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Post by matt on Dec 6, 2008 15:12:41 GMT -5
 This is the first comic I can remember getting. I picked it out, and my dad bought it for me when I was five years old. My original fell apart years ago. This is a new copy that I bought. |
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ShogunLogan
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Post by ShogunLogan on Dec 6, 2008 20:00:29 GMT -5
 I bought it for an ad I saw advertised...a form for a free Intellivision game..."Kool-Aid Man". I never cut out the form and I still have the comic. |
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Post by albertd on Dec 7, 2008 10:49:50 GMT -5
I got my very first comic magazine when I was about 4 years old. I couldn't read, but the colorful pictures were very interesting. It was a special winter edition of Donald Duck magazine (around 1972). I don't have the magazine anymore. It was heavily damaged. I still have my second comic magazine. It was/is the Dutch translation of a Belgian/French magazine named Spirou. In Holland it was called Robbedoes. Robbedoes (named after a French comic book character) does not excist anymore. It was a weekly comic magazine here in Holland (and in France and Belgium). An aunt gave me the comic magazine for my birthday when I was about 6 years old. Later I got myself many, many more Robbedoes magazines. There were 2 very big comic magazines in France and Belgium. Spirou/Robbedoes was only 1 of them. The other one was Tintin. Tittin had the more realistic drawings while Spirou (or in Holland: Robbedoes) was full funny comics. I have many Tintin (or in Holland: Kuifje) magazines and Spirou (or in Holland: Robbedoes) magazines. I have bought my very first Superman magazine in 1978. It was the magazine in which Superman fights against Terraman (with the cowboy hat) and the purple Parasite. Superman LOST the fight and actor George Reeves, who suddenly got real superpowers, became the new real Superman (in the comic). Superman also had to fight against Parasite and a statue came to life! There was also news about Superman The Movie in this magazine. I always bought a Dutch Superman magazine each and every month. Sometimes I also bought a Batman comic magazine. But my most favourite comic magazine was definitely Eppo. From the late seventies until the early nineties Eppo was Holland's most popular/famous comic magazine! I bought Eppo every week and have complete annual volumes full of old Eppo's. I was really addicted to that Dutch comic magazine. I still have MANY old Eppo's. Unfortunately the magazine does not excist anymore, BUT very recently I have read about the resurrection of Eppo magazine at the beginning of next year. Eppo will return in January 2009 and I am so thrilled and excited about the very good news! I have spent my teenage years reading those magazines and Eppo will return very soon! It will bring back so many good memories! I am VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED about the very good news, because all of the original comic book artists/writers will also join the new Eppo!  ;D ;D Unfortunately famous British comic book artist Don Lawrence is not alive anymore  , so he can't make those beautiful Storm and Trigië drawings anymore. Storm will return, but another artist will draw the pictures. RIP Don Lawrence ..  Tintin  Robbedoes  Some old Eppo magazines and a few other Dutch comic books. The absolutely wonderful exciting news about the return of my favourite Dutch comic magazine  ;D ;D : www.eppostripblad.nl/home.html Comic book figure former astronaut Storm (who often looked like Conan The Barbarian) and his sexy partner Ember (or in Holland: Redhair/Roodhaar, who often looked like "slave" princess Leia from Return Of The Jedi) They got into a time storm and visited many alien worlds and they had many exciting adventures. The drawing was made by the late Don Lawrence. (He made every drawing look like a painting..very artsy.. Think H.R. Giger..) They'll be back very soon! ;D.. Great thread!.. |
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Dec 7, 2008 20:34:37 GMT -5
i thin the first ones i can remember were a gold-key star trek and a HULK comic from the late 70's/ early 80's.
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Post by Jimbo on Dec 7, 2008 21:43:11 GMT -5
 No joke. ;D |
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Post by albertd on Dec 7, 2008 23:40:24 GMT -5
I would like to add something, but it looks like I can't edit my recent post  .. My very first real comic book (not a magazine, but an album!) was about Archie - Man Of Steel. Archie was a robot and he had 2 owners/partners and a time machine in which they travelled through time and space like some kind of Dr. Who. I got the album in which Archie had to dress up as a knight and a Dick Turpin-like bushranger.  Archie, The Man Of Steel Soon after that I got my very first Belgian Suske and Wiske album. I think it was a very early print of The Dark Diamond. This episode was so popular that they decided to make a real live-action movie of this comic book. The creator of Suske & Wiske was the late legendary Belgian comic book artist Willy Vandersteen. Even today Suske and Wiske are the most popular comic book characters in Belgian and Dutch history. Unfortunately Willy Vandersteen was a very old man and he died many years ago, but his legacy/work still continues. Other people, friends of Willy Vandersteen, continue his work in the Belgian Vandersteen comic book studio. A couple of years ago I had the enormous honour to meet the man who is drawing the current adventures of Suske and Wiske: Willy Vandersteen's very good friend Paul Geerts. I met him in a Dutch bookstore and he was signing a very special collector's edition of a Suske and Wiske album which was translated into local Dutch-Groningen dialect! Extremely rare!! I got his autograph in my Suske and Wiske album. ;D  The cover of "Suske and Wiske - The Dark Diamond".  Live-action Suske and Wiske from the motion picture "The Dark Diamond".  The dvd cover..  The Walt Disney of Belgium, legendary comic book artist Willy Vandersteen (RIP ) Suske and Wiske albums are still for sale everywhere in Holland, Belgium and France. Some albums are also translated into English language. Holland and Belgium most popular comic books.. I also remember I had a couple of Planet Of The Apes, Kung Fu, The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comic books, but they were in black and white. I lost my interest and I don't have those b/w albums anymore.  A very old Dutch black/white Fantastic Four comic book. They are very rare and valuable nowadays.. I am very sorry all of this is not Superman-related!  |
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Post by Kirok on Dec 8, 2008 0:32:26 GMT -5
 Odd for a first issue I know, but I was only 6 during the "Death of Superman" storyline, and before that I had my dad's old comic collection to sift through, so this is the first comic book I remember getting that was MINE. |
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Post by stargazer01 on Dec 9, 2008 16:17:00 GMT -5
I really don't remember.. but I was probably around 10 years old or so, and it was a comicbook in Spanish. I used to love reading Capulina and La Familia Burron. The first time I started reading Superman comicbooks was soon after I watched Superman Returns in Theaters in 2006. And I'm still doing it. It's fun. Some stories are really good and have made me care, enjoy and understand this wonderful character even more. |
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Dec 19, 2008 15:13:00 GMT -5
albert - are familiar with don rosa ? i love that guy. does a lot of disney stuff.
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, so he can't make those beautiful Storm and Trigië drawings anymore. Storm will return, but another artist will draw the pictures. RIP Don Lawrence 
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