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My barber asked me why I only collect modern comics and it made me stop for a second.
He said, 'You're into the fans, not the books, right? So why not grab a beat-up old issue from a flea market and just read the letters page to see what they were mad about in 1974?'
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spencer_kelly1mo ago
Your barber gets it. Skylerm55 is right, that's a sharp way to look at it. I started doing that exact thing, grabbing cheap old books just for the letters pages. You see the same arguments we have now, just about different characters. It really connects you to the history in a way a reprint can't.
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the_dylan1d agoTop Commenter
Damn straight. I've been hitting up used bookstores for years digging through the dollar bins. Found a Fantastic Four issue from the 70s where some guy was furious that Reed Richards was too much of a jerk to his family. Same complaints you see about modern Batman or whatever. The letters pages are like a time capsule of fan rage. People were losing their minds over Galactus being too overpowered, just like we argue about Thanos or Darkseid now. It's wild how the names change but the fights stay exactly the same.
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