Hello

Hello

I have always been into comic books. My parents would rarely buy them for us as kids, but I remember visiting the newstand near my grandparents when we visited. I always checked out the rack of comics they had.  Sometimes I even got to take one home.  

When I turned 16 and started working, I started buying comics on my own.  Star Trek was the lead in to this, as I was really into Star Trek: The Next Generation.  I wanted to read the DC Comics line of Trek comics and found a comic book store near me.  I loved the place.  It was more or less the basement of a house but it was great!!

I started buying my Trek books but quickly spread into the superheroes.  I immediatly gravitated to the DC books.  Superman, was the first(still my favorite), from there to Justice League, then to the individual member titles.  I was eventually buying many books a week.

College came and my love continued.  Tried my first order by mail subscription service. The internet was very new then and I ordered monthly by sending in my Previews Catalog order form physically in the mail with a check payment.  It was fantastic when that box of comics was waiting for me when I got home.  

After college, I eventually married and had kids.  Between work and family comics did follow to the side for a bit. During the late 00's a few situations resulted in the selling off of most of my collection.  

Eventually things did get better, by then I did start visiting a new comic shop in the new city we had moved to.  My boys loved going there with me.  My oldest has a definite love for the medium although his tastes are more in Manga.  

Now, I often buy and sell physical books.  I love collecting the big omnibus editions.  But am definetly still a DC Comics Fanboy.