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scans_dailyGood evening to all you guys, gals and non-binary pals (To borrow a charming turn of phrase from Thomas Sanders)
Thanks to all who suggested titles to recommend as seasonal gifts!
We now move on to Week 2 of the festive Edition - Your First Time
No, not THAT sort of First Time, we're not that sort of a community (though I imagine there are some stories to tell), but what comic or story first drew you into comics?
It doesn't even need to be first one you actively read, just the first one to make you think "I want to read more like this"?
If you can share the scans and tell us WHY it hooked you.
Thanks to all who suggested titles to recommend as seasonal gifts!
We now move on to Week 2 of the festive Edition - Your First Time
No, not THAT sort of First Time, we're not that sort of a community (though I imagine there are some stories to tell), but what comic or story first drew you into comics?
It doesn't even need to be first one you actively read, just the first one to make you think "I want to read more like this"?
If you can share the scans and tell us WHY it hooked you.
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Date: 2017-12-11 08:29 pm (UTC)This was in the early 90's, but I think the stories were from the 80's or even late 70's. (the comic book itself was probably a couple of years old when I read it, and the stories probably a few years older than when they were published in swedish) Peter was at college.
The first story was a fairly mundane one about a thief who used poison gas (Spidey tried using his webbing to improvise a gas mask but it didn't work) I think the thief's motivation had something to do with the fashion industry and she was called, IIRC, Belladonna? That story ended inconclusively and I've no idea if it was ever resolved.
The second story was the a better one, it involved a gang war between two rival gangs (one lead by a beefy black guy, the other by a mysterious character who turned out to be the Vulture) the rival gang leader killed Vulture's nephew (who was acting as his second-in-command) which caused him to go berserk and when Spidey stopped him there was a long chase/fight scene that ended with Toomes flying into the bulletproof glass in dome in one of the New York train stations and (it being implied) hurting himself badly.
It had some fun bits (the Vulture reveal was fun, Spidey being disabled by gas and going "I JUST fought Belladonna! I Should've been prepared for this!") one of those slowly moving death traps where Spidey was being sent into a crematory oven.... Etc. etc.
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Date: 2017-12-11 09:21 pm (UTC)I was 9 or 10 and spending the night at a friend's house. His dad collected comic books and would let his son (and by extension, me) read them. This was before anyone bothered to collect for resale value, so the comics were kept in a giant box in the garage. For our little slumber party, my friend and I moved the box to his room and spent all night reading them.
I was immediately drawn to the X-men (this was back when there was only one X-title). The notion of being hated for a stupid reason that you can't even control resonated. And the fact that they still risked their lives struck me as... noble? Heroic? Anyway, my 9 or 10-year-old brain found it moving.
I remember the Dark Phoenix Saga because that storyline was memorable, and because my friend's dad happened to have those comics in the giant box. But TBH, I probably would have had the same reaction to any of the "all-new" X-men issues prior to #200 or so, when the mutants were mostly in their own portion of the Marvel universe.
tl;dr: The 80's X-men comics, for the same reasons as everyone else who liked those issues. :/
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Date: 2017-12-11 09:47 pm (UTC)There was X-Men issue 3, since I already knew about X-Men already. Even at the time, Young Me knew Magneto wasn't actually dead, just because he'd been shot down and burnt up in the atmosphere. That was what got me hooked on X-Men.
(There was another X-Men issue they had from a while on, still from the early 90s, where some of the team wound up in another dimension, and for the life of me, I've never been able to find any clue as to which one it was. And the cover was missing, so no help there...)
The penultimate issue of the Muir Island Saga (they didn't have the finale).
And there were some of the inaugural issues of He Who Must Not Be Named's X-Factor, which included a crossover with HWMNBN's Hulk.
That's where the love for Multiple Man comes from.
Then there were some issues of New Warriors (the one where the Sphinx rewrote reality so Egypt rules the world), which I totally blame for my love of alternate realities and Richard Rider.
Got in there because I noticed Juggernaut was in it. X-Men is a gateway to harder comics, kids!
There were also several issues of the Circle storyline, including when Justice gets set down for putting his dad through a wall.
(So when my first event began with the New Warriors being blown up...)
There were several issues of Gruenwald's Captain America, from the Bloodstone storyline, and that old "classic", the Ice storyline.
Also, there were some back-up stories about Battlestar running into trouble mistaking someone for John Walker, and running into the Power Broker.
(And a few Avengers issues which are a lot less distinct - Cap and Stingray having a run in with the Red Guard, and... someone being blown up by a giant brain?)
And one of the big ones, Guardians of the Galaxy, in all its 90s glory.
That one left a heck of an impression (but coming back to it twenty years later... kind of a let down, but by that point the damage was done.)
Those stories, hokey and / or 90s they may have been, made an impact on my young brain. Just, with some of them, I read and my brain was all "yeah, more of this!"
Definitely influenced my early Marvel buys, once I realised there was somewhere to buy comics at.
(Didn't read much of the DC stuff, by the by, but there was one or two issues of Tim Drake's Robin from the early 90s. Joker escaping Arkham via a gas grenade disguised as a Bible, I think? It didn't leave much of an impression, truth be told.
Given some of the stuff looked an awful lot like Justice League International, I'm pretty sure avoiding it might've been a sound move.)