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My History of being in the comics genere
(an introduction)
My earliest memory of being exposed to a comic book was back in pre-kindergardener days. Back then, my toy of choice was Transformers. Watched the show every afternoon on the local FOX affiliate's after-school kiddie line up program, along with GI Joe, Voltron, and Silver Hawks [And some more, I'm sure, but my memroy can be fleeting at times.], pestered my bitch of a mother for the toys non-stop, wore the Transformers Underoos with pride. And then there were the comic books. After all, what kind of Transformers fan would I be if i didn't read The Comic series? Every time mother took me to the local grocers, I would come home with a Transformers comic. The one that strikes out in my mind the most was this one with one of those giant types of Autobots, the ones with the detachable head that would transform into another type of Transformer ["Headmasters, I believe they were called. Which was a pretty dumb marketing ploy, come to think of it. The head-action figure was so miniscule in size that it was easily lost, and that the larger counterpart would be left headless. Disturbing really...] Anyway, the Headmaster Autobot was getting into a fight at some ski resort during his human friend's vacation. [Sparky was his name, or his son, or his grandson. All I know is that almost all of their human allies came from the same dynasty of auto mechanics.] Eventualy, as all childhood fads go, it's importance faded from my life, replaced by Batman [not the comic book, but the insanely dumb camp series from the sixties that I would watch after school at my grandmother's], The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [ditto], And then Nintendo. Sure, I remember one of my grandmothers had a few off Byrne Fantastic Fours [I did'nt care much for those. The Human Torch was just too creepy for me.], Amazing Spider-Man [The issue I had featured the 1st appearance of Silver Sable, another one of Marvel's forgotton 3rd teir characters. My cousin got ahold of that issue and sold it for quite a sum in the breif while that the character was popular], and a Batman issue [It featured Two-Face, and was drawn so poorly it turned me off to Batman for a long time.] So at about that time, my interest in the Comics was nihl. Until the premeir of a certain Saturday Morning cartoon called "X-Men" grabbed my attention.
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