My neighbor's kid asked me why I only buy new comics.

He said his dad's old collection from the 80s is more fun to read because the ads and letters pages tell a story too. I checked a dollar bin book from 1987 and he's right, the whole package feels different. Do you think modern collecting misses something by focusing only on the main story?

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jesser791mo ago

Feel the same way about my old Spidey books. Those ads for weird toys and old video games were part of the fun. Modern reprints just feel kind of empty without all that extra stuff.

gonzalez.reese1mo ago

My uncle's old X-Men 209 has a full page ad for Garbage Pail Kids stickers. That weird stuff gave comics a time capsule feel. Do you think the shift to trade paperbacks killed that whole experience?

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riverreed1mo ago

That time capsule feel is so real. My buddy found his dad's old Captain America from the 80s and it had a Hostess fruit pie ad inside the story. He said reading it felt like touching that exact year. Trade paperbacks are clean but they strip all that weird history out.