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David Miller
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I started reading comics in 1985. Among the first series I read that year was Super Powers penciled by Jack Kirby. It turned out to be his final monthly series, in a career stretching back to the dawn of comics. It was a bit of luck I'm just barely part of the last generation who could buy a monthly comic with Jack Kirby art off the news stand.
Coincidentally, Super Powers #1 shared its cover date with Fantastic Four #282, which I picked up following the crossover from Secret Wars 2. That John Byrne was pretty good, and investigation revealed his FF run was highly-regarded and went back almost five years (the X-Men issues before that were already legendary). I was excited to join the continuum and eager to see what what on the table for 296 and 300, but alas, in less than a year JB was forced off the book, leaving to create a new kind of excitement and launch a new era for Superman and DC.
What eras were you just in time for the end?
Edited by David Miller on 08 April 2016 at 7:19pm
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John Byrne
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For the sake of historical accuracy, it should be remembered that Kirby was penciler only on that SUPER POWERS series. The script -- full script -- was written by Paul Kupperberg.
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Brian O'Neill
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Assuming the 1978 DC Explosion doesn't count(it was over before it started)...Dick Dillin's tenure on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. I first read that book in the summer of '78(second part of that year's JSA team-up, followed by the story where Zatanna joined). Lost track of the book for about a year, then started getting it again at the end of '79, with issue 175.Dillin's final issue was #183.
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Joe Smith
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I learned of Wlt Simonson from the same bastard that prevented me
from getting ASM 252 back in '83. I assaulted this mother$&@#%
verbally for buying all the 252s before school got out, and he said, "I'll
sell you a 252 and a THOR 339 for $35!"
I was like, "Bitch, PLEASE!!!! THOR what?"
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Doug Centers
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Atlas Comics. They didn't have much of an "era" but I actually had read more of their titles than Marvel or DC those first couple of months into comics. That would have been very early 1975.They went defunct a few months later. I don't think any title went beyond issue #5. Years later I read that Atlas was one of the first to return artwork to the creators and authors rights to original characters.
mini milestone; White House post #1600
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Stephen Churay
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2002 signified the end of an era for me.
That's when the HEROES RETURN era ended
and Marvel decided to start making comics
for God knows who. Similarly, DC started
the same thing although it took a few more
years to tear it down. To this day, I
still say, that when it comes to comics,
the terrorists won.
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Peter Martin
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I jumped on board comics just as Mazzuchelli's run on DD was coming to a close. In fact, one of the first imported Marvel comics I ever bought was Daredevil #225, with the Vulture punching DD high above the streets of Manhattan on the cover (imported because I was in the UK).
I thought the story was good and the art was great. A few months later I picked up Daredeil #228 and thought the art was just as great and the story was even better. Amazing stuff. The precariousness of picking up issues as and when I found them in the newsagents meant I didn't get any of the rest of the Miller/Mazzuchelli gold as they were released, but boy did I read the pants off issue 228.
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Matt Reed
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David Miller wrote:
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None. Closest I can come is the DC implosion of the 70s. I got into comics in 1975 and started buying them on my own in '76. And even then, the only DC title I bought with regularity was BATMAN. I was and ever shall be a Marvel guy, so I was there at the beginning of some guys named Perez, Byrne, Romita Jr., Starlin, Englehart, and Miller.
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Robert Bradley
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I showed up just in time for Jim Starlin's Adam Warlock, the beginning of the Marvel Treasury Editions and Giant-Size issues, Steve Englehart's Celestial Madonna storyline in The Avengers and Nomad storyline in Captain America, Roy Thomas's Invaders, the "Second Genesis" New X-Men, JB's Iron Fist, the War of the Super-Villains in Iron Man and Panther's Rage in Jungle Action.
All stuff I still love to re-read on occasion.
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Matt Reed
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Sounds like you and I are the same age, Robert!
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Michael Roberts
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This was the first issue of Fantastic Four I ever bought.
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Matt Reed
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You guys are so young!
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