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[Nicko-Ray]

I have nothing against Bagley. He just happened to came aboard when Michelinie hit a creative ditch and ASM went into a downward spiral.

Love Michelinie! t:

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

goodbye to Pete and MJ...

Peter and MJ in Portland...

Ben Reilly after the events of ASM #149 and before the Clone Saga...

 

[Picard Sisko]

Anyone read "Spider-Man Adventures" from the 90s? It was based on the animated series.

 

[runawayboulder]

When does Peter return as Spider-Man exactly?

Peter Parker Spider-Man #75. The follow up issue was Spectacular #241.

And Peter and MJ never really left. They moved to Portland for all of a few months for the Final Adventure series. Ben found the smokestack skeleton and it forced Peter and MJ to return to deal with it. Then the Blood Brothers arc started. So they were basically out of the books for 3-4 issues.

Love Michelinie! t:

I do too but there was a major difference between his work from 300-350 to his stuff from 350 and on.

 

[Themanofbat]

Peter lost his powers at the end of Final Adventure...

I forget how he got them back...

:scad:

 

[Spider-Gnome]

Peter lost his powers at the end of Final Adventure...

I forget how he got them back...

:scad:

I think it was another of those Pete dies and then comes back.

 

[Themanofbat]

Lol... I wish someone (I'm looking at you Slott) could finally bring some cool resolution to the skeleton from Sensational #2

 

[runawayboulder]

Peter lost his powers at the end of Final Adventure...

I forget how he got them back...

:scad:

They just kind of returned. I remember Peter slipping into a coma but that may have been Seward that did something to him making everyone think he was dying from clone degeneration.

 

[KaineMorrison]

Peter lost his powers at the end of Final Adventure...

I forget how he got them back...

:scad:

I think it was another of those Pete dies and then comes back.

Lol... I wish someone (I'm looking at you Slott) could finally bring some cool resolution to the skeleton from Sensational #2

His powers started coming back slowly. First was breaking a glass in his hand in the Daily Grind, then he was getting shakes and yes, he did "die", but that was for less than 1 issue...

The secret of the Skeleton was revealed.
Osborn Journal... I'll scan the page and be back...

 

[KaineMorrison]

 

[KaineMorrison]

They just kind of returned. I remember Peter slipping into a coma but that may have been Seward that did something to him making everyone think he was dying from clone degeneration.

That was after he returned.
And Seward wasn't really around. He had nothing to do with Pete's Powers returning, nor the coma...

I seriously love the entire Clone Saga.
I know and remember just about everything from it without having to go back to the source. It's almost an eidetic memory recall for this period of time.
I can and will answer any question...
My Clone Saga Issues are the only ones I kept when I sold off everything around the Sin's Past era...
The new stuff, except for Scarlet Spider, My friend buys them and lets me read them, then I give them back to him...

 

[runawayboulder]

That was after he returned.
And Seward wasn't really around. He had nothing to do with Pete's Powers returning, nor the coma...

I remember Seward being in Blood Brothers and that was right around that time.

 

[KaineMorrison]

He was, Pete tried talking to him but wasn't allowed to. He then was checked out of the hospital not to be seen again untim Revelations when he was killed by Norman.

 

[Will Nolte]

I collected Archie's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and random other Marvel books early on (I have some old Avengers issue floating around in my collection someplace that I bought in some convenience store in the 80s)

My first Spidey book I got as a Christmas gift from a friend:

The first Spidey related book I bought I didn't originally intend to buy. I was looking for the Death Of Superman book about a month after it came out. The price was too high so the comic shop guy convinced me to buy this new number 1:

The first issue of Amazing I bought came out at about the same time, of course I bought the following issue because this issue and the next lead into the above comic. From then I was stuck on Spidey and Bagley's art.

 

[KaineMorrison]

Bag's and Ditko are my top 2!
Romita Sr., Lyle and 'Ringo are my next 3.

Romita Jr I can't stand his art, not since the mid-90's.
He was really good before that, but he went for speed over style and it killed his art for me...

 

[Themanofbat]

This is the first Spider-Man comic I ever bought...

This is the first ever Spider-Man comic I ever read (it was my Aunt's copy)

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

cool aunt ya got there...

 

[Picard Sisko]

Wait, how was Venom attacking Richard and Mary Parker? Were those the clones?

 

[runawayboulder]

Wait, how was Venom attacking Richard and Mary Parker? Were those the clones?

They were robots used by Harry and Chameleon.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Ah, that makes sense. Love your avatar btw, runawayboulder

 

[Themanofbat]

cool aunt ya got there...

Thanks... she would go to the United Book Store and pick up batches of used comics for 5 cents... she had mostly westerns, Denis the Menace, Archie, and DC Romance comics, but she also had a few Marvel horror books, like Tomb of Dracula, and she had this one Marvel team Up... she might have gotten it for me (she doesn't remember... we're talking early 70's here)...

Good times to be a kid...

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Thanks... she would go to the United Book Store and pick up batches of used comics for 5 cents... she had mostly westerns, Denis the Menace, Archie, and DC Romance comics, but she also had a few Marvel horror books, like Tomb of Dracula, and she had this one Marvel team Up... she might have gotten it for me (she doesn't remember... we're talking early 70's here)...

Good times to be a kid...

back then when I was a kid, I remember besides getting comics back then in the usual ways from spinner racks or off of magazine shelves at various drugstores, there was one other means of buying a comic that I NEVER saw before or anywhere else... maybe YOU'Ve seen it?... it was a vending machine for comics that was about six feet tall, or thereabouts... and there was a drop-down sliding chute on each side of the machine with about 8-10 different comics on each side... next to each window, which displayed a particular comic that you might want was a coin tray, where you just laid your dime and two pennies flat on the coin tray and then push the tray in and then whatever comic you chose would slide down the drop-chute spine first... this comic vending machine was used in a small neighborhood Jewel's food store, back in the day before they became a big deal and then merged with Osco drug store to become a big deal, at least here in Chicago... I never saw a vending machine like that before and I've never seen one since, when they closed down the Jewel's and they expanded into the grocery store juggernaut they are now... it was between 1966 and 1970 when I saw this vending machine in Jewel's... sure wish I could pick up the machine as a nostalgia piece and also depending on what it would run price-wise...

another cheapy way that older comics were sold was thru a neighborhood liquor store/bar, where they had a rack with comics that were only a few months old... they would give you three comics in a plastic pack with the covers cut off halfway down the book... on the other bad side was that the plastic bag was sealed, so you didn't know what the other two comics were that you were getting... the total price for the package was 12 cents... I always found it funny that they sold comics in a liquor store/bar and some of us kids back then would just casually walk into the bar to pick up some of those comics... that must have really tripped out some of the boozers in the bar, LOL...

did you or anyone else here run into either of those two ways to get comics back in the mid to late 60's?... just wondering... now THEMZ beez the good ole days...

 

[Will Nolte]

Bag's and Ditko are my top 2!
Romita Sr., Lyle and 'Ringo are my next 3.

Romita Jr I can't stand his art, not since the mid-90's.
He was really good before that, but he went for speed over style and it killed his art for me...

I agree with the first part. As for JR JR, he used to look like he was trying to be just like his dad, I like that he developed his own style...

back then when I was a kid, I remember besides getting comics back then in the usual ways from spinner racks or off of magazine shelves at various drugstores, there was one other means of buying a comic that I NEVER saw before or anywhere else... maybe YOU'Ve seen it?... it was a vending machine for comics that was about six feet tall, or thereabouts... and there was a drop-down sliding chute on each side of the machine with about 8-10 different comics on each side... next to each window, which displayed a particular comic that you might want was a coin tray, where you just laid your dime and two pennies flat on the coin tray and then push the tray in and then whatever comic you chose would slide down the drop-chute spine first... this comic vending machine was used in a small neighborhood Jewel's food store, back in the day before they became a big deal and then merged with Osco drug store to become a big deal, at least here in Chicago... I never saw a vending machine like that before and I've never seen one since, when they closed down the Jewel's and they expanded into the grocery store juggernaut they are now... it was between 1966 and 1970 when I saw this vending machine in Jewel's... sure wish I could pick up the machine as a nostalgia piece and also depending on what it would run price-wise...

another cheapy way that older comics were sold was thru a neighborhood liquor store/bar, where they had a rack with comics that were only a few months old... they would give you three comics in a plastic pack with the covers cut off halfway down the book... on the other bad side was that the plastic bag was sealed, so you didn't know what the other two comics were that you were getting... the total price for the package was 12 cents... I always found it funny that they sold comics in a liquor store/bar and some of us kids back then would just casually walk into the bar to pick up some of those comics... that must have really tripped out some of the boozers in the bar, LOL...

did you or anyone else here run into either of those two ways to get comics back in the mid to late 60's?... just wondering... now THEMZ beez the good ole days...

The vending machine sounds awesome.

As for the 3 packs, back in the mid to late 90s there was a store in Kingman, AZ called Hastings Books and Music that used to sell random multi packs of comics. I went in there recently and the now have a huge section full of long drawers of back issues as well as a section for new comics. Makes sense. Back in the 90s the town had like 2-3 comic shops at any given time, now it has none. Pretty smart of them to fill that need.

Oh and one of those multi packs was the whole Child Within series which came in handy for me after I got Spec 184 and wanted to catch up on the story...

 

[Picard Sisko]

back then when I was a kid, I remember besides getting comics back then in the usual ways from spinner racks or off of magazine shelves at various drugstores, there was one other means of buying a comic that I NEVER saw before or anywhere else... maybe YOU'Ve seen it?... it was a vending machine for comics that was about six feet tall, or thereabouts... and there was a drop-down sliding chute on each side of the machine with about 8-10 different comics on each side... next to each window, which displayed a particular comic that you might want was a coin tray, where you just laid your dime and two pennies flat on the coin tray and then push the tray in and then whatever comic you chose would slide down the drop-chute spine first... this comic vending machine was used in a small neighborhood Jewel's food store, back in the day before they became a big deal and then merged with Osco drug store to become a big deal, at least here in Chicago... I never saw a vending machine like that before and I've never seen one since, when they closed down the Jewel's and they expanded into the grocery store juggernaut they are now... it was between 1966 and 1970 when I saw this vending machine in Jewel's... sure wish I could pick up the machine as a nostalgia piece and also depending on what it would run price-wise...

another cheapy way that older comics were sold was thru a neighborhood liquor store/bar, where they had a rack with comics that were only a few months old... they would give you three comics in a plastic pack with the covers cut off halfway down the book... on the other bad side was that the plastic bag was sealed, so you didn't know what the other two comics were that you were getting... the total price for the package was 12 cents... I always found it funny that they sold comics in a liquor store/bar and some of us kids back then would just casually walk into the bar to pick up some of those comics... that must have really tripped out some of the boozers in the bar, LOL...

did you or anyone else here run into either of those two ways to get comics back in the mid to late 60's?... just wondering... now THEMZ beez the good ole days...

Man, I wasn't alive then but I wish I could go back and experience that. Comic book vending machines? That sounds awesome! Its so scary to think that I existed for only about 21 years…

 

[Themanofbat]

back then when I was a kid, I remember besides getting comics back then in the usual ways from spinner racks or off of magazine shelves at various drugstores, there was one other means of buying a comic that I NEVER saw before or anywhere else... maybe YOU'Ve seen it?... it was a vending machine for comics that was about six feet tall, or thereabouts... and there was a drop-down sliding chute on each side of the machine with about 8-10 different comics on each side... next to each window, which displayed a particular comic that you might want was a coin tray, where you just laid your dime and two pennies flat on the coin tray and then push the tray in and then whatever comic you chose would slide down the drop-chute spine first... this comic vending machine was used in a small neighborhood Jewel's food store, back in the day before they became a big deal and then merged with Osco drug store to become a big deal, at least here in Chicago... I never saw a vending machine like that before and I've never seen one since, when they closed down the Jewel's and they expanded into the grocery store juggernaut they are now... it was between 1966 and 1970 when I saw this vending machine in Jewel's... sure wish I could pick up the machine as a nostalgia piece and also depending on what it would run price-wise...

another cheapy way that older comics were sold was thru a neighborhood liquor store/bar, where they had a rack with comics that were only a few months old... they would give you three comics in a plastic pack with the covers cut off halfway down the book... on the other bad side was that the plastic bag was sealed, so you didn't know what the other two comics were that you were getting... the total price for the package was 12 cents... I always found it funny that they sold comics in a liquor store/bar and some of us kids back then would just casually walk into the bar to pick up some of those comics... that must have really tripped out some of the boozers in the bar, LOL...

did you or anyone else here run into either of those two ways to get comics back in the mid to late 60's?... just wondering... now THEMZ beez the good ole days...

Like yourself, I bought my comics off a spinner rack or a small magazine shelf at the local corner store... What I liked (or sometimes disliked) about the spinner rack is that sometimes you would find an awesome book tucked between 12 copies of the same issue...


In any event, I have never seen the vending machine...