Same here. Scrooge McDuck was most influential on me and taught me what to aspire to...success:
Posted on 11/16/2018 11:54:31 AM PST by Kaslin
From the way you describe them, I wouldn’t refer to them as “comic books”...
Do they still print any kid’s comics???
“Comic books weren’t any of this sh!t...”
That’s exactly right. These asinine imaginings are typical Goldberg sh!t. I read almost all of Lee’s super-hero comics (if fact, I can’t think of a single one I haven’t read). To insinuate that Lee, or Siegel and Schuster, Superman’s creators, had such deep political or philosophical agendas is just ludicrous.
Goldberg, as always, is trapped in his own bizarro head and he will likely never be able to escape.
Same here. Scrooge McDuck was most influential on me and taught me what to aspire to...success:
Yes. Kid’s comic books are usually sold inside specialty shops that only sell comic books or related merchandise.
OR...You could always order online.
Ol’ Stan was a democrat but he was more of a Scoop Jackson Democrat than a Barack Obama one. Iron Man was a munitions making capitalist, the Hulk’s early battles were against Russian spies and the Fantastic Four got their powers in an attempt to “beat the reds” into space.
And he revived Captain America from relative obscurity. The Marvel of today would never allow that. Why, Cap is a nationalist after all!
LOL...Well, I’m a little old for them now, but I did hope they were still available for little kids...
God Speed to a good man - Excelsior...
Me too. I still love comics if the art and story is there. Comics represent another aspect of American Exceptionalism to me and I do savor the Golden Age and Silver Age art especially.
There’s a photograph in Stan’s office of him and Reagan shaking hands.
There’s nothing wrong with Stan Lee, he was a genius of comics. Lee was merely the Editorial Director and Publisher at Marvel Comics and after Marvel was sold in 1998, all the politically correct characters afterwards had absolutely no connection to Stan Lee and he had no voice in those decisions.........
Emphasis on “were”. Just two cite a few examples, take a look at “Sandman”, “Fables”, or “Watchmen”.
Scrooge McDuck had to be superman tough to dive in those dense gold coins.
Mostly correct, a few did target a slightly higher aged demographic, but safe to say you should be moving on from comics by the time you are a teenager.
When I was a child, it was controversial for children to be allowed to read them. The church I went to condemned them as an evil influence. However, my mother told me I could read anything I wanted. Her only stipulation was that I go to the library every Saturday morning and check out four books. So every Saturday, I would be taken to the library and made to choose four books. Many times, I just grabbed anything at random off the shelf just to placate her but would at least leaf through them. What this did was expand my horizons considerably.
I did read a lot of comics as a child. My parents didn't have a lot of money so I'd borrow them or pick them out of other people's trash. At one point, I had several milk crates crammed with "Archie", "Richie Rich" and just about anything I could get my hands on. When I was 12, I was heavily into MAD magazine and other knockoffs like Cracked and Sick. But by then I was reading at a college level and I soon got bored with comics.
Yeah...I liked “MAD” magazine also...
MAD Magazine had great writing, it was the SNL of its’ day.
Right now reading all the old stuff. Dark Phoenix Saga Xmen one of the best. He was a true genius.
I never read them in the 80s when I grew up - now that in my late 40s I’m going back and reading them. Love them.
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