To be honest growing up I was a DC guy. I loved the JLA, and all the individual heroes. That probably had to do with really liking the Super Friends. But the one Marvel character I always loved was Iron Man. I was never into Spider-man and even though I got into reading Spidey, I still don't consider myself a fan (gasp). I managed to get into X-men only because the owner of the comic shop I went too gave me some sage advise, "Buy X-men they always go up in value." He was right at least for the bronze and silver age stuff. I dug Fantastic Four and the Avengers, but I was never a big collector early on.
But this post is about the featured comic. Iron Man #6. She's a real looker. That spine is almost defect free. Sure there are few minor issues, but overall it's one of my favorite books that I own. I can remember saving my money up. Mostly birthday and Christmas, but I also had a newspaper route and I would pocket my lunch money. I had been eyeing a copy of Iron Man #1 at the Comic Book Shop, which I talked about last post. It wasn't in the best shape, but still a decent copy, but Brad had it priced around $50 bucks. That's big money to a 12 year old in the 80's.
Let me back up to recent times first on how I ended up not walking out of that shop with one of my holy grails. Last April I went down to Wisconsin to visit my folks. I still have a large pile of comics boxed up in their basement and I've been devising a plan to get them up to me in Alaska. Anyways over a couple drinks my mother recalls when I ended up buying issue #6 here. If I remember I paid $15 for it back in the mid-80's. This is why you don't take your mother to the comic shop, but a rides a ride. Anyway time warp back to 1986 or 87 and I'm ready to buy issue #1. I've saved for this. My mother doesn't understand why I would want to pay so much for a comic book when there are plenty of good comics in the quarter boxes and new comics only cost 75 cents. In the end her guilt made me pull back and I still ended up walking out of the shop with a silver age Iron Man just not #1. And she still gave me crap for spending $15 bucks on that #6.
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