How old are our Valiant members?

bnasty71 · Post by **bnasty71** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:37 pm

leonmallett wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
dac55 wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:There's gotta be one person in this forum thats either 50 or older...come out,come out where ever you are.
I guess that would be me. I'm 52 . The old guy. But love Valiants.

David
If I'm p!ssed off that I have to pay 3 bucks for a comic now compared to 1 buck when I was young, how must YOU feel when you only had to pay 10 cents dac? You must be LIVID!
Newsstands (well news agents in the UK) would sell comics (mainly DC's where I lived in the very early 80's) at about 20 pence a pop. Now I pay around £2.15 GBP at my LCS (although I get 10% discount from the final tally - so about £1.85 GBP). That's x9 what I was paying back when. Is it unaffordable? For kids maybe. I have none (phew...) but they will surely be needed to start buying comics if the medium is to survive (at least as a print medium).

How much does the average comic cost these days???

dac55 · Post by **dac55** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:59 pm

cobra_commander wrote:
dac55 wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:There's gotta be one person in this forum thats either 50 or older...come out,come out where ever you are.
I guess that would be me. I'm 52 . The old guy. But love Valiants.

David
If I'm p!ssed off that I have to pay 3 bucks for a comic now compared to 1 buck when I was young, how must YOU feel when you only had to pay 10 cents dac? You must be LIVID!

Dident buy many at $.10 they changed the price about the time I started buying them. WOW I think I was paying $.12 for most of mine.

Plus I lived in a small town and they dident have a big selction to chose from. You know I was not even a colector then I gave all of them to other friends.

I wonder if Steve would give me back my Spider-Man # 1 and F.F. # 1 ,heck I dont even know where he lives now. just a thought.

Dident even think they would be worth anything. WOW if I had only knew.

I havent bought a new comic sence 1999.

David

whovianone · Post by **whovianone** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:21 pm

Wow, I'm still in the winner's bracket.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:10 am

dac55 wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
dac55 wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:There's gotta be one person in this forum thats either 50 or older...come out,come out where ever you are.
I guess that would be me. I'm 52 . The old guy. But love Valiants.

David
If I'm p!ssed off that I have to pay 3 bucks for a comic now compared to 1 buck when I was young, how must YOU feel when you only had to pay 10 cents dac? You must be LIVID!
Dident buy many at $.10 they changed the price about the time I started buying them. WOW I think I was paying $.12 for most of mine. Plus I lived in a small town and they dident have a big selction to chose from. You know I was not even a colector then I gave all of them to other friends. I wonder if Steve would give me back my Spider-Man # 1 and F.F. # 1 ,heck I dont even know where he lives now. just a thought. Dident even think they would be worth anything. WOW if I had only knew. I havent bought a new comic sence 1999.

David

That is a great story. To buy those comics off the stand. Must've been pretty sweet

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:06 pm

I turned 40 last November

DevilBro · Post by **DevilBro** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:09 pm

I turn 34 tomorrow.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:16 pm

Happy Birthday... early.

COMICKINGS · Post by **COMICKINGS** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:19 pm

gonna be 43 on the last day of August. Damn if I didn't start feelin' old right after I hit 40!

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:29 pm

All those comic book sales must be taking a toll on you! lol

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:33 pm

COMICKINGS wrote:gonna be 43 on the last day of August. Damn if I didn't start feelin' old right after I hit 40!

SAME here.

rictor · Post by **rictor** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:56 pm

Y'know I really didn't expect to be in the third place group (26-29). I always thought that all of my friends questioning why I read VALIANT as they bought up tons of Image (Which I did, too. I'm not trying to sound superior.) was just a local thing. I guess the perception that VALIANT wasn't cool by the younger readers was more widespread than I thought.

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:22 am

dac55 wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:There's gotta be one person in this forum thats either 50 or older...come out,come out where ever you are.
I guess that would be me. I'm 52 . The old guy. But love Valiants.

David

was it you i got into the feux-war with over our ages. i called you old or something. or was that some other fogey?

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:03 am

Knightt wrote:Happy Birthday... early.

Happy birthday...... now.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:42 am

bnasty71 wrote:This guy was never cool,but his album was....

Heheheh.... "Better To Forget Him."

Ironic, no?

-slym ( "Actually, it's Don Most now..." )

bnasty71 · Post by **bnasty71** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:58 pm

slym2none wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:This guy was never cool,but his album was....

Heheheh.... "Better To Forget Him."

Ironic, no?

-slym ( "Actually, it's Don Most now..." )

yeah....it almost sounds as if he's gay

maybe the "HIM" was the Fonz....

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:37 pm

bnasty71 wrote:
slym2none wrote:
bnasty71 wrote:This guy was never cool,but his album was....

Heheheh.... "Better To Forget Him."

Ironic, no?

-slym ( "Actually, it's Don Most now..." )

yeah....it almost sounds as if he's gay maybe the "HIM" was the Fonz....

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:52 am

X-O HoboJoe wrote:

Coming this fall to the CW.....

bnasty71 · Post by **bnasty71** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:58 am

Finally all the age brackets are full.

I can't believe how much the ages between 30-36 dominate.

ex.h · Post by **ex.h** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:01 am

I'm just 17 and read valiant.

ex.h · Post by **ex.h** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:03 am

bnasty71 wrote:Finally all the age brackets are full.

I can't believe how much the ages between 30-36 dominate.

was that me?

ex.h · Post by **ex.h** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:07 am

I'm suprised there aren't more young readers who picked up the books from bargain bins and fell in love like me, i was able to look past the fact that they cost 10p each, and now have quite a collection.
i'm definately going to buy the new harbinger hardcover.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:35 am

ex.h wrote:I'm suprised there aren't more young readers who picked up the books from bargain bins and fell in love like me, i was able to look past the fact that they cost 10p each, and now have quite a collection.
i'm definately going to buy the new harbinger hardcover.

Its just great to see a new generation picking up VALIANT again.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:27 am

cobra_commander wrote:
ex.h wrote:I'm suprised there aren't more young readers who picked up the books from bargain bins and fell in love like me, i was able to look past the fact that they cost 10p each, and now have quite a collection.
i'm definately going to buy the new harbinger hardcover.
Its just great to see a new generation picking up VALIANT again.

the new generation needs to get into it if the re-launch is going to be sucessful.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:33 pm

bnasty71 wrote:I can't believe how much the ages between 30-36 dominate.

Well, that would be the people who were in their older teens and early-20's when VALIANT came out the first time.

Like me!

-slym

bnasty71 · Post by **bnasty71** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:06 pm

Elveen wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
ex.h wrote:I'm suprised there aren't more young readers who picked up the books from bargain bins and fell in love like me, i was able to look past the fact that they cost 10p each, and now have quite a collection.
i'm definately going to buy the new harbinger hardcover.
Its just great to see a new generation picking up VALIANT again.
the new generation needs to get into it if the re-launch is going to be sucessful.

Do younger kids evening acknowledge the exitstence of Comic Books???
It seems like movies and video games dominate our youth.
I'd like to hang out at a LCS just to see how many kids stop in.

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