Hi everyone, I'm a newbie. I've been lurking for a while and have really enjoyed reading your posts. I am a DC / Batman fan (partial to Detective, but have both)....been away for a long long time, but got back into it (many years too late sadly, given some of the prices that are out there!). My first book was Tec 469 - I was bored as a kid stuck at my sister's horse show all day and had a few bucks to spend on some comics to while away the time. Still one of my favorite covers of all time with Dr. Phosporous! And it was a two-parter, which meant I had to buy Tec 470 the next month! I was hooked. So I kept getting the new ones (who knew - I COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE SUPERMAN MOVIE apparently), and I would go to flea markets and antique markets whenever I could to find some old stuff. A few years later I prized an absolutely 0.5 awful Tec 109 that I found when I was 12 - half of the cover torn off - but I was the king of the world as it was the oldest issue I had found to that date.
Anyway, I was hooked. I put as much $$$ as I could from my high school jobs into getting more books here and there - mostly at the markets, but I also traveled to some new stores on the east coast that were owned by some people that were just starting out and are now famous forces in the hobby (I'd prefer not to name)
Then I went to college and had no $$$ to spend for a while. One of the last things I did buy then off the newsstand was the various iterations of Batman: TDKR - and I still think that is the most amazing story ever.
I did get end up with some nice raw early Bat and Tec books during that run, though. (Sadly, none of the killer pre-Robin Tec books. Man those are awesome). So I've been away for about 30 years. When I look at my books its like I'm 15 years old again.
Anyway, I love all things Bat and am partial to Golden Age / Early Bronze. I also think the GA space/sci fi/GGA have some really cool covers and I picked up a Space Detective and some Rangers at my local shop lately. I also enjoy learning more about the various pedigrees and picked up a post-camp Okajima (non-Bat) book just because I think the story behind them is really interesting.
Nice to be on with you all.
