Great nostalgia. Thanks for sharing. I think my first issue of Wizard was no. 3 and when my buddy showed it to me in Jr. High I couldn't believe there could be a magazine about comics. Small town Alberta. If 7-11 or the gas station didn't get it in we'd all pester our parents to go by a comic shop on Calgary or Medicine Hat on the semi-monthly shopping trips we'd do.
Thank you! Ah, those were the days. No internet, no RU-vid, just seeking out what you liked at physical locations. To an extent, I still do that when I got to comic shops.