Your favorite comic! 0

[obiedagod]

Of all comic book that you own, what is your favorite? Regardless of monetary value.

Mine is a Amazing Spider-Man #252

[kav]

[csaag]

Swamp thing annual where he teams with Etrigan and descends into Hell to retrieve Abby.  Beautiful combo of story and art.

[Unca Ben]

ASM 33 or FF 49, depending on the day.

[Ken Aldred]

Hard to narrow it down.

[exitmusicblue]

Venom #1 (Lethal Protector) was sacred to me as a kid.  : )

[Mercury Man]

From my childhood, off the rack at 7-11, and it's the King after all....

[FineCollector]

[Readcomix]

Avengers #4 -- the return of Cap. 

[csaag]

I'll beg forgiveness and break the rules by posting a second one

 

Everyone vs the Big G in FF 243

[oldrover]

The first one I ever bought... in the second grade... the cover hypnotized me...

 

 

 

Unrelated point...  I wound up marrying a redhead.

 

 

[marvelmaniac]

Extremely hard to narrow down to one book because there are lots I Love and even though Galactus is "The S$&T" I have to go with...

(I know this is "two" but they go "hand in hand".)

This is the book that back in 65 made me say "WOW!!!" and got me started on Marvel, so along with the follow up issue with an "AVENGERS CROSSOVER"!!!...

[Brian48]

I'd say it's probably this one.  Maybe not my most valuable, but it's the one that started my interest in pursuing Adams Bats.

[bentbryan]

1 minute ago, Brian48 said:

I'd say it's probably this one.  Maybe not my most valuable, but it's the one that started my interest in pursuing Adams Bats.

Sweetness!

[Skylath]

Spawn #39. Kind of highlighted the plight of humanity and being a kid and such. Really hit home for me.

 

 

[marmat]

Akira 1

[Asbestos]

Strange Tales #89!

[1950's war comics]

 

[Schmakt]

One of these two... I posted these in the "Your Favorite Copper Covers" thread too...

Two of the first (if not *the* first) comics I bought off the stands, I think.  I believe I got them at a gas station or something at the bottom of Sugar Mountain when we were going to stay up at Sugar Top, during the summer for some reason...

I read them both so many times and just LOVE the juxtaposition between the covers.

[Ken Aldred]

2 hours ago, Skylath said:

Spawn #39. Kind of highlighted the plight of humanity and being a kid and such. Really hit home for me.

 

 

Having thought about the question, it's still got to be this one, and for a similar reason.

The death of Ferro Lad, one of the first, and most moving comics I've ever read.

Andrew Nolan, a human mutant born with the ability to transform himself into organic iron, giving him super-strength and invulnerability; in effect, DC's version of Colossus. Unfortunately, his mutation also disfigures him facially, and, being generally shunned by society, he wears a mask to hide his scars.  Despite persistent mistreatment, he still rises above it all and sacrifices his life to defeat the Sun Eater threat, saving not just the Legion, but everyone on Earth, including his selfish, narrow-minded abusers, of course.

As someone who's experienced considerable abuse due to being autistic, there's an obvious real-life parallel here : have the strength to break the cycle and protect, rather than angrily perpetuate it.

There's also another X-Men parallel, in that the threat and the eventual sacrifice made are basically very, very similar to another classic favourite of mine - the Death of Phoenix in X-Men 137.

 

Edited March 7, 2019 by Ken Aldred