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Conner Dinkins
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Marvel Team-Up #61 was one of my first issues as well. That Super Skrull Splash changed my life.
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Shaun Barry
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I'd had a few Marvel Comics issues with Byrne art in them, though I didn't realize it at the time (between 1977-80). However, the very first time I started paying attention to this guy "John Byrne" was when my mother's boyfriend (around 1981-82), knowing my love of comics, gave me his recently purchased copy of FF #236, "Terror in a Tiny Town." He said, "READ THIS. It's one of the best Fantastic Four stories I've ever read." This was coming from an adult in his early- or mid-'30s, who grew up with Marvel Comics as a teen in the 1960's, was once an English teacher and also a part-time musician, as well as an aspiring songwriter/poet. So his opinion left an indelible impression on me, and was high praise indeed. While reading it, the issue of course stated, "Story & Art by John Byrne." I've been paying attention to the name ever since!
Edited by Shaun Barry on 05 January 2013 at 4:39pm
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Rick Senger
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This was my first, though X-Men 113 was the first time I recognized JB as JB and began actively looking for his stuff.
Looking at a bigger image of this today, I am reminded that I wondered at the time about Koenig's left pinky, which looks damaged. Don't think it was part of the story, maybe just a weird artifact from the printing process.
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Eric Ladd
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I can't remember my first exposure to the Chief's work, but I can tell you the time my socks got knocked off. I was buying back issues and had finally picked up issue 140. Buying that issue at my LCS; Dr. No's, was the beginning of a journey that is still not complete and converted me completely at the time.
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Joe Hollon
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Probably this:
Before I had any of my own comics my older brother had a friend that brought a stack over including some of these handbooks. I loved flipping through them and fell in love with several characters this way before ever reading their stories! Thanks to the credits inside these comics I quickly came to recognize JOHN BYRNE as one of the good artists.
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Clint Ludwick
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Uncanny X-Men 115 backissue around 1986...hooked.
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Eric Smearman
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My first time seeing John Byrne's art was an issue of MARVEL TEAM-
UP. I forget the issue number but it co-starred the Wasp, was inked by
Dave Hunt and the villain was Equinox.
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Carmen Bernardo
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I didn't recognize it at the time, but it had to have been a copy of Avengers #164 that my mom got me as a kid back in the late 1970s. There were other comics that I had which turned out to be earlier Byrne work, but this was the first copy of something that I actually owned at one time.
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Bill Mimbu
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Not to repeat Rick Senger's image, but it was SPACE 1999 #4 
Back then, I was just happy that the artist drew the Eagles correctly, and included the Mark IX Hawks as well! And again, like Rick, I didn't connect JB as JB until X-Men #113 (noticed that the way the machine details were drawn in the same manner).
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Brian Peck
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I will take a different approach to the question. I know it is asking about
when you first saw JB's art in a comic book. Its been such a long time, it
would be the late 70s for me I don't remember. I do remember the first
time I held a an original piece of John Byrne artwork. In fact, John was
indirectly responsible for my comic art collection. Back in 1986 my father
gave me and original page penciled by John Byrne and inked by Bob
Layton from Incredible Hulk annual #7.
Before this I didn't realize I could own original art used to create my
favorite comics. After that I got the bug and 26 years later I am still
collecting. No I don't have the page, I traded it away for an Uncanny X-
Men Byrne page to someone years ago who wanted to put the book back
together. Eventually the Byrne Uncanny page was page of a deal when I
got an X-Men #8 Kirby page from the first X-Men comic I ever owned.
John is the reason I collect comic art.
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Eric Smearman
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Great page, Brian! Love that story!
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Doc Lehman
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CPL.
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