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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 20, 2023 14:13:10 GMT -5
I find it great to see how our different age leads to our having wildly different favourites! Well, it's hard to find people who saw Alley Oop, after the mid-70s. I'm more of a Yellow Kid guy, myself.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 20, 2023 14:22:56 GMT -5
Well, it's hard to find people who saw Alley Oop, after the mid-70s. I'm more of a Yellow Kid guy, myself. My two younger boys love The Yellow Kid. I bought the book shown below when they were pretty young and it's one of the books they poured over because the panels were so jam packed with stuff. They also devoured (and destroyed, but that's okay) my Gemstone reprints of Two-Fisted Tales.
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Post by MDG on Sept 20, 2023 14:43:03 GMT -5
I never really followed characters--maybe Superman and Batman as a kid. I was more interested in genres and later creators.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 20, 2023 14:45:45 GMT -5
I never really followed characters--maybe Superman and Batman as a kid. I was more interested in genres and later creators. You were wise beyond your years.
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Post by berkley on Sept 20, 2023 17:35:18 GMT -5
Off the top of my head, and roughly in chronological order, I especially remember:
the Star Trek crew - all of them, but especially Spock and Uhura
Crystal - Marvel comics, from the Kirby/Lee FF
the Black Panther - first from the Buscema/Klein Avengers
Doctor Strange - Marvel comics, the end of the Adkins run first, then the Colan, the Englehart/Brunner/Colan and the Ditko eras (in reprints) later on
Daredevil - Marvel comics, the Colan era and the period just preceding that
Dracula - from the Stoker novel first, then the Marvel comics later on
Kull - from the Marvel comics first, the REH stories later on
Tan Hadron - from my favourite ERB novel at the time (around age 12), A Fighting Man of Mars
Athos - from The Three Musketeers, the first novel specifically as I think he's a slightly different character in the later ones
That's a lot more than I thought I'd list when I first started so I'll stop there for now. This takes me up to the age of 12 or 13, I'll carry on from there later on.
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Post by james on Sept 21, 2023 9:39:30 GMT -5
Back in the day age 10-20 The Avengers were my favorite team and this is would have been my favorite team.
1 Wonder-Man
2. Yellow Jacket
3. Vision
4. Iron Man
5. Beast
6. Hawkeye
7. Jocasta
8. Ms. Marvel
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Post by tonebone on Sept 21, 2023 11:23:33 GMT -5
So, in chronological order, starting in roughly 1973 when I read my first comic....
Superman Batman (Marvel's) Star Wars Micronauts X-Men --college-- Superman Morpheus (Sandman) Batman JSA Popeye
Who was my favorite at any given time is entirely tied to the current state of the characters at the time... Popeye, of course, being the outlier. Batman because of reruns of the '66 show, X-Men because of the Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne era, Superman after college because of the Death and Return, etc.
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 21, 2023 18:29:59 GMT -5
I'll give it a chronological stab, as well: Superboy and the Flash were the first I followed for multiple issues. Deadman and Metamorpho were quick favorites thanks to B&B, but there was no ongoing to follow. Phantom Stranger, Mr. Miracle, Ant-Man, and Swamp Thing came next, and from then on I was too fully immersed to pick favorites.
Today, I'm still big on Phantom Stranger, Deadman, and Swamp Thing. Spectre and Hourman have joined the roster.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 25, 2023 14:27:11 GMT -5
My top four as a kid were Batman, Spider-Man, Venom, and Superman, in that order. Nowadays Supes comes first, followed by Spidey, then She-Hulk and the May "Mayday" Parker Spider-Girl, with Bats coming in last. Venom isn't a favourite at all anymore; he's just a psychotic goofball with an awesome character design and banal backstory who's good for a chuckle.
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 25, 2023 14:57:42 GMT -5
Venom isn't a favourite at all anymore; he's just a psychotic goofball with an awesome character design and banal backstory who's good for a chuckle. Venom, much like Gambit, was a character who to me thrived in my brain purely on cool factor alone. Agent Venom was kind of a neat take on the character, but I'm kind of a sucker for black ops military stuff in comics (Bloodshot, Wetworks)
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Post by rberman on Sept 26, 2023 13:21:27 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my favorite characters were the X-Men, but for some reason I have a harder time reading modern takes on the characters than I do with say Spider-Man or Daredevil. The series has gone through so many iterations since I stopped collecting it that I find it daunting to jump in on a run like Morrison's or Whedon's. The good news is that Morrison and Whedon both ignored all those iterations. Morrison because he never read X-Men anyway (for instance, he thought Sebastian Shaw was a telepath) and just used the series as a jumping off point for his own thing. And Whedon because he loved the early 80s version and ignored (or reversed) almost everything after the death of Phoenix, except for a few things that happened during Morrison's run. Both of them whittle the team down to half a dozen characters and made no references to events happening in other concurrent X-books. And both are quite good; they got me back into reading comics after 20 years away. My favorite childhood characters were Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, and Wildfire. My favorite modern book is Jeremy Bastian's Cursed Pirate Girl for its amazing art and irrepressible protagonist.
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