When did you first get into comics? I was never really exposed to them when I was younger. I used to travel a lot with my job, and sometimes had time to kill, and would browse magazine stands. That's when I got hooked, because they were just plain entertaining.

1984, when I was 4 with the marvel transformers comics.

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4, man, that might be the earliest I have heard for someone reading comics.

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I loved the transformers cartoon, I was perminantly addicted to it. My parents got me the subscription from issue 4 of the marvel uk reprints (weekly version of the us monthly comic). Unfortunately the newsagent could only get them every other week so I have 4,6,8,10,12....

Finally managed to get it weekly from 20 all the way to 330 whatever it was when it was finally cancelled.


I blame it for the fact that I always see spiderman as black not red (he was in one of the first issues in the black symbyote costume).

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My parents used to buy me the Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet comics when I was little, and the Beano (does that really count?), but then stopped when I was 10 or 11ish because I was "too old to be reading comics". Didn't start again until a few weeks before I signed up for this here forum.

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What prompted you to start reading again? Comic movies?

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Good question. I used to be obsessed with those comics when I was a kid. I bought every Beano and Dandy for about 7 or 8 years. I used to buy all the annuals from second hand book shops and car boot sales. I still have most of them kicking around.

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The ultimate comics, I liked the idea of being in st the beginning of something.

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Helps that for a while at least they were really well written.

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Yup.

And the ones that weren't killed my interest for a couple of years...

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