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Post by jason on Jul 18, 2022 20:34:12 GMT -5
Have you ever discovered a character a different way from just buying a comic? Of course, my first major exposure to Marvel and DC characters were the Spider-Man (and his Amazing Friends) and Superfriends cartoons, but my first exposure to the Fantastic Four I had was via this children's book I got when I was around 6 years old:  It's actually a pretty fun story that shows off the abilities of the FF and was a good starting point for me to discover who they were. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 18, 2022 20:49:05 GMT -5
That book has wonderful Earl Norem art.  |
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Post by Duragizer on Jul 18, 2022 21:03:38 GMT -5
I discovered Spider-Man from a backpack I found at a second-hand store when I was six. IIRC, it was yellow, with the John Romita, Sr. Spidey leaping out at the observer from the centre of a big web. Don't ask me to provide a picture; I looked about the Internet for one to no avail.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Jul 19, 2022 12:22:52 GMT -5
I discovered Spider-Man on The Electric Company.
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Post by MDG on Jul 19, 2022 12:34:57 GMT -5
I first became aware of Marvel comics when I leafed through an Esquire magazine at the eye doctor's office:   |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2022 12:54:18 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.
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Post by berkley on Jul 19, 2022 12:59:07 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 we had Viewmaster reels of Batman and the Beverly Hillbillies, among other things - both of which I had already seen lots of time on tv but only in black and white, so the vivid colour along with the 3-D effect of the Viewmaster stills was quite amazing to me as a kid. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 19, 2022 13:23:52 GMT -5
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Post by tarkintino on Jul 19, 2022 13:51:47 GMT -5
That book has wonderful Earl Norman art. I think you meant Earl Norem. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 19, 2022 14:24:56 GMT -5
That book has wonderful Earl Norman art. I think you meant Earl Norem. Damn you spellchecker!! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 19, 2022 16:12:16 GMT -5
Not sure, but I think I must have first encountered Superman thanks to George Reeves.  |
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Post by coinilius on Jul 19, 2022 16:32:26 GMT -5
Have you ever discovered a character a different way from just buying a comic? Of course, my first major exposure to Marvel and DC characters were the Spider-Man (and his Amazing Friends) and Superfriends cartoons, but my first exposure to the Fantastic Four I had was via this children's book I got when I was around 6 years old: It's actually a pretty fun story that shows off the abilities of the FF and was a good starting point for me to discover who they were. I had that book as well! I always found it so strange lol the art is indeed very lovely though |
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 19, 2022 17:51:50 GMT -5
I first discovered The Spectre in the Halloween costumes section of stores in the late 60's:  Whoever that creepy character was, I wanted that costume! The stores never seemed to have that one in stock, though... ...because the Ben Cooper company never made a Spectre costume. They just plonked some classic Bernard Baily art on their boxes to entice the kiddies. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 19, 2022 18:19:29 GMT -5
I want to see a Spectre-Mary Poppins team-up.
Spectre-cali-fragilstic, etcetera
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2022 5:48:24 GMT -5
Not sure I can contribute to this, but I’ll share something in the same ballpark.
Before I do, let me state that an online friend, new to comics, mentioned that his first experience of Spider-Man was The Superior Spider-Man. What a peculiar way to be introduced to the character, eh? Utterly bizarre.
I’m not sure I have an “unusual” story to tell, but this is my introduction to Batman: in 1988, a company called London Editons Magazines had the licence to reprint DC in the UK (they were part of Egmont). Their first two issues reprinted The Untold Legend of the Batman. Nothing unusual in that, but they then switched to 70s reprints. It didn’t cause any confusion as such, given the self-contained nature of stories from that period. What was a little jarring was that eventually, the stopped reprinting 70s stories and went straight to reprinting Blind Justice, no doubt wishing to reprint darker Bat-tales.
The only confusion I recall pertained to that secretary of Bruce Waynes. I forget her name, she had red hair and glasses. Due to the non-chronological nature of the reprints, the first few Batman stories I read showed Bruce and this secretary knowing each other, but a later reprint featured their first meeting. Not too jarring, but it shows what reprints can mean.
I had been familiar with Batman before that thanks to cartoons, the Super Powers line and no doubt repeats of the 60s series (and the 1966 movie).
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