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Felicity Walker
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It happened in three stages:
1. Rom (#?, towards the end). I was about 12 and, believe it or not, disliked the John Byrne art.
2. The Man of Steel TPB, bought while on vacation in La Jolla, California. I would have been 14 or 15 and had nothing against the art this time, but wasn't a fan yet either. Great overall reading experience, though.
3. OMAC #2. This was what made a fan. From there I gobbled up everything Byrne I could find, starting with She-Hulk #31 and Namor #20 which were on the shelves at the time. (I also still had my Man of Steel TPB to reevaluate!) I consider those my true "first John Byrne comics."
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Conner Dinkins
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Space: 1999 #3
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Andrew W. Farago
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The revised version of that Avengers cover really pops. The all-white void really gives the impression that it's going to wipe the Avengers right off of the cover!
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Wallace Sellars
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The revised version of that Avengers cover really pops. The all-white void
really gives the impression that it's going to wipe the Avengers right off of
the cover!
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What Andrew said! Why would anyone want to ruin that neat effect?!?
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Michael Sommerville
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My mother bought me a double bag with this issue at Woolco. The first comic I ever kept.
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Dan Grenough
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FF #267. Having gotten into comics at age 9 in 1982 with G.I. Joe and then Spider-Man, I picked up this issue at the local 7-11 because of the Doctor Octopus arms on the cover (wanting to see a Spider-Man villian in a different comic). Wow, was I blown away by the mature storyline and unexpected ending! I quickly started following the FF (until shortly after JB's run when it went way downhill) and it became my all-time favorite title.
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robert jones
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Avengers #181 John Byrne and Gene Day. I've read here that JB didn't really like Gene Day's inks over his pencils, but man, what a pretty book.
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Anthony Warlow
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My first John Byrne was a Space 1999 issue, but I didn't know that for a loooong time after the fact.
The first time I knew I liked John Byrne art was when I realized he was the same artist I was loving on the XMen that I was also loving on Avengers and Marvel Team Up (I looked at the name in the credits) - though I did confuse him with George Perez sometimes when talking with friends.
I didn't follow him to Fantastic Four 'cause I never read the FF and wasn't into following artists so I didn't even know he was on FF.
I picked up Alpha Flight from #1 becuase it was Alpha Flight. I discovered through that book he was on FF and started reading FF. It was about this time I found out I John Byrne wrote comics, too.
The first comic book I ever bought BECAUSE John Byrne was on the book was MAN OF STEEL #1.
Picking up John Byrne comics because he's on the book has led me to some of the best comics I've ever read and also some I wish I could forget. But mostly I'm glad I learned who he was.
Edited by Anthony Warlow on 20 September 2010 at 7:08pm
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Fabrice Renault
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French edition of X-Men 108 and 109 (2 episodes in the magazine Special Strange).
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Scott Promish
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Rom (#?, towards the end). I was about 12 and, believe it or not, disliked the John Byrne art.
That's because it was over Ditko's pencils. By the early 80s Ditko's art had become really rubbish.
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Tony Midyett
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My first Byrne comic was Uncanny X-Men #142, pt. 2 of "Days of Futurepast". He has been my favorite artist ever since.
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Felicity Walker
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I found a scan of the Rom in question, #74:
I started reading Rom with #69 (Rom vs. Ego, the Living Planet!) and really liked Ditko's art in that issue. I was more disappointed by Ditko's art in Chuck Norris' Karate Commandos.
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