Comic Reader Résumé #12: Recall (Winter 1984)

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 episode includes Amazing Spider-Man #262, Conqueror of the Barren Earth #1, Fantastic Four #275, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #31-33, G.I. Joe Yearbook #1, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #3-5, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #10-12, The New Defenders #141, New Teen Titans #4, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #99, Robotech Defenders #1, Thing #22, Uncanny X-Men #191 and more! Plus a look at Fall films & television of 1984… “Transcripts” October, 1984 November, 1984 December, 1984 Twitter #CRRésumé? Facebook [email protected] Comment on Résumé page or Rolled Spine Podcasts.