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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 25, 2014 14:01:59 GMT -5
Reprints for me...DC 80/100 pg Giants & Treasury Editions.  "The Joker's Utility Belt"....true REPRINTED Dick Sprang AWESOMENESS!!! I got this about three years ago, and it is AMAZING!! The first Calendar Man! The first Mr. Freeze (although he was known as Mr. Zero)! And that story with the Shark, the Fox and the Vulture is just NUTZ!
And "The Joker's Utility Belt" is one of the better Joker stories of the era. As good as "The Joker's Millions"! Maybe better!
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Post by gothos on Dec 25, 2014 14:56:35 GMT -5
I started collecting superhero comics in '66, so I would get second-hand copies of the reprints of Superman, Batman, and all the stuff in FANTASY MASTERPIECES.
Strangely, it seems that DC wasn't willing to devote much reprint space to anyone but their top two. There were very few reprints of other DC heroes until the 1970s, though one FLASH giant reprinted the first story to feature the Fiddler-- which at the time, I hated because the art wasn't slick like Infantino's new stuff.
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Post by Pharozonk on Dec 25, 2014 15:05:48 GMT -5
Reprints for me...DC 80/100 pg Giants & Treasury Editions. "The Joker's Utility Belt"....true REPRINTED Dick Sprang AWESOMENESS!!! I got this about three years ago, and it is AMAZING!! The first Calendar Man! The first Mr. Freeze (although he was known as Mr. Zero)! And that story with the Shark, the Fox and the Vulture is just NUTZ!
And "The Joker's Utility Belt" is one of the better Joker stories of the era. As good as "The Joker's Millions"! Maybe better!
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 25, 2014 15:45:25 GMT -5
I got this about three years ago, and it is AMAZING!! The first Calendar Man! The first Mr. Freeze (although he was known as Mr. Zero)! And that story with the Shark, the Fox and the Vulture is just NUTZ!
And "The Joker's Utility Belt" is one of the better Joker stories of the era. As good as "The Joker's Millions"! Maybe better!
Is that the cover your avatar comes from? I pulled it at random off the Internet back in the CBR days. They probably come from the same original source. |
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Post by atomsmasher on Dec 25, 2014 17:46:39 GMT -5
I found out about the Justice society during the later part of there run in the 00's. I liked the team and story so much I have the whole set.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2014 18:47:33 GMT -5
For me, it was the All-Star Squadron with JSA leading the pack of the introduction of Golden Age Heroes. The Heroes that got me started were The Spectre, Hourman, Doctor Fate, and Green (Alan Scott) Lantern and only they got me interested from the get go.
Followed by Jay Garrick's Flash and the combination of Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle too that led the way also. I was a huge All-Star Squadron fan - and I have pretty much the entire run of them in the early 60's on.
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Post by badwolf on Dec 26, 2014 10:59:23 GMT -5
The JSA story in Adventure Comics #465:  A little later there would be a couple crossovers during Gerry Conway's JLA that I read bits of. |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 27, 2014 8:33:34 GMT -5
I discovered DC's Golden Age heroes when I picked Secret Origins #31 up off the newspaper stand, circa 1988...  |
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Post by spoon on Dec 27, 2014 17:17:12 GMT -5
I still collecting comics during Crisis on Infinite Earths. So my introduction to the Golden Age heroes was seeing them alongside the Earth-1 characters I already knew from cartoons and the Super Powers toys.
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Post by dupersuper on Dec 29, 2014 6:41:09 GMT -5
The first story I remember reading featuring DC Golden Age heroes is the 1st issue of the JL/JS cross over in which Johnny Thunders T-bolt is attacking every one.
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Post by Pól Rua on Dec 30, 2014 3:44:51 GMT -5
I honestly have NO idea. I must've been VERY young. Maybe a Flash story, or a Wonder Woman story (I was familiar with WWII Nazi-punching Diana from the TV series), or a JLA/JSA team-up.
As a kid, there where TWO things that'd make me plunk down my 20c more than ANYTHING else - a superhero I'd never seen before, and, even more potent, a whole MESS of superheroes I'd never seen before. So if I see a picture of The Flash, and there's a guy next to him who's ALSO the Flash, but looks NOTHING like him, you bet I'm snapping that up in a heartbeat.
And yeah, I don't buy that whole 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' malarkey about the parallel Earths making it hard for people to understand.
I was maybe FOUR, and I'm reading Gardener Fox or someone's words "Imagine a world, just like ours, existing side-by-side, but in another dimension... TWO Earths... and on each world, duplicates of familiar people... some similar and some strikingly different... TWO Supermen, TWO Batmen, TWO Green Lanterns..."
My response to that at the age of four is "Yeah, cool, awesome!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 14:14:45 GMT -5
Totally agree. I understood it also as a kid. In fact it was one of the reasons I liked DC more than Marvel as a kid. DC had a multiverse & sidekicks. That was better than Marvel's flawed heroes... |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 30, 2014 19:09:45 GMT -5
I honestly have NO idea. I must've been VERY young. Maybe a Flash story, or a Wonder Woman story (I was familiar with WWII Nazi-punching Diana from the TV series), or a JLA/JSA team-up. As a kid, there where TWO things that'd make me plunk down my 20c more than ANYTHING else - a superhero I'd never seen before, and, even more potent, a whole MESS of superheroes I'd never seen before. So if I see a picture of The Flash, and there's a guy next to him who's ALSO the Flash, but looks NOTHING like him, you bet I'm snapping that up in a heartbeat. And yeah, I don't buy that whole 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' malarkey about the parallel Earths making it hard for people to understand. I was maybe FOUR, and I'm reading Gardener Fox or someone's words "Imagine a world, just like ours, existing side-by-side, but in another dimension... TWO Earths... and on each world, duplicates of familiar people... some similar and some strikingly different... TWO Supermen, TWO Batmen, TWO Green Lanterns..." My response to that at the age of four is "Yeah, cool, awesome!" 100% this. Crisis was actually my introduction to the golden age, and I read it when I was 6 and was not confused one bit. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2014 7:22:54 GMT -5
My first introduction to ANY DC golden age characters was when I read The Return of Barry Allen, but I'm not sure if that counts since it was not written during the golden age, and just simply characters from the golden age. Then my next read of any golden age characters was in the JSA run from the 90's. Again, not sure if that really counts since it is just a more recent writing of golden age characters, not actual stories FROM the golden age. My next intro were actual Batman and Robin stories from the golden age in this little book I posted in another thread here:  Now, I want more golden age Batman stories. Do you guys know of the best, available, collection of golden age Batman and Robin stories and where I could get them? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 31, 2014 11:01:36 GMT -5
My first introduction to ANY DC golden age characters was when I read The Return of Barry Allen, but I'm not sure if that counts since it was not written during the golden age, and just simply characters from the golden age. Then my next read of any golden age characters was in the JSA run from the 90's. Again, not sure if that really counts since it is just a more recent writing of golden age characters, not actual stories FROM the golden age. My next intro were actual Batman and Robin stories from the golden age in this little book I posted in another thread here: Now, I want more golden age Batman stories. Do you guys know of the best, available, collection of golden age Batman and Robin stories and where I could get them? I have a bunch of Batman collections, but my favorite one is The Black Casebook. It's a bunch of Batman stories from the 1950s selected by Grant Morrison as his main influences for his own Batman stories. |
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