Comic Books and Personal Flashback
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kybearfuzzLately I've been binge-reading "The New Teen Titans," and the other day I was wanting to read a comic my dad bought me years ago. I couldn't find it over the last couple of days. Today's rainy day project was to look through my comic books and try to weed out some issues to sell or give away. I was also hoping to find the comic in question.
I did a fair amount of reorganizing, but not a lot discarding. I need to work on that as my donation box is not even near full.
Luckily, though, I found the comic -- Teen Titans #37 (February 1972).
My history with this comic is a good one. When I was a kid, back in the early 1980s, my dad was a truck driver who hauled gasoline from place to place. One of his regular drop off points was a closed gas station on I-25 between our hometown of Corbin and the nearby city of London. On occasion, I would go with Dad and we would stop at the flea market in front of Ridener's, a rapidly aging motel from back before I-75 stole all the thoroughfare traffic in the early 1970's. We'd stop there so I could look for comic books.
One of the few finds I found there was this comic book. I was probably ten years old. The guy selling the comic wanted $6 for it, which was a lot back then. My dad balked at first, but with a bit of begging on my part, he caved. With the surge of popular of the New Teen Titans comic, this original Teen Titans comic became a grand find in my mind.
The story was good, the artwork older and less sophisticated. I read the comic book to near shreds and I have no idea where among my collection it is sitting. The copy I found was bought at a convention a couple of years ago. Still it brings back good memories of the original one I had.
I did a fair amount of reorganizing, but not a lot discarding. I need to work on that as my donation box is not even near full.
Luckily, though, I found the comic -- Teen Titans #37 (February 1972).
My history with this comic is a good one. When I was a kid, back in the early 1980s, my dad was a truck driver who hauled gasoline from place to place. One of his regular drop off points was a closed gas station on I-25 between our hometown of Corbin and the nearby city of London. On occasion, I would go with Dad and we would stop at the flea market in front of Ridener's, a rapidly aging motel from back before I-75 stole all the thoroughfare traffic in the early 1970's. We'd stop there so I could look for comic books.
One of the few finds I found there was this comic book. I was probably ten years old. The guy selling the comic wanted $6 for it, which was a lot back then. My dad balked at first, but with a bit of begging on my part, he caved. With the surge of popular of the New Teen Titans comic, this original Teen Titans comic became a grand find in my mind.
The story was good, the artwork older and less sophisticated. I read the comic book to near shreds and I have no idea where among my collection it is sitting. The copy I found was bought at a convention a couple of years ago. Still it brings back good memories of the original one I had.
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Date: 2015-01-04 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-05 04:18 pm (UTC)I do love the books that for one reason or another I remember exactly where and when I got the book. I think this was more prominent when for the most part comics were only on spinner racks and sometimes I had to go searching for one's I wanted at different 7-11's or bookstores. Or, conversely, there are some places where I remember picking up a specific book there whenever I see it. There is a self-storage place in Scotts Valley that used to be a KOA campground. Whenever I drive by it I flash on an old issue of DC Comics Presents featuring Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes. It's not a fave book or particularly memorable story, but for some reason as soon as I drive by that place I remember picking that comic up.