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philippos42) wrote2014-01-08 06:19 pm
philippos42) wrote2014-01-08 06:19 pm
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My oldest comic book
I think the comic book I have kept the longest is an issue of Spidey Super Stories, which apparently had something to do with an incarnation of The Electric Company. This wasn't the regular Electric Company magazine, just three Spidey stories, with no ads. I lost its cover rather early, but I remember the inside front cover having an introduction of Namor, who figured in the lead story.
So those were my early Marvel heroes: Spidey and Namor. I think he was just called Namor in that, too, not "Sub-Mariner."
Spidey pops up as Peter Parker early in the first story, and is shown changing at some point, I want to say at the end. (Yes, I'm doing this post from memory.) I remember as a kid seeing the shape of Peter Parker's head as opposed to the relatively smooth Spider-Man mask, and getting the weird image of Peter Parker being a mask over Spider-Man. This creeped me out. So I preferred the way Spidey was just Spidey all the way through the other two stories.
The story in the back had aliens with a Zodiac theme, and the Scorpion. It was kind of fun.
The one in the middle, though, that was cool. There was this little kid who had a Spider-Man costume, that was a total replica type costume, but his size, and he seemed to think it would make him like his hero Spider-Man. The real Spidey shows up and sneakily helps the kid perform a few Spidey-type feats, while the kid doesn't know himself what's really going on. At the end the kid sees Spider-Man and figures it out (fortunately).
One thing I like is that the little kid was quite black, and nothing in that story said Spidey wasn't black too. This is a meme that I have seen acknowledged by others occasionally. Spider-Man is cool because he is all covered up. His race, his color, is unseen. So he can be black, or Japanese, or South Asian, whatever.
So those were my early Marvel heroes: Spidey and Namor. I think he was just called Namor in that, too, not "Sub-Mariner."
Spidey pops up as Peter Parker early in the first story, and is shown changing at some point, I want to say at the end. (Yes, I'm doing this post from memory.) I remember as a kid seeing the shape of Peter Parker's head as opposed to the relatively smooth Spider-Man mask, and getting the weird image of Peter Parker being a mask over Spider-Man. This creeped me out. So I preferred the way Spidey was just Spidey all the way through the other two stories.
The story in the back had aliens with a Zodiac theme, and the Scorpion. It was kind of fun.
The one in the middle, though, that was cool. There was this little kid who had a Spider-Man costume, that was a total replica type costume, but his size, and he seemed to think it would make him like his hero Spider-Man. The real Spidey shows up and sneakily helps the kid perform a few Spidey-type feats, while the kid doesn't know himself what's really going on. At the end the kid sees Spider-Man and figures it out (fortunately).
One thing I like is that the little kid was quite black, and nothing in that story said Spidey wasn't black too. This is a meme that I have seen acknowledged by others occasionally. Spider-Man is cool because he is all covered up. His race, his color, is unseen. So he can be black, or Japanese, or South Asian, whatever.