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Welcome to DCM - how old are you poll?
decemberance:
Hello I'm 37 and love comics since I remember myself :D
im4sf:
I'm a 64 year old retired Air Force man. I grew up on comics, but lost track of them in high school when they changed. Stationed in Germany, I started reading the weekly British paper 2000 AD (Judge Dredd and related characters), but I missed the comics from the 40s and 50s that I remembered so well. This site is wonderful!
Yoc:
Welcome to the site.
You're in for a great time catching up with them here I4!
:)
ianken51:
;)
Hi. I'm 63 yrs along my alotted continuum. I live in Western Australia. My love of comics developed during the 1950's and 1960's when we neighbourhood kids would meet each Sunday and swap our comics. Pretty much each neighbourhood did the same, so over time a pretty sophisticated barter system developed. We got to read lots of comics we couln't have afforded without our trading system. From memory an ordinary comic traded one for one. Annuals and 100 page special issues (eg. Superman Giant Issue) went for 4 regular comics. Rare and sought after items (eg German Secret Weapons of WW2) also cost 4 books. For some reason Phantom comics were poorly valued and went for 2 or 3 phantoms to each regular item.
I remember our teachers lamenting our comic adiction; how could we learn reading such diatribe? Then someone pointed out that in general comics were educational as well as entertaining; our literacy scores were above average and so was our spelling - although some Americanisation slipped into our British spelling thus spoiling the illustration.
I still love comics, especially the old ones from my misspent youth.
Yoc:
Welcome Ian!
Sounds like you Aussie comic readers were a savvy bunch of readers!
Well argued with your teacher. I doubt they every believe that argument but I'm sure you are right on reading them. Reading, any reading, is only a good thing!
Seems these days kids only read when it's a misspelled Twitter message.... *sigh*
Enjoy the scans!
-Yoc
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