Which Came First For You- Comics or TV?

[thunderbolt]

Batman 66, Adventures of Superman and the 67 Spider-Man along with the Other 60s Marvel cartoon. West is my Batman and Reeves my Supes.

[LonnieFisher]

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"?

[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”.

[palitoy]

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.

[monitor_ep]

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.

[DaniellePlaysWithToys]

Actually, it was video games. I enjoyed playing Injustice with my brother and Scribblenauts Unmasked got me set for life on the characters.

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?

[samurainoir]

TV. All the cartoons and live action superheroes and even characters like Casper, Popeye, Disney etc let me to comics.

[EmergencyIan]

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

[Hector]

I remember watching TV when I was like four or five. My first memories of comic books wasn’t until age 8 or so.

[The Bat]

from my earliest memories...both!

[TrekStar]

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

[LonnieFisher]

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.

[Brue]

Superfriends preceeded my first comics.

[WannabeMego]

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.

[Earth 2 Chris]

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.