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Nov 10 09 4:34 AM
James Friel wrote: Nice question. 1) Superman from Action Comics #1 Don't remember specifically--probably an early Superman Annual, around 1961. 2) Batman from Detective Comics #27 Probably Jules Feiffer's The Great Comic Book Heroes when it came out in 1965. 3) Spider-Man from Amazing Fantasy #15 Bought it new. 4) Fantastic Four #1 Bought it new. 5) Batman (new look) from Detective Comics #327 Bought it new. 6) Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 Bought it new. 7) Superboy (and the LSH) from Adventure Comics #247 Gor a coverless copy from a friend a few months after it came out. 8) Avengers #4 Bought it new. 9) The Brave and the Bold #28 Bought it new. 10) Avengers #16 Missed it on the newsstand, but found a copy in the incinerator room of my college dorm right after I read #17 (to my great puzzlement.) 11) X-Men #1 Bought it new (the same day as Avengers #1, which came out that week as well) 12) Thor from Journey Into Mystery #83 Passed it over when it was new (didn't start buying Thor for a few months for some reason), and read it in its first reprint (Marvel Tales #1, 1964, maybe? Or was it Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #1?) 13) Supergirl from Action Comics #252 Bought it new. 14) Captain America (origin story) from Captain America Comics #1 The Great Comic Book Heroes, 1965 Basically, with a very few exceptions, mostly 1962-64 Marvel and pre-1958 DC, probably amounting to fewer than 25 books, I read the whole Silver Age in real time, as it unfolded. My real benefit from reprints was in Golden Age stuff. The Feiffer book, for instance, was a treasure which those of you who grew up on readily-available old reprints will have trouble appreciating.
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