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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Asterix
Tintin
2000 A.D......

But my favorite as a 10 year-old boy was the terrifically violent........

So much violence for 8p!!!!

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

The Spirit
Batman
The Shadow (DC @1974 - I believe by Mike Kaluta)
Jon Sable (most things by Mike Grell)
Tintin
Lone Wolf and Cub
Gunsmith Cats
Cherry Poptart (tee hee)

The Great Toad · Joined: 12 Jun 2004

http://mrlcomics.com/Punisher%20War%20Journal%20Covers/punisherwarjournalcover021.jpg
The Punisher - What a complete rip off- I mean Frank Castle and Me could be the Same guy- except I got out and was much kinder and tougher. Smile

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

I loved comic books when I was in middle school, and there was nary a girl in sight. I'd always been a big fan of Marvel Comics, especially Spider Man and X-Men comics.

But alas, my best comic book memories are of doomed off-beat and independent titles.

Captain Confederacy was a superhero comic book set in an alternative universe where the South had won the American Civil War, and North America continued to splinter ever since. In this South, slavery was gone, but Jim Crow-style segregation persisted. The Captain himself was an actor recruited by the confederate government to take an addictive super-serum and wear a costume and battle phony black radical supervillains and Yankee spies in staged newsclips. Originally in it just for the money, the Captain has a crisis of conscience and uses his fame and powers to support the pro-black underground. Unfortunately, without boosters of the government-manufactured superserum he can expect to go into withdrawal and die. A great story with a thought provoking letters column that only lasted for 12 issues.

Ah... Labor Force! On the world of Empyerean, everyone has a superpower, but the only heroes are illegal immigrants led by the marketing genius Lance Stick. Their might is available anywhere, anytime, if the price is right.

Alas... only 8 issues before they ended up in the unemployment line.

Tragically, the crappy '80s movie based on Howard the Duck made it impossible to admit to having ever read this comic book for years. But it was a hilarious satire of comic books and life in the '70s. Since I was 12 years old and reading it in the '80s, I didn't get all of the jokes at the time. Howard the Duck bravely tries to avoid fighting such foes as the Kidney Lady, the cybernetic Canadian Le Beaver, the Ringmaster and his Circus of Doom, and the diabolical Dr. Bong.

This was by far the longest-lived of my favorites, with 33 issues plus a 12 issue magazine series. I collected as many as I could from the bargain bins of comic shops all over the city.

Ah, memories...

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject:

Other than Spidey, I was hooked on the seventies re-make comic book series of the 1920's original:

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

What about calvin and hobbes!! I loved them and still do,

Also commando comics are awesome, I remember the day me and my mate got a HUGE box of them for 3 quid at a carboot sale, we were so chuffed Very Happy

I think he still reads em ...... Shocked

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

Emu Bitter · Joined: 27 May 2004 Location: Bundang

Asterix & Tintin brilliant. From a more x rated perspective Viz is incomparable.