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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2022 5:49:16 GMT -5
I've mentioned before that I had Viewmaster reels of some characters before I had comics with them in it. I got the super-hero Viewmaster bucket when I was 4 and didn't start buying super-hero comics regularly until I was 5-6. I had a few before then, but yeah, for the most part my first exposure was those Viewmasters, Electric Company, Super-Friends, etc. that I watched before I learned how to read and got the comics regularly whenI learned to read and not just look at the picture. -M If there is a prize for the most fun and unusual way to be introduced to superheroes, then I think your post nails it!
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Post by tartanphantom on Jul 20, 2022 7:35:29 GMT -5
I want to see a Spectre-Mary Poppins team-up. Spectre-cali-fragilstic, etcetera
This concept would make an awesome Brave & Bold 100-pager!
🎵"Just a spoonful of terror helps the criminals, go down"...🎵
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 20, 2022 12:48:47 GMT -5
Comics were among family interests before I was born, so there was no way I would not encounter the various characters (from a wide range of publishers). Very early on, I found myself gravitating to many of the characters I still hold some sort of interest in today, usually in the format of a limited, non-continuity story.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jul 20, 2022 20:50:27 GMT -5
It wouldn't be long before I became a fan of The Tick through the cartoon series, but in 1992 when this came out, that Blue Beetle looking parody seen in the center of this cover felt as if I were reading a character who wasn't that far off from whoever it was meant to be a parody of, but I couldn't figure out why. I guess it was due to the affection and fun that the writer was obviously having with this guy. Somehow I knew it wasn't a Blue Beetle parody since this character seemed so fresh whereas I knew that The Blue Beetle had been around a while. So here was a lampoon of a character who was wearing a parody version of another hero's outfit but at the same time I sensed seemed strangely on-model despite my not knowing who was being... not parodied, but homaged. An unusual way of being introduced to The Tick.
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