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Post by dlw66 on Feb 27, 2007 8:43:49 GMT -5
Feel free to keep your vote private!
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Tone-Loc
Reservist Avenger
R.I.P. (... for now)
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Post by Tone-Loc on Feb 27, 2007 13:24:15 GMT -5
Just turned 34 back in December. I was big into comics (pretty much exclusively Marvel) from about '84-'91.
I only have about a hundred or so comics in my "collection" from way back when. Loved the Avengers DVD-ROM.
Having a four-year old is a great excuse for getting back into comics! ;D
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Post by Doctor Bong on Feb 27, 2007 15:14:48 GMT -5
I'm 41, started reading Marvel around '73, when I was about 7. Stopped reading comics from '81 (when I hit 15), figuring then I was TOO OLD for comics, till '91, when I returned to the United States for good and realized that, no, I wasn't...
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Post by dlw66 on Feb 27, 2007 15:33:35 GMT -5
I am 40 (for four more months!) and, like ua2 started reading both Marvel and DC around 1972-73. And, like ua2 as well, I stopped in 1980 when I started high school (you know, girls don't dig comics -- HAHA!!, tananile , and picked it up again second semester of my freshman year in college when I found some buddies who were "out of the comics closet"! And, in the time I'd been away, there sprung up these new (to me) things called comics shops!!!! Wow!
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Post by Black Knight on Feb 27, 2007 16:14:09 GMT -5
I am 33 years old, and have been collecting since my older brother hooked me on them when I was like 5 or 6. They are the one hobby that I have hung onto my whole life.
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Post by thew40 on Feb 27, 2007 17:18:13 GMT -5
I'm 24 and have been collecing since I was 9.
~W~
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Post by Shiryu on Feb 27, 2007 17:58:37 GMT -5
Same as W, 24, truly collecting ever since 18 / 19 (before that it was only a few issues here and there, sometimes with years in between).
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jkemble
Reservist Avenger
the Cosmic Frog
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Post by jkemble on Feb 27, 2007 18:46:01 GMT -5
turned 40 last fall, so I guess I'm 40.5 Wow, next year I go into a new age catagory. I wonder how that's going to effect my credit?
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Post by Doctor Bong on Feb 27, 2007 20:35:27 GMT -5
... or your credibility...? Remember that old hippie dictum: "Never trust a person over 30"...?
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Post by The Night Phantom on Feb 27, 2007 20:44:38 GMT -5
In my day, to get our comics, we had to walk barefoot through the snow ten miles—uphill, both ways!
And we liked it that way!
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Post by Doctor Bong on Feb 27, 2007 21:07:28 GMT -5
At least that means you're not older than the hills, Night Phantom!
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Post by dlw66 on Feb 27, 2007 21:10:50 GMT -5
Remember that old hippie dictum: "Never trust a person over 30"...? ua2 -- In the Groovy 70's thread I asked if anyone had seen Logan's Run the other night. If you are not familiar with that great 70's sci-fi cheese, anyone over 30 MUST DIE!!!!
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Post by Doctor Bong on Feb 27, 2007 21:26:29 GMT -5
I remember with such clarity, like it was only yesterday, the night I saw it with my family... I also remember the movie quite well (I think...). I came out of the theater thinking it was one of the greatest movies of all time, but I haven't seen it since... I wonder how well would it hold for me should I watch it again...
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Post by dlw66 on Feb 27, 2007 21:36:49 GMT -5
You gotta love the device that allowed Michael York to pick a consort for the evening...
The special effects are no George Lucas production, let me tell you! But it was great fun -- I hadn't seen it since I caught it on television in the late 70's. It was a "moment in time" for me. Great movie? Hey, I'm no Roger Ebert -- I was just smiling and having a good time walking down memory lane.
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Post by Tana Nile on Feb 27, 2007 23:13:13 GMT -5
You gotta love the device that allowed Michael York to pick a consort for the evening... The special effects are no George Lucas production, let me tell you! But it was great fun -- I hadn't seen it since I caught it on television in the late 70's. It was a "moment in time" for me. Great movie? Hey, I'm no Roger Ebert -- I was just smiling and having a good time walking down memory lane. I still get a kick out of the holographic inquisition! "There is no sanctuary!!!!!"
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daned
Probationary Avenger
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Post by daned on Feb 28, 2007 5:02:59 GMT -5
I was having a discussion about this with the school librarian. She seemed incredulous that the Head of the English Department could read comics. "But they're for kids though, right?" I tried to tell her that the average age of the audience of comics is in the 30s. She didn't believe me.
Oh yeah. She had three of New Avengers Trade Paperbacks. I might for the first time try to ban a book in a library.
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Post by dlw66 on Feb 28, 2007 8:32:42 GMT -5
Censorship does have its merits
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Post by thew40 on Feb 28, 2007 8:49:00 GMT -5
I was having a discussion about this with the school librarian. She seemed incredulous that the Head of the English Department could read comics. "But they're for kids though, right?" I tried to tell her that the average age of the audience of comics is in the 30s. She didn't believe me. Oh yeah. She had three of New Avengers Trade Paperbacks. I might for the first time try to ban a book in a library. Give her Blankets, Maus, or another more mature title and then she'll see that comics ain't for kids (most of the time). ~W~
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Post by dlw66 on Feb 28, 2007 9:19:43 GMT -5
Kids who like anime may take to the Barefoot Gen series. It is a look at the atomic bombings of Japan.
US and world history teachers, as well as those who teach moral issues or social justice courses might like to use Will Eisner's last graphic novel, The Plot, which is about the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (an alleged Jewish conspiracy to take over the earth).
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Post by Van Plexico on Mar 1, 2007 14:26:52 GMT -5
Turned 39 in January. That pretty much sums it up. Bought my first Marvel comic in 1977 (AVENGERS 162: The Bride of Ultron!). Stopped in 1983, in high school. (Nexus was all I was reading then. And maybe Dreadstar and Alien Legion. I was not happy with Marvel at that time. How things have changed! haha) Started again in 1992, while in grad school in DC, when I saw the INFINITY GAUNTLET, by Jim Starlin, whose work I've always liked (though not as much in the last few years).
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fatbob
Force Works-er
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Post by fatbob on Mar 2, 2007 6:04:15 GMT -5
In my day, to get our comics, we had to walk barefoot through the snow ten miles—uphill, both ways! And we liked it that way! Luxury- you had it lucky. We used to walk over blazing coals in our bare feet to get to our comics and pay for the privilidge. Tell that to kids nowadays, they don't believe you...... And anyone who else who remembers old Monty Python will be as old as me...50
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daned
Probationary Avenger
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Post by daned on Mar 2, 2007 6:55:32 GMT -5
She did have Maus. I tried to convince her it was up for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although I'm fairly certain now I was wrong. That was When the Win Blows or some such? If only there was some kind of device where I could enter an obscure question like that and find the answer...
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 2, 2007 8:36:55 GMT -5
Maus won the Pulitzer Prize.
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Post by iastagehand on Mar 2, 2007 9:08:12 GMT -5
i am 34 (35 in april). Started collecting when about 9 or 10 then quit around 16; Beer and girls were expensive even back then! Started up again when Marvel relauched XMEN then off again. Been back into comics for the last couple of years when IDENTITY CRISIS and JLA/AVENGERS lured me back. Still got most of my comics for back then. i am hovering around 2500 or so
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Post by henrypym on Mar 11, 2007 20:11:13 GMT -5
Old enough to know better, but young enough to still be able to.
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Post by uberwolf on Mar 13, 2007 0:23:37 GMT -5
Turned 40 in January. Not sure the exact year I started on comics. a friend of the family gave me a big stack which included giant size xmen 1 and a few other good ones. I fondly remember the "Still $.25!" logos when I started buying my own comics.
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Post by Doctor Doom on Mar 13, 2007 13:15:04 GMT -5
Interested to know who our 10-20 year old is. They obviously don't want to say but I'd guess one of the newer members. Since most of the oldies have already spoken up.
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Post by Black Knight on Mar 13, 2007 15:05:25 GMT -5
This is not meant to offend, and is not really meant to prove anything, just a bit of interesting info.
I did a poll on another website, sometime ago, regarding age brackets that liked NA. The findings where interesting in that the majority, and by majority, I mean over 75% of the about 50 who responded, where all 15-25. Just thought that was interesting info, take it for what it is.
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 13, 2007 20:24:42 GMT -5
turned 36 in February. Been into comics for a loooonnnnnggggg part of that time.
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Post by Yellowjacket on Mar 14, 2007 6:44:02 GMT -5
I turned 40 last november, seems to be a good age around here. ;D
I began reading comics in the early 70s, too, but didn´t discover the fascination of MU until 1977. About 1984 I totally quit reading comics (partly for the usual reasons, partly because I was completely disappointed by our then publisher in Germany).
In 1999 and ever since then I was back in MU, nowadays reading 99% US books. I´m especially proud of my nearly complete run of Avengers books (the first hundred in German language, though). About 750 books, which makes 1/3 of my collection.
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