My Pull List from 1983!

[The Toyroom]

I was looking through my '83 Overstreet Price Guide and came across an ad for Geppi's Subscription Service...My checkmarks :

Alpha Flight
Amazing Spider-Man
Bizarre Adventures
Daredevil
Dreadstar
Fantastic Four
New Mutants
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
What If...?
X-Men

All-Star Squadron
Amethyst, Princess of Gem World
Arak
Atari Force
Batman
Batman and the Outsiders
Blue Devil
Camelot 3000
Captain Carrot
DC Comics Presents
Flash
Fury of Firestorm
Justice League
Legion of Super-Heroes
New Teen Titans
Night Force
Adventure Digest
Best of DC Digest

[Riffster]

pretty close to mine at the time, too funny

[samurainoir]

Wow! You guys must have been "rich" to afford all of those titles every single month!

Not quite my "subscription", but here's what I would scour from the variety and drug stores with my allowance and paper money....

Alpha Flight
Fantastic Four
X-Men
New Mutants
West Coast Avengers
Official Handbook MU
New Teen Titans
Justice League

It would be a few more years before I was old enough to go downtown by myself and discover comic book shops.

The funny thing looking at my list... they are all team books! I must have been trying to get my money's worth... can't afford Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash etc., but here they all are in ONE BOOK!

I think I also spent a great deal of time reading comics in the store as well.

[EMCE Hammer]

That is similar to my book fair selections when I was a little younger. "Here mom, I want these." I always had top pare it down to two or three.

[boynightwing]

I didn't start really collecting till about 86. I was 10. I did have comics before then but they were all random.

My 86 pull list:
Batman
Detective
GIJoe
Transformers
Any Special Batman books I'd come across.

[Riffster]

i was 13 and was already 3 years into collecting

[The Toyroom]

Wow! You guys must have been "rich" to afford all of those titles every single month!

Keep in mind the cover price was a LOT cheaper back then...probably 60 or 75 cents...

It would be a few more years before I was old enough to go downtown by myself and discover comic book shops.

Most of my stuff was from careful scouring of several newsstands in the area...occasionally I'd get to Reader's Island at the mall or a hole-in-the-wall comic shop about 25 minutes away.

[The Toyroom]

i was 13 and was already 3 years into collecting

I'd been collecting pretty much since around '77, '79 was the year I first bought an Overstreet Guide.

[palitoy]

Memory is dodgy but I seem to remember my file at the "book between" being:

Alpha Flight
Kazar
Doctor Who Monthly
Captain Carrot
Atari Force

[The Toyroom]

Memory is dodgy but I seem to remember my file at the "book between" being:

Kazar

Ah yes, Ka-Zar...one of the first "Direct Only" books from Marvel (along with Moon Knight and Micronauts at the same time methinks....)

[kryptosmaster]

I'd been collecting pretty much since around '77, '79 was the year I first bought an Overstreet Guide.

This was my first price guide. It was a gift from my mom.

I was looking through my '83 Overstreet Price Guide and came across an ad for Geppi's Subscription Service...My checkmarks :

Of your list, the ones I was getting were probably the following:

Daredevil

Fantastic Four

Blue Devil

DC Comics Presents

Fury of Firestorm

New Teen Titans

Although I was also getting other books like Superman, Action, World's Finest, Superboy, Supergirl..etc.

Rich

[thunderbolt]

The Marvel side of your list was pretty close to mine(remove Dreadstar and add Micronauts), not so much DC stuff, tho. Teen Titans and BATO.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Anthony, I hope you were getting Detective Comics back then too, since it and Batman were connected every month! If not, you only got half the story!

Back then I had no access to a comic shop. It was all newstand, so I was probably getting these (when I could find them)

Action
Superman
All-Star Squadron
Batman and the Outsiders (but I really missed B&B)
Batman
Detective
Captain Carrot
DC Comics Presents
Flash (I dropped it once I realized the trial would never end)
Green Lantern (I always had trouble finding GL on a regular basis)
JLA
New Teen Titans (almost impossible to come across every issue here)

Amazing Spider-Man
Peter Parker
Captain America

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Anthony, I hope you were getting Detective Comics back then too, since it and Batman were connected every month! If not, you only got half the story!

I probably was but it wasn't checked off on the list...That was most likely around the time of Doug Moench's run I assume?

[BlackKnight]

wow ..., no Action , Detective or Superman huh ?