"Hey--I felt that!"

This--and AF #12 were the kind of issues that made you think ANYTHING could happen in the series! Very exciting stuff.

You know what.  As a kid I had problems with Snowbird killing Walter so quickly and so unfeelingly -- but now I realize that at least she didn't punch 10 year old kids in the face with closed fists, so I'm okay with Snowbird now.

(LOL -- yeah, I had to sneak it back on to the board...)

My "first" ever JB issue, and my first AF issue!  I was totally blown away by the art and story.  I had never seen any of these characters before, but became a big fan.  A big "plus" in my book was that at only issue #23, I could be there from the start.  All my favorite comics until then were in issue hundreds of something.

Of course, I had read many JB comics before - a few tattered Marvel Teams of my extreme childhood from the 70s, and even a few early FF issues my parents had bought me (that I had given away when I was "too big" for comics).  But all that was before I started buying comics myself with GI Joe, and a chance purchase of Secret Wars issue #2 had prodded me into buying superhero comics.  I was still in the "buy it and see if I liked it" phase.  And well, I liked it!

It's hard for me to evaluate this period of JB's AF run objectively, because nostalgia covers everything.  Needless to say, I loved this series as a kid.