Comments on: Remembering Amazing Heroes

By: Bill "fresh monkey" Murphy

Bill "fresh monkey" Murphy — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:16:42 +0000

Man, I miss AH as well. Each time a pick up an issue of Wizard It makes me miss it more…

By: TRDouble

TRDouble — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:54:57 +0000

I DO!

By: mr Articulate

mr Articulate — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:04:54 +0000

Ah but who remembers the COMIC READER? A smaller magazine with blurbs about upcoming books, and a few interviews or articles about a comic series. It started Black and White, but eventually added color covers and a page or tow of color interiors I believe. I still have my collection of these and Amazing Heroes. Andy Mangels was the source back then for all things movie related on comics.

By: JoeAce

JoeAce — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:29:29 +0000

I remember buying comics at a local store newsstand back in 1974-1975. I stopped buying comics and did not start collecting them again until 1984. I also remember AMAZING HEROES. I bought issues as they came out and some if they had a feature on an artist or character that I liked. The PREVIEW issues of AMAZING HEROES were a must buy for me as were the AMAZING HEROES Annual Swimsuit Issues which had great and often humorous drawings of Superheroes in swimwear by many of the favorite comic books artists.

By: demoncat

demoncat — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:19:15 +0000

i prefer not knowing what is going on in the story ahead of time for like the surprise and twists. unless its a storyline i do not have any interest in. then if amazing heroes still existed would have proably looked through the issue thus making it so i would not have to pick up that issue that time.

By: TRDouble

TRDouble — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:56:25 +0000

I hate knowing too much of anything I am trying to enjoy as entertainment! That’s why I don’t go to those two excellent comic website you mentioned. And I remember those 7-11 days too, the newsstands and the first comic shop I ever went to — Grant’s on Hertel Ave in Buffalo, NY. You see, getting comics from the newsstands and 7-11 might mean missing an issue here and there for me. So I had missed an issue of the Avengers after Ultron took down the whole team at the mansion and I was really bummed about it. I usually took missed issues in stride, but not this time. I was probably 8 or 9 and my father took me to Grant’s, which was up the street from an OTB/Newsstand combo my dad & I frequented. How we found it, I don’t know, but we went in, I told the owner which issue I was missing and he took me into the back where there were boxes and boxes of comics. He dug in and pulled out that missing issue of The Avengers! On that day, I discovered the wonderful world of back issues (another lost comic tradition, with TPBs and illegal internet copies). I got off on a tangent there, but those were the fun days, walking into the store or shop, seeing the latest issue of Spider-Man, Batman, The Avengers, The Flash and knowing that was the next issue only because you saw that cover as a blurb on the last page of the previous comic… before the letter column! And for 25-35 cents a book too!