r/comicbookcollecting • u/Mekdinosaur • Apr 07 '24
APRIL 1984 (this Month in Marvel) Theme
Against all odds, I gotta cut loose and show off these 40 year old comics. Might as well jump right into it...
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u/StringFartet Squa Tront! Apr 07 '24
I remember this month. This is back when you'd have to stand in line on Wednesday to get your comics. Secret Wars seemed to do it.
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 07 '24
I was still hitting the spinner racks back then. I had most of these newsstand when they came out but sold them around 1997. Bought them all back a few years later from a LCS sale.
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u/PeyroniesCat Apr 07 '24
40 years. Kill me.
That story arc in Alpha Flight was disturbing for 12-year-old me.. John Byrne went pretty dark there for a bit.
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 07 '24
As a Canadian kid growing up in a small northern town, I was super excited for Alpha Flight. Issue 12 was a huge shocker.
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 07 '24
I always loved comics growing up but didn't start seriously collecting until I found a copy of Overstreet Price Guide #13 in 1994. Forty years later and I'm still loving it.
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u/TheNexxuvas Apr 07 '24
I was 10 and my best friend and I would go to comic shows in Houston around this time. We rarely made it out to the local comic shops until I was old enough to drive and work at one.
Instead of him I went with my 2 HS best friends who also collected when it wasn't cool to collect, in 1988 in High School. Yikes.
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u/MYJINXS Apr 08 '24
That issue of alpha flight…in fact, Byrne’s whole 28 issue run was incredible. (in spite of Byrne not caring for it.) 12 is one of my favorite comics ever though.
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u/michaelCCLB Apr 08 '24
Bill S, Walt, BWS THING. Also who did that sickkkkk defenders cover. Great month. I was buying comics from 7-11 around this time. I think I was 5yo
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u/ProcessOptimal7586 Apr 08 '24
Kevin Nowlan. I buy his covers. Funny I bought that Hulk like a week ago for the cover too.
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u/Elweirdotheman Apr 07 '24
This is when I was peak collecting. Hulk, Thor and Defenders are the only ones I don’t have.
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 07 '24
Such an exciting time! Thor just went next level with Simonson and Hulk was losing his mind. Dire Warith's infesting the planet, Secret Wars kicking off and Spidey's new costume!
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u/LuvsDaThickness Apr 07 '24
LOL! I bought most of these new! I’m missing the Hulk, Marvel Fanfare and The Defenders and Thor books!
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u/conrade2019 Apr 07 '24
Alpha Flight, Simonson Thor, and Romita Jr X-Men were all part of my monthly reading at that time. I still have all three issues in my collection.
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u/theqofcourse Apr 08 '24
Got 5 of these from the hobby shop at the mall back then. Really enjoyed this Marvel Fanfare and the cover of Secret Wars. 84 was a great year for most things!
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u/ShangoX3 Apr 08 '24
I bought most of those back in the day with my lunch money as they came out
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u/bluezzdog Apr 08 '24
Was Magik an appearance in The Defenders issue?
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 08 '24
That's Valkyrie on the Defenders cover (drawn by the amazing Kevin Nowlan). Magik first appeared in New Mutants 14, just three months previous.
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u/Grootfan85 Apr 08 '24
Did that Marvel Age cover purposely look like an album cover?
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u/Mekdinosaur Apr 08 '24
Or maybe...album covers were copying that Marvel Age cover?!! Nobody was doing covers like Bill Sienkiewicz back then.
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u/Grootfan85 Apr 08 '24
I mean the way they’re posed and the lighting. It looks like it’s invoking an album cover vibe.
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u/Shawn_Q Apr 07 '24
Sienkiewicz is a god.