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My comic collecting journey

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San Diego Comic-Con is on this week. So I figured I would write about how I became the comic book collector I am today. As long as I can remember, I've always been a Batman fan. I would watch the 90s animated series religiously after school. Batman Forever was the first comic book movie I remember seeing in a cinema. I even had my own Batman costume. I can't help my shelf During the 90s, I watched other comic book cartoons, especially the assortment from Marvel. X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man etc. I learnt at an early age there were 2 big comic companies, DC and Marvel, and the shows made by the latter would usually have intros by some old guy with a lot of enthusiasm named Stan. The 2000s rolled around and we were getting live action adaptations of these shows. X-Men and Spider-Man being the stand outs. But it wasn't until much later I decided to dive deeper into these stories and check out the format they originated from. It was the Batman: Arkham Asylum game that pulled me ...