Did you read comics as a kid? Which was your favorite? Mine was the Archies.

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[Meadowoak]

1. MAD magazine.

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2. Thank you Meadowoak. Very good choice.

[Tiny Tabby]

3. Mine was Uncle Scrooge

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4. Thank you very much Tiny Tabby.

[boonecreek]

5. Mine was Superman

and Action and Adventure Comics. I liked Adventure Comics for
their "Tales of the Bizzaro World."

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8. HAHAHHAHHHAH thank you boonecreek. . Great choices there.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. archie and other non super hero comics . read peanuts in the comic section of the news paper.

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9. Thank you AllaN01Bear. I used to read the newspaper comics too. Daily and the Sunday editions.

[EYESORE 9001]

15. Oops

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[LoisB]

7. Sure did. Archie, Superman, and the horror "comics".

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10. Thank you very much LoisB. I don't think we had the horror "comics" around here. or I don't remember them.Did like

Archie and Superman too.

[Squaredeal]

77. Those comics ceased being published in the early 50s.

The Republican-led Senate at the time held a number of hearings about how they were harming America’s youth and the association of comic book publishers established a voluntary code restricting comic book content. Only MAD survived.
So, as a boy who read comic books, in the late 50s and 60s, my favorite was the wholesome Superman (“truth, justice and the ‘American Way’”) and MAD, which I hid from my parents.

[Aristus]

79. When I was a kid, our local library had omnibus collections of those old 1950's horror comics.

I checked them out all the time and gave myself the creeps reading their ghoulish stories. My parents, open-minded and liberal, had no problem with this. I habitually read everything I could get my hands on. So they didn’t worry about my psyche, or whether I would become a juvenile delinquent.

I also read MAD Magazine voraciously. I’m convinced that it was MAD Magazine, and not any course I took in high school, that taught me critical thinking skills and logical reasoning.

I gave up comic books pretty early in life. They just lost their luster as I discovered more challenging reading (although I do credit them partly for my liberal outlook. I loved the Green Arrow comics.) My favorite comic book series was The Fantastic Four.

[KitFox]

11. Archies were my favorite, too, Deb. We also traded

with our cousins and friends for Little LuLu, Casper, Richie Rich, Dennis the Menace, and Nancy and Sluggo. One friend had a relative that gave her a box full of Sugar and Spike which we had never seen and she shared them. Fun memories. Thank you😊🩷

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51. Thank you very much much, KitFox. That is a great idea to share.

[Chipper Chat]

12. Henery Hawk.

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56. I remember that, Thank you Chipper Chat.

[Archae]

13. Archie, Casper, Hot Stuff, Baby Huey, a few more.

My parents didn't like the superhero comics.

[EYESORE 9001]

16. My grandmother wouldn't allow Harveytoons in her house

Demonic, she said. Necromancy (Casper), Little Audrey going around doing whatever the hell she felt like, edification of the rich (Richie Rich), witchcraft (Wendy), etc.

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59. Thank you Archae.

[EYESORE 9001]

14. My comic book phase was somewhat narrow

Roughly age 9-11, and I read DC superhero comics primarily. I guess Marvel comics were too nuanced and ambiguously good or evil for my young mind. Around age 15, however, I got interested in so-called ‘underground’ comics, and I’ve never been the same since.

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61. Thank you EYESORE 9001

[49jim]

17. Mine were Superman/Superboy

Late 50's comics were 10-15 cents......

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20. Yes, I remember them being 12 cents here.

[Dorothy V]

18. Mad's Maddest - Don Martin!

He's Still my favorite!
Dad used comics and his Mad Magazines to teach me how to read, starting when I was 3 years old.

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19. Thank you very much Dorothy V. That's great.

[beemerphill]

21. This is a Toss-up

Mad is one of my favorites. (It might be considered a Comic.)
A Close Second would be Groo the Wanderer.

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74. Thank you very much, beemerphill

[Xavier Breath]

22. Richie Rich and Green Lantern.

I always wondered what the results might have been were they to have teamed up.

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62. Thank you very much Xavier Breath. That was a good idea.

[Different Drummer]

23. The Archies and various super hero comics.

My favorite among the latter was The Fabtastic Four, but I also liked Wonder Woman, Captain America, Iron Man and, of couse. Spider Man.

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63. Thank you very much Different Drummer.

[RazorbackExpat]

24. Mystery Comics Digest

consisting of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, The Twilight Zone, and Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery. Also, Peanuts, Andy Capp, B.C, Wizard of Id, Grin And Bear It by Lichty

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64. You have a great selection RazorbackExpat.

[RazorbackExpat]

70. Also "Through History With J.Wesley Smith"

One of my favorites in junior high.

[electric_blue68]

25. Superman, ?Supergirl, then as a young teen Archie, Betty & Veronica.

I think I might still have the B & V comic where Betty keeps copying Veronica's clothing for a particular reason.

Veronica called her; the ole sewing machine girl. But Betty got her revenge, so to speak. 😄 It was glorious!

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69. Thank you very much electric_blue68

[Ilikepurple]

26. Mine is Silver Surfer.

A nod to Mad magazine also.

[Demovictory9]

33. I remember silver surfer

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68. Thank you very much, ilikepurple.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. My father made me throw out all my comics at age 12.

Archie, Dennis the Menace, Superman, Supergirl, etc.

He never explained why he was so mad.

I can only guess that he read that infamous article in Reader's Digest that claimed that comics made readers into juvenile delinquents.

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67. Wow. I am sorry , no_hypocricsy.

[no_hypocrisy]

71. And I still miss them.

[Mister Ed]

28. Ummm...this is embarrassing, but...I liked Classics Illustrated.

Comic-book retellings of literary classics like, for example, The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, or Moby Dick.

[electric_blue68]

30. I read a few of those, too.

[Xavier Breath]

36. I would suggest that any work, no matter the medium, that introduces kids to the literary classics is a good thing.

Those probably helped spur the reading habit in many a child.

[Paladin]

57. Never ever be embarrassed by Classics Illustrated.

Plenty of us got early, important exposure to great literature that way. Wear it as a life-enhancing badge of honor, not an embarrassment.

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66. I read those too. I very much enjoyed them. Thank you , Mister Ed.

[RandySF]

29. The Mighty Avengers

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58. Thank you very much , RandySF.

[Mike Nelson]

31. I read them all...

... SUPERMAN - DC, SPIDER-MAN Marvel, ARCHIE, Gold Key... my favorite of the Archie stories were the ones that had a "surreal" quality. Some of these stories I found were reprinted in the Archie Digests. Very creative, I think. I also liked Jingles, a surreal character the had around Christmas. I would say my favorite was the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES. The feature "grew" and it was the one I continued to read as an adult.

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50. Wow, thank you very much, Mike Nelson.

[Demovictory9]

32. I lovedbthe Archies. Also 'Richie Rich', 'Casper the friendly Ghost'

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49. My favorites too as a kid. Thank you Demovictory9

[TommieMommy]

34. Mad Magazine loved spy vs spy

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48. Same here. TommieMommy. Loved Mad Magazine.

[Rhiagel]

35. Mad Magazine, Crazy Magazine, Cracked Magazine...

I also enjoyed the House of Mystery, House of Secrets, and Plop Magazines.

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47. Thank you very much Rhiagel.

[Emile]

37. Superman

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46. Thank you very much Emile.

[LNM]

38. I used to sit on my Dad's lap on Sunday mornings

And he would read Pogo to me. I loved all the mispronunciations. Happy memory.

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45. Thank you very much LNM.

[vanamonde]

39. Magnus, Robot Fighter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus,_Robot_Fighter

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44. Thank you very much for your choices , vanamonde.

[Sequoia]

40. Superman, romance, MAD Magazine

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43. Thank you very much Sequoia.

[Xolodno]

41. Silver Surfer

Accessory to massive genocide. Regains his humanity and is tortured being immortal trying to repent for it. Very complicated character.

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42. Sounds like it. Thank you for your choice.

[exboyfil]

52. Kamandi and Legion of Super Heroes

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55. Thank you very much, exboyfil.

[dedl67]

53. Pogo

From my 25 cent per week allowance I saved enough to by a Walt Disney comic (Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse) every month. But Pogo was my favorite comic character. Also Mad Magazine because "It's crackers to slip a rozzer dropsy in snide" (my favorite Mad Magazine line, from an issue in about 1956 or so)

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54. Thank you didl67 and welcome to DU

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60. Superman, Fantastic Four, and Spiderman were my favorites.

I also liked the Jeb Stuart / Haunted Tank series. About a WW2 tank crew that channeled the spirit of Civil War Gen JEB Stuart in battles against the far superior German Panzer tanks.

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65. Thank you OAITW r.2.0 . That is quite a selection.

[Wicked Blue]

72. Mad and Lois Lane

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73. Thank you very much Wicked Blue. I really liked Mad.

[OldBaldy1701E]

75. Dick Tracy, The Phantom, Peanuts...

Any Marvel horror comics, then things like Moon Knight, Werewolf By Night, Man-Thing, etc. I started playing out (music) when I was 12, so after that I got too busy to keep up and lost interest until I started collecting in the mid-eighties.

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84. Thank you very much for sharing. OldBaldy1701E

[applegrove]

76. My Dad would give us kids a book of British Comics

every Christmas. I tried to like them but the stories went over my head. I don't think they were for kids. The characters were odd. I can't remember much about them. I never told my dad I didn't enjoy them.

[MichMan]

78. Sad Sack and The Flash

[yellowdogintexas]

80. All the Disney comics; Scrooge McDuck and Huey, Dewey and Louie, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories etc

For a few years, I had a subscription to a couple of those.

I also loved Mighty Mouse, Little Lulu, and the Harvey Comics. When I got a bit older I discovered the Archie comics and Mad Magazine.

I still love Little Lulu

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83. Thank you very much yellowdogintexas.

[3catwoman3]

81. Another fan of Classics Illustrated here. I can still recall...

...some of the panels from the one about the 12 dancing princesses who were perplexing their father, the king, by constantly wearing out their shoes.

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82. Thank you 3catwoman3. I enjoyed them also.