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Wilson Mui Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 17 May 2022 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | 1
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I remember so clearly going to the candy store on my block to see if that highly anticipated issue had arrived. There was only one copy left. It had several creases and wrinkles on it, but it didn't matter. I was just happy to get a copy!
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 30832
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Posted: 17 May 2022 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | 2
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The first back issue I ever bought at a comics shop was AF 12.
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 16406
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Posted: 17 May 2022 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | 3
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Bought the first issue straight off the stands. If memory serves, I bought it at a drug store, and not at a comic shop. Although I had been frequenting the then-only comic shop in town for years, I still more commonly bought my comics from the Readmore bookstore closer to my home, and other stores in the same area, since they were closer and I was still a youth who didn't drive.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 17 May 2022 at 10:39pm
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 February 2014 Location: United States Posts: 5436
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Posted: 17 May 2022 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | 4
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I was out of comics for a couple of years when this debuted. Flash forward thirty something years, after hearing it existed, got JB's run in single issues...a couple years later, added the Omnibus.
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James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 21 September 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7581
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 1:28am | IP Logged | 5
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I lived in a town with no comic shop, usually buying comics from the local Rylands 3 months after release.
However, at some point, a newsagent, right next to the bus station, decided he would start to import comics himself (although still three months after release in the US - so we got them the month that was on the cover - it was later that the publishers made the switch to cover date being the month of release in the US - maybe connected to the increase in direct market?)
This was manna for me as suddenly, I could get regular runs of American issues without having to wonder what would actually arrive.
The exact issue this happened with was X-Men 153 - Kitty’s fairy tale.
So that was it. From then on, Saturday consisted of me taking the early bus into town, walking to his shop, buying as many comics as I could, getting on the bus home & reading those things for the rest of the day.
So I got Alpha Flight 1 the day it came to his shop & loved every second of the read.
Of course, I was so young & naive (even at 14), I missed that the man who became Tundra was Snowbird’s dad, & I missed that Northstar was gay.
But they became major ‘Wow, how did I miss those?’ Moments on later reads.
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Charles Nelson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 245
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 3:15am | IP Logged | 6
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I found Alpha Flight 1 at a corner store while on vacation in Florida. It's such a vivid memory. Such 11 year-old excitement!
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Shawn Kane Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 04 November 2010 Location: United States Posts: 3239
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | 7
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My first issue was #13. I knew Sasquatch from a Hulk annual that my brother owned. I bought #'s 5 and 6 that same month in the 3-packs that I could find in my local grocery store. I believe that I also bought #10 as a mail-away order from a cereal ad in the comics. I found a local dealer in a buyer's guide and got 1-4. I eventually talked a buddy into giving me #12. You know you love a book when you can recall exactly how you acquired the issues.
Edited by Shawn Kane on 18 May 2022 at 4:15pm
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15726
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | 8
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IIRC, Marvel UK only reprinted up to issue 10 (what a cover!); by that point, I had discovered a local(ish) comic shop where I could get my 10-year-old hands on American imports and I was fortunate enough to stumble across a back issue of #12, which I duly bought. And it was great. Back then I couldn't get enough of comics and UK comics never told stories in one issue -- they would come out weekly and the reprinted stories were always sliced up and spliced with other stories, so you get part of a Secret Wars issue alongside part of an Alpha Flight issue, for example. So to be able to gorge myself on a double-sized issue of all Byrne-Alphan goodness was amazing.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | 9
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One of the only advantages to moving around as much as we did when I was a kid—nine schools in 11 years—is that I can practically tell time by where we lived. Which makes it very easy to remember where I bought various comic books (and, later, plastic models).
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Jonathan A. Dowdell Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 18 May 2022 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | 10
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I posted this picture once before. This is June 1983 at a small used book store outside Philadelphia. On this night Mr. Byrne signed my copy of Alpha Flight 1.
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John Byrne
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Ah, Archie……..
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Rick Senger Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 19 May 2022 at 12:48am | IP Logged | 12
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Bought Issue one fresh off the stands. I actually was lukewarm on it initially (other than a few X-men issues I didn’t really know these strange characters) but I found later issues increasingly good such that it became a particular favorite for a while. I stopped reading comics while in college and missed much of the second half of John’s run. When I returned to comics those were some of the first back issues I tracked down and enjoyed. The run still just feels different and a bit experimental to me, kind of like John was carving out his own little universe with new chars and villains ( at least to me) ala Lee and Kirby inventing much of Marvel in the early-mid 60s. It somehow wasn’t like other comics of that era to me; familiar enough but somehow very much it’s own thing.
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