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Jacob P Secrest
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Andrew Kneath wrote:
I first encountered Superheroes via The
Superman/Superboy cartoons (by Filmation I believe) in the early 70's and
Batman and Robin believe it or not as guest stars in Scooby Doo.
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I remember that.
I always used to watch anything Scooby I could find.
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John Byrne
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That was an odd period at DC, with Joe Staton -- one of the best comedic artists in the bizniz -- being called upon to draw so many superhero stories. Granted, there was nothing really out there that more suited Joe's gifts, and I would not have wanted to see him go without work -- but it was, as I say, odd. Especially when set alongside something like Kubert's TARZAN. (What are there on that cover? Like, three lines? Damn you Joe Kubert!! You make the rest of us have to work way too hard!)
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Flavio Sapha
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Horsies! He can draw horses! *@#%!
Edited by Flavio Sapha on 14 May 2005 at 2:37pm
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Flavio Sapha
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Sorry to clog the drain, but these four Kubert covers were burned into my
retinae...
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Flavio Sapha
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John Byrne wrote:
| That was an odd period at DC, with Joe Staton -- one of the best comedic artists in the bizniz -- being called upon to draw so many superhero stories. Granted, there was nothing really out there that more suited Joe's gifts, and I would not have wanted to see him go without work -- but it was, as I say, odd. |
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This story in particular, the origin of the "pre-crisis" Huntress, is chock-
ful of melodrama. In fact, it foreshadows a lot of what came to pass to
Batman beginning with DK. Catwoman's final scene usually got me sad as
heck way back when. Years later, I saw his work in Green Lantern and
couldn't stomach it. Later still, Staton kicked off the new Huntress and
returned to form. Maybe there's something about the character that
clicks with him.
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Thomas Moudry
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My first Joe Staton comic book was DC Special no. 29, which featured "The Secret Origin of the Justice Society." Somewhere around that time, I ordered DC Super-Stars no. 17 (The Huntress issue) from Mile High Comics and found some of the All-Star Comics I was missing. I didn't know Joe Staton did "humor comics" 'til I found the Modern Comics reprints of E-Man at a local discount store.
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Thomas Moudry
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Oh, is Joe Staton still working in comics?
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John Griggs Jr
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I watched the Gi Joe cartoon in the 80's and that led me into comics. Then I saw Iceman( I remembered him from Spider-man and his Amazing friends) on the covers of X-Factoer 3, Marvel Saga and Marvel Universe and bought them all. Though the first comic I read was A Star Wars, were Han and Lando were playing cards with Ewoks. I didn't like that one but, GI Joe hooked me right away. Bare in mind the first year I bought comics it was at 7-11. If it wasn't for 7-11 I doubt I'd ever got into comics.
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Thomas Moudry
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When I was a kid, there were two convenience stores here, in my
hometown; they were the only places with comic book spinner racks in
the early 1970's. For whatever reason, a local grocery store carried
all the Limited Collector's Editions, Famous First Editions, and Marvel
Treasury Editions, while a local drugstore carried those treasury-size
books and any DC and Marvel books that were of the "giant," "annual,"
or "king-size" variety.
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Thomas Mets
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I was introduced to Spider-Man, and comic books through the Spider-Man
comic strip. Imagine my joy when I went to Manhattan, and saw a guy on
the street selling some Spider-Man comics. Then imagine my joy when I
realized there were entire stores of comic books.
I also fortunately became a fan during one of the worst periods in
comic book history (the spectator boom) so I have no nostalgia for the
new books of my childhood, and can appreciate quality regardless of
whether the story's 40 years old (Fantastic Four Volume 1 #48-51), or
came out a few months ago (Mark Millar's run on Spider-Man).
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Thomas Moudry
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Did anyone's first comics come from an actual comic book shop, or were they found at grocery stores, drugstores, and convenience stores?
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John Byrne
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My first exposure, that black and white Annual (which I have recently learned was also an Australian reprint, distributed but not published in England) I saw in the window of a shop on the High Street in West Bromwich, just around the corner from the street my family lived on (Jesson Street, for those of you who are compiling the histories!). The second, SUPER COMICS, I found in a small news vendor next to a fish market where my mother shopped. (The memories I have of reading my first Batman story are still mixed with the sights, sounds and smells of that fish market!). My first real American comic, that SUPERMAN seen above, I picked up in the magazine section of a big department store in Edmonton, Alberta. Eaton's, on Jasper Avenue. There was a wall of comics there, taller than me and wider than I could reach with arms outspread.
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