What were your favorite comic books as a kid?

[bestseller92]

My own comic-book-reading "career" was fairly brief, only a couple of years or so, from about age ten to twelve or thirteen (I was born in 1968). I stopped buying them because the price went out of sight in a relatively short period of time, from about 30 cents apiece to around 75 or 80 in only a couple of years.

While I was a comic book reader, though, I had two favorites, both DC comics.

One was "Ghosts", which was about, yes, ghosts. The plot of most of the stories in "Ghosts" went about like this: person A murders person B, whereupon person B comes back as a ghost and somehow or another hastens the removal of person A from the roster of the living. Formulaic, but I like spooky stuff, and at the time it sufficed.

My other favorite was "Jonah Hex", about a disfigured post-civil war bounty hunter. I stopped reading "JH" when Jonah got married, had a kid and got mellow. But it was good while it lasted.

I also enjoyed, from time to time, the Green Lantern, Scalphunter, Batman and Fat Albert.

What were your favorite comic books as a kid?

[surfpirate]

I was more of a MAD Magazine kid. In fact, pack rat that I am, I still have hundreds of old MAD Magazines saved and in protective sleeves (What? Me Worry?).

But I did read Superman comix. And, embarassingly enough ... I also read the Archie comix. I think it's because my young self was enthralled with the incredible shapeliness of Betty and Veronica.

I once created a MAD Mag cover with my son's face on it for a contest run by SURFER Magazine. I also created a cover with my daughter's image (my favorite).
Neither of those won, but the one that I put my dog's image on did win!

[ph4ever]

I started reading Little Lulu, then Archie and then Mad. After that to hell with comics give me a Rolling Stone.

[Bicycle Bill]

      

I remember reading the original "National Lampoon" issue that surfpirate swiped the idea from — and from the look of it, the graphics too.
Am I OTD or what?

As for comics, I would read literally anything I could get my hands on. Archie; any Disney comics (especially the Carl Barks stories, although I didn't know that at the time); Little Lulu; any Harvey comics (Richie Rich, Sad Sack, Wendy, Casper, etc); Sgt. Rock; Superman; any Marvel comics (Capt. America, Spiderman, Thor, Hulk, X-men, etc); you name it. If it was printed, I'd read it. And I still found time to read 'real' books, too.

-"BB"-

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I was too busy sneaking around reading Ian Fleming behind my parents' backs to read comic books....

[Snowparrot]

Mad magazine -- a passion I shared with my brother and then my son.
Superman comics, Wonder Woman!!!, all the DCs back when they were a dime.

[RinglingRingling]

started with DC, then started some Marvel.

Really enjoyed the first Handbook of the Marvel Universe series, because it put everything in perspective

[Lightning Bolt]

I read Fantastic Four and Dick Tracy for a while as a kid...

but later, my favorite stuff was everything MAD magazine and the subversive underground stuff of Robert Crumb
Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) and Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

[z-man]

I was a DC fan back in the day
Superman and aquaman were my favs

[OceanCityGirl]

I think for around 20 minutes of my life I read Archie. Then I read Ellery Queen Mystery and Alfred Hitchcock. Mostly I read books. For around four years of my life I lived for Nancy Drew and switched to Stephen King when I was like 12yo. My parents clearly didn't care or know what I was reading.

[bestseller92]

I read now where "Jonah Hex" will be made into a movie to be released next year, starring Josh Brolin.

[ScarletB]

On the rare occasion I read one it was probably Archie. MAD magazine (at my cousin's house only my parents really didn't like me buying it even though I KNOW for a fact they secretly thought it was hilarious) and then National Lampoon, though I don't consider MAD or NL comic books.

[mason]

sgt fury and the howling commandoes.....fantastic four....spider man....iron man...

"yes we have been here before"

member of the parrothead nation

[Lightning Bolt]

[bestseller92]

That Zippy the Pinhead dude always creeped me out.

[TheSecretsInTheCrust]

I read MAD later in the mid 70's. I read Bat Man and The Spirit when I was a kid

[Wino you know]

My favorite comics (some of which I still have to this day):

Dennis the Menace

Sad Sack

Archie (more specifially, Jughead was my hero from that group)

[SMLCHNG]

Archie (more specifically, Jughead was my hero from that group)

Ditto.

[Missing B'dos]

Archie
'Mad'
the cartoons in the New Yorker magazine (does that count?)
Tin Tin -- the booklike ones

I wasn't supposed to be reading comics, so had to sneak it at friends' houses. My Mom disapproved of them.

[Barefoot Gypsy]

I was always a Batman fan from the start. Still buy every now and then but the prices are just alittle steep these days. I stopped regular collecting around '92. I enjoyed all the different Batman comic. I tend to be more a DC fan. But I do enjoy Spiderman as well. I always love his wise-a** attitude. I have a 7 yr.old that is really into them right now. I can't wait to get out my collection when he is alittle older. I think he will feel he has stumbled on some treasure.