I'm 43 and at an all time low for comic interest. I buy maybe one trade a year and read my old stuff now and then. I hope I can get more interested in it again someday but right now the films and books just aren't my cup of tea.
I'm 43 and at an all time low for comic interest. I buy maybe one trade a year and read my old stuff now and then. I hope I can get more interested in it again someday but right now the films and books just aren't my cup of tea.
Huh. I remember buying “Robin Dies at Dawn” off the newsstand when I was a little boy. So I’ve got you well and truly beaten, mon frere.
I think the first comic I can remember looking at was one of the John Byrne post crisis Superman Man Of Steels. Before that I only knew the Christopher Reeve movies. I do remember wondering suddenly why Lex Luthor was a shady billionaire industrialist rather than the underground gangster I knew him as.
Of course now I know why!
Collects
80's 90's Post Crisis Era
Eaglemoss DC Graphic Novels Collection
New 52 (discontinued)
DC Rebirth
DC Black Label
This forum skews a lot older than I thought.
I'm 19. I have been reading since I was 10/11 but with cheap trades, libraries, Marvel Unlimited and Comixology I have got a lot of reading done.
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I'm 65--hey there from a fellow old poot! I gave up trying to organize all those slippery comic books ages ago and started mostly going for trades. Whoever would have thought, while we were spinning the "Hey Kids! Comics" rack that someday we could read them right off the computer? I still haven't gone THAT far for a collection, but I've got more trades than my local comic shop does.
47 here, my interest is at an all time low at the moment. Maybe my wife is right, maybe its time to start a new hobby. The problem is that its not easy giving up after 30years plus, but DC writers give you no option.
I'll be 49 this month and I'm just as much of a DC fanboy as I was in 1989 when I started collecting seriously (around the Batmania craze)! Of course being a small child in the 70's is what got me started (watching '66 Batman, the Superfriends, and playing with my huge MEGO doll collection).
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I'm a few years older than you.....I stopped reading comics by the time I was around 20, started reading again after my son was a few years old and he was really into Spider-Man. He was also into the Justice League cartoon (Timmverse), and I decided to start buying comics for him, but then I got sucked back in, myself, moreso than I was into it as a teen. The positive side is I've been reading higher quality comics than I did when I was younger.