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Welcome to DCM - how old are you poll?

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srca1941:
Hmm, looks like I'm the youngest one so far at 27.

Other than some comics given to me at Christmas when I was really young, I didn't buy my own until I was 9, and then started seriously collecting at 10. That was also the year I became interested in the Golden Age through a handful of Superman reprints. I also became obcessed with the next "oldest comic in my collection." The older the better. Over the next few years I managed to pick up a later issue of Heroic Comics and Atlas' Men in Action, and later on some issues of Classics Illustrated, and Captain Marvel Jr. #110. Then, when I was 16, we got the internet and I discovered online auctions. I bought a Fox Blue Beetle and another Captain Marvel Jr., but I still didn't know much about the Golden Age outside of DC's characters and the Marvel Family. I certainly had no idea of the depth of the Golden Age. Then one day I was home sick from school and discovered Two Tub Man's cover site, and Bill Nolan's Pure Excitement Comics. I started The Golden Years site soon after that, and my Golden Age collecting and knowledge gathering exploded. By that fall I had a small handful of PD books and began All-Amazing Comics which was the catalyst for the collection I have today.

-Eric

Yoc:
Thanks for sharing you story Eric.
Nice to learn how your site was born.  It was one of the first sites I found and the very first I ever wrote a fan letter to many years ago!

Thanks for sharing the new scans as well.
:)

Ryking:
I'm 32 and have collected comics since the early 90s boom. I got into comics not because of all the animated series that were going on at the time (spider-man, batman, x-men, etc) but because of the trading cards that Marvel and DC had just started to get into publishing. A friend of mine showed me some of the cards he was collecting and it just took off from there. I think I've only stopped and started collecting comics twice, and both times were for financial reasons. I've always had a special place in my heart for the Golden Age of comics, especially when a writer brings a character back from the depths of limbo that hasn't been seen for a dozen or more years.

Astaldo711:
40 years old. It's funny how the comics I read as brand new in the 80's are now re-released in collector's editions. I love the way new technologies like the internet, scanners, etc.can allow us to enjoy books 50, 60 even 70 years old.

CharlieRock:
Ha! I feel young! My age category includes 26 year olds.

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