FFF Results Post #161—Day Of

On Friday, CR asked its readers to "Name Four Comics (#1-4) You Wish You Could Have Bought The Day They Came Out And Then One (#5) You're Glad You Did Buy That Way. As A Bonus, If You Want, Explain The Reason Why For One AND ONLY ONE Of Your Choices." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Action Comics #1
2. Zap #1
3. Uncanny X-Men #104
4. Cerebus #1
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1

I'm glad I bought a TMNT #1 the day it came out because I wasn't crazy about it so I sold it to a local collector/speculator a couple of years later and because of the financial windfall got to quit my summer job a couple of weeks ahead of schedule and goof around a while before football two-a-days started. That was a great summer.

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Danny Ceballos

1. MAD #1
2. Plastic Man #1
3. Strange Tales #110
4. Arcade #1
5. JIM #1

I bought JIM #1 based entirely on the cover image and it turns out that sometimes you can judge a book by its cover...

*****



Michael Grabowski

1. Love & Rockets #2 (vol. 1)
2. Mad #11
3. Cerebus #14
4. Howard The Duck #1
5. Journey #1

I would really have enjoyed starting to read L&R with "Mechanics" instead of some of the lesser stories from the mid-teen issues that I first read later on.

*****



Russell Lissau

1. Wolverine #1 (Miller/Claremont mini)
2. Amazing Spider-Man #252
3. 100 Bullets #1
4. The Crow #1
5. 100 Bullets #100:

I have the first two 100 Bullets tpbs, then about 50 singles, then the rest in trades. But I had to buy the final issue, both to support Brian, Eduardo, Trish and Dave's monumental achievement and to see how it all ended. I just couldn't wait.

*****



Jamie S. Rich

1. Longshot #1
2. Mage, the Hero Discovered #1
3. DC Solo #1
4. Deadline Magazine in the UK
5. THB #1

Yeah, I got to be in on the ground floor of Paul Pope's awesome series, but then an ex-girlfriend absconded with all the issues and it took me several years to replace them without paying too much of a premium.

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Christopher Duffy

1. Wham-O Giant Comics thing from the 60s
2. Zap #1
3. Muppets #1
4. Love and Rockets #1
5. Nova #1

I wish I had bought Muppets #1 the first day it came out because it sold out and now all I can find are stupidly expensive "exclusive" Midtown Comics cover variant editions. Bleh!

*****



Tom Bondurant

1. Amazing Fantasy #15
2. Showcase #4
3. Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76
4. Fantastic Four #1
5. DC Comics Presents #26

I had enjoyed the '70s Teen Titans revival for most of its brief run, and I liked Robin and Kid Flash from it and other books, so I was glad to see the 16-page New Teen Titans story in the middle of this issue. New Teen Titans quickly became one of my favorite comics, and for a while NTT #1 was probably the most valuable single issue in my embryonic collection. (DCCP #26 would have been more valuable, but I had carefully removed the NTT insert...)

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Mark Coale

1. Detective #1
2. Danger Trail (1950) #1
3. Animal Man #5
4. Showcase #56
5. American Flagg #1

I had given up comics during my senior year in high school and when I started reading again a year later in college, I had missed the start of both Animal Man and Sandman. While it was harder to get the first five or six issues of Sandman, I wish I had been reading Animal Man from the jump. The Coyote Gospel is still my favorite issue of Animal Man and started by 20+ year appreciation for Morrison's work.

*****



Adam Casey

1. New Gods #1
2. Love and Rockets #1
3. Tales of Suspense #94
4. Whiz Comics #2
5. Ultimates 2 #1

I was working at a movie theater when Ultimates 2 #1 came out so I was painfully aware of the fact that movies that opened *that week* were being referenced in the comic and it put me off to the style of pop culture infused writing to this day.

*****



Matthew Badham

1) 2000 AD Prog 1
2) Fantastic Four 1
3) Beano 452 (the debut of Dennis the Menace)
4) Watchmen 1
5) Ed 1 (by London-based cartoonist Sean Azzopardi)

If I'd bought Watchmen when it came out, then I might have an inkling of whether I really like it as much as the wider critical culture that surrounds the comic has persuaded me I do.

*****



Jean-Paul Jennequin

1. S.O.S. Meteores by Edgar P. Jacobs
2. The Brave and the Bold #28
3. Les Taxis Rouges (Benoit Brisefer #1) by Peyo
4. Le Jardin fantastique by Raymond Poïvet
5. Uncanny X-Men # 94

Le Jardin fantastique is a book collection of the French science-fiction strip Les Pionniers de l'Esperance about a group of time and space adventurers. There were very few collections of the strip made and they had a very haphazard distribution. I used to see ads for the book in the publisher's weekly Journal de Pif when I was a kid in the 1960s but it was nowhere to be seen on sale. And the story looked so thrilling, with the heroes reduced to insect size and trying to find a lost friend in an ordinary garden, being menaced by giant -- to them -- spiders and the like.

*****



Stergios Botzakis

1. Amazing Fantasy #15
2. Whiz Comics #2
3. Weirdo #1
4. Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1
5. Ambush Bug #3

[Ambush Bug #3 was] my introduction to the lunacy of DC's Silver Age comics, plus it was hilarious to boot!

*****



Alan David Doane

1. Love and Rockets #1 (pre-Fantagraphics)
2. Amazing Fantasy #15
3. American Splendor #1
4. Conan the Barbarian #1
5. Gates of Eden #1

FantaCo's gorgeous and way-ahead-of-its-time 1980s anthology title [Gates of Eden] was high on my must-read list the week it came out. What I wouldn't give for the never-published #2...

*****



Buzz Dixon

1 - Action Comics #1
2 - Detective Comics #27
3 - Cerebus #1
4 - Pep Comics #22
5 - Deadbone Erotica (1971 Bantam edition)

The 1971 Bantam edition of Vaughn Bode's Deadbone Erotica was accidentally pulped with only a few volumes actually making it out of the warehouse and into stores and I got one!!!!!

*****



Dave Knott

- Heavy Metal #1
- Watchmen #1
- Thorn: Tales From The Lantern
- King-Cat Comics #1
* Krayons Ego

I wasn't reading comics when Watchmen was originally came out, and thus have only read it as a complete package. That's a shame, because it seems Watchmen be a different experience when read as a serialized story in discrete chunks.

*****



Evan Dorkin

1. Love and Rockets #1
2. The black and white, self-published Love and Rockets #1 (still don't have it)
3. Mad #6
4. Uncanny X-Men #94
5. Neat Stuff #1

I didn't buy an issue of Love and Rockets until #9, avoiding it for some reason, even when people at the comic shop I worked at kept telling me to read it. That comic flipped a switch in my head and shorted out some wires that needed to be done away with, it changed a lot of my attitudes about comics, what they could do and what could be done with them. I should have listened and tried it with the first issue.

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