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Post by Red Oak Kid on May 24, 2016 18:25:18 GMT -5
Neal Adams was the guy who got me into collecting comic books. When I read the issue of Avengers where Ant Man shrunk down and went inside the Vision, that was the comic where I flipped back to the first page to see who the hell drew this.
Name the writer or artist that made you say, who the hell wrote or drew this.
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Post by Cei-U! on May 24, 2016 19:41:23 GMT -5
Hmm. Well, Walt Kelly got me into comics but the first comic book creators I knew by name were Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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I summon Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 19:48:38 GMT -5
The first comic book creator whose name I noticed and who got me to look out for their work specifically was George Perez in Avengers 161-162-I was about 8 at the time, but I had already been getting comics (and even Avengers) for a while. It was just the first time I recognized a specific creator's contribution well enough to want to keep looking for more.
But I already knew the name of cartoonists whose work I saw in the Sunday pages that I liked-Charles Schulz, Mort Walker, Dik Browne, etc.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 19:58:58 GMT -5
It was Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky got me started with Comic Books when I first started reading the early days of the Justice League of America ... and later on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby with the Fantastic Four.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 20:20:25 GMT -5
My Dad & the Batman (1966) TV show got me into comics. The Bob Haney/Jim Aparo Brave & Bold series kept me interested as I got older.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 24, 2016 20:31:34 GMT -5
I want to say Jack Kirby on the early Avengers reprints , or maybe John Romita on FF #102.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 24, 2016 20:41:37 GMT -5
There wasn't a creator who got me into comic books. The Batman TV show got me into comic books. And as a normal kid I followed characters and covers that I thought were cool for a number of years. Don Newton is probably the first artist who I followed religiously. Neil Gaiman changed how I thought about and followed comics.
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 24, 2016 21:02:34 GMT -5
I want to say that no one in particular got me hooked. Looking back, though, I devoured anything Mark Gruenwald was involved in. His love of the medium was unsurpassed in his time.
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Post by shaxper on May 24, 2016 21:07:51 GMT -5
I started reading comics because I thought they were cool, but it was Wolfman and Perez's combined work on New Teen Titans #39 that made me a lifer.  |
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Post by tolworthy on May 24, 2016 21:33:12 GMT -5
Leo Baxendale. My first ever comic was Monster Fun, and the best part of it was Baxendale's Badtime Bedtime books. I bought his autobiography when it first came out (not sure why, it must have been advertised in the comic). Ironically it turned me OFF being a comics professional, my original goal. But it made me a serious comics fan.  |
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Post by Warmonger on May 24, 2016 21:52:09 GMT -5
Wasn't initially big into comics as an 8-10 year old kid, then when John Buscema replaced Barry Smith and Conan became the talk of the town, and more directly appealed to me in terms of subject matter, I became pretty infatuated.
Wasn't big into superheroes in my early youth, but Conan was right up my alley. Especially after reading 2-3 of the Robert Howard novels a year or so earlier.
A fearless anti-hero who wasn't really a good guy or a bad guy...was really just out for himself and to establish his own legacy.
That really appealed to me and was incredibly cool in my mind, especially during a time when I was actively growing up on Eastwood/Leone spaghetti westerns.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 24, 2016 21:58:14 GMT -5
Hergé. I grew up on Tintin, as my mom would read 10 pages a night to my sister and I.
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Post by hondobrode on May 24, 2016 23:26:52 GMT -5
My mom bought me JLA # 115 based on the fact that I saw Superman on the cover and it mentioned "Super Friends".
I read and re-read that issue again and again and again until it fell apart.
Based on that criteria, I was say it was Nick Cardy, the cover artist of that issue.
It mesmerized me and burned itself into my feeble pink brain until next week.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 25, 2016 1:29:36 GMT -5
I guess I'd say Walt Simonson's run on Thor, which was among the first comics I ever read, probably put the hooks in me most deeply.
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Post by tingramretro on May 25, 2016 1:42:29 GMT -5
I have absolutely no idea. I can't actually remember ever not reading comics.
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