[Groop] Where were you?

[azamin zainol abidin]

Hi everybody..

Actually... I would like to thanks my cousin first before I tell you how 
I was hooked-up to like Groo.. (eventhough he is not in this mailing list)

Around 1988 or 1989,  I was 16-17 years old.. my cousin was living with 
my grandmom for nearly 2 years.. so when he left .. he left behind a few 
comics... like Judge dreed, Groo etc...  He left about 3 or 4 groos 
actually... I don't remember the issue number.. something around #34 for 
1 of it....  So I read the comics when I went to my Grandmom's house and 
start to like it... When i entered university in 1990 in Kuala Lumpur.. 
I saw groo was sold in the book shop - comics section and start to buy 
it every month...  and also took advantage of Marvel's promotion to 
subscribed it (with cheaper price ) directly from them  with my 
university address... well from 12 issues, I managed to get around 8 to 
9 only.. the other..???  somebody took it from the mail box at the 
university.. (hope they also got hooked up with Groo too).. then I start 
to look for comic book store... and one with the name "The Mind Shop" is 
my favorite... which later I open a comic account with them where every 
new issue of Groo will be included into it... Sometime I collected at 
their shop and sometimes they mailed it to my hometown address (so that 
there will be no more missing Groos)... and this was going on till issue 
80++ or near 100... later I bought it directly from other comic book 
shop too...  sometime i look from other comicwhile looking for issues 
that I don't have...  Later... I found this mailing list and start to 
know Gary and all of you... Gary help me to find issues I don't have and 
I find him some Malaysian Groo newspaper reprints.... and we created 
Groo credits between us... something to value the barter trading between 
us... I for the last many years. I owed him about 100 Groo credits.. and 
only last month I settle it  with some shipment of Malaysian coins he 
ask me to find for his son as a birthday present....  Thank you Gary...  .

while looking for Malaysian Groo newspaper reprints.. I stumbled on 
Malaysia  Groo T shirt.. which I sold to some of you in 1999... and the 
only thing I regret was ... I did not bought all of those T shirt from 
the newspaper company that reprints Groo....  something I still regrets 
till now...         

Azamin
The Malaysia Grooper.. the Groo trooper...

Ps.. I'm starting to convert my Aquaculture Green Mussle cage/business 
to Grouper cage/business in Langkawi, Malaysia..