Comic Books!

[RCMerchant]

When I was a little geek back in the 70's-I usta read comics. My favorites were SGT.FURY,KID COLT,CAPTAIN AMERICA,the SPIRIT,CREEPY,EERIE,VAMPIRELLA,DEVIL DINOSAUER,MISTER MACHINE,WHERE MONSTERS DWELL,MONSTERS ON THE PROWL-and I read just about everything elese.But anything drawn by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko was a keeper.

the INVADERS was a great series-Cappy,Sub Mariener,and the original Human Torch fighting Narzis!



Will Eisner could draw wimmin! I think he is my biggest artistic influence.


Yahoooo!




In the Marvel Universe,giant monsters were attacking every other day!



Heres a fun site! They have scans of every comic book cover you like! Lotsa fun!

http://www.comiccovers.com/

even the ads were cool-

[Doggett]

For me, it's gotta be 2000AD. Although I haven't bought any in three years.



I still read She Hulk:


When I was a kid:



And I have a small collection of Harley Quinn and Catwoman (the older version, not the modern one).

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

One of my prized possessions when I was a kid in the 70s was a whole suitcase full of comics my mom got at a garage sell. Tons of superhero comics, Gold Key funnies, Classics Illustrated great stuff. I especially like the WWII comics SGT ROCK, THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, and WEIRD WAR TALES. The 1st comic I "collected" as it came out was Kirby's DEVIL DINOSAUR. This was the start of my collection that grew at one point to around 10,000 comics. I have since whittled it down to a more sensible 2,000  


My single favorite series of all time is Sergio Aragones GROO THE WANDERER. Hilarious stories, and with amazing eye-catching detail in the drawings.



I was big into the underground B&W explosion of the 80s especially the horror comics, but still enjoyed stuff like Batman, Larry Hama's GI JOE, X-MEN, SPIDER-MAN. I pretty much stopped collecting in the mid-90s when all the multiple foil embossed gimmick covers started taking over, and the stories suffered in lieu of hot-shot artists making every panel a pin-up. The only things I buy now are some of Alan Moore's output, Hellboy, and anything that Sergio Aragones, or Berni Wrightson does.  

[InformationGeek]

Well you all basically know I read manga, but I have read a couple of comic books in my life.  Including these:

[venomx]

I had some Sad Sack comics ... my cousin gave me a few in the 80's. I always loved the ads.

[Jim H]

I just read the first six issues of the Immortal Iron Fist.  The new one, I mean.  Good story, good writing.  Good stuff.  Probably the best recent thing from Marvel I've read in a long, long time..

Is it me, or are DC writers on the whole just a lot better than the Marvel writers?  I'm talking in the past like 5 or 6 years...  Sure seems like it.  Especially if you count Vertigo.

[The Burgomaster]

I've had some pretty nice collections . . . sold 'em on Ebay . . . bought 'em back . . . sold 'em again . . . it's a vicious cycle.  Along the way, I have been the proud owner of the following key issues:

* AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it) - also had a complete run up to about issue #200
* DAREDEVIL #1 (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it)
* AVENGERS #1 (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it) - also had a complete run up to about issue #150.
* TALES OF SUSPENSE #39 (1st appearance of IRON MAN) (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it) - I had the complete run of Iron Man and later Captain America up to issue #99.  After that, they both got their own comics.
* IRON MAN #1 (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it) - also had a complete run up to about issue #150.
* CAPTAIN AMERICA #100 (1st appearance of Captain America in his own magazine after he was in Tales of Suspense) (bought a copy, sold it, bought another, sold it)
* Huge runs of MARVEL TEAM-UP and MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (including issue #1 of both)
* Many FANTASTIC FOUR COMICS (the lowest numbered issue I ever had was around #21)
* Many X-MEN comics (the lowest number I had was around #9, I believe)
* Almost a complete run of CAPTAIN MARVEL (including #1)

Plus some decent runs of a few DC titles (my biggest DC collection was JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA . . . mostly issues from the 1960s and 1970s)

[WingedSerpent]

Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
B.P.R.D.
Hellboy
Ghost Rider
Moon Knight
She Hulk
Planetary (just ended)

was reading JSA, but I stopped after the relaunch a couple years ago, when it became Kingdom Come: The Series

[AndyC]

I still have a box of comics sealed up in the basement somewhere. I think the bulk of them are Transformers from the first issue through to about thirty-something. Also a fair number of Hulk comics, some G.I. Joe, a few issues each of Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, and come to think of it, a lot of Marvel Universe volumes. Most are from the mid to late 80s. And I might still have a stack of beat-up Richie Rich and Archie comics from when I was younger. My mom tended to buy me those.

[Mofo Rising]

I have roughly 12 long boxes or so at the moment, with more comics to be archived. I also left about 10 boxes at my parents' house when I moved out 10 years ago. God bless them, those boxes are still there.

I currently spend $20 or so a week. If you want to talk comics, I'll talk comics.

[WingedSerpent]

I also read The Goon.  It's a pretty funny book, if you like humor dark and wacky

[Cthulhu]

 

[AndyC]

Is it just me, or does Thor look like he's about to bash himself on the head?

[Rev. Powell]

64 pages of gorilla stabbing?  An ape will die on every page?  Sick, but 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Currently I love Capt. America, and I have developed an appreciation for Superman and the JLA.  I had to get over the idea that a boy scout hero is a bad thing. 

I also love a lot of the "recent"  Ultimate Marvel stuff.   Ultimates 2 was jaw-dropping fun for me.   


As a kid I loved  theArchie Goodwin edited Star Wars,


Sargent Rock, and strangely enough Richie Rich was a favorite of mine. 


I rembember loving the gadgets and gimmicks in the books
-Ed