As a kid, what was/were your favorite comic book/books to read. I would read The Archies, Casper, Mad Mag The price was

[debm55]

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12 cents for a regular size and 25 cents for the deluxe size

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Mostly DC Comics

Superman, Batman, The Flash, etc.
Though I did like Marvel characters like The Hulk & Thor.

[debm55]

2. Thank you ProfessorGAC

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I too preferred DC Comics

I was around 10 when I got into comics, and the straightforward plot lines appealed to my childlike sensibilities. Marvel Comics had too much nuance and ambiguity over good and evil for me to appreciate at the time. If I'd encouintered comics for the first time as a tweener, I may have preferred the more 'edgy' Marvel Comics.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Yeah, I Was 10 At Most

Maybe more like 7 or 8.
Plus, episodes of Superman were still being aired on WGN & the Batman series hit network at about 10.
Much higher profile.

[4TheArts]

3. Green Lantern was my go to superhero

Archies was good, too, at earlier ages I loved Huey, Dewie, and Louie, and their adventures versus the Beagle Boys.

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much 4TheArts, And welcome to DU

[The Madcap]

5. The Fantastic Four

I liked the variety of characters/abilities and that they were a family except for The Thing.

[debm55]

7. Thank you, The Madcap

[Walleye]

58. That was one of my favorites as well

[boonecreek]

8. Mostly the DC comics

Superman franchise which included
Action and Adventure Comics. The best
part of Adventure Comics was "Tales of
the Bizarro World" BTW, DC also published
Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis comics.

[debm55]

11. Thank you very much, boonecreek

[yellowdogintexas]

9. Mighty Mouse, Scrooge/Donald Duck/Huey, Dewey and Louie, and my absolute favorite: Little Lulu

After I got older, I read the Archie comics but I never dropped the others, Someone gave me a subscription to the Disney ones when I was about 7, and I had it for several years.

One of the reasons Mr YD and I loved the original Duck Tales was the art, which was so much like the comics of our childhood. The new ones; not so much,

[debm55]

12. Thank you very much yellowdogintexas. I agree with the art work.

[beveeheart]

63. I loved Little Lulu too.

My mother wouldn't buy us comic books, but her sister did when my sister and I would go visit her in the summertime.

[multigraincracker]

10. Not sure if it was a comic book,

But Mad Magazine….what me worry?

[debm55]

14. Thank you multigraincracker. I really enjoyed Mad Magazine.

[KitFox]

22. Oh yes! Loved Mad

and later National Lampoon.

[debm55]

23. Yes, Mad and National Lampoon. I agree with you KitFox

[TommieMommy]

15. Mad Magazine was my favorite 😁

[Shambala]

17. I came here to say that

My dad would actually buy them and read them first and then give them to us kids. By the time it got to me the back pages were already folded and creased.

[Diamond_Dog]

28. My mother did not allow my sister and me to read Mad Magazine

She thought it was inappropriate for young ladies. So we had to buy it at the drugstore while walking home from school and sneak it in the house! I can still remember some of the articles that made me howl with laughter, and Mort Drucker’s artwork was genius.

“The Lighter Side of….” “Spy vs. Spy” …. the Mad fold-ins ….. TV show and movie spoofs (“Voyage To See What’s On The Bottom”, ). etc. etc. “Price 35c. Cheap!”

[debm55]

45. Thank you and welcome to DU

[debm55]

19. Thank you TommieMommy. When I was older it was Mad Magazine.

[ailsagirl]

54. Mine too!! Also Archie & Veronica (& Betty)

[KitFox]

16. Little Lulu, Nancy and Sluggo,

Richie Rich, Archie, Dennis the Menace, Casper, Sugar and Spike, Superman are ones I remember. We would check regularly at the grocery store to see when the new copies would arrive. We shared back and forth with cousins and friends since none of us had enough money to buy them all on our own. I remembered how much we enjoyed them when my grandkids started reading kid graphic novels. Thanks for the memories!!😊

[debm55]

18. Thank you KitFox, You have some of my go to favorites.

[SARose]

20. Archie here, too

Plus Little Lulu and Betty Boop!

Boop-oopa-dooop! 😂

[debm55]

21. HAHAHHAHA Thank you SARose Archies forever

[Paladin]

24. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

OK, I was in college. But I was still very much a kid...

[debm55]

25. Hahahahahahah, Thank you very much Paladin.

[Ohioboy]

26. Archie, Classics Illustrated, Mad Magazine was my favorite

[debm55]

27. Thank you Ohioboy , Those two of mine also

[rsdsharp]

29. I was DC. Superman, Batman, The Legion of Super Heroes,

Sgt. Rock, The Haunted Tank.

I’m old enough to remember the price change from 10¢ to 12¢.

[debm55]

32. Thank you rsdsharp for your selection. I didn't know they were once 10 cents. Oh my. I would have had to go out and find

another soda glass to recyle.

[exboyfil]

60. Legion and Kamandi

I remember 20 cents to 25 cents. Always more of a DC guy, but I read the deaths of Gwen and Green Goblin, first appearance of Wolverine, and Giant Size X-Men off the rack.

[debm55]

61. thank you exboyfil. We would do that too, Take some small rocks and put in our hands at drugstore. Rattle them around so

the workers thought they were change and read them off the rack. Got caught and told not to come back into store.

[at140]

31. Jiggs & Maggie

was a weekly cartoon in my newspaper.

[debm55]

33. Thank you at140. I forgot about them. My newspaper favorite was Blondie.

[AllaN01Bear]

34. archie. disney.

[debm55]

37. Thank you AllaN01Bear. I enjoyed archie. But our drug store didn't have the Disney or I would have bought

[Ritabert]

35. I read all the Classics Illustrated comic books

....before reading the actual books. It was like a synopsis and then reading the book filled in the book report.

[debm55]

38. Thank you Ritabert. I bought the Classics Illustrated. At the time I didn't know that there were books.I was young--what

can I say.

[AllaN01Bear]

36. i finaly got a mad magazine for christmas , but mad decided to quit in the middle of the run, bummer .

they quoted , not enough original material. had they hanged on they would have had aplenty,. anything that was non superhero. seems that has really been the money maker for them.

[debm55]

40. I agree . There would have been plenty of material for them. It was sad,when they stopped.printed them.

[Archae]

39. Archie, Casper, etc.

I especially liked the Archie comics with the girls in swimsuits.

[debm55]

41. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA. thank you Archae. That is funny.

[Squeaky41]

42. Favorite Comic

Dick Tracy

[debm55]

46. Thank you very much Squeaky41

[No Vested Interest]

43. Not comic books, but newspaper - "Dick Tracy" and "Blondie"

Books - Nancy Drew mysteries.
I also recall "Smilin' Jack", "L'il Abner and "Brenda Starr" as lesser newspaper interests; "Katzenjammer Kids", when I was really little. I'm much older than most DUers.

[debm55]

48. Thank you very much No Vested Interest.

[LogDog75]

44. Back in the early 60s

it was Superman, Batman, Archie, and Casper.

[debm55]

49. Thank you very much LogDog75

[True Dough]

47. Wow! We have two in common, deb

Archie comics and Mad magazine were items I collected. I also read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

[debm55]

51. Thank you True Dough. I remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books. Sad to say I was a teacher at the time.

[True Dough]

53. But you might have

recommended them to students during book fairs?

[debm55]

56. I did. I llked them,

[OldBaldy1701E]

50. Up until the age of ten or so, it was mostly Batman, if I read any.

After that it was Marvel and specifically The X-Men. I was also a huge Moon Knight fan having found some issues right when Bill Sienkiewicz took over on art. That got me to find the original 'Werewolf BY Night' where he was introduced.

I collected for a while in my twenties and thirties. I still have the titles that I liked. I just wish I had not gotten rid of a few titles, because they were really good.

[debm55]

55. Thank you very much OldBaldy1701E, You must have been really into them. Yes that is the thing, things get given away

and then we miss them.

[mdmc]

52. mad

[debm55]

57. Thank you mdmc. I really liked it. It reminded me somewhat of Rocky and Bullwinkle

[Walleye]

59. I went through a phase where I liked a lot of comic books

They were $.12. I had the very first issue of the incredible Hulk.

[debm55]

62. thank you , I remember 12 cents and 25 cents for these jumbo size ones. I never bought the jumbo sized because I figured

25 cents was too much for a comic book. Do you still have the first issue of the incredible Hulk?