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  • Timothy2251
    Jerks beef with Ten Bears
    • Mar 15, 2008
    • 1959

    #16
    Originally posted by knight errant00
    Batman '66
    Spider-Man '67
    Space Ghost
    Adventures of Superman and Filmation Superman

    ...all the reruns of those before I could read got me started on superheroes, for sure.
    Pretty much all of the above, starting with Batman '66 and Spider-Man '67. First comic was Amazing Spider-Man #123, followed by a bunch of DC comics soon after. But TV got it's hooks into me first!
    "It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."

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    • Earth 2 Chris
      Verbose Member
      • Mar 7, 2004
      • 32481

      #17
      I forgot to list my early influences. These are VERY early, as I can not remember a time when I didn't know of them:

      Batman '66
      Super Friends
      Spider-Man '67
      The Adventures of Superman
      Shazam/Isis
      Spider-Man on the Electric Company

      Oddly enough I didn't see the 60s Filmation cartoons until the Super Powers VHS compilations hit in 1984. I saw the Sesame Street clips, and that was it. I did watch the 7os Batman series when it came around.
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      • WannabeMego
        Made in the USA
        • May 2, 2003
        • 2170

        #18
        TV for sure...Comic Books were a way to extend the TV Universe of Stories (for me)...though I was a Book Worm in School.

        The tables started to flip around the age of 9 (for me) when the Books started to dominate over My TV viewing.
        Everyone is Entitled to MY Opinion...Your's, not so much!

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        • Brue
          User without title
          • Sep 29, 2005
          • 4241

          #19
          Superfriends preceeded my first comics.

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          • LonnieFisher
            Eloquent Member
            • Jan 19, 2008
            • 10809

            #20
            Well, as a baby, my mom went and watched Batman, in color, at a friend's house. I was there, but was I watching? We didn't watch a lot of tv at my house, so I'm sure that comics were the main introduction to superheroes. I had access to a lot of comics but not really a television.

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            • TrekStar
              Trek or Treat
              • Jan 20, 2011
              • 8346

              #21
              For myself it was TV, 66 Batman, Adventures of Superman and Tarzan (Weissmuller movies)

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              • The Bat
                Batman Fanatic
                • Jul 14, 2002
                • 13412

                #22
                from my earliest memories...both!
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                • Hector
                  el Hombre de Acero
                  • May 19, 2003
                  • 31852

                  #23
                  I remember watching TV when I was like four or five. My first memories of comic books wasn’t until age 8 or so.
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                  • EmergencyIan
                    Museum Paramedic
                    • Aug 31, 2005
                    • 5470

                    #24
                    I think the images brought me in whether they were on TV, comics (I know I couldn’t read the comics, at first) or toys.

                    - Ian
                    Rampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?

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                    • samurainoir
                      Eloquent Member
                      • Dec 26, 2006
                      • 18758

                      #25
                      TV. All the cartoons and live action superheroes and even characters like Casper, Popeye, Disney etc let me to comics.
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                      • DaniellePlaysWithToys
                        Youngest Mego Fan
                        • Aug 30, 2019
                        • 267

                        #26
                        Actually, it was video games. I enjoyed playing Injustice with my brother and Scribblenauts Unmasked got me set for life on the characters.
                        Originally posted by knight errant00
                        Batman '66
                        Spider-Man '67
                        Space Ghost
                        Adventures of Superman and Filmation Superman

                        ...all the reruns of those before I could read got me started on superheroes, for sure.
                        How about BIIIIIIIRDMAN?
                        FTC apologist, Hawkman stan, and Cybatom shipper.

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                        • monitor_ep
                          Talkative Member
                          • May 11, 2013
                          • 7349

                          #27
                          I am one of those I just cannot remember what sparked my interest. I was born in 1971 and my Mother was a school teacher/librarian so I was reading early at an early age. The earliest memory I recall about super-heroes was when I was in kindergarten I had The Bat Halloween costume (yeah nobody can tell me why I had The Bat instead of Batman). I remember watching reruns of Superman 55, Batman 66, and then Wonder Woman, Hulk, Spider-Man and Superfriends growing up, reading comic books and playing Megos at an early age.

                          So comic book Super-Heroes have been intertwined into my life and it is not going away by now.
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                          • palitoy
                            live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                            • Jun 16, 2001
                            • 59176

                            #28
                            I vividle recall watching the Filmation Batman cartoon when I was two. I became very smitten with Batgirl, this was well before i could read.
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                            • CrimsonGhost
                              Often invisible
                              • Jul 18, 2002
                              • 3568

                              #29
                              It was definitely TV for me. My earliest memories are of Looney Tunes and Superfriends. At some point early on, I realized there were also comics of those characters. Both were pretty early. The first word I learned to read was “Hulk”.
                              Expectation is the death of discovery.

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                              • LonnieFisher
                                Eloquent Member
                                • Jan 19, 2008
                                • 10809

                                #30
                                Originally posted by CrimsonGhost
                                It was definitely TV for me. My earliest memories are of Looney Tunes and Superfriends. At some point early on, I realized there were also comics of those characters. Both were pretty early. The first word I learned to read was “Hulk”.
                                Was the second word "smash"?

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