I became a John Wayne fan before I was conscious of anything else, when I was a wee lad of about three my parents would always watch John Wayne films in fact the most played movies were Rio Bravo/El Dorado. But it wasn't until the beginning of the century that I became a huge John Wayne fanatic and started collecting all of his on DVD.
My first acquisition was the 11 movie set from Platinum Disc company, it had most of his Lone Star Westerns and with that purchase I became forever a Duke fan. That was 2003.... now 4 years later I now own 106 Wayne movies on DVD.