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I had the second Spidey/Supes crossover - I remember seeing that likely at the local Woolworths, and I might have had the Batman/Hulk one.

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This contains most of the crossovers, but the JLA/Avengers is missing...
 
The JLA/Avengers was fantastic. Busiek's story was really entertaining, and Perez reminded everyone why he is the GOAT. I liked that it was an actual meeting of the two universes, and not just an "Earth 7642" tale where all the heroes had always coexisted (I'm curious to see if Deadpool/Batman will be set on Earth 7642, or if we'll see a multiversal encounter). Sure, the 90's Marvel & DC crossovers also featured them as distinct universes, but they sorta explained within those crossovers that the heroes didn't really remember their interactions until they came together again. JLA/Avengers leaned into this with them having no memory of prior encounters (and when you take into account various reality altering events within both universes, it makes even more sense). Yeah, we got the usual "heroes fight at first before teaming up" trope of crossovers, but in this case it made sense because both teams were fighting to save their respective universes from annihilation. It was a really satisfying read, that really was everything a fan of both teams could hope for.
 
Wow, this thread is unlocking a memory for me- anyone remember the "blind bag" bundle of Whitman branded comics at Children's Palace/Toys R Us/etc? 3 comics at a discounted price. You could usually see the cover of one or two depending on how they were inserted. I used to love those as a kid and built up a lot of my early collection with them.

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akajomiha said:
Wow, this thread is unlocking a memory for me- anyone remember the "blind bag" bundle of Whitman branded comics at Children's Palace/Toys R Us/etc? 3 comics at a discounted price. You could usually see the cover of one or two depending on how they were inserted. I used to love those as a kid and built up a lot of my early collection with them.

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Oh man...I used to get these all the time! It was always cool to find out what the middle book would be! I know many family members would give me these for birthdays & Christmas, because it was a cheap way to make me happy!

By the way, I distinctly remember getting a three pack with that Conan issue when I was a kid. We were living in Nebraska, but would travel back to New Mexico to visit my grandparents around Christmas. My parents knew that getting me a couple of these packs would shut me up for a chunk of that long car ride.
 
akajomiha said:
Wow, this thread is unlocking a memory for me- anyone remember the "blind bag" bundle of Whitman branded comics at Children's Palace/Toys R Us/etc? 3 comics at a discounted price. You could usually see the cover of one or two depending on how they were inserted. I used to love those as a kid and built up a lot of my early collection with them.
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I am pretty sure those were how I got many of my first comics - I never paid much attention to comics besides what popped up at the barber shop, but through those Whitman packs found out that there were Micronauts, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars comics being made - like Gillman I think it was when we were traveling. I then started to get new releases at the 7-11, then subscribed (it was great to get home from from school and see I had new comics in the plain brown wrapper they can in), then learned about comic book stores (Anyone remember Heroes World - we had one in our local mall) and filled in some back issues, then a local store opened and had my weekly pull list and the Preview catalog that got me going with Marvel Masterworks. Good times to be a comic book fan in the 1980's and early 90's when the industry was very popular.
 
Chooch555 said:
I found a 3-Pack of Transformers 1-3 at a gas station on a road trip one year. Next year same trip same gas station I found a 3-Pack of 4-6. I honestly thought that was how they were released.
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Maybe they had different ways of distributing them. I feel like I distinctly remember various titles in the same package, but when I image search they all seem to be bundled by title. Maybe I'm a victim of Mandela Effect.
 
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MOST of the packs were random, with completely different titles. You'd sometimes stumble across some with the same title together, but those were rare. I even remember a couple of times getting a pack with a title from a different company in there. "Oh cool, this bag has a Marvel Team-Up and an issue of Thor! What's in the middle? Casper? What the Hell?". Most of the time, they were random titles by the same publisher though.
 
Whenever comic books are discussed on YouTube, the channels always scrub the word balloons to be empty.

Why?

Is it some legal thing? You can show full pages but no dialogue? Is it some half ass spoiler culture thing where dialogue is spoilers but showing the full pages is fine because it has less context?
 
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