its_pro
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Post by its_pro on Mar 25, 2014 17:21:10 GMT -5
Just wondering what was the first comic books everyone read. I remember when I was a kid my dad fixed Kevin Eastman's mother's car and my brother and I got two original Turtles comics signed by Eastman. Unfortunately they are both trashed now but it was still pretty sweet. After that I remember a Web of Spider-Man during the Infinity War with about a dozen heroes attacking Spidey and I got the entire run of Daredevil: Man Without Fear by Miller and Romitia Jr.
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Post by lissapunch on Mar 25, 2014 20:11:42 GMT -5
Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. I was a literary nerd & poo-poo'ed comics. My boyfriend kept challenging me to give them a shot, and one day I gave in and started sifting through his collection. I came across a TPB with a dude that reminded me instantly of Hunter S. Thompson (who I love), sitting on a toilet, and I said "I have to read this". That was the beginning of the end.
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Post by courtneyk on Mar 26, 2014 21:10:48 GMT -5
Although I was never a comics reader as a kid, my first memory of reading a comic was when I was younger and found some old Archie comics at my grandmother's house. I don't remember much of what they were about, I just remember liking Veronica the best because she had dark hair and as a blonde little kid I of course wished I had dark hair.
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Mar 27, 2014 1:22:51 GMT -5
I read the Beano and Dandy as a kid (Can't wait for the Bananaman film!). As a teenager I read Akira, Dominion Tank Police and the odd 2000AD comic but didn't really get into comics until my 30s with the new 52.
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Post by Chapin on Mar 30, 2014 7:04:15 GMT -5
The earliest memory of comic characters was the Superfriends saturday morning cartoon (then Spiderman and the collage style Marvel cartoons). But the earliest book I remember was in my Christmas stocking, a 100 pages for sixty cents Batman issue that had a Neal Adams story in it with the Joker in prison somehow slipping his laugh juice into the prison guards coffee. I remember the drawing of the guard dead with his rictus grin affecting me pretty strongly as a child (Mom! Dad! What were you thinking???) The issue also had tons of other stuff, including reprints of golden age materials. It kept me quiet all Christmas.
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Post by joroak on Mar 30, 2014 11:11:00 GMT -5
It was web of spiderman 79. I recently found this comic on eBay and framed it! The start of a loooooong history needed to be framed
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Chapin
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Post by Chapin on Apr 1, 2014 14:27:27 GMT -5
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Post by miked on Apr 1, 2014 21:38:47 GMT -5
i have brief memories of frames of a spider-man comic from when i was really young, like maybe 5. it turns out that the comic was Amazing Spider-Man #4 with The Sandman. I'm sure it wasn't an original but somekind of reprint (oh god i hope.) I also used to wear my spider-man pajamas under my regular clothes so that i was ready to fight crime if suddenly called upon at the grocery store.
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Post by livingtribunal06 on Apr 2, 2014 1:15:29 GMT -5
Wow! The first comic I read was I think was Fantastic Four 259 (John Byrne) and Uncanny X-Men 155 I think this had the Starjammers, I was always into the cosmic.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Apr 2, 2014 8:33:48 GMT -5
Your Cranky Old Uncle Bob is in a reflective mood today, so it seemed a good time to visit over here! It's great fun reading about how comics first entered everyone's lives! I wrote a piece about my beginnings entitled Secret Origin of a Comic Book Fan , but what I didn't mention there were my first memories of reading comics. Although I know that I read some before these (a few "Classic Comics Illustrated" and the assorted Archie, Sad Sack or Mad Magazine issues), my first real memories of any particular comics are these: DC's Showcase #37 that introduced the Metal Men... ...and my first Marvel was Fantastic Four #5, featuring the debut of Doctor Doom:
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Post by ZoxNotAbox on May 4, 2014 18:47:17 GMT -5
My first introduction to comics was my dad. He had a small box of comics he'd collected over the years and, one saturday night when not much was really happening (I was in 3rd or 4th grade) he showed me his comics. It was a ton of Marvel and Image with only Batman and the Death of Superman being the only DC Comics he had (Which is funny because I'm just about the opposite). He's since passed the box onto me. I never got into weekly comics till the second year of The New 52 but had always been a big fan of superhereos because of my dad.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2014 23:33:32 GMT -5
My first comics were the Australian Frew publications of The Phantom. I was about 5 years old and the movie had just come out (which I think is good, never understood why it's considered so terrible) and I would go and pick them up after school on the walk home. Loved them. So much fun. I loved how so many of them used true historical characters or fictional characters and incorportated it into the mythology. Some of my favourites were one about Edgar Rice Buroughs meeting the Phantom in the jungle and using it as inspiration for Tarzan. Or The Phantom during the Lincoln assassination.
After that it was the Ultimate Spider-Man and X-Men comics. All of which (Phantom's included) were thrown out by my dear mum who thought I didn't need them anymore. I've since been tracking down copies of all the comics I remember owning because everybody should still have their firsts. However finding out how much Ultimate Spider-Man #1 is going for these days..... Yeah thanks alot mum. Guess thats one I'll never own again.
Back on the Phantom though, I really wish he was more of a mainstream character, such a cool backstory that could be done so well with the huge amount of great writers out there now.
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Post by Tony on May 9, 2014 22:32:33 GMT -5
this Batman vs The Hulk crossover book might've been my first (not counting the comic strips in the Sunday paper, including The Amazing Spiderman, which I read every week for years), it's hard to say. But my first "real" comic, which 10 year old Me went to the friendly local comic shop to get, was Dark Knight Returns, summer of '89 right after the Burton/Keaton movie came out. HOWEVER, however, I did just so happen to write a mildly-lengthy blog for my local shop that's centered on my earliest superhero memories, the ones that pre-date these two books and/or anything else. I'd be honored if you guys'd give it a breeze-through: Empire's Comics Vault: You'll Believe A Man Can Fly
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Post by Bob Reyer on May 10, 2014 9:44:25 GMT -5
Tony, That was a wonderful piece that you wrote; it truly sets out the nature of heroism embodied in the character of Superman in his purest form, and how it speaks to children and the child within all of us. Very well done! Bob ps) Some while back, I wrote something similar about my first "Superman memory", in this piece about The Adventures of Superman and George Reeves
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Post by Tony on May 10, 2014 14:57:27 GMT -5
Tony, That was a wonderful piece that you wrote; it truly sets out the nature of heroism embodied in the character of Superman in his purest form, and how it speaks to children and the child within all of us. Very well done! Bob ps) Some while back, I wrote something similar about my first "Superman memory", in this piece about The Adventures of Superman and George ReevesThank so you much, Bob, that means a awful lot. I really, really appreciate it. And I very much enjoyed your piece as well. I'm more well-versed in the Fleischer cartoons than the Reeves show ( Hollywoodland, notwithstanding), but this passage in particular really resonates, " Even after that, you always had the feeling that Superman was in total control, whether withstanding hails of gunfire or ray beams, preventing dams and railroad trestles from collapsing. lifting a pyramid or just simply coming into a room." Eventually, teenage/twenty-something-Me would come to be a little cynical about Superman for this, despite it being one of the main reasons he made such a massive impression on me when I was little, but the cyclical nature of life would eventually cure me of that cynicism, and once more I find a sort of endearing, comforting majesty in that. A binge-watching of the Reeves series is square on my Well-Overdue list. Also, triple-word-score and a resounding 'bravo' for the casual use of "bonhomie".
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