here in York has a bunch of Spider-Man and Zoids comics, I'm tempted to get them just for Zoids.

    They brought the toys back again a few years ago, along with a bunch of managa comics, bet they aren't as good as Morrisons ;-)

    I think Get Along Gang was the very first comic I got, closely followed by Transformers then Action Force and then Spider-man reprints. I remember reading my brothers 2000AD and Captain Britian and not liking either, think I was a bit too young. I've still got the very first "American" comics I ever bought, a couple of issues of GI Joe from Marvel that I bought when I was 10 from a gen-u-ine "spinnerrack" in a mall in Chicago. They are battered but loved.
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    "I think Get Along Gang was the very first comic I got"

    Very brave of you to admit that!
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    I was about 3 and loved the cartoon :-p And it started me along the Marvel road.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    I too have piles of Action Force and Transformers comics. My brother bought Thundercats, but they got binned.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010
     
    In fact, I think I've the full run of Action Force and only bought TF for the Action Force back-up strip.
    • CommentAuthorWandersUK
    • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2010
     
    I remember getting the english comics thundercats and ghostbusters. i remember the first american comic i got i read it about 100 times. It was an issue of solo avengers starring hawkeye, i cant remember what issue but he was fighting the abomination i was still in junior school so i was probably about 8 or 9.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeFeb 27th 2010
     
    First American comics...that takes me back. Although the UK Secret Wars series was the comic that started the idiotic habit I now have, I'd been getting comics before that. We holidayed in Falmouth every year, and the newsagent on Arwenack (sp?) Street sold DC books, so I have random, early-mid 80s DC issues from July to August scattered amongst the longboxes.

    More disappointingly, I could have had a bunch of Marvel from that period too. We used to do the grocery shopping with my grandma as she had a car, and, despite it not being local, her supermarket of choice was the long time gone Hillards in Batley. She'd always take me to Batley market when we were done and there was a stall that sold second hand comics. The disappointment bit is he'd buy them back, so I'd trade them in each week for a new batch. I have clear memories of some of them - issues of Dazzler, Captain America, Iron Man, the first issue of Power Pack and Rom: Spaceknight stand out in my memory (the Dazzler issue featured her on those naff roller-skates against a lemony background, if memory serves), but there were probably dozens I've forgotten. Shame.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeFeb 27th 2010
     
    Hillards! Didn't Tesco or sainsbury or someone take them over? Christ, that takes me back! My first american comic was a Spiderman annual from 1983, which had a spidey on a yellow circular background that was then surrounded by black. The story was about a school reuinion. After that, I didn't pick up US comics again until 1988, when we were on holiday in Florida. i got Transformers #45 (Circuit Breaker vs Skullgrin on a movie lot), The first part of the Willow movie adaption, some Archie comics and that was it. A few months after that, I remember goping to a comics shop in Bradford (not the one that used to be in Rocks Off) and picked up Transformers #46, Wolverine #1 (now long gone), and Transformers #17 & 18 (return to cybertron - probably bob budiansky's best transformers tale). I got the beano weekly too from about 1986 - 1991 (dropped in favour of Toxic! and then Overkill the following year). They all ended up sold onto a Primary School for 2p a copy (well, what else are you going to do with about 900 comics?! Wish i'd kept the ones with Little Larry in ,though, which was a spin off from Calamity James and featured amusing rhymes by Tom Patterson - who is a legend, with his squelchy thingies, sausages, porridge factories, random door keys and £10,000 bank notes cluttering up the back grounds - along with frilly knickers!).

    Anyway, back on topic. Was the Spiderman and Zoids comic any good? I have vague recollections of flicking through a few on 'indoor plays' at Primary School when it rained, but can't remember much about it.
    • CommentAuthorWandersUK
    • CommentTimeFeb 27th 2010
     
    Yeah i had the american comics in the annual form but this was the first actual comic comic i`d bought, my old man was on the markets, and someone had one of them out of date magazine stalls opposite, think they was about 30p so not really that cheap for then, he had tonnes i often wonder what that lot would be worth if id got the lot, and i had to pick up solo frikkin avengers! this would have been about 21 years ago cos i was about 10. think it was south woodham ferres. (spelling?). all them stalls used to have them at the time though they would be the returns from the previous month or so, used to have loads on romford market.

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