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I can't remember which comic was exactly my first, but I do remember two comics distinctly among my first. I was really sick and my mother brought me a copy of Superman #423 which probably doomed me right there. It was years before I read Action #583 for the ending... The other one for me was that one of the first comics I purchased for myself was Crisis on Infinite Earths #8. Twenty years later I had Marv Wolfman and George Perez sign that exact, tattered copy at a convention. 
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My first comic was some punisher/wolverine/ghostrider thing that I remember actually being pretty good.
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Dec 5, 2015 20:37
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Fsmhunk posted:My first comic was some punisher/wolverine/ghostrider thing that I remember actually being pretty good. That's virtually every comic in the 90's.
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Dec 5, 2015 23:17
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I think my first comic was probably some random issue of the Beano.
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Dec 6, 2015 00:14
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My first comic was some Web of Spider-Man book in the mid 90s. The only thing I remember about it was that it had Shocker.
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Dec 6, 2015 00:15
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My grandmother had the kind of comics that a Sunday School teacher would have -- Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a couple of those Christian Archie comics, that sort of thing. So I suppose that that's what I read first. The first hero comic I can remember reading was an old Green Lantern in some waiting room -- this one. It included a fun terrorist gang trying to take over an airport -- the YELLOW PERIL!  Who are all "Green Lantern is rumored to be POWERLESS against anything yellow! So, let's, um... dress in yellow jumpsuits because he's never had to face that particular weakness in person or, like, pick up something non-yellow and hurl it at us. Also no other heroes could possibly be in town." The first comic I bought for myself, since a friend of mine talked up the X-Men incessantly, was an X-Men book. Specifically, Heroes for Hope. Certainly this was going to be a knock-down, drag-out example of classic superhero battling:  Or not.
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Dec 6, 2015 03:45
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People kept buying me comics as a kid for my birthday but I never did take to them So I got like an AoA X-men where Morph turns into a whale? And then A Scarlet Spider-Spider-Man comic where there was Carnage and that Girl Symbiote? Anyway, I didn't get into comics again until I was all growed up and could actually spend money and I just walked into a LCBS and picked up Scarlett Spider #1.
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Dec 6, 2015 04:21
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Fereydun posted:it's the only mask of his that can be worn with a. Ftfy
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Dec 6, 2015 04:37
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I don't remember my very first comic of my own, but one of the first was the OHOTMU Book of the Dead. That explains a lot. However, I also got Groo. One issue from well after I started reading comics (vol. 2 #57, November 1989) opens with him and Rufferto on a raft in the ocean, their previous ship having sunk because— Groo being a massive jinx— every ship Groo sets foot on sinks sooner or later. They drift within sight of a ship so massive that they can't tell if it's a ship or an island. It comes that they need to build on deck, so Groo goes to get some wood. 
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Dec 6, 2015 05:38
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"LordPants" posted:
Astonishing X-Men #3 or 4. I could have done good in school, but all my memory is used up remembering random panels from 90's comics.
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Dec 6, 2015 12:55
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ManiacClown posted:I don't remember my very first comic of my own, but one of the first was the OHOTMU Book of the Dead. That explains a lot. The original run of that book had a super-creepy cover. They did the same thing again a few years later, but instead of the cover, they just included a panel on every character's page that depicted their deaths, which was probably worse.
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Dec 6, 2015 12:59
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Fsmhunk posted:My first comic was some punisher/wolverine/ghostrider thing that I remember actually being pretty good. Sounds like Hearts of Darkness where they have to deal with Mephisto's son.
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Dec 6, 2015 16:31
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Fsmhunk posted:My first comic was some punisher/wolverine/ghostrider thing that I remember actually being pretty good. If it's the one I'm thinking of, which was one of my first comics, it was Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness. It had art by Romita, which made it kind of stand out a bit in my memory compared to the other comics I was reading at the time.
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Dec 6, 2015 16:33
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My first comic was Anarky's debut in Detective Comics. One look at Norm Breyfogle's work and I was pretty much hooked.
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Dec 6, 2015 19:15
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GI-Joe #23. Larry Hama is indeed hard to appreciate at age 5.
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Dec 6, 2015 19:47
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Masters of the Universe #12, picked up off the spinner rack at a Jewel/Osco in 1986. It wasn't amazing but it was pretty much the last gasp of He-Man as it was so I gobbled it up. Took forever to find the follow up (and final) issue.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:19
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Did he ever score?
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Dec 6, 2015 22:28
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redbackground posted:Did he ever score? Oh he totally banged Teela.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:28
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Rhyno posted:Masters of the Universe #12, picked up off the spinner rack at a Jewel/Osco in 1986. Apparently I'm still 12, because Skeletor's gaping maw looming over a phallic tombstone is making me laugh way too hard
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Dec 6, 2015 22:52
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Thaddius the Large posted:Apparently I'm still 12, because Skeletor's gaping maw looming over a phallic tombstone is making me laugh way too hard And suddenly we are all 12.
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Dec 6, 2015 22:58
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Rhyno posted:Masters of the Universe #12, picked up off the spinner rack at a Jewel/Osco in 1986. Whoah, that's right up there with "The Transformers...are all dead."
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joehonkie posted:Whoah, that's right up there with "The Transformers...are all dead." From memory, Adam tossed the Power Sword into the abyss and the sword ends up in the future or something. He goes to find it and ends up in a future where Skeletor rules, He-Man is assumed dead and Adam is a war torn soldier. Both Adam's hold the sword up and become He-Man, the old man version dies and young Adam returns home.
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Dec 7, 2015 08:24
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I know what this is from, but I can't remember. Hellblazer?
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Dec 7, 2015 12:17
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X-Men. That's Mystique getting Destiny in her face.
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Dec 7, 2015 12:22
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Ghostlight posted:X-Men. That's Mystique getting Destiny in her face. And hair.
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Dec 7, 2015 13:30
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Eh, it's not the first time.
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Dec 7, 2015 14:37
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Is that from before or after The Big Lebowski came out?
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Dec 7, 2015 14:51
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Nah. X-Factor Annual #6 in 1991 vs. Lebowski in 1998. I'd be very surprised if this comic was the origin of that gag though.
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mind the walrus posted:Nah. X-Factor Annual #6 in 1991 vs. Lebowski in 1998. I'd be very surprised if this comic was the origin of that gag though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63182WmUCfE redbackground fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Dec 7, 2015 15:18
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I meant the "ashes scattered to the wind blow back" gag period. It seems like something that goes back to vaudeville at least. It's like something you'd see in Buster Keaton or Chaplin.
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Dec 7, 2015 15:25
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Does anyone have those Newspaper Spiderman comics from Spiderverse? I want to show them to a friend.
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mind the walrus posted:I meant the "ashes scattered to the wind blow back" gag period. It seems like something that goes back to vaudeville at least. It's like something you'd see in Buster Keaton or Chaplin. The scene in Life Stinks was based on something that actually happened to one of the actors.
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Dec 7, 2015 17:09
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Keromaru5 posted:The scene in Life Stinks was based on something that actually happened to one of the actors. That scene is literally the only thing I remember about that movie which somehow ended up as a sleepover movie choice back in like 7th or 8th grade. redbackground fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Dec 7, 2015 17:10
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redbackground posted:It was Mel Brooks himself, with his dad's ashes. Close: it was Howard Morris, whose character's ashes fly into Brooks' face.
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Dec 7, 2015 17:45
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Keromaru5 posted:Close: it was Howard Morris, whose character's ashes fly into Brooks' face. goddammit, I thought it was Mel's this whole time. I have learned a thing.
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Dec 7, 2015 17:49
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Not a panel, but it is comics and I found it funny...
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Dec 8, 2015 03:11
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Once more the dreams and hopes of the 90's die in front of our faces.
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We're talking about how we got into comics now? Well early on my grandparents on both sides had random assortment of stuff for the grandkids to waste time with, including comics. I'd get random like, Disney comics as cheapo gifts that I'd read, and they'd have ratty old Tarzan or Lois Lane comics which I read the hell out of (the former even had cool extra features like a ape-to-man translation guide). However, as a little brother, the phases my older brother went through often had much longer effects on me than they did on him. There's lots that I still am fanatical about that were passing crazes to him, like punk or goth music, or horror movies. In the 80s he got into comics at random, but wasn't very picky about it. He would grab whatever covers looked cool, caring less about over-arching stories. At the time, as my mom was taking both of us to the LCBS, I would end up getting things based on if they looked funny, like Groo, or Captain Carrot, or "Mazin Man, or Ambush Bug. I regret none of those purchases. Later I would start going through the "adolescent" comic phase, right when X-Men fanaticism was an all time high, and the Image revolution was just starting, so I tried to pay attention to all his old back issues, and I started realizing things could be pretty awesome, and found myself enjoying things like old Avengers back issues, or his random assortment of Transformers comics (including the whole awesome arc where Megatron kills everyone except Ratchet, and then blackmails him into going and digging up the Dinobots in the Savage Land). The rest is history.
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 Adult fantasy... I see.
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