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Does anyone have a story how a comic book had a significant impact on your life?

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bminor:
I remember receiving a 100 page Super Spectaculars #7 or so with a Neal Adams cover when I was in the hospital when I was in 7th grade.

darkmark (RIP):
When I was in the hospital circa '58 or '59, my mom bought me a copy of MOUSE MUSKETEERS.  Corrupted forever.

Yoc:
She should have gotten you a copy of Mad.  ;)

Rocket Riley:
Justice League of America # 30 Sept 1964 on sale sometime in August.  I was 11 years old.  The last letter on the letter page was a request for back issues of the JLA.  The reply was the standard "we don't have storage space for back issues"  but then they gave the address for the Comicollector magazine in Florida as a place where one might obtain back issues.  My 11 year old brain was aflame!  Not really grasping the concept that it was a magazine not a person I wrote the "Comicollector" a letter asking if he had Superman # 1 for sale (might as well start big) I remember telling my dad that I'd pay up to .50 cents for a copy.  The usual rate for used comics in Detroit was .05.  A couple of weeks later I received this fat mimeographed magazine barely held together with one staple.  It was the Rockets Blast - Comicollector # 33, known with affection as the RB*CC.  This was my introduction to comic book fandom and I'm still enjoying it 55 years later.  Oh, by the way, there was not only a Superman # 1 listed for sale in that issue, but also a Action # 1.  The Superman was $50.00 (I was stunned when I saw where the decimal point was placed) and the Action was $75.00 for what was described as a Mint copy. 

Yoc:
There's a great Facebook page called 'Fanzine Appreciation and History' that shares RB*CC covers and many other fanzines of the era if you are a FB user.  Lots of covers and other photos shared there.

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