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Robert Bradley
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 3:14am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
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My first recollection of Batman and Robin would be from the 1960's television show in reruns.  Superman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman would be from the Super Friends cartoon in the early 70s.  Flash and Green Lantern come from the comics.

The only Marvel charater that I might have encountered on television before comics would have been Spider-Man and the reruns of the 1960's cartoon.
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I'm going to go backwards--artist first, series after.

George Tuska--IRON MAN, POWER MAN
Sal Buscema--CAPTAIN AMERICA, AVENGERS, MARVEL TEAM-UP, DEFENDERS
Herb Trimpe--INCREDIBLE HULK
Ross Andru--AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
Frank Robbins--INVADERS, GHOST RIDER
Dave Cockrum--X-MEN
John Buscema--THOR, CONAN
Gene Colan--DR. STRANGE
Paul Gulacy--MASTER OF KUNG-FU
Rich Buckler--FANTASTIC FOUR, DEATHLOK
Don Heck--CHAMPIONS, LIBERTY LEGION
Klaus Janson--inking DAREDEVIL, DEFENDERS, DEATHLOK
John Romita Sr.--MARVEL TALES
Steve Ditko--all sorts of SPIDER-MAN and DR. STRANGE reprints
Jack Kirby--mostly FANTASTIC FOUR and CAPTAIN AMERICA reprints

Curt Swan--SUPERMAN, ACTION COMICS
Jim Aparo--BRAVE AND THE BOLD, DETECTIVE COMICS
Mike Grell--GREEN LANTERN, LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, WARLORD, GREEN ARROW (back-up in ACTION COMICS)
Irv Novick--FLASH
Dick Dillin--JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
John Rosenberger--WONDER WOMAN
Wally Wood--inking JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA (in ALL-STAR COMICS)
Kurt Schaffenberger--SHAZAM, SUPERMAN FAMILY (JIMMY OLSEN, LOIS LANE, and more)
Ramona Fradon--SUPER FRIENDS, PLASTIC MAN
Mike Nasser--CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (back-ups), KOBRA
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez--various SUPERMAN assignments
Neal Adams--various BATMAN reprints


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I'll stick to the series I got on a regular basis in 1975.
Using Mike's Amazing World to see those first issues.

Avengers- Steve Englehart, Don Heck

Fantastic Four- Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler

Hulk- Len Wein, Herb Trimpe

Iron Man- Mike Friedrich, Arvell Jones

Spider-Man- Stan Lee, Jim Mooney (Marvel Tales)

Spider-Man- Gerry Conway, Ross Andru, Sal Buscema (ASM, MTU)

Batman- Mike Fleisher, Rich Buckler (BATMAN)

Batman- Denny O'Neil, Ernie Chan (DETECTIVE)

Batman- Bob Haney, Jim Aparo, Dick Dillon (B&B, World's Finest)

X-Men- Len Wein, Dave Cockrum

Sgt. Fury- Stan Lee, Dick Ayers

Superman- Cary Bates, Curt Swan (SUPERMAN)

Superman- Bob Haney, Dick Dillon (World's Finest)

Captain America- Tony Isabella, Frank Robbins

Luke Cage- Tony Isabella, Ron Wilson

Defenders- Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema

Daredevil- Marv Wolfman, Bob Brown

Invaders- Roy Thomas, Frank Robbins

JLA- Carey Bates, Dick Dillon

Iron Fist- Chris Claremont, John Byrne

Thor- Roy Thomas, Sal Buscema

Flash- Carey Bates, Irv Novick

Conan- Roy Thomas, John Buscema

JSA- Gerry Conway, Ric Estrada

Superboy & The Legion- Jim Shooter, Mike Grell

Killraven- Don McGregor, Craig Russell


Sheesh! I bought a ton of comics that first year (with some help from my Mom), and that doesn't even count all those onesy-twosy's I got plus the entire Atlas line.
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Ross Andru's Spider-Man.

Hooked from that moment!
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Michael Penn
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This is in many instances an oddity for me because I first discovered comicbook-wise a lot of characters a little before my time as a reader either from older relatives who passed something down to me or via reprints. My first Batman comic was by "Bob Kane" (or whoever that name represented) -- the one with Poison Ivy -- and my first Spider-Man was by Dikto-Lee, etc. Honestly, I think I got spoiled because of that: my first Thor was Kirby-Lee, after all. 

But my first X-Men was by Neal Adams... boom!
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  • Superman - Cary Bates and Curt Swan
  • Batman - Doug Moench, Gene Colan and Don Newton
  • Green Lantern - Len Wein and Dave Gibbons
  • Wonder Woman - Dan Mishkin and Gene Colan
  • JLA - Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton
  • Firestorm - Gerry Conway and Pat Broderick
  • The Flash - Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino
  • All-Star Squadron / JSA - Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway
  • Teen Titans - Marv Wolfman and George Perez
  • Spider-Man - Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz
  • Iron Man - Denny O’Neil and Luke McDonnell
  • X-Men - Chris Claremont and John Romita, Jr.
  • Daredevil - Denny O’Neil and David Mazzucchelli
  • Thor - Walt Simonson
  • The Incredible Hulk - Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema
  • The Avengers - Roger Stern and Al Milgrom
  • Captain America - JM DeMatteis and Mike Zeck
My comic book reading clearly started from 1984 - 1985 when I look back at those creative teams.
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Hey, Michael, was your first Neal’s first?

I was much amused that Roy wrote Neal’s credit as “introducing” him—after several years at DC!

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X-MEN 65.

Looking at it again just now, thinking about how every issue is somebody's first -- that's kind of a tough one to jump in on...!
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Mikael Bergkvist
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
This one.
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
I guess all that DC stuff sprang fully grown from Zeus’ head!
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Jason K Fulton
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
JB was my introduction to...basically every character at Marvel, and from a comics standpoint, every character at DC (I'd seen the Batman tv show and the Superman movies prior to the start of my comics experience).
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Most of the biggies I remember, though for some if distinct creative voices were on successive issues it can be difficult to land on 'the one':

Green Lantern: Dave Gibbons/Joe Staton (writing was largely background, there)
X-Men: Claremont/Cockrum, though Brent Anderson and Bill Sienkiewicz had fill-ins that really cemented my view
FF: JB
Conan: Buscema
Star Wars: Michelinie/Simonson/Palmer (and what an odd way to be introduced to Simonson! I couldn't work out why the same artist who drew those wonderfully angular covers drew the inside so differently!)
Spider-Man: Michelinie again, and Ron Frenz

I read a bunch of other books in that impressionable first comics year of 1981-1982, but those are the ones where I was really aware of the creators.
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