What was your first exposure to superheroes?

[enyawd72]

I was just thinking about what really got me into superheroes as a kid, and I realized it wasn't actually comic books or toys, but coloring books.

I was only four, but I vividly remember two Amazing Spider-Man coloring books..."The Oyster Mystery", and "Seeing Double"

I loved Seeing Double especially...I remember it having (to my mind) a fun story about an imposter Spider-Man, with the real Spider-Man going to jail, and having to escape to clear himself.

The Oyster Mystery I remember more for the cover. I was absolutely mesmerized by that illustration as a child.
It seems so surreal now, because Spider-Man is totally out of his element in that one, yet it's still one of my favorite pieces of Spidey art to this day.

What about you guys?

[wayne foundation 07]

Super friends cartoons, followed by the comic books

[The Toyroom]

Probably Batman 1966 or maybe it was "The Adventures of Superman"...

[madmarva]

For me it was comics, but within the same year Super Friends debuted and I received my first mego figures, so the trio reinforced each other around 1972-73.

I remember first watching syndicated versions of Adventures of Superman and Star Trek in the first grade. Loved both shows and still do. The Spidey cartoon ran like at 6 in the morning around the same time period. My first experience with the Batman TV show was through a viewmaster set featuring Catwoman in kindergarten. I saw The Batman movie probably around summer of 1976 (I have memories of Bicentennial celebrations and the Olympics in conjunction with the movie) and the series began running that fall, which was the summer of the second grade and fall of the third. This was also about the time I got interested in Universal horror films and the AHI figures. And of course Star Wars and Superman films were 1 and 2 years away...

[emeraldknight47]

My very first exposure to comics was a copy of IRON MAN #10 my brother gave me. It featured, ironically enough, the Mandarin!

[B-Lister]

I have no memory of my first exposure. They were always there.

I remember what got me reading, but that's a different story and you didn't ask that.

[kept back]

My very first exposure to comics was a copy of IRON MAN #10 my brother gave me. It featured, ironically enough, the Mandarin!

I think I remember that one. Was that where they revealed that The Mandarin was an unemployed British actor?

[Operation:Mego]

As far as I can remember, I've always been a Spidey fan. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends was the first cartoon I remember watching along side the 90's series. ABC Family would air episodes back-to-back on the weekend, and sometimes early during the week, so I'd sneak out of my room to watch them before school.

The first Spidey comic I read was a reprint of #4 I think, when he first fought Sandman.

[jwyblejr]

Either Superfriends,reruns of '66 Batman or Spidey on Electric Company.

[kingdom warrior]

The book by Jules Feiffer, The Great Comic Book Heroes. it was given too me when I was about 6 or 7. Absolutely, loved the superhero genre after that, combine that with Batman and Adventures of Superman and yeah, I was hooked.

[thunderbolt]

nananananananana BATMAN!!!

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Then it was cartoons like Spider-Man 1967 and the Marvel Super Heroes ones from the same era.

[Timothy2251]

nananananananana BATMAN!!!

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Then it was cartoons like Spider-Man 1967 and the Marvel Super Heroes ones from the same era.

Same here, but I also got into this, too:

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[VintageMike]

Superfriends and reruns of the 60's Spider-Man TV cartoon and 66 Batman tv show. Also the Spider-Man segments on the Electric company. I'm sure that had a lot to do with Spidey becoming my first Mego at age six and my favorite hero overall.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

MOst of my friends since way back when I was a kid loved 'em, so I saw lots of comics and tv shows but it didn't take until I was almost 30.

Don C.

[jimsmegos]

Super friends cartoons, followed by the comic books

Same here... plus George Reeves "The Adventures of Superman" ... I still love everyone of those episodes