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        <title><![CDATA[Forever a Spidy Fan]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For me it was Spider-man, I really got hooked during the Green Goblin / Death of Gwen stacy issues and then the Jackel clone saga, the start when Professor Warren first cloned Gwen, not the later issues with Kane which were great also. The whole idea of cloning was mind blowing (not to mention a great way for the comic industry to bring back people from the dead). Now, over 5,000 comics later, I am still hooked on the older Marvel issues.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:48:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[2000 AD comics Strontium Dog]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Best comics!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:16:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think that was a Giant-Size or Annual.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is that the one where Rogue leached off Ms. M's powers?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:55:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My first...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was an issue of the Uncanny X-Men with an image of Ms. Marvel/Binary on the cover.  I have never looked back.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[yodi.collins]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:34:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rover&amp;Wizard]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I developed my reading through comics also, but in particular I loved the Rover &amp; Wizard (http://www.britishcomics.20m.com/rover.htm) which was basically an all word comic.  I loved the characters and also the variety.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[davidterry]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:50:48 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Comic Book?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I learned to read from a Comic Book. Superman in the 1930's - Ten Cents.Yes, the only reason I read and write today is because of the Comic Book!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas907]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 06:26:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My first comic book was..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My first comicbook was X-men #32 - Beware the Juggernaut, My Son!  It was first published in May 1967.  A friend of mine brought it from a book store in May 1977 (for $1) and thought that I would be interested in it.  I was!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:09:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Crossover comic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first comic book I ever owned was one that, IIRC, was included with the local newspaper back when I was a kid.  I haven't been able to find info about it since then, but the primary story surrounded Superman &amp; Spider-Man against Dr. Doom and The Parasite, with Wonder Woman &amp; The Incredible Hulk making appearances as well.  I also had a special edition book that included the first 5 or 10 issues of the FF in a single book.Before that, though, I used to read comics that my uncle had (a lot of Silver Age Green Lanterns, as well as some of the old Tales from the Crypt types).As far as serious collecting, though, I didn't get into that until college.  I think I still have some of my old Captain America &amp; &quot;What If...?&quot; comics, although I also had a few DC as well.Like some others have said, I never really played the &quot;DC vs. Marvel&quot; game -- although most of my collection has been Marvel-based, I mainly collected characters that I liked, regardless of who published them.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:05:42 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Comic Books hooked me...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess the Comic books that got me started with the Superhero side of comics was Spider-man and the Fantastic Four. I started reading these in the early 70's and really became involved around the mid 70's when The Thing lost his powers and Reed made him an ExoSkeleton suit to wear. This was when Luke Cage stepped in and took Ben's place.this is also the time frame when I got hooked on Spider-man, around the time when Doc Ock returned and HammerHead was killed and turned into a ghost, not to forget the SpiderMobile! This was around the time the Clone issues were starting with Spider-mans clone dying (or so it seemed) and Spider-man dropping him into a Smoke Stack to dispose of the body. The stories and the Art were second to none at that time. I still collect the Spider-man issues, having all the Amazing Spider-man issues from 9 to present. My current collection includes all titles from the 50's, 60's and 70's, with a total of around 6,000 comics. But if it was not for Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, I would have never been the comic geek I am today.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rob123q]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:41:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Try the nearest comic shop]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many will evaluate your collection and make a better offer than you'd get selling them in bulk on Craig's List.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:12:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Transformers #7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For a long time that was the only title I cared about. Then I started getting into JLA, JSA, Booster Gold, The Crisis'. Big mistake, they are just taking up room now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Wild Card]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:24:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Marval 1960s cartoons - Iron Man comic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I know we're talking about the stone ages here, but I remember watching the Hulk, Spider Man and the rest on TV in the 60s.  But the first comic:  Iron Man.  No magic radiation, no extraterrestrial origin.  Just a wounded man in a suit of mechanized, transistorized armor.  Lord was I a science geekling back then.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:55:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: My first comic book: What got you hooked?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was 6-7 years old during the Adam West/Batman original run, so therefore my first comic was of course Batman. Also the Saturday morning TV version of Spider-Man (&quot;does whatever a spider can&quot;) so that was a no brainer as well!DC had it going on then with the &quot;go-go&quot; checkerboard and all, but Marvel rocked!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[osurickbee@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:10:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: My first comic book: What got you hooked?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Uncanny X-men #32 &quot;Beware the Juggernaut my Son!&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ursus Horribilis]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:31:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rupert the Bear]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You know, Rupert, Rupert the Bear,  everyone knows his name.I used to get his annuals for Christmas each year.As for comic books, Spiderman et al, I never really got into comic books.  I was busy reading teen novels (Hardy Boys type of stuff, though not specifically Hard Boys).I did start collecting comics at oen time though, never read them but just bought and stored them.  Had a friend who's older brother was heavily into collecting, my friend was learnign teh trade and i got into it.  Had another friend years later who ran a comic store and used record/book store, I ended up trading them in for a bunch of fairly rare LP's, which I still have.  Oh, I did read an Archie comic once while in the barber shop though, if that counts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oz_Media]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:11:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can't remember but I do know that at the tender age of 14 I had hundreds including many No. 1s - when I think of what they'd be worth today if I still had them!!!  Makes me regret the follies of youth - more or less gave them away..Michael]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[michael.biddulph@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:06:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[R. Crumb Zap Comix #1, still have it.  And almost every Ralph Snart comic book ever published.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tronman@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Showing my age, but Magnus Robot Fighter - the 60's one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Always admired Russ Mannings great artwork and I thought the character was more believable than the other superheroes.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dave@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Superman 273, cover date March 1974]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/comic-covers/Pre-Crisis-Covers/1974/adv273s-tb.htmlThis is the first comic I remember reading.  It's not the one that drove me to reading comics on a continual basis though.  That would be Marvel Team-Up and later Marvel Two-In-One.  The interaction and attitudes of Marvel characters back in those days (mid-1970's) was unparalleled by DC.  Having supporting characters appear in different books linked the whole universe and was a brilliant marketing tactic to encourage the purchase of every title published.Over at DC during that time, Batman was well into his O'Neil/Adams retooling as a darker character, and I was surprised to see that he wasn't as inept or childish as the TV show and cartoons.  When I first read the Ra's and Talia stories, I got hooked into the Batman mythos as well.  That must have been in the late 1970's because I had bought them as back issues at a comic convention.I don't buy into the concept that comic books are geeky.  Reading them at such a young age like I did encourages literacy and develops interactive social skills when meeting with fellow enthusiasts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jkiernan@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:16:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[When i went to the dentist my dad used to bribe me to be good be going to the comic store and letting me pick up the newest issue of transformers and G.I. joe. Now i read most of the bat family, and alot of the dc world  marvels just gone down hill even thought i still read the x titles.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:02:49 -0700</pubDate>
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