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Growing up in my original hometown of Cuba, New York, one of my fondest memories was going to the local news stand at lunch, during school, spending my lunch money to buy a soda and a bag of chips, and sitting at the bar with a new comic magazine fresh off the display stand.
It was a great way to spend an hour from school and rub elbows with other like minded students.

I just discovered that historical comics are making a comeback.

Follow the link for some fascinating comic reads.

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I read Calvin and Hobbes everyday on gocomics com

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The cool thing is you can start at day one on the day the first Calvin and Hobbes was published and read each in order.

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Calvin: So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap! I rigged a tuna fish sandwich yesterday, so I'm sure to have a tiger by now! Dad: They like tuna fish, huh? Calvin: Tigers will do anything for a tuna fish sandwich! Hobbes: We're kind of stupid that way.
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I started reading Peanuts the same way but had to stop as I just couldn't keep at it.
 
I had a couple of the manuals. One was the Monster manual but I don't remember the version. That would have been early 80s. I never found a good group to play the game.
 
I'm sorry Dave, I lived in a rooming house in Corning NY, and everyone in the house played, there were like 6 borders, and the family's son and daughters, who all played. A ton of fun!

If it was the 80s, it was likely all first edition stuff.
 
Speaking of D&D

Here's a bit of irony since posting this. My boss finds out one of our CO workers is a DM. The Boss and this DMs direct supervisor are looking for our next Team Building activity. One of the options on the table is an evening of D&D.
 
@Dangerousdave26 It'd be a great time, I highly recommend you go.

Getting back to my time, we were all gathered in the basement, and started our adventure around 7:30 P.M. and it was a great time, about 10 P.M. someone says their hungry and we all chipped together and bought a couple delivery pizzas and some drinks and then went back to playing.
We were doing great, and for what seemed like an hour or two, we got into a melee, and it wasn't going well the opposition ended up being a level or two higher than most of the team, and we were dropping pretty quickly. Someone walks out of the room and comes back in and says "Hey, you should see this sunrise!"
Yeah, we played almost 12 hours of straight game time.
 
A friend and I used to do that with the PC game Bards Tale. We once played it from the time we got off work up to the time we had to go back. Lots of hours in that one and in Sid Meiers Pirates.
 
I also did the Sgt. Rock, and the one using the Stuart tank, was that the haunted tank? I know the tank commander would always talk to J.E.B. Stuart's ghost!
 
The 'Beano', 'Dandy' and 'Topper' were my favourite comics growing up in the UK. As I grew older my reading tastes moved through 'The Angling Times', the 'New Musical Express' and 'Disco 45' and finally 'Motorcycle News' when I got my first motorcycle at 17.
 
My brother used to get the 2000 A.D. sci-fi comic, which featured Judge Dredd among several others, I used to read it too and really enjoyed it.
 
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