How you obtained your comic books as a kid?

[Marvelmania]

7-11, Super X Drug Store or Zimmerman's News Stand

[StrangeVisitor]

I guess all that goes around comes around, my Mom thru almost all my books away because they were taking up space in my room. I was not aware of it until it was to late!

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NATURAL ENEMIES

[AJ Collector]

so true....lol

[VintageMike]

The first time I remember getting comics was when I was home sick at young age.
My dad brought me home Spider-man titles and a coupel of Hulks. A little 'net search of this issues reveals they would have come out early 1979. If I had comics prior to that I just don't remember them. My first "regular" source of comics was a small variety across the street from grandparents house in NY. We'd visit at least once a month and I'd pick the new Amazing Spider-Man. That was from the low 220's to the mid 240's. As I got more into comics I noticed some of the stores in town carried them and picked them up
that way. During that time I my best friend at the time informed me a wonderous place at one the local malls: A full-fleged comic store! While the store has moved I still buy my weekly comics there to this day.
As far as my parenst go I was lucky. My Dad has always been an investor, so he understood enough about the investment end that my comics were never thrown away.

[wayne foundation 07]

We went to the "News Stand" It was was just that,they sold papers and magazines,comics in the metal turnstyle rack. Always got a laugh at the big display of the girly books behind the counter.It was a Saturday morning routine to walk or ride our bikes downtown to get a comic.

[kryptosmaster]

Wow, that's a loaded question. haha
Man, I had so many places. My mom was a big comic reader so she would buy them and then I got them. When I went to my grandparents house in Buffalo as a small child, we would walk down to the local newsstand, a very small literal hole in the wall. You could barely fit 5 people in there. The comics were 20 cents or 6 for a dollar.
I remember when we went to visit a couisin once, we walked down to a mom & pop corner store and they had used comics for 5 cents. I also used to get them at various drug stores and supermarkets racks. When we would go to our family cabin in the summers we would go to the local supermarket. Right when you walked in there was a large rack of comics. I'd get dropped off there and picked up on the way out most of the time. They also had those bagged 3 packs and I would talk grandma into some of those too. A little later on my gramps would give me $5 for comics every time I would come visit. They also sold comics at a flea market. I rememver them buying stacks of them from a neighborhood boy. I still have a couple with his name scrawled on them.
Seems like anywhere I went that had comics I would try to get at least one. We went on a trip once and stopped at a little store and I came out with a Richie Rich/Jackie Jokers comic, LOL.
One of the earliest comics I specifically remember buying off the rack was Hulk #200. I have no idea why I bought it. I have never liked Hulk and never collected it but I bought that one issue for some rerason (and I still have it).
I didn't really start collecting seriously until about 1979-80 but I always saved my old comics before that. Unfortunately I wasn't aware of the condition factor at that point so most of my childhood comics were well-read.
I had never been to a comic shop until about 1980.
Most of my early collecting was from flea markets.
Rich

[Steeler80]

My Mom bought them for me at the local Piggly Wiggly.

[big_geek_3rd]

Most were bought for me/later bought by myself at Eastside Pharmacy, right up the street from me. The first book I recall seeing on the shelf and asking for was the 1978 Batman Spectacular. I was 3. My sister bought it for me.

I was in the drugstore at least 3 or 4 times a week, and when I figured out what day comics came in, I'd lurk around until they put them out. Finally, they just asked if I wanted to go through them before the put them out! So I always got first pick. Years later I worked there in high school. It's still there, but they don't carry comics anymore.

There were three other drugstores and two convenience store that carried comics too. My mom worked in the same shopping mall as Begley's Drug (now relocated as Rite-Aid). She would often stop and buy comics for me before coming home for the day. Oddly enough, she bought many from my future mother-in-law who worked at Begley's!

WOW! That is so cool. It's EXACTLY what my arrangement was with Ron and the crew! You must have taken over when football and wrestling finally got in the way!

I didn't think anyone in the world would ever know that experience.

[HardyGirl]

I didn't own all that many comics a kid. Let's see...

3 Casper comics (age 6) for our first trip to CA from Mom
1 Little Lulu (about age 6 or 7) when my uncle came to visit
1 repro Detective Comics 1st Bat-Man issue (age 8) in my prize bag when I was on Wonderama
1 Great Gazoo comic (age 9) from my sister's friend Dale
3 Looney Tunes (age 11) during our second trip to CA from Mom

I read lotsa Archie comics in the dentist's office
Borrowed some She-Hulk comics from my friend Derek when I was 14
And I read the funny papers every Sunday.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

All of the superhero and Archie comics I got from the local 7-11 or grocery store, but I used to love going to get shoes at the buster brown because they had these little dell Looney Tunes comics they would give out to the kids when you bought a pair of shoes. This was around '72 to '74

[HardyGirl]

All of the superhero and Archie comics I got from the local 7-11 or grocery store, but I used to love going to get shoes at the buster brown because they had these little dell Looney Tunes comics they would give out to the kids when you bought a pair of shoes. This was around '72 to '74

Lucky! I went to our local Buster Brown 3 times a year (school shoes, church shoes and sandals) and all I ever got was a balloon!

[Timothy2251]

I got started thanks to my dad's younger stepbrother. He stayed at our house briefly when I was a kid (he was a (late '60s early 70's) teenager (HIPPIE!), used to play his guitar a lot, watch All in the Family with him), and he left a TON of comics with me and my brother when he left for college (got a very large run of '60s and '70s Marvels because of him!).

After that, plus with 60's Batman and Spider-Man shows on constantly, plus with the first Mego superheroes popping up, my brother and I were hooked on heroes. We'd get our comics at the local 7-11, along with occasional superhero Slurpee cups! My grandparents would also hook us up on occasion, too - got some early Dell Star Trek books, etc. thanks to them.

[TrueDave]

In real life I am a Hard core total Bad A . Always have been I beat the snot out of the little girly rich kids and took all thier books.

*sigh*

I can't do it. I thought I would try lying about my identity once online . . .



First comic I bought for myself was Swamp Thing because I had seen the movie on Cable TV. It was a local drug store.I also bought my one and only Fangoria because it had a Swamp Thing movie article but the old lady at the store didnt want to sell it to me because I was too little.

I still remember her words

" Do you parents know you are trying to buy this garbage?"