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I loved reading the Richie Rich comic books as a kid, and I got very into Tintin at an early age. My wife was into Archie.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I loved reading the Richie Rich comic books as a kid, and I got very into Tintin at an early age. My wife was into Archie.


I remember I used to wait for eons for the latest Archie comix imported from my local newsagent from the U.S. !!! I love Veronica & Betty too...and the Archies killed it for music !!!
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I used to read MAD magazine until I grew out of it around the age of sixty. Smile


I used to read MAD also. It's maybe the closest thing to a comic book that I got into. I also used to read "comics" and was a big fan of the farside. 


MAD was kinky kool back in the day !!!
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I loved reading the Richie Rich comic books as a kid,

I was heavy into Richie Rich as a kid and to lesser extents other Harvey comics. I also loved DC war comics and Uncle Scrooge. This was in the 70s. I didn't get big into superheroes until the 80s. 

Pretty much stopped reading new comics about 20 years ago. I still dabble in the occasional collected trade paperback of newer stuff but mostly non-Marvel and non-DC. I can't stand modern superhero comics these days but I still read them from decades prior to the 90s.

As far as Richie Rich is concerned, I'm about 50 issues away from having all issues published from Richie Rich 1 in 1960 until Harvey stopped publishing in the 90s. I also only need three or four of the original Carl Barks Uncle Scrooges to complete that run and I still buy DC war comics from the 50s through the 80s
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I used to be a big time reader and collector of comics through the 70s and the first half of the 80s. Some of what I have is worth a small fortune today. I was mainly only interested in Marvel. My favorite was Captain Marvel (who was originally male, fyi). I also especially liked Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, and others. My favorite artists were Jim Starlin and Frank Brunner.
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Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

I used to be a big time reader and collector of comics through the 70s and the first half of the 80s. Some of what I have is worth a small fortune today. I was mainly only interested in Marvel. My favorite was Captain Marvel (who was originally male, fyi). I also especially liked Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, and others. My favorite artists were Jim Starlin and Frank Brunner.





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I read Micky Mouse and Donald Duck and the Marvel superhero comics in my youth. later I read Asterix, Tintin and Lucky Luke, then Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb. these days I especially like the pretty dark Canardo comics ("canard" is French for "duck") by Belgian comic book artist Benoît Sokal. he is a private eye who is in love with a female villain named Clara (a stork) who often crosses his path. the stories feature sex, drugs, violence and various grim themes such as suicide, insanity and rape




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Originally posted by The Anders The Anders wrote:

For my own part, we're mostly speaking of the classic French/Belgian tradition with series such as Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Iznogoud, Spirou and Fantasiou and so on. But I have other favourites too: Valhalla (Danish series based on Nordic mythology), Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Madam and Eve (satirical series from South Africa), as well as some rather bizarre ones that are not known outside Denmark.


Born in Brussels, the heart of creation of the Belgo-French Bande Dessinée (which is now more Franco-Belgian), but also encapsulating Italian (Pratt, Manara, etc..), Swiss (Cosey, Derib, Zep & Ceppi), Germans (Andréas) and Spanish authors since the 60/70's.
Even Argentinians (Munoz, Sampoyo, etc...) and Chileans (Jodorowski)were published from Brussels or Paris from the mid-70's onwards. Will Eisner was also published back then.

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Soooo I was much into the three main weeklies Tintin, Spirou and Pilote (Vaillant/Pif being the distant fourth) and the derived hard cardboard books when a kid.
When we crossed the pond in the early 70's, we took our culture with us to Montreal (first) and then Toronto (we even had those three weeklies coming to us via diplomatic mail), but our friends were totally unaware of these forms of "comics".
To adapt to my surrounding, I tried to read MAD and those Archies comics and managed somewhat, but read avidly the newspaper comics strips, but we could never get into those testicle-moulding tight-wearing panzies superheroes. It always seemed so retrograd to me, sooooo oversimplistic.

So my buddies borrowed our books, sometimes even learning their french on them, but it was a one-way street, but we didn't care.

Of course when the monthlies Metal Hurlant and (A SUIVRE) appeared , I followed on it r(the first delving in Sci-Fi and the second in B&W graphic Novels). I read US/Can graphic novels, but I can't stand 99.9% of mangas.

Today, I really have a hard time with pre-70's Bande Dessinée, mostly because they're so outdated in terms of storylines, but I still read a fair amount of it.

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Big Hergé fan, loved the Tintin books though I wouldn't call them 'comic books' which are (were) pulp-based and budget friendly periodicals for kids & military who could afford 25¢ for a thirty page story about people in tights fighting crime. 

Nope, the Belgo-French school shouldn't be called "comics" (neither should mangas, BTW), because of the way they're published in luxurious format (+/- 15 $£€ for a 45-page full-coloured album), but this doesn't mean they're anymore high-priced collectible items for avid collectioners.











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Originally posted by triptych triptych wrote:

Originally posted by HackettFan HackettFan wrote:

I used to be a big time reader and collector of comics through the 70s and the first half of the 80s. Some of what I have is worth a small fortune today. I was mainly only interested in Marvel. My favorite was Captain Marvel (who was originally male, fyi). I also especially liked Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, and others. My favorite artists were Jim Starlin and Frank Brunner.





Don't you like Stan Lee ?

Stan Lee created or co-created most of the early Marvel characters Fantastic 4, Spiderman, Dr Strange...and wrote the story lines  and oversaw the gist of the books but he didn't draw or color the main images....the letterers and artists did that. People like Kirby, Ditko, (Starlin, Brunner)... and Kirby also cowrote with Lee at times.


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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Nope, the Belgo-French school shouldn't be called "comics" (neither should mangas, BTW), because of the way they're published in luxurious format (+/- 15 $£€ for a 45-page full-coloured album), but this doesn't mean they're anymore high-priced collectible items for avid collectioners.


In Denmark we simply say 'tegneserie' (drawn series) about all of them. Be it the Bande Dessinée, Donald Duck magazines, Superman, Manga etc. It's more neutral I guess, it could apply to any format, and they don't have to be comic.


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