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03-23-2023, 09:25 PM | #31 |
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I had that “Secret Mission to Spy Island” (I had to rebuy it recently because my childhood copy was damaged).
I remember being so confused as a kid, as I had no concept of G.I. Joe existing before Flash and Zap. Was that Clutch? Why were they not referring to him by his code name? Last edited by wedge1968; 03-23-2023 at 09:35 PM.. |
03-23-2023, 09:43 PM | #32 |
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It's just not the same. Those Peter Pan Records and Storybooks were great memories. All those records that told stories of Cap & Falcon or Spidey, etc. were amazing to me as a kid. Still remember sitting as close to the record player as possible and reading along. But, I won't veer off-topic. |
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03-23-2023, 11:00 PM | #33 |
Cobra Soldier
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My first comic was a bagged Marvel #1 in my Christmas stocking. My second comic was #20. Then for some reason I skipped to #24 and was a steady reader almost until the end.
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03-24-2023, 02:47 AM | #34 |
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My cousins had #47, but I started with #51. I distinctly remember collecting all the back issues of G.I.Joe, and #24 was the last one I found. I was shocked to see the Sky Hawk, and the headquarters, which I didn't expect to see again after 19.
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03-24-2023, 12:13 PM | #35 |
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Okay, so one day a kid knocked on our door. He was going door to door selling magazines. Among the things you could subscribe to was the G.I. Joe comic. I begged my mother to let me get it. I had bought some other comics here and there, mostly on rare trips to my grandmother's, but I was really excited about G.I. Joe from the commercials, and the idea of a comic that would come every month sounded like the greatest thing I had ever heard.
Months later, the issues comes, wrapped in brown paper. I open it up. It was issue 21. And boy, was I confused. When Larry talks about the people who were confused when they read issue 21, that was me. I couldn't figure out was going on. Was this a normal thing in comics, that comic book readers knew about but I didn't? Was it a mistake? Was I supposed to make up my own dialogue? The art was incredible and the story blew my little mind, but I felt like everyone else knew something about this issue that I didn't. My brother and I would take turns "reading" it to each other, making up dialogue for all the characters as we went along. I think it wasn't until the "Postbox: the Pit" a few issues later that I really understood that I had literally stumbled across one of the most innovate comics of all time for my first issue, not that there had been a mistake or that there was something I didn't understand.
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03-25-2023, 08:49 AM | #36 |
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The first issue I bought with my own money was issue 124. |
04-15-2023, 10:03 AM | #37 |
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In another thread I mentioned that my first issue was ARAH 2. While that is true story-wise, I do have to clarify.
I was very young in 1988, still in the single-digits, but that was a time when parents had no problem sending their kids out to play or do errands as long as we were back before dark. We would also hang out at my Aunts house a lot which happened to have a corner store around the block. She would send me there sometimes with a dollar to buy her a soda and my payment was the change. One day I went for a can of Coke and on the way back I was bored so I decided to kick the can all the way back. It was dirty and dented by the time I returned but I told her I didnt do it so she made me open it out on the balcony. Expectedly, it exploded all over the place. She had me go back for another Coke for her which meant I now had enough money for a comic book. There on the shelf in the magazine rack was a comic book about an animated series I loved and had all the toys and figures for. I went right for that one. It was Tales of GI Joe issue 2, a reprint of ARAH issue 2. |
04-15-2023, 01:41 PM | #38 |
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I bought a smattering of 90s GI Joe comics, not sure which was my first. #145 wasn't it, but these pages stuck in my mind, and I drew that Zarana so many times.
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04-16-2023, 08:13 AM | #39 |
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77 was my first joe comic, and I believe my first comic book ever. It's beat up but I had Larry sign it at joecon back in 2013.
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04-16-2023, 09:21 AM | #40 |
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The big giant 1st issue.
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