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I was a comic book fan until the local supermarket stopped stocking them on their spinner rack a few years ago. I didn't spend much, maybe around $25-$50 a month. Whenever I went on road trips with a friend and hit the comic shop, I would walk out with double that. Of course, our trips become infrequent since my friend settled down (married and two kids). I could mail order the comics but I usually pick up my favorite titles and browse the stuff I never seen.
Most of my comics are from the 1980s and 1990s with a few from 1970s. I had a bunch from the 1970s when I first started but my mother made me trade with my cousin. I had about five big boxes of mostly super-hero and monster comics and all I got in return was one medium-size box of army comics. I read them and then took them to a thrift store. To top it off, my comics were in fair shape but my cousin's comics had loose covers and torn pages. If I had a time machine, I would go back and tell myself not to listen to my mother (or better yet, take those five boxes away from my cousin after the trade).
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