In this episode, get introduced to your hosts and find out a bit about what got them into comics in the first place! Transcript: Multiverse0_mixdown2 [00:00:00] This is episode zero of the multiverse. Come get to know us. Welcome to the multiverse podcast. This is episode zero. My name is Jason Roberts and you've got myself and a couple of the other guys who work here in this. Handy dandy comic shop, friendly neighborhood shop in Hurst, Texas. And we just thought it'd be fun to have some of the conversations we have in the shop recorded so that we can share them with all of you. To start off with this very first episode we thought it might make sense to to have each of us introduce ourselves. And first up is going to be Scott. Hi there I'm Scott Gilbert. I am the back issue shipping guy here on the weekends at the Multiverse.[00:01:00] How long I've been in collecting comics, as I was saying before. About roughly the 6th grade is when I think I could really be considered a collector. And I'm 55 years old now, so I was getting them back when they were on toilet paper and they cost a nickel. You're only 55? I thought you had Action Comics number one came out. Oh God, if I had five more. If I had, I wouldn't need a second job, Jason, but I would, and I'd probably have sold it to you. So there it's overrated. Is it? Yeah. Now Steve's got four of them. So that's, did you hear that? There's a congressman, one of the freshman congressmen, had the National Archives bring a copy of Action Comics number one to swear in on instead of a Bible. Really? You don't have to swear in on a Bible, you can swear in on anything else. Now somebody, the person that told me said it was Superman number one. I have to assume. If you're going to swear in on something, it's going to be action. But yeah, one of the freshman congressmen this round, that's what they did. Gotta respect that, but also question the use of our, my tax dollars going through the National Archives, I find that, do they have comics [00:02:00] in the National Archives, I believe they probably do. I think they have one of everything. Can you imagine that power? Like the one time you can pull anything you want. That's right. I would totally do it. Do I find out, are there aliens at Roswell, or do I touch Action Comics number one? You'd touch Action Comics number one. I'm probably going to touch Action Comics number one. I'm pretty sure they kept it wrapped. What in the world is that over there? I don't know, Nick Cage stole the Constitution, so that was Yeah, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, there you go. I believe he owned a couple. He actually did. I don't know if he had to, I think it's last the divorce. Yeah. Or the carpenter stole it from his house. There was a thing where I stole it. I don't know the man, but he had a bad run of some luck with his comic books and. I don't know who I'd ransom back faster, my comic books or my kids, because my kids could probably get out a window, but the comics are going to sit there. I gotta... You gotta look at the big picture. [00:03:00] Yeah. And I've read my kids can replace my kidney, but the comic might be able to pay for the kidney replacement. So I don't know where I fall on that. You might get a trade on a new kidney and a lesser quality action comics, number one. So you're still in the game. As long as it's slabbed. That's right. As long as it's slabbed. Anyway we've got a little note here about what got me into collecting comics. And for me, when I looked at this question, I started researching my first comics I actually remembered. Being something that I read and kept up with, because earlier on you got the little three packs, you'd tear into them, you'd read them, but those ended up being coverless, or stapled up on your wall. But for me it was Marvel, and two of them, Avengers 154, and Fantastic Four 164. The common theme in there is they were both, the interiors were done by George Perez. And I remember, That art...
