General Category > Comic Related Discussion

Your interest in GAC stems from??

<< < (3/4) > >>

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: remz on December 15, 2010, 12:34:53 AM ---My interest in GAC also comes from my first experiences with comics in the mid-to-late 1950s. Relatives had been buying me licensed Dells and St. Johns comics for several years, but the real eye-opener for me was visiting my cousin who had a very near-complete collection of EC comics. Healthy or not, those covers and stories stayed with me, and I avidly sought out every crime and horror comic I could find in the mom-and-pop second hand stores. I was buying the Atlas line of supernatural and mystery comics new and got interested in superheroes with their introduction of the Marvel characters. Getting the opportunity to reacquaint myself with all these books on this site has been a wonderful source of nostalgic joy for me. My interest in comics was unflagging until my late teens at which time I discovered a new interest: Pulp Magazines! But that's another story ...


--- End quote ---

And so, upon reading the EC Comics, you became a juvenile delinquent and serial killer, right?

Ami_GFX:
One of the books my mom bought me had a section on the comics contraversy of the 1950s which mentioned Dr Werthem and Seduction of the Innocent and there was a copy of SOTI in our local public library which I checked out and read at age 13 and and it made me lament being born in the post code era and I really wanted to read every comic mentioned in it. There were some EC reprints out in the 1970s that I read and I managed to buy a collection of underground comix later--like maybe 15 years old--which went far beyond anything Wertham ever dreamed about. Nothing like a little censorship to spike interest in something. Anything that says "adults only" on it is going to be a hot item among teenagers.

The irony of this is that my appetite for comics far exceeded my allowance and I had a paper route by age 12 to pay for all the comics I bought so instead of turning into a juvinile delinquent, I was gainfully employed at a young age to be able to afford my comics.

narfstar:
Working at 12. That is child labor which a violation of the law. Forced into a life of crime by comic bookis  ???

JVJ (RIP):

--- Quote from: narfstar on December 15, 2010, 01:27:13 PM ---Working at 12. That is child labor which a violation of the law. Forced into a life of crime by comic bookis  ???

--- End quote ---

Hey, narf,
I had a paper route when I was 11 delivering the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. I started JUST after I turned 11 in a 10 degrees BELOW zero blizzard. That must have been about 1957 and I wasn't even interested in comic books. I probably used the money to buy candy. Gasp! Times has changed. I had to WALK around my route and every paper had to be placed inside the screen/storm door - none of the namby pamby throwing it on the sidewalk or driveway (actually ALL of the driveways were behind the houses there). Child labor, forsooth. Heck, a year later when we moved to California, I had TEN WHOLE DOLLARS to spend along the way thanks to my paper route. That was cool! I had never even SEEN a ten dollar bill prior to cashing in my savings. Different times.

Peace, Jim (|:{>

JVJ (RIP):
ps. The route was uphill BOTH ways.

 ;D

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page