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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 15:33:38 GMT -5
My Dad read comics in the 40's/50's. He started reading comics to me in 1966. Then my youngest daughter started reading comics in 2001.
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Post by shaxper on May 1, 2014 15:46:33 GMT -5
My mother read Archie and Little Lulu when she was little.
My dad was a few months younger than Batman.
That's all I've got.
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Post by DE Sinclair on May 1, 2014 16:09:19 GMT -5
My dad named me after a comic strip character (Dennis the Menace) so he must have read newspaper strips at least. Why he had to pick that one I don't know. There must have been others I wouldn't have gotten so much grief over.
And my daughter reads some comics, and lots and lots of manga.
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Post by DubipR on May 1, 2014 16:14:42 GMT -5
My folks when they were dating read Archies.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 16:26:53 GMT -5
I inherited a variety of comics from my Great Grandmother. Tales from the Unknown, Mighty Samson, Sad Sack, Flash, the Justice League 80-page All Sorcery issue, etc.
I've got that gene for sure.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 1, 2014 16:31:43 GMT -5
Both my parents read comics when they were kids/teens in the '40s and still regularly purchased paperback collections of Pogo, Peanuts, BC, Dennis the Menace and Andy Capp when I was growing up. My brother and sister read comics as kids but "outgrew" them, unlike your humble correspondent. Several of my nieces are into comics, as is my nephew Alan (currently enrolled in the Seattle Art Institute's Animation program). So yeah, multigenerational comics reading family here.
Cei-U!
Our family tree is Groot!
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Post by the4thpip on May 1, 2014 16:42:28 GMT -5
My dad was a POW with the Americans and got hooked on collections of the Blondie newspaper strip. He didn't read comics from the 50s to 1970 or so, but when my brother and I got into comics, he always encouraged it and he sometimes read some of our books.
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Post by coke & comics on May 1, 2014 16:48:35 GMT -5
My mother read Fantastic Four and Thor as a child. Thor because he was handsome. And Fantastic Four because it featured the handsome Namor she hoped Sue would wise up and marry. My mother bought me my first comic at the age of 8 assuming I would eventually grow out of it like she did. It's high on her list of regrets.
My father liked Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 1, 2014 16:52:05 GMT -5
Almost every kid in the 40s and 50s read comics. My Dad would occasionally see someone on one of my comics he recognized. My Grandfather worked for the Union Pacific and they used to gather up the magazines left on the trains. That's where most of Dad's comics came from. My Mom remembered reading Andy Panda comics when she was little and Katy Keene when she was a little older.
Both of my sons read comics, though not like I do.
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 1, 2014 16:52:42 GMT -5
My Mother was another Little Lulu reader (Alan Moore singing the theme on his Simpsons appearance floored her). My father was a teen during the Marvel boom, and loved Silver Surfer (and maybe the F4, as well).
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 16:56:42 GMT -5
My parents both read comics as kids, my mom continued to read Mad, Cracked, Archie, and the occasional Heavy Metal after she had me. My dad knew a fair bit about the Marvel Universe but hadn't read a comic since he was a kid. My grandfather read comics when he was a kid, but not as an adult.
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Post by The Captain on May 1, 2014 18:38:00 GMT -5
My dad read his fraternity brothers' comics back in the late '60's; he said he liked ASM and FF but never understood the appeal of Silver Surfer.
My daughters both read "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" and its related mini-series.
That said, I got three generations going.
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Post by MDG on May 1, 2014 20:56:11 GMT -5
Neither of my parents read comics, though I had an uncle who did and bought some of the first I read, as well as things like Feiffer's The Great Comic Book Heroes.
Although I have four sons (and one grandson), none have been very interested in comics.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 1, 2014 22:36:01 GMT -5
My Mom and her three sisters read all kinds of comics in the late 1940s and 1950s. She said Blackhawk was her favorite but she also liked Wonder Woman and Superman. She also mentioned some of the stuff in the horror and crime comics that were very upsetting to some of the kids. One of the stories she mentioned to me (it was a about a bunch of kids who heard about a guy getting electrocuted for kidnapping so they electrocuted the boy who stole a girl's doll) I found years later in an EC reprint (I think it was Shock Suspense Stories.)
She also got in trouble for climbing up high in trees and telephone poles and stuff because she thought she was Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, but not from the comics. She was imitating the TV show with Irish McCalla.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2014 22:41:17 GMT -5
As far as I know, I am the only member of my family on either side who has read comics.
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