Originally Posted by
caj
Anyone care to share stories of finding back issues of JLofA (or other comics)? Before comic book shops, it was really difficult to find back issues of comics. Here's one of mine:
My Mom was a stay-at-home housewife (and loved being one). She never really commented on my love of comics but would always let me buy them. She was aware of the hours I spent reading them or tracing over them in my attempt to teach myself how to draw. We lived in a small farm town and my Mom would drive into the nearest town, which was 20-25 miles away, once a week to buy groceries. You would pretty much need to go to the hospital or something like that to get her to go back to town after she made that once-a-week trip.
One Saturday when I was about 11 or 12 years old, a friend of mine had been to town and came upon a traveling flea market that had boxes of old comics. He called me and told me they had lots of Justice League comics. I just knew there was no way Mama was going to take me back to town, since she had just gone two days before. But I told her that this may be my only chance to get some back issues and that I really wanted to go. She looked at me and said 'well, I guess we better get up there before they sell them all.'
I couldn't believe it. No begging, no pleading, just 'let's go get in the car'. I knew at that moment that she understood how much I loved comics and what they meant to me. I bought about 20 or more issues of Justice League that day and couldn't stop smiling all the way home. Mama's gone now, but that's a special memory for me.