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John Cole
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It had to have been Marvel Team Up #53.
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Eric Jansen
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Mine might have been Marvel Team Up #53 too, but Charlton confuses things because they reprinted DOOMSDAY +1 after Byrne hit it at Marvel. Still, I'm going to say that I had at least one issue of the original run, so that's my first Byrne. I feel like I already "knew" him with all his Marvel work.
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Dave Kopperman
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I want to say the ‘Wendy’s Friends’ issue of FF, whatever number that was. Though I recall seeing a couple of previous issues in my comic collector/pusher friend’s pile prior to that, so I may have read ‘Terror in a Tiny Town’ earlier.
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Joe Hollon
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My first exposure to JB's work was the covers and various
entries to the DELUXE HANDBOOK TO THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
issues with the wraparound covers.
The first real comic I owned with Byrne art was MARVEL
TALES 204 (reprinting MARVEL TEAM-UP 68).
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John Byrne
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It’s tricky, isn’t it? When we first discover an artist, s/he has no real significance to us, other than that WOW moment. So it’s not easy to sort out our “first encounters”.My own experience with Jack Kirby, for instance. FANTASTIC FOUR 5 was my official introduction to the embryonic Marvel Universe, but I know I had read the second issue at the barbershop, weeks before. And that same location had exposed me to some of Kirby’s monster stories. Years later I learned he’d drawn some of the Green Arrow stories I’d read as a kid. And, of course, the Challengers of the Unknown. So where did it start?
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Trevor Smith
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"Who drew that cover? (FF #293)"
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A web search says Ordway.
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Shaun Barry
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In terms of first exposure to JB art (and plot!), this one was my very first; released around Christmas-time 1978... I was only 6, and would re-read/look-through this one often, way back when. In my mind, a true early classic!
Thinking back on my early collection of dog-eared comics, I didn't truly become "aware" of JB as an artist/writer until his 1981 FF run, but the few issues I had of his work certainly left a mark on my little brain, as these other ones were some of my favorites (though I probably didn't understand the correlation at the time):
Edited by Shaun Barry on 22 March 2025 at 5:01pm
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Brian Miller
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My first was either FF 256 or 257. Those were the two issues that came
bagged in the 3-packs at the store. UXM 172 was in there, too, and helped
introduce me to that team. Then after that, I saw IRON FIST 15 at the flea
market and got it because it had the X-Men in it and there JB is again. After
starting to REALLY get into comics, I see this Byrne guy’s name popping up
over and over until finally it’s the first name I’m looking for in picking up
older books. Now, here we are.
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Vinny Valenti
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I just mentioned in another thread that my first comic of all time was X-MEN #171 in a newsstand.
I also remember be very first visit to my local comic shop one month later, were I bought X-MEN #172 and ALPHA FLIGHT #1 at the same time. So my first JB comic was during my second comic book purchase ever.
Thing is, the ONLY reason why I picked it up was due to the blurb on top which said "Exploding from the pages of the X-Men!" (See, marketing works!). I had no idea who this John Bryne* guy was, and I think I was a bit annoyed that the X-Men were only in a couple of panels in flashback. I think I might have actually skipped AF#2 at first, but then I saw the striking Aurora cover of AF#3, and that was that.
I wonder, how long would it have taken for me to become a Byrne fan were it not for that marketing blurb?
*Yes, I was one one of those kids where I misread the spelling of his name and pronounced it wrong in my head for about a year. Then again, I STILL instinctively mispronounce Simonson's last name with a short "I", even though I learned during the 90s that I was wrong all this time.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 22 March 2025 at 5:37pm
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Shaun Barry
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(Vinny, count me in as another young fan who pronounced JB's last name as "BY-wrin" for a few years!!)
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John Byrne
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I’ll take “by-rin” over “brine”!
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I remember it vividly. I was off school sick and my mother asked if I wanted
anything bringing back from the shops. A school friend had been talking
about an American comic I should read called X-Men. Sounded cool so I
asked my mother if she could find it.
Couple of hours later, I’ve got X-Men 118 in my hands absorbing the most
amazing battle between these mutants and Moses Magnum inside a
volcano. I didn’t know any of these people but was shocked
when Banshee lost his voice saving Tokyo. Staggering stuff! So, not only my
first Byrne, but my first Marvel and my first American comic too!
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