As a kid, who was your favorite comic book character?

Thanks Mom. And that goes for the baseball cards too.

in particular Beast

me am like Bizarro world too.



I was pretty crazy about this guy, too. I read his comics at the barbershop.

but then I found The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

In fact, Little Lulu is still my favorite comic book character.

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Dewey and Louie

I also liked romance comics.

and if you don't believe me, check out my journal...:)

I mean it.

Back in the 60's...

Then The Avengers...

Then Captain America...

I collected Thor, Superman, Action, Batman, Detective, JL, Brave and Bold, Worlds Finast, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, Silver Surfer.....

Loved 'em!

I still love all of those and much, much more.

I love drawing & reading comics to this day.

I thought, "Someday I'll have boobies just like that!" :D

He was angry, he kicked ass, and he was NOT that SuperFriends wienie

That's the Levitz-Conway-Aparo Aquaman, back when comic books weren't snuff film story boards.

and those very strange comics from the early 70s that talked about demonic possession, alien abductions, and other weird shit.

i remember when i was about 10 years old i discovered the OUTRAGEOUS world of bill gaines "EC" comics. my dad would take me downtown to some comic book store on michigan ave. where they had all kinds of old shit, and i found some vintage (this was in 1980, so the books had to go back to the 50s) "mad" and ec books.

some ec themes (from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EC_Comics)

EC's most common 'house plot' was to take an ordinary situation and turn it on its head in gruesome fashion, oftentimes as poetic justice for a character doing something wrong. For example the story Collection Completed features a man who takes up the hobby of taxidermy to bug his wife. When he kills and stuffs her beloved cat, the wife snaps and kills him, stuffing and mounting his body as he did to so many animals before. The story Revulsion contains a spaceship pilot bothered by insects due to an experience in his past when he found a bug in his food. By the end of the story a giant alien insect screams in horror when he finds the dead pilot in his salad. This type of theme appeared in dozens of stories and covered all sorts of situations imaginable. Dissection, the broiling of lobsters, Mexican jumping beans, fur coats, and fishing are just a small sample of the kind of themes that these types of stories were built around.

The 'Grim Fairy Tale', which appeared almost exclusively in EC's horror comics featured gruesome twists on common fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood and many others.
Adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories appeared frequently in EC comics starting in 1952. The never ending need for material led to a humorous incident where Feldstein and Gaines combined 2 of Bradbury's stories into a single one for one of their science fiction comics. Learning of the story, Bradbury sent a note praising them, while remarking that he had "inadvertently" not yet received his payment for their use. Charmed and relieved, EC happily sent a check and began a productive series of Bradbury adaptations.

Stories with a political message became common in EC's science fiction and suspenstory comics. Issues including racism, lynching, anti-semitism, police corruption were just a small sample of those featured.

And all the other dwellers in what Wikipedia calls "The Scrooge McDuck Universe"



Of course, I read Superman, Batman & the rest of the DC gang. But also loved The Fantastic Four & their Marvel compatriots. (Yeah, if I'd saved them all....)

Years later, I met this guy in my kid brother's hot rod magazines.



Which led to these guys: www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=126

So Shoot me, I'm blonde.....

Yeah! :headbang:

I'd say something in French, but I can't think of anything.

I can't think of anything, either.

Then again, I don't know any French. :shrug:

I was thinking of Mon Cherie, but I didn't want you to think I was hitting on you.

The 2006 version of Captain America is even better under the direction of writer Ed Brubaker. I strongly recommend this book to everyone.

so favorite characters were probably Skywise and Emma Frost.

In the "pre-teen" years it was Spider-Man. As a teenager, it was the X-Men.

who elese ends up with the power to easily destroy earth at the end of the comic series?

My favorite villain was Apocalypse from the X-Men in the late 80's

And it always will be. :loveya:

Dr. Strange

while written by Grant Morrison.

Closely followed by Watchmen, with V for Vendetta a distant third, then Grant Morrison's (again!) Animal Man run.

The original superhero.

I loved Richie Rich...surprised I didn't turn out to be a neocon...

when I was a kid.
I liked newspaper comics.

Snoopy was always my fave. Still is.

But Richie Rich and The Archies really tickled my funny bone...what with their charming wit and all... :rofl: :yoiks:

But Batman and Superman were my favorite action heroes. And I grew up to marry a comic artist who's done color work on them too. :P

:shrug:

Followed by Phineas and Fat Freddy. And of course, Fat Freddy's Cat!

The Joker had his own comic for about nine or ten issues. Dr. Doom was hilariously evil. I loved his insults towards his foes, especailly when he would call someone a "dolt." There's something about that word that cracks me up.

Cousin Eerie--I was all about that kind of "Twilight Zone", "Tales of the Darkside" type of story-telling. I didn't read conventional "hero" comics regularly until I was in my late teens, and I think I loved anti-heroes and conflicted villians better than regular "good guys". I *liked* Magneto, and when I read the revamped "X-factor" series in oh, about 1991-93, I really liked the team of Havok, Quicksilver, Rahne, Polaris, Multiple Man, and Strong Guy, because they all seemed kind of flawed (my fav issue was where they were all psychoanalyzed.) I guess I like the mutant concept generally--feeling like an outcast, learning to develop your talent and be yourself.

Too cool.

Because nobody else liked him, and I was damned if I was going to follow the sheep! :D

and my view of what comics could be forever changed.

--p!