{"id":1297,"date":"2019-06-12T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grahamcrackers.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:18:32","slug":"my-first-comic-by-earl-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grahamcrackers.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/my-first-comic-by-earl-g\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Comic by Earl G."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first discovered comics with a Superboy issue found on a Chicago bus.<br \/>\nAmazing Spider-Man #7 was the first Marvel to really hit me. It was issue #9 that started me collecting.<br \/>\nBack in the day, issue numbers were meaningless. Stories had little or no continuity, and each issue could be read as you found it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1300 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grahamcrackers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogearl2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.grahamcrackers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogearl2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.grahamcrackers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogearl2.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><br \/>\nASM #7 is supposedly the issue where co-creator Steve Ditko began to plot the stories (he\u2019s credited with #10). The plot was great and more involved than most the comics I\u2019d read until then and Stan Lee\u2019s dialogue was engaging and funny (Spider-man telling JJ Jameson to go slide down a barbed wire fence was a comment every kid could savor, and save).<br \/>\nThe next issue I came across was #9. And even though Electro had his debut as a villain, I was shocked for other reasons. Issue #7 had introduced me to Flash Thompson, the loud-mouth bully, so familiar to most schools.In #9, however, he briefly has second thoughts about Peter Parker, referring to the fight they had. A footnote said that it had occured in issue #8.<br \/>\nI remember looking through my stacks of comics more than once, hoping, SOMEHOW, that I\u2019d bought the issue and had forgotten to read it. Shortly after I bought issue #10 off a schoolmate (for a QUARTER! He thought I was crazy). And shorty after that, at a small grocery store on Fullerton Avenue, I found, in a rack of used comics up on the wall, issues #6 AND #8! For a nickel each!<br \/>\nThey fight was different than I thought, but thoroughly satisfying. Now the issue numbers meant something to me, and I began the long ascent, or descent, into collecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first discovered comics with a Superboy issue found on a Chicago bus. Amazing Spider-Man #7 was the first Marvel to really hit me. It was issue #9 that started me collecting. Back in the day, issue numbers were meaningless. 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