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Michael Penn
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I believe my first was Marvel Premiere #25. Was that really a half century ago?!
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This one. The actual copy, and it is signed by JB, Terry, Chris, George and Bob.


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I remember I was on the fence about to jump over and leave comics behind given what I had been exposed to by then when the Proteus storyline was laying around at a friend's house. After being totally engrossed I exclaimed to my friend, "Why isn't anyone talking about this???" It was subversive and mainstream at the same time. Jumping into the middle of the story, I didn't previously know who anyone was and I was still able to follow along. Great storytelling, no easy feat. 
I was hooked. 
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Hard to remember with specificity.  We're talking about 45 years ago.  But give or take an issue:

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Marvel Two-In-One #43
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Mine was also MARVEL PREMIERE #25.

I remember that I "discovered" Iron Fist a couple issues earlier (#23) and liked Pat Broderick's art, but liked JB's art and followed it to IRON FIST where I bought the entire run (and I had to track them down, so that was no small feat).

It was early in that Iron Fist run that I began to look forward to the art. But the 70s was a fun time to collect Marvel Comics because of some of the new artists - George Perez, Frank Brunner, Jim Starlin, Billy Graham, Walt Simonson, Frank Miller, Howard Chaykin, Keith Giffen, Paul Gulacy, Barry Windsor-Smith, P. Craig Russell, Rich Buckler, Ron Wilson, Keith Pollard, Dave Cockrum - and add in the holdovers from the 1960s - Gil Kane, Herb Trimpe, Sal Buscema, John Buscema, Ross Andru, George Tuska, Don Heck, Bob Brown, Gene Colan, Frank Robbins, Jim Mooney, Bill Everrett - it was something of a golden era for Marvel art.

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Brings up a point I’ve made more than once—that good art can save bad writing, but good writing can’t save bad art.
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That AVENGERS 186 cover was done at a time when I was receiving constant notes from Shooter, telling me to “make Wanda’s boobs bigger!”
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That AVENGERS 186 cover was done at a time when I was receiving constant notes from Shooter, telling me to “make Wanda’s boobs bigger!”

Shooter.... 🤦🏾‍♂️
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MARVEL TEAM-UP #55 was my first Byrne exposure. 


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That Spider-Man/Yellowjacket/Wasp story in MARVEL TEAM-UP #59-60 really stands out as one of my favorites from JB's early work.  AVENGERS #164-166 does too.  And as great as his work was on X-MEN and MARVEL TEAM-UP, I think he took it up another notch on FANTASTIC FOUR and established himself as an excellent writer (by that time we already knew he could draw and plot as well as anybody).
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I think my first John Byrne issue was from Alpha Flight #1, but it was a reprinted back-up story in the Marvel UK version of Secret Wars and would have been the summer of 1985.
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