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Brian Hughes
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I had been reading comics for a few years, but I had never even noticed the mutant titles as a kid in the 70’s. A friend of my older brother gave me a stack of comics for my birthday. Included in the stack was X-Men 132. Now, at the time, I was not interested in reading it as I did not know any of the characters on the cover. Also included was the Amazing Adventures reprint of the first Blob encounter. One day, while bored, I picked up that book as something about the cover intrigued me. I think it was Cyclops firing his blast at the Blob. Kirby’s art intrigued me, but it was the story that truly grabbed me. Not so much the Blob storyline, but all the character beats leading up to it. It reminded me so much of the Ditko Spider-Man stories that I loved that I was pulled in to the world of the X-Men. I identified with Scott in the same way I identified with Peter Parker.
After finishing the story, I looked once again at the cover of X-Men 132 and saw Cyclops on the cover. I picked it up immediately. That first page. . . Angel coming down to greet the X-men,and what followed just blew me away. And that last page, Wolverine in the sewer. . . Only one other time before had I looked purposefully at the comic credits and that was after reading “The Joker’s Five Way Revenge” in a DC Blue Ribbon Digest after seeing Neal Adams art for the first time.
This is the first time though that I decided I wanted to find more of this John Byrne fella. I was hooked. Hooked for life. Thanks JB!
Edidted to fix spacing,
Edited by Brian Hughes on 23 March 2025 at 6:14pm
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Daniel Burke
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| Posted: 23 March 2025 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | 2
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I wanted to get into comics after Batman 1989… I was 9.
At Dalton Books in the mall, my mom said she’d buy me a comic book.
I picked the tpb of Dark Phoenix Saga with the amazing Sienkiewicz cover.
Not sure why I picked it. I think maybe because my Uncle was in the Air Force and was stationed in Phoenix. (We lived in Ohio). Probably the recognition of word (unknowingly unrelated).
What a fateful decision.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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I'm sure I must have come across JB's artwork before 1984, but that's the year I became AWARE of it.
Two major things happened in Norway that year: 1. The X-Men got their own monthly comic book, and they started out with the Byrne/Claremont run (yes, we lagged WAY behind).
2. The monthly, and hugely popular, Spider-Man book started featuring The Fantastic Four, and in December that year they began printing JB's run with FF # 232.
It took me a while to get on board X-Men, but I was an avid reader of the Spider-Man book.
As I began buying the X-Men book the following year (a friend was raving about it), I quickly became a fan of JB.
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Paul W. Sondersted, Jr.
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I recall (riiiight!) first experiencing JB's art in Marvel Team-Up #65, published in October 1977 when I was (<gasp>) 11 years OLD. I didn't read the follow-up issue until much later when I snapped one up in a used book store in California.I'm fairly sure (riiight, part 2) the next time was with Fantastic Four #220, published in April 1980 (this time I read the following issue when it was published in May of that year. I was "disappointed" with issue #222 because JB art was absent. However, Bill Sienkiewicz inked by Joe Sinnott kept me on the title & it wasn't too long before JB returned with issue #232 in April 1981.
I have since scoured the planet & have acquired pretty much every comic book that JB has worked on.
Edited by Paul W. Sondersted, Jr. on 23 March 2025 at 7:01pm
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Brett Stuart
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Fantastic Four #269.
Secret Wars had introduced me to a bunch of new characters and the FF were my favorite so it wasn't long before I was seeking out their book. After that I never missed an issue until Byrne left the book.
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Gordon Somers
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Like Peter (Martin), my first recognised Byrne was in Secret Wars from Marvel UK reprinting Alpha Flight #1 in 1985. My friend and fellow Byrne-victim Darren had originals of later issues, which I couldn't get enough of (even then American comics were hard to find for young impressionable minds due to poor newsagent distribution).
Although, on learning Mr Byrne's name, I found I had Marvel Premiere 47 and 48 with Ant-Man. Add to that I used to collect Star wars Weekly and one of the back up features there was Starlord, so I was spoiled without really knowing it at first.
Of course in 1986, we found Edinburgh's Science Fiction Bookshop, coinciding with JB's Superman and Legends run, and boy did I start grabbing those and as many back issues as I could. I only have a few holes to fil now.
Edited by Gordon Somers on 24 March 2025 at 6:17pm
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Conrad Teves
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Easy.Got this in a Charlton sampler pack, if memory serves. |
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John Byrne
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July cover date. So fifty years right about now. uurrrrggh
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Michael Penn
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Time tangent: remember when 1989 seemed distant from 1975?
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John Byrne
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I struggle with 1925 being a century ago!
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Jason Ditzel
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I was 11 or so when I picked up Fantastic Four #242 & #243 from the library.
I remember looking at FF #250 with the X-Men noting the artists name.
FF #258 (Doom tearing cover) was my first JB purchase.
As an official comic book fan, I happened to be flipping through my Uncle's copy of Iron Fist #1 that was sitting on the end table of my Grandma's TV room FOREVER, that I had looked at multiple times over the years. Boom! Instant recognition of the art.
"John Byrne drew Iron Fist?!"
I liberated it and still have it. Grandma's handwriting is on the back.
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Edward Aycock
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As JB stated a few pages back, I was probably aware and had seen his stuff but what stood out for me was the cover of "Alpha Flight" #22 which I saw at a 7-Eleven. It was eye-catching and so over the next few months, I kept a look out for the AF covers as they came out. By the summer, I was a JB fan and buying AF... until he left for Hulk whereas I started buying Hulk, etc.
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