I was born in April 1963.

So I was looking at FANTASTIC FOUR 13 (cover-dated April 1963) at http://www.mycomicshop.com, and clicked on the cover-date, and it pulled up all the issues published the same month!

http://www.mycomicshop.com/search?minyrmo=196304&maxyrmo=196304

One could go all retentive since comics were cover-dated two or three months ahead back then, to figure out what was actually released in April 1963. But for the sake of clarity, I prefer to just show the books cover-dated for that month.

I thought it would be fun if we all posted the list of comics for the month we were born.

Books I have in my collection from that month:

ACTION COMICS 299 (stories by Al Plastino, and Jim Mooney)
ADVENTURE COMICS 307 (stories by George Papp, and John Forte)
FANTASTIC FOUR 13 (the only Lee/Kirby/Ditko issue, that introduced the Blue Area of the Moon, and the Watcher!)
MAD magazine 78 (Aragones, Prohias, Berg, Drucker, and Jaffee art, that I can recall offhand)
SUPERBOY 104 (Swan/Klein art)
JIMMY OLSEN 68 (also Swan/Klein)
TREASURE CHEST 16 and 17 (oddly enough. A now-obscure anthology series)

Wait. You're older than me?

Damn. I thought that with LLance gone I was the board's resident old fart.

We talked about this years ago. I don't recall your birthdate, but as I recall I'm about 1 year older than you. My bones feel brittle just thinking about it!

Maybe you two should change your usernames to G-Boy and Wonder Man, respectively.

G-String and Wonder Twat,

When you guys were kids did you ride your dinosaur the the comic shop?

When I was a kid we didn't have comic shops. We bought our comics on a spinner rack at the corner drugstore, which we had to walk six miles through the snow to get to...and we liked it.

Same for me. I never saw a comic book store until I was 16 in 1979. I saw an ad during an Outer Limits episode for a comic book store called Starship Enterprises in Fort Lauderdale, FL, run by two guys named Kurt and Vince.

Kurt later split the partnership and opened Star Comics on Stirling Road in Hollywood. He later closed his shop in 1985 to become the marketing director for First Comics in Chicago.
It was in Kurt's store that I completed my back-issue runs of Kirby's 70's DC titles, then all Neal Adams' DC stuff, then all DC's mystery titles, before moving on to other stuff.

Pretty close.
I began reading books off the newsstands in 1972 (my first DC comic was BATMAN 241, May 1972, although I read Casper and Richie Rich titles for a year or two before that.)
It was only later that someone had the bright idea to open a comic store.

What back issues I got before 1979 were all mail-order, from ads in comics (if I recall, Howard Rogofsky and Robert Bell. And later Moondance). I remember getting BATMAN 200 for like 4 bucks, plus a bunch of O'Neil/Novick Batman and Detective issues, that were barely above cover price. Glory days...

I thought I'd jump-start this topic, because it's a fun topic that has potential to tell a little about all of us, both when we were born, and what interests us in comics.

Again, it's easy, go to http://www.mycomicshop.com and look at one of the major series, like, say, ACTION COMICS, DETECTIVE COMICS, BATMAN, SUPERMAN, FANTASTIC FOUR or AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, and (2) find the issue that was out in the month you were born, and (3) click on the cover-date link for that issue, and (4) it will show all the issues published in that month, that you can click-and-drag the link to post here.

And maybe discuss what you see as the most interesting or significant stuff published from that month.

The first comic I got ahold of cover-dated with my birthday was MAD 78 (how I got it I don't recall). And I was surprised as a regular MAD reader from 1972-1977, that even in April 1963 they already had the line-up of artists and writers I was familiar with: Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Don Martin, Dave Berg, Antonio Prohias, Sergio Aragones...

And it was a fun glimpse at the 1963 popular culture world I wasn't old enough to have been around to see. I especially liked Al Jaffee's rendering of "chess for the modern era" with nuclear missiles. Plus a New England prep-school primer for college students, and a very East-West cold war dominating theme to much of the issue's contents.
MAD is wonderful that way. Any given issue is a time capsule of what was prevalent in the culture at that time, whether movies, television, celebrities, wars, news or politics.