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Starting with the Super-Stalag (Adventure 344-345) eh? It wasn't my first Legion issue but I think it was my first Adventure story (many years after it first saw print). Good stuff, I say.
Many people here love the 5YL (post-Magic Wars) stuff, me included. (Of course, many don't.) And as you can see from this thread some others have had multiple firsts too.
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Let's hear it, lads and lasses! I know you each have at least one story to tell.
quote:First time you bought an issue, most recent time, or somewhere in between.... An issue you loved, an issue you didn't, or one that was ho-hum.... A shopping trip that was unusual in some way or one that was routine....
The circumstances don't matter. So go on, tell your story!
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So weird the things we remember. I can also distinctly remember sitting in a rocking chair by the window in my Grandmother's living room reading NEW MUTANTS # 1 in the bright sunlight.
You fine folks no doubt know about the massive Help File I compiled about the Legion. I wrote the pre-ZH portion of it prior to, and finished it just before, I got married.
I had already managed to collect most of the core Legion issues either in original or reprint. What I had a harder time finding was issues of Karate Kid and the issue of Kamandi that finishes the last story of that series. In order to complete that portion of the Help File, I actually borrowed some of those (and selected other peripheral Legion apprearance issues) from a fellow on CompuServe who thankfully was willing to trust me on returning them. (Fortunately, he was correct in that.)
Fast forward a few months later, I'm a newlywed, and my wife has spring break from college, and it's the Passover holiday from Yeshiva where I was learning. It's the perfect time for a two-day, inexpensive "honeymoon," so we decided to drive to Connecticut. At the time, I was very very into James Robinson's new Starman series, and one of the days of our trip was a new-comic Wednesday on which the next Starman was due out. While driving, I saw a sign for a comic shop ahead, so I asked my wife if we could stop briefly so I can pick up that comic.
As it turned out, their new issues hadn't yet arrived. But I checked out their back-issue bin, and lo and behold - Karate Kid # 15 and Kamandi # 59! A major hole in my collection filled!
-------------------- Chaim Mattis Keller ckeller@nyc.rr.com Legion-Reference-File Lad
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: So weird the things we remember. I can also distinctly remember sitting in a rocking chair by the window in my Grandmother's living room reading NEW MUTANTS # 1 in the bright sunlight.
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In the summer of 1986, my family had just moved to a new town in the middle of farm-country in upstate NY. I had just turned 13, and was about to enter into my first year of high school in a school where I knew no one. Add to that the fact that, at the time, my parents were bickering constantly, and I was a kid desperately in need of escape.
One day in early August I just had to get away, so I set off on my ten-speed out into the middle of endless backroads and just rode for miles. After a while, I started getting thirsty and happened to ride up on an Agway farm feed store. I went in to get a drink and, to my surprise, they also had a comic spinner rack. I bought a Veryfine Papaya Punch, along with a Batman #401, Man of Steel #3, and, of course a Legion-y book: Secret Origins #8, featuring the origin of Shadow Lass.
I decided I wasn't ready to go home, so I stashed my bike behind the Agway, and walked into the woods further back, until I hit a stream. I sat down next to the stream, popped open my juice and, for the next hour or so, just... escaped.
I still have all three books and, even though sitting next to the stream warped them from the mist, I have no desire to get them replaced. It was really my best "comic book day" ever.
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I was on the flip side of the Catskills from you in a town called, Kinderhook, in Columbia County. Small world. A couple years back I met the poster, Kent Shakespeare, and we got talking about growing up in NY. Turns out that, as a kid, he was two or three towns over... and we actually knew the same people!
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One president off, Chaim. Martin Van Buren.
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It was my... I can't remember which birthday. But it was my birthday. No, more accurately, a month before my birthday.
My folks asked me what I wanted, and so I rushed to the local CBS and scrounged through the back issue bins. I was going to fill in gaps in my collection, dammit!
I fished out a copy of LSH v4 100, the finale to the Team20/30 storyline Post Zero Hour. And that was that.
The hard part was, my mom was adamant that I not open my gift until my birthday, so I had to wait 19 days before I could get my mitts on it! I knew where it was kept, so every day I'd drop by and gaze longingly at the cover.
My mom gave in after 7 days and let me have it early.
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