Back When I Was A Kid...

Dr. Solar · Post by **Dr. Solar** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:11 am

I remember when Solar 10 was on the racks, my friend and I looked at it and said, "well, this is a silly cover for a comic". This was before I knew how cool Valiant comics were.

A couple months later I was saving my money to buy a copy for well more than that cover price.

It is pretty cool to be able to afford all of the copies of these comics that I always wanted now.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:19 am

Dr. Solar wrote:I remember when Solar 10 was on the racks, my friend and I looked at it and said, "well, this is a silly cover for a comic". This was before I knew how cool VALIANT comics were.

A couple months later I was saving my money to buy a copy for well more than that cover price.

It is pretty cool to be able to afford all of the copies of these comics that I always wanted now.

Amen. A-freakin'-men.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:28 am

Chiclo wrote:
Dr. Solar wrote:
buff-beardo wrote:Welcome to the boards! They should have hooked up your friend with a gold issue as well.
Nah, he was an Image fan. All in to Spawn and Youngblood and all that crap.
That's a terrible thing to say!

I keed, I keed. There's a strong, well-rooted underground of Image fans here. They are like the seedy underbelly of the boards. Cobra Commander is one of them.

Yes, yes I am

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:33 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Dr. Solar wrote:I remember when Solar 10 was on the racks, my friend and I looked at it and said, "well, this is a silly cover for a comic". This was before I knew how cool VALIANT comics were.

A couple months later I was saving my money to buy a copy for well more than that cover price.

It is pretty cool to be able to afford all of the copies of these comics that I always wanted now.
Amen. A-freakin'-men.

VALIANT comics were one of the best things about collecting comics in the 90's

Being able to buy them for WAY cheaper than the use to be is one of the best things about collecting comics in the new millenium

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:39 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:“When I was seventeen
I drank some very good beer.
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID.
My name was Brian McGee.
I stayed up listening to Queen.
When I was seventeen.”

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:41 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Back when I was a kid, nobody'd ever heard of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Back when you were a kid comics were made on papyrus

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:45 am

Dr. Solar wrote:I loved comic books. I was a huge X-Men and Wolverine fan.

Then I heard about this "Unity" thing that was coming out one summer. It sounded cool, so I picked up a couple issues, and a couple issues of some of the comics that came right before it...

and I was hooked. I mowed the lawn and trimmed the bushes about a dozen times in the next couple weeks to earn enough money to buy all of the Unity chapters. I spent a lot of money buying back issues of Solar, and a few others that I could afford. I heard about these fandangoled "gold books", and I WANTED ONE. I didn't know what to do, so I did what any 12 year old would do. Get *SQUEE*.

I wanted to show that I was a big enough fan to get one of the gold books, so I conned a friend into dressing up like Archer, and I dressed up as Armstrong, and I set up all my VALIANT comics on display and took some pictures. Check it out:

(Larger image)

The note on the left is what I got in the mail back. Along with an Archer & Armstrong 0 GOLD. It was the pride of my collection, and still is one of the books with the most sentimental value to me.

Back then, I couldn't complete all my pre-Unity runs. I was 12, and couldn't afford $80 for Harbinger 1.

I dropped out of comics in high school, and didn't get back into it till later in college. I started buying a lot of the VALIANT back issues, and have a decent collection now. Of the pre-unity books, I am only really missing some of the Harbinger and X-O Manowars.

Anyhow, I registered for this site a long time ago, but just checked it out again recently. I met one of you at Wondercon, you were a vendor and I got a couple of the Magnus issues I needed, and a nice Unity 1 Gold. Thanks.

I am looking to eventually complete my VALIANT collection, and start getting a lot more high grade early Valiants in my collection.

Cheers!

Sean

Welcome to the boards

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:46 am

depluto wrote:I got an A&A Gold when I wrote VALIANT a letter saying I thought the gold books were a bad idea.

You @-hole!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:35 am

cobra_commander wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Back when I was a kid, nobody'd ever heard of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Back when you were a kid comics were made on papyrus

Stone tablets.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:38 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:Back when I was a kid, nobody'd ever heard of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Back when you were a kid comics were made on papyrus
Stone tablets.

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:59 pm

Welcome to the boards great pic & story

sorry I didn't meet you at Wonder-con too.

-Brian

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:08 pm

betterthanezra wrote:Welcome to the boards great pic & story

sorry I didn't meet you at Wonder-con too.

-Brian

He was the one dressed as a leprechaun....

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:48 pm

Cool story Doc...

and Welcome to the boards

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:56 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:God I'm old.

God is older and so am I

Welcome aboard Dr. Solar

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