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Mark Haslett
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I can identify, Craig. I used to organize and reorganize my collection into
stacks. If I could rook an adult into a comic book conversation, I would
quickly go off the deep end.
I thought boxes were only for store owners for some reason until after I
stopped collecting seriously. My favorite places to buy used comics were
never too picky about protecting condition, so I never got too worked up
about it. I knew I would read the heck out of whatever I bought.
I remember vividly when I was eating a pop cicle and reading X-Men 141,
admiring that cover, when a big drip from my mouth splotched down on it. I
wished I hadn’t done THAT, so condition counted for something— but
mostly do my reading could be “uninterrupted.”
Edited by Mark Haslett on 22 April 2024 at 4:08pm
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Brian Hughes
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I remember walking into my favorite Comic Book Shop, "Heroes Workshop" back in the late 80's. One of my friends there picked up a random book and asked me about it.
I was lucky, he had picked up an issue of the X-Men.
I was able to list off all the credits in it, even the Colorist and Letterer, though Tom Orzechowski is an easy name to remember.
I had my own OCD for those books I read back in the day. It has faded some though, so I can remember some of it, just not all of it.
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John Popa
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In the early 90's, I played the daily pick 3 lottery with the numbers 218, which is Marc Silvestri's first issue of Uncanny X-Men.
I pocketed a cool $42.50 and never played again, figuring my luck had run its course.
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Frank S Balkin
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my daughter teases me because when we're parked in a large parking garage or lot with numbered spaces, my mind immediately, without my trying, goes to a comic book's cover whose issue number corresponds with that comic. I think the first time I made the mistake of telling her, I'd parked in space 181, and I mentioned that it made me flash on the cover of BATMAN 181 the first appearance of Poison Ivy.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I need boxes. I mostly have stacks of comics, maybe two thirds I've managed to find bags for. Definitely more of an accumulator.
When I was younger there were two large bookcases and a steamer trunk with neat rows, and beyond that apple boxes held two rows. Now one of those bookcases is full up with CDs, and the trunk was needed for other stuff.
I also remember covers by issue numbers, when I do remember them anyway.
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Craig Earl
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I think the first time I made the mistake of telling her, I'd parked in space 181, and I mentioned that it made me flash on the cover of BATMAN 181 the first appearance of Poison Ivy.
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At the first mention of 181 - my mind flashed to DD 181 - the death of Elektra!
And when I say that my comics were in boxes, they were in Weetabix cereal boxes - the perfect size!
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I used to take out a run from the long box (almost always it was a JB run and FF was my favourite to do this with) , flip the pile upside down, so all the issues were facing down and the earliest was first. Then every evening I would take an issue of the top, read it and add it to a new pile. I'd get through two or three issues per night. Depending on the length of the run, it would take me two, three even four weeks to get through the whole thing. I must have re-read JB's FF run about 10 times in my teens.
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Mark Haslett
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it made me flash on the cover of BATMAN 181 the first appearance of
Poison Ivy.
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At the first mention of 181 - my mind flashed to DD 181 - the death of
Elektra!
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And I cannot NOT use Hulk 181.
But definitely, numbers are comic book covers when I need to remember
anything from 1-300
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For me it's Avengers 181 I see.
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Geeze, 181 certainly has been important for a lot of series.
For X-Men of course, it was the return from Secret Wars & the two dragons
story.
YES! I’ve still got it!
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Brian Miller
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And that FANTASTIC JRjr cover of Lockheed blasting that other dragon’s
eyeball
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But definitely, numbers are comic book covers when I need to remember
anything from 1-300
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Absolutely. Got me thru X-ray school
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