Application (1967-1981)
ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]
noun
1. a summing up; summary.
2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
In Comic Reader Résumé, I use
Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This special "zero" episode covers comics-related material from my earliest years, before I was technically a collector, including runs of
Strange Tales,
Doctor Strange,
Warlock,
Tomb of Dracula,
Power Records,
Marvel Premiere,
Captain Marvel,
The Adventures of the Big Boy, and the single issues
Howard the Duck #2,
Green Lantern/Green Arrow #84,
Stalker #1,
Logan's Run #1,
Astonishing Tales #23,
Famous First Edition #C-61,
The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu #46,
Weird Worlds #8,
Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk in "The Great Rodeo Robbery",
Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Woman in "The Mystery Of The Power Crown",
TSR-80 Computer Whiz Kids: The Computer Trap,
Captain America #207, and
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty.
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