I got my introduction to the concept of the comic book way back in 1988 or so, when my mom and grandfather introduced me to comic books with a stack of Silver Age DCs. But my REAL start into comics was with those earliest comics that my parents bought me. This week, I’m providing a brief look at what my earliest comics were.
In this first installment: Superman and The Adventures of Superman!
I don’t recall what my first impression was, exactly…though the cover was certainly significant. Giant-sized Superman stomping all over a city, and this weird character in the corner suggesting this doesn’t actually happen? I vaguely recall having NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what this Hostile Takeover thing was with Lex Luthor…I’m not even certain I actually read that segment all the way through. I do recall having no idea WHAT was going on with Clark and why he was acting funny, or why his mom would be shocked.
I had no idea, really, who these phantoms of the past were. I may have thinly connected them with the villains from Superman II, but had no idea how the “continuity” and such worked (I didn’t even know the term “continuity” at the time). I was quite struck by a “What If?” scene with the villains having taken out the other Earth heroes–one of my earliest memories of some of those characters, at least for the then-modern DCU. The true depth of this story and some of the figurative/hallucinatory elements was lost on me as a kid–but somehow, that did NOT turn me away from Superman…
NEXT: My introduction to Batman!
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