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Michael Meredith
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I started reading comics regularly at the age of ten in the fall of 1975 and I was… a Marvel zombie. This was most likely for two reasons. First being that Mike Gannon brought a suitcase of Marvel comics to a Halloween sleepover and the second being my only exposure to DC characters were reruns of the 50’s Superman show, the 60’sBatman show and the Filmation DC cartoons. At 10 years old, I thought the DC stuff was kind of stiff. So I spent 4 years buying EVERY Marvel book on the rack (including” Omega the Unknown”, ”The Human Fly”, all the Kirby stuff that was beautiful but way over my head)) and completely ignoring the DC books. Then word came that John Byrne was drawing a Batman project for DC. With that, “The Untold Legend of Batman” became the first DC comic book I ever bought. Sadly JB stayed for only one issue (reasons why , I believe have been documented on this site) but I was intrigued. I started picking “Brave and Bold”, “Green Lantern” and “Justice League” regularly. Within 6 months I was reading as manyDC books as Marvel. So John Byrne was my “gateway artist” into the DC universe. Thanks JB!
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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George Perez and the New Teen Titans (issue 8) was the first thing I bought from DC (after almost 10 years of Marvel comics). I continued to enjoy that series. It would be Crisis and then Man of Steel that would open the flood gates of other DC books/characters for me.
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Larry Gil
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Ditto that for me as well Jonathan.
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Marc Cheek
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My experience was the same as Johnathan
and Larry. When JB moved to DC, I began
buying several other titles.
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Joe Zhang
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Growing up, DC was the "better than nothing" option when the news vendor I went to did not stock Marvel. Then Man of Steel happened and I discovered that DC could be the "as good as Marvel" option too.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 09 July 2017 at 8:36am
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Steven Myers
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Perez got me to read DC. Along with JB, one of my favorite artists. Both at that time and still today!
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Robert Bradley
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Perez also took me over to DC for a while.
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Eric Sofer
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While I read a neighbor's comics for a while as a young lad (mostly Justice League of America), the first comic I remember asking to own was Superboy #147 (the Legion 80 page giant) and the stories that caught my the most were "The Boy with Ultra Powers" and "The Legion of Super-Traitors" - so my gateway artist was Curt Swan (hardly a surprise...) Jim Mooney was a pretty close second with the Supergirl reprint, "The Three Super Girlfriends."
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James Woodcock
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The X-Men/New Teen Titans cross over led to seeking out as many issues of the New Teen Titans I could find from new stands and the strange distribution system we had in the UK.
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Jim Muir
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Living in the UK, I was brought up on Whizzer & Chips, Action then
2000ad. American comics were nigh on impossible to find, so my first
ever US comic was John Byrnes X-Men (I forget the number) with
Magnum Moses in a volcano in Japan.
Can still picture Colossus' fingers running grooves into the earth, and
Banshee losing his scream :)
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Steven Ely
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Ah, nostalgia. Syndicated reruns of Adam West's comforting, gentleman father figure Batman was my childhood hero on TV weekdays. I had a daily dose. Plus Super Friends and Batman cartoons on Saturday mornings. I had the Mego Batman and Robin dolls. That was all my gateway to comic books.
I was primarily a DC-Batman comic book kid - starting with Neal Adams' mysterious Batman in the 1970s, especially those Power Records "Stacked Cards" (1975) and "Robin Meets Man-Bat" (1976) from Kmart - and that wasn't Adam West. I remember Neal Adams' Batman was spooky to me, but exciting (and I imagine that's how little kids thought of Michael Keaton's Batman, and the whole Frank Miller creepy Batman in the '80s, etc.).
I saw Spidey on PBS' Electric Company and Nicholas Hammond's Spidey, I watched Lou Ferrigno's Hulk and Reb Brown's Captain America on TV, but they didn't make me a Marvel comics zombie.
George Perez's art did get me into DC's New Teen Titans. Our man John Byrne got me into Superman when I was 19, more than even Christopher Reeve's movies, or George Reeves B&W-color reruns did when I was a little kid with a short attention span. In fact, it wasn't until Nick at Nite's Superman week in 1991, that got me to really sit, watch and appreciate George Reeves' Superman... when I was 24.
Edited by Steven Ely on 09 July 2017 at 4:12pm
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Fred J Chamberlain
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I started with Harvey Comics, a few stray Grimm horror comics early on, before
quickly moving to DC and Marvel stuff. Good chance that the early superhero
stuff that grabbed me was done by Dillin, Delbo, Swan, etc. A steady Marvel
diet of Andru, Byrne and Buscema had me hooked, hardcore.
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