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Five For Friday #22—Favorite Characters, Different Ages
posted March 25, 2005
 

Name a favorite comics character of yours at five different points in your life.

Age 36: Wimpy
Age 23: Maggie Chascarrillo
Age 17: The Flaming Carrot
Age 11: Linus
Age 6: The Incredible Hulk

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Dan Morris

Age 22: Concrete
Age 18: Kaneda (from Akira)
Age 14: Grendel
Age 10: Calvin
Age 7: Batman

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Jim Kingman

Age 6: Schroeder
Age 10: Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Age 11: Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth
Age 35: Flex Mentallo
Age 41: Binky Brown

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Andrew Mansell

Age 44: Modesty Blaise/Willie Garvin
Age 36: Steve Canyon and Johnny Hazard
Age 28: Sandman (Gaiman)
Age 18: Wolverine (Claremont/Byrne)
Age 10: Dick Tracy/Charlie Brown (same page of the Chicago Tribune)
Age 6: Batman & Robin (TV show)

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Russ Maheras

Age 7: Tomahawk
Age 9: Superman
Age 13: Spider-Man
Age 15: Captain America
Age 20: The Spirit

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Cole Odell

Age 33: Krypto
Age 28: Dane McGowan
Age 23: Dian Belmont
Age 13: Reed Richards
Age 4: Krypto

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Steve Block

Age 25 Alec/Eddie Campbell
Age 20 Flex Mentallo
Age 15 Zenith
Age 10 Dan Dare (The 1982 relaunch)
Age 5 Roger The Dodger

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Sean T. Collins

Age 3: Spider-Man
Age 11: Batman
Age 16: The Maxx
Age 20: Marv
Age 26: Minnie Goetze

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Daniel Holloway

26: Glenn Ganges
19: Starman (Jack Knight)
15: Gambit
11: Michael Patterson
6: Odie

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Aaron Ragan-Fore

Age 28: Plastic Man
Age 25: Yorick Brown
Age 22: Green Lantern Kyle Rayner
Age 17: Tim Hunter
Age 10: Aquaman

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