FFF Results Post #389—Birth Year

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics You Enjoy That Came Out The Year You Were Born." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. "Bull Tales," Garry Trudeau
2. Fantastic Four #72, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
3. Feds 'N' Heads #1, Gilbert Shelton
4. Flight 714, Hergé
5. His Name Is... Savage, Gil Kane

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Philippe Leblanc

Thinking back on books published on my birth year, I was drawn not only to the books published then, but also books in my first language. I am from Quebec and French is my first language. I learned English as a second language because of comics, but when I first dicsovered sequential art, it was through French comics. I didn't read those as a kid except #5, but those are still to this day classics.

1- In search of Shirley, by Cosey (Originally published as :Le voyage en Italie, Tome 1)
2- La route d'armillia, by Benoit Peeters & Francois Schuiten
3- Batman: The Killing Joke, By the Original Writer & Brian Bolland
4- Jimbo in Paradise, by Gary Panter
5- Yakari: Le vol des Corbeaux, by Job & Derib (Not yet released in English, Yakari's title are coming at a snail's pace to the english market

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Bob Temuka

1. Uncanny X-Men #94
2. Battle Picture Weekly #1
3. The first Footrot Flats comic strips
4. The Joker #2
5. Strange Tales #181

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Don MacPherson

1. Batman #232
2. Amazing Spider-Man #100
3. Green Lantern #85
4. World's Finest Comics #208
5. Flash #205

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Andrew Mansell

1. The Flash of Both Worlds
2. Fantastic Four # 1
3. Walt Disney Comics and Stories #252
4. Dennis the Menace Giant #9 Dennis Goes to Camp
5. Peanuts June 4th... a gem that became an indispensable bit in CB X-mas

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Mark Mayerson

* The Pogo Stepmother Goose, Walt Kelly
* More Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
* Mad #12, Harvey Kurtzman
* Uncle Scrooge #6, Carl Barks
* Fighting American #2, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

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Randy Clark

* Showcase #8
* Brave and Bold #10
* Detective Comics #241
* Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #26
* House of Mystery #60

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Jamie Coville

1. Amazing Spider-Man #150
2. Giant-Size X-Men #1
3. Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #61
4. Son of Satan #1
5. Famous First Edition F-7

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Avengers #97, Roy Thomas & John Buscema
2. Batman #244, Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams
3. Detective Comics #428, Frank Robbins & Bob Brown
4. Fantastic Four #119, Roy Thomas & John Buscema
5. Justice League of America #102, Len Wein & Dick Dillin

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Dave Knott

* Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133 - Jack Kirby
* Doonesbury - Garry Trudeau
* Green Lantern / Green Arrow #76 - Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams
* Western Circus - Morris & Goscinny
* Slow Death Funnies #1 - R. Crumb, Greg Irons, Rory Hayes, Gilbert Shelton, Jaxon, Kim Deitch, & a crapload of other underground greats

plus... strictly speaking, it is not comics, but Steranko published the first volume of his History Of Comics in that year, a book that later fascinated me with its stories of the early years of the American comics business

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Mike Baehr

1. The Forever People #1, Jack Kirby
2. Mister Miracle #6, Jack Kirby
3. Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #141, Jack Kirby
4. The New Gods #1, Jack Kirby
5. Fantagor #1, Richard Corben

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Tom Bondurant

1. Fantastic Four #89
2. Captain America #117
3. Teen Titans #24
4. Batman #217
5. Detective Comics #395

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Buzz Dixon

1. Weird Fantasy #21 (Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Bill Elder, John Severin)
2. Weird Science #20, (Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson)
3. Mad #3, (Harvey Kurtzman and the usual gang of idiots)
4. Four Color Comics #456 a.k.a.Scrooge McDuck, (Carl Barks)
5. Li'l Abner, (Al Capp)

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Chris Duffy

1. Fatman the Human Flying Saucer #1 by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck
2. Fantastic Four #68 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
3. Zap Comics #0 by Robert Crumb
4. Magnus Robot Fighter 4000 AD #17 by Herb Kastle and Russ Manning.
5. Strange Tales #157 by Jim Steranko, Marie Severin, and Stan Lee.

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Will Pfeifer

1. Mad Magazine 115 (Star Blecch!)
2. Not Brand Echh #1
3. Teen Titans #13 (The Swingin’ Christmas Carol!)
4. Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #105 (World of 1,000 Olsens!)
5. Doom Patrol #115

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Joe Schwind

* Four Color 265: King of the Royal Mounted, Gary
* Four Color 268: Mickey Mouse, Gottfredson
* Four Color 275: Donald Duck, Barks
* Gabby Hayes Western 16
* Weird Fantasy 14, Feldstein, Wood, Kamen, Kurtzman

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Marc Sobel

1. Amazing Spider-Man #121 (Death of Gwen Stacy)
2. Swamp Thing #7
3. Zap Comix #6
4. The Shadow #1
5. Plop! #1

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Matt Emery

1. Giant Size X-Men #1
2. Battle (IPC Weekly)
3. Tor
4. The Invaders
5. Arcade

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Marc-Oliver Frisch

1. Lucky Luke Nr. 21: Vetternwirtschaft
2. Asterix bei den Belgiern
3. Die Spinne Nr. 127
4. Die Spinne Comic-Taschenbuch Nr. 3
5. Die Fantastischen Vier Comic-Taschenbuch Nr. 1

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John Platt

1. Adventure Comics #379, Jim Shooter and Jack Abel
2. Anthro #5 by Howie Post
3. House of Mystery #179 by lots of people
4. Mad Magazine #126 by the Usual Gang of Idiots
5. The Phantom #31 by Dick Wood and Jim Aparo

(I actually narrowed these down to the month I was born.)

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John Vest

1. Fantastic Four #1, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
2. Konga #4, Steve Ditko
3. Gorgo #3, Steve Ditko and Joe Gill
4. Sea Devils #1, Bob Haney, Robert Kanigher, and Russ Heath
5. Superman #149, Jerry Siegel and Curt Swan

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Chad Nevett

1. Dreadstar #2, Jim Starlin
2. Cerebus #50, Dave Sim
3. Nexus #1, Mike Baron and Steve Rude
4. What If...? #40, Peter B. Gillis and Jackson Guice
5. Ronin #1, Frank Miller and Lynn Varley

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Michael Dooley

1. Crimefighters
2. Funnyman
3. Lana
4. Lawbreakers Always Lose!
5. Pogo (newspaper strip)

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James Langdell

1. Uncle Pogo's So-So Stories - Walt Kelly
2. Mad #4 (Superduperman! and Robin Hood)
3. Uncle Scrooge #2 (Back to the Klondike) - Carl Barks
4. Weird Science #17 (There Will Come Soft Rains) - Bradbury, Feldstein, Wood
5. The Maestro - Gerard Hoffnung

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I deleted two that I received because there was no name on them, only an e-mail address; I deleted one because I couldn't tell the year -- they picked series rather than individual issues -- so I couldn't figure out the appropriate art

if you want to send again with a name or a year, I'll add; sorry about that

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modified from a suggestion by Sean Kleefeld; thanks, Sean

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