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Post by attoboy on Mar 27, 2005 11:52:07 GMT -7
From another thread: Oh lordy.... I am ashamed to admit my comic past started with... Sailor moon... ...if you read all of this I'm very impressed. I would have quit reading after "Sailor moon" That's a good point, because where we start is not always where we end up! So here's the question. What was: 1. the first comic you remember reading? 2. the first comic you bought yourself? 3. the comic that inspired you to try it yourself? For me it was: 1. a stack of L'il Jinx and Richie Rich in my uncle's basement. 2. Superman #?? - The Miracle of Thirsty Thursday (35 cents!) 3. Captain Canuck #1 Cheers! -Derek
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Post by Temperance on Mar 28, 2005 11:21:38 GMT -7
Well although I watched the Sailor moon cartoon on TV, the manga wasn't readily available, I was more into buying cards and toys...
1. Old Archie comics, still have most of them. They make good reading in the bathtub. 2. Batman: Shadow of the Bat. Sorry I can't remember the issue number, it was the issue were Anarchy straps himself and batman to this blimp laid with explosives. In the end Anarchy changes his mind and frees batman, but he is lost in the explosion. I haven't seen a new story with Anarchy, so maybe he did die. 3. Witchblade #15, don't ask me why...
I promise you, my taste has greatle improved! I swear!
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Post by Mr. Vince on Mar 28, 2005 13:04:53 GMT -7
Well I think alot of animation really got me into the comics. Especially the Ralph Bakshi Spiderman. Watched that all the time as a kid. Anyways, 1) Various Archie Comics, and I think Planet Terry too. I used to get em free from a local convenience store. They'd only have to send back the cover on unsold issues, so I have no idea what issue or whether or not it was a double digest. 2) I bought my own comics late in the game, I'd usually just read all my friends comics. The first comic I bought myself was Venom. I can't remember what issue. But it Venom was just such so cool to my pre-teen mind. I remember the particular story arc had some art that really tried to imitate the Image style. That's probably what made me buy it. 3) The comic that made me start doing it on my own was unfortunately Spawn. All my friends were into it, and at the time, the art was so cool. Spawn was the comic book industry's badass at the time. Of course trying to draw like MacFarlane without learning the fundamentals is bad news bears. My tastes have most definately changed. Come to think of it, a Dentists office was a valuable source of comic book entertainment as a child. Oh Planet Terry, will you ever find your parents? No, seriously did he? -Vince-
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Post by remandcentre on May 1, 2005 2:56:43 GMT -7
SuperPro #1 was the first comic that I can remember actually being mine. Hearing this one may ask "Why am I still collecting comics?"
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Post by Chris on May 1, 2005 11:29:41 GMT -7
Mr. Vince and I follow close on the same paths ... but different times in history.
1st off, it was Archies to read ... all the time. I don't even know where they all are, but I had a ton.
but to "get" me into comics was Amazing Spiderman #315, with Venom on the cover looking like he's gonna kill Spiderman ... I had no idea who Venom was or what the heck was going on, BUT I NEEDED TO KNOW THAT INSTANT. All I knew was at some point Spiderman had a black costume and now it looked like it was evil and out to get him. So from that time I was hooked on reading Spiderman, but I bought all my issues at Mac's and Bus Stops, I had no clue there were these things called "Comic Stores" ... so that was the extent of my comic 'collecting' though at the time I was simply reading them. This was all when I was 12 and I had gotten a paper route and I need to find a medium of which to spend all my massive income income. Spiderman was only making a very small dent ... MORE I DEMANDED! So while at Mac's perusing the wondeful comic selection I came across Uncanny X-Men #241 (which is funny, because in the Marvel release timeline Inferno came out way before Amazing 315 - but I didn' know, this was Mac's, my regular comic supply came through here), but I got Uncanny 241 for an entirely different reason ... I was 12 ... and Madelyne Pryor was wearing a very revealing costume on the cover ... and had plenty more of that inside I'M SOLD! ... I had no clue what was happening in the story, I couldn't figure out the X-Men over the bad guys (especially since they were acting kinda evil in Inferno) ... I figured out Storm ... but who were these others? oh wait, there's Wolverine, I know him ... anyhow, I was confused and didn't follow up ... of course, I couldn't anyways since Mac's didn't regularily supply X-Men ... the next issue I got of X-Men was when the women went shopping (also the first app. of Jubilee) ... from there it grew and eventually I found a comic store.
I started drawing comics ... but more cartoony characters. I drew "normal" comic characters in the form of pin-ups, but never attempting actual comics of that sort. Then I drew Ninja Turtles comics, then I started making my own ... around that period was probably just at the end of Todd's run with Amazing and switching to (just) Spiderman and Jim switching from Uncanny to (just) X-Men ...
When I was 17, was when I found out about actually making your own comics and using a photocopier to make mini comics ...
the rest ... is sorta history ...
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Post by Rik on May 10, 2005 19:49:56 GMT -7
Hey Derek! No I didn't fall off the face of the earth! I'm still alive! Wounded again by San Diego, but alive nonetheless.
My first comic? Hmmmm. I remember when I was a little lad, (about five years old)and my dad came home from an auction with a box full of comic books. The first I remember was a stack of Will Eisner's Spirit reprints in black and white. Oh, and I had an Amazing Spiderman (#15-I think?) featuring the first appearance of Kraven The Hunter, which my Dad still bugs me about losing it to this very day. I don't remember the rest, but they were probably Harvey comics (Casper, hot stuff) and really bad Superman stuff from the 60's.
The first comic i bought myself, is as clear to me as if it was yesterday! It was What If #1-with Spidey joining the FF!
Like Derek, the comic that inspired me to make comics was Captain Canuck #1! Though, I think it was probably because my Mom knew him, and I met him as a kid. (Hey! what happened to Richard Comely anyway? Does anyone know how to contact him?)
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Post by attoboy on May 10, 2005 23:30:52 GMT -7
Hey! what happened to Richard Comely anyway? Does anyone know how to contact him? Scott Dutton over at www.catspawdynamics.com can tell you pretty much everything there is to know about both Richard Comely and the good Captain. Cheers! -Derek
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Post by dutton on May 15, 2005 19:23:21 GMT -7
Well, #1 and #2 are the same: Marvel Team-Up #4. Spider-Man and the original X-Men go up against Michael Morbius in a tale by Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and Steve Mitchell.
#3 is a bit of a bigger answer. It was the work of Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams and Richard Giordano in Batman #243 (the second comic I bought); Gil Kane's work on Green Lantern and the late Silver/early Bronze work of all the DC artists, but the first comic I came up with was a team-up of Levitz and Ditko's Starman (as drawn by Jim Starlin) with this Torch-like guy from Time Warp #5. Right after that, I did a story about a guy with no face (behind a faceshield, that is), who teamed up with a monkey-like thing he met when he parachuted onto a jungle planet.
Please, don't ask me to remember details.
p.s. I tried typing Giordano's common name and it kept substituting "thingy". In this case Rick with a D is not the body part. :-P
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Post by Amilee on May 16, 2005 20:07:26 GMT -7
1. Archie and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Sonic the Hedgehog
Nuff said...^_^
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Post by Mr. Nick on May 16, 2005 20:52:46 GMT -7
1. Probably Archie. Stupid Archie.
2.I believe it was an issue of amazing spiderman. Part 5 of a 6 part story which featured the coolest bad guy ever . . . the ROSE! DUN DUN DUUUUN!
3. I think it was the movie Batman returns. Actually, there used to be this show called HARRIET'S MAGIC HATS and this parrot visited a comic studio where they made anti drug comics with space pirates in it or something. I tried to draw my own space pirate tale, and remember getting half a panel done. I must've been five or so. Does this count?
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