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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Who was on the series when you first met the characters?
Some exemples for me:

Flash Gordon: Dan Barry
The Phantom: Lee Falk and Sy Barry
Spider-Man: Ross Andru, with Gerry Conway or Len Wein, i don't know if i first read a Conway or a Wein story. There were both that Day. + reprint albums of Lee and Ditko.
The FF: Lee and Kirby.
The X-Men: Claremont, Byrne, Austin
Iron Man: Mantlo and Tuska (Midas saga)
Daredevil: Steve Gerber and Bob Brown (the Man-Thing / Gladiator/ Death-Stalker story)
Batman: Len Wein with Don Newton and Irv Novick, also some late Denny O'Neil stories, with the same artists.
Iron Fist: Claremont & Byrne.
Captain Marvel: Doug Moench & Pat Broderick.
Star Wars: Archie Goodwinn, Carmine Infantino and Terry Austin.
The Invaders: Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.
Captain America: Steve Englehart & Sal Buscema (for his on series, but i first met him in Iron Fist or the Invaders, both series were in the same book.)
The Avengers: Lee & Kirby for their own series, but i had read the Marvel two-in-one issue drawn by Frank Miller a few moth earlier, and i may have seen cameos elsewhere. Maybe in Iron Man.
Thor: Kirby, Lieber & Lee.
The Flash... in the World's Greatest Super-Heroes comicstrip by Martin Pasko and Georges Tuska. When i read his own series, Cary Bates and Irv Novick where on it, but i already knew the character by the newspaper comicstrip. I Just didn't knew his costume was red.
H for Heroes: Marv Wolfman and Carmine Infantino.




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Ted Downum
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

As best I can recall...

Captain America: Jack Kirby (during the Captain America & Falcon era from the mid-seventies)
Superman: Almost certainly Cary Bates and Curt Swan in Action Comics
Batman: Possibly Jim Aparo and Bob Haney in The Brave and the Bold
The FF: Roy Thomas and George Perez (I think)
The Hulk: Len Wein (or Bill Mantlo?) and Sal Buscema
The X-Men: Byrne, Claremont, and Austin
Spider-Man: Len Wein and Ross Andru in Amazing, or Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema in Peter Parker: The Spectacular...
Legion of Super-Heroes: Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen




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I don’t want to be reminded how old I am!!!
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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Going by earliest I can remember, and not necessarily the first time I "met" the characters. I had older brothers, and even though I was the only one of my siblings that went on to actually collect comics, comic books were ever present as long as I can recall, making it very difficult to know what was my first comics. So, here goes with what I can recall... (Note, any Silver-Age references are due to reprints I read during my youth.)


Spider-Man: Lee, Ditko, Romita Sr., Gil Kane, Jim Mooney, Sal Buscema, Ross Andru .. It was a book by one or more of those fellows.

The FF: It was either "FF" #110 or a Lee and Kirby ("Marvel's Greatest Comics" reprints)

The X-Men: (original team) I believe Gil Kane and Gerry Conway ("Marvel Team-Up" #4), then a reprint of X-Men #3 by Lee and Kirby. (New team) Claremont, Byrne, and Austin (#122).

Iron Man: Likely #133 by Bill Mantlo, Herb Trimpe, Keith Pollard.

Daredevil: I remember reading Frank Miller's early issues, but I am pretty sure I saw the character in other stories before that point.

Batman: Bob Haney and Jim Aparo on "The Brave and The Bold," if not a Batman solo comic, also would have been by Aparo.

Iron Fist: Claremont & Byrne.

Captain Marvel: Starlin.

Star Wars: Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin (read it as the series began).


The Invaders: Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins.

Captain America: Steve Englehart & Sal Buscema, likely.

The Avengers: Pretty sure it was Jim Shooter and JB, the Count Nefaria storyline.

Incredible Hulk: Either Herb Trimpe (the issue with the Glob stands out), or reprints of Lee, Kirby, Ditko in a Fireside publication from the 1970s.

Superman: Curt Swan and likely Cary Bates, but it could have also been  Swan Silver-Age reprint.

Green Lantern: Mike Grell and, I think, Denny O'Neill. It was the period when Hal had Itty the starfish on his shoulder. I thought that was a regular part of GL's character, that critter, like his sidekick. LOL!

Thor: Lee and Kirby reprints.

Legion of Super-Heroes: Mike Grell era, not sure of the writer.





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James Best
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

This took a little digging on my part, and the memory banks are a bit iffy after all of this time, but here is what I came up with…

Avengers – this is a toss-up between John Byrne and David Michelinie on issue #190 (Avengers on trial against Peter Gyrich) or Don Newton and Bill Mantlo on annual #9 (Avengers vs Arsenal). I can’t remember which one I read first.

Batman – John Calnan and Gerry Conway, issue #306 of his own series (Batman vs the Black Spider)

Captain America – John Byrne and Roger Stern, issue #248 (Cap vs Dragon Man)

Conan – John Buscema and Roy Thomas, issue #110

Daredevil – Frank Miller’s first issue, #158 (DD vs Deathstalker)

Fantastic Four – Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, via issue #36 of Marvel’s Greatest Comics (reprint of FF #49)

Flash – Alex Saviuk and Cary Bates, issue #278 of his own series

Hulk – Sal Buscema and Roger Stern, issue #239 of his own series

Iron Man – John Romita, Jr. and David Michelinie, issue #128 of his own series (Demon in a Bottle)

Justice League of America – Elliot Maggin (plot) with Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin (artwork), issue #119

Power Man / Iron Fist – Kerry Gammill and Mary Jo Duffy, issue #65

Spider-Man – Keith Pollard and Marv Wolfman, issue #200 of Amazing Spider-Man (The Spider and the Burglar)

Superman – Curt Swan and Martin Pasko, issue #332 of his own series

Thor – Keith Pollard and Mark Gruenwald, issue #290 of his own series (about halfway through The Celestial Saga)

Wonder Woman – Jose Delbo and Gerry Conway, issue #259 of her own series

X-Men – Byrne and Claremont, issue #138 (Elegy)


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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I'll stick to the artists, because those are easier to remember. First and foremost, I noticed the art.

Superman: Curt Swan
Superboy: Kurt Schaffenberger
Batman: Jim Aparo
Spider-Man: Frank Miller 
Hulk: Sal Buscema
She-Hulk: John Buscema
Daredevil: Frank Miller
X-Men: John Byrne
The Phantom: Sy Barry
Teen Titans: George Perez

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Peter Martin
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

My earliest Marvel comics were second-hand UK reprints (in B&W), so I met a lot of Marvel characters with creators that date from before I was born!

X-Men was Lee/Kirby
FF was Lee/Kirby
Hulk was Goodwin/Trimpe
Daredevil was Lee/Romita
Iron Man was Friedrich/Tuska
Spider-Man was Lee/Lieber
Captain Marvel was Wein/Kane

I had some old UK DC comics or annuals and in these I think it would be as follows :
Batman was O'Neil/Novick
Superman was Pasko/Swan

At the time I would have had no idea about these creative teams, but I can remember the covers and stories and have pieced it together.

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Rich Marzullo
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Great topic! Testing my memory here...

Superman: Dan Jurgens
Silver Surfer: Ron Lim
Adam Warlock: Jim Starlin wrote, Tom Raney was the artist

My dad had a copy of the Origin of Marvel Comics which I think must have been where I first met Thor, FF, Spider-Man, Hulk, etc. 
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Being a UK nipper, although I met the Marvel characters in the 70s, my first
meeting tended to be their first appearances, due to the Marvel reprints -
THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, SPIDER-MAN, THE SUPER-HEROES,
THE TITANS etc.
Although they may have been haphazard in the order they released these
things, the stories of a series were released in order.
So yeah, by and large, the original writer and artists. Possibly why I tend to
prefer original, or near original versions of those characters, and feel less
connected to them the more they deviate from those concepts.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 25 August 2025 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

An addendum re DC - these were much less available, but we did have
some annuals for Batman and Superman, which seemed to reprint Dick
Sprang era series if I remember correctly.
But for most titles, it would be whoever was writing/drawing them in the 80s
(maybe the 70s if I got them from the seaside). But I really didn’t pay
attention to DC until I started to buy THE NEW TEEN TITANS. And then it
spread from there (LEGION OF SUPER HEROES was def Keith Giffen for
example.
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John Popa
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Posted: 26 August 2025 at 2:58am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

I started with Uncanny X-Men during John Romita Jr's first run. Amazing Spider-Man was Ron Frenz, Daredevil was probably the beginning of Mazzuchelli, at least he's the first one I remember. Avengers was definitely Buscema/Palmer (interesting that I remember both, certainly due to the years of seeing them teamed together since then.)  FF was naturally JB, Thor was Simonson ... it was a good time to start reading comics!  Cap was the Paul Neary era.

(I didn't read much DC until later.) 
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Robert Bradley
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Most of my originsal encounters took place in 1975.  I had a friends with some comics (mostly Marvel) who gave me a few (CAPTAIN AMERICA #163 & #168, MARVEL FEATURE #6, DAREDEVIL #99, IRON MAN #60 & #63, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #134, AVENGERS #117 and a few DC Comics).  I was hooked right away on the Marvel ones and started picking them up on my own.


Ant-Man & the Wasp - MARVEL FEATURE #6 - Mike Friedrich & Herb Trimpe
Avengers - THE AVENGERS #117 - Steve Englehart & Bob Brown
Avengers (reprint) - MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION #22 - Roy Thomas & Don Heck
Black Panther - JUNGLE ACTION #8 - Don McGregor & Rich Buckler
Captain America (and Falcon) - CAPTAIN AMERICA #163 - Steve Englehart & Sal Buscema
Captain Marvel - CAPTAIN MARVEL #35 - Steve Englehart/Mike Friedrich & Alfredo Alcala
Daredevil (and Black Widow) - DAREDEVIL #99 - Steve Gerber & Sam Kweskin
Defenders (incl. Doctor Strange & Luke Cage) - DEFENDERS #17 - Len Wein & Sal Buscema
Fantastic Four (and Sub-Mariner) - FANTASTIC FOUR #147 - Roy Thomas & Rich Buckler
Fantastic Four (reprint) - MARVEL'S GREATEST COMICS #52 - Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Ghost Rider - GHOST RIDER #13 - Tony Isabella & George Tuska
Guardians of the Galaxy - MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE #5 - Steve Gerber & Sal Buscema
Hulk (and Adam Warlock) - INCREDIBLE HULK #178 - Gerry Conway/Tony Isabella/Roy Thomas & Herb Trimpe/John Romita
Howard the Duck - GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING #4 - Steve Gerber & Frank Brunner
Iron Fist - MARVEL PREMIERE #23 - Chris Claremont & Pat Broderick
Iron Man - IRON MAN #60 - Mike Friedrich & George Tuska
Man-Thing - GIANT-SIZE MAN-THING #4 - Steve Gerber & Ed Hannigan/Ron Wilson
Shang-Chi - MASTER OF KUNG FU #21 - Doug Moench & Ron Wilson
Spider-Man - AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #134 - Gerry Conway & Ross Andru
Spider-Man (reprint) - MARVEL TALES #54 - Stan Lee & John Romita
Thor (and Hercules) - THOR #221 - Gerry Conway & John Buscema
X-Men (reprint) - X-MEN #90 - Roy Thomas & Don Heck

Justice League of America - JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #115 - Denny O'Neil & Dick Dillin
Superboy & Legion of Super-Heroes - SUPERBOY & LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #203 - Cary Bates & Mike Grell
Superman - SUPERMAN #280 - Elliott Maggin & Curt Swan
Teen Titans - TEEN TITANS #19 - Nick Cardy & Gil Kane

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