Action
Comics #340
o[n-]/s[ale] 30 June 1966: This definitely rings a bell, but I'm pretty
certain I didn't own it, must have “read” it at the barber shop. OR
DID I CONFUSE IT WITH ACTION COMICS #361?
(Batman
#189 o/s 6 Dec 1966: I'm pretty sure I never owned or “read”
this one, but I distinctly remember seeing the cover in a house ad
and wondering who the Scarecrow was – he never appeared on the TV show. I think I found him pretty scary.)
(Flash
#169 o/s 14 Feb 1967: Another one that I remember the cover but
don't think I had. It's an “80-pg Giant.”)
Superman
#199
o/s 20 June 1967: I long ago identified this as the first comic I
can be absolutely sure I owned for myself. I
still can't be certain I owned anything before this. But I know I had
this one, can still remember lying across my parents' bed reading it
over and over again. I must have held onto it for a couple years at
least, because I don't think I learned to read until first grade even
though I did kindergarten in the 1966-1967 year. My earliest comic
memories would have been looking at the pictures, and I often had
Momma or Mammaw read them to me. But I can very honestly say that
comics were among the first things I read for myself.
– What a story!
The great race! Flash vibrating through the Great Pyramid while
Superman ran up and over it! Flash running on the water while
Superman cut through the waves swimming at super-speed. The
criminals making bets on the race and each one's bettors scrambling
to sabotage the other! This would be a prime candidate for treatment
in this blog, although I can't afford an original copy – $18.00
FAIR (1.0) (on 15 May 2012) is beyond my self-imposed limit for a
comic book, especially when the story has been reprinted
a couple of times, most recently in a trade paperback collecting
several races between the two characters. Maybe I'll pick that up
sooner or later and give this story its due in this blog.
Zorro
#7 o/s 1 July 1967: Even though it's not DC but rather Gold Key,
I know I had this comic as well. Probably the only Zorro
comic I had as a kid, but I remember that cover pose.
World's
Finest #172
o/s 26 Oct 1967: I remember reading this one first in the barber
shop, and later finding it on a spinner-rack! And buying it. An
“Imaginary Story,” who cares? The idea of Superman and Batman
raised as brothers captured me. This is definitely blogworthy. At
one time I thought this was the earliest comic I remember distinctly.
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #108 o/s 23 Nov 1967: not sure about the context, but read it.
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #108 o/s 23 Nov 1967: not sure about the context, but read it.
(Aquaman #37 o/s 2 Nov 1967. This is an iffy one. I read this either in the barber shop or had my own copy. I remember more remembering reading this issue than actually reading it. Besides that wonderfully striking Nick Cardy cover, I well remembered the imagery of the very fabric of the sea rotting around them. And yet if I had my own copy I must have lost it very quickly, because I remember searching for it fruitlessly a bunch of times. Even then I could get pretty obsessive, and very frustrated when I couldn't find something! Years later when I bought it as a back issue, and found I had no memory whatsoever of the plot.)
Adventure
Comics
#364 o/s 30 Nov 1967: I definitely had this one. And still do,
maybe even my original copy. Maybe not. Years later, I filled in a run of Adventure Comics from #360-380 ... but I did not have to buy them all. Super-pets?! I need this!
Aquaman
#38 o/s 2 Jan 1968: This may have been the first Aquaman
comic I ever had ... see #37 above. This story I remember very well, rereading and rereading it until it fell apart and I had to buy another copy years later. ... And notice the banner at the top. This is within months of the debut of The Superman-Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
Adventures
of Jerry Lewis
#105 o/s 4 Jan 1968: Not super-hero, and I think this was the
only Jerry Lewis issue
I ever had, but it had Superman!
Action
Comics
#361 o/s 30 Jan 1968. I remember both the Parasite cover and the
Supergirl computer-dating backup story.
Superboy
#146 o/s 10 Feb 1968. I remember this cover making me very sad,
but I don't remember if I ever read the story.
World's
Finest Comics
#175 o/s 12 Mar 1968. The Superman-Batman Revenge Squad! I also
remember first reading the origin of Martian Manhunter here, and
being turned off by the very heavy brow-ridge he was originally drawn
with (a story reprinted from 1955, but I didn't know that at the
time).
Flash
#180 o/s 18 Apr 1968. I remember the clunky looking samurai
armor. This is one I had no memory of until I saw this cover, but I
am firmly convinced I had this comic.
Action
Comics
#364 o/s 30 Apr 1968. This was the middle part of a three part
story – what a concept! Continued stories? Although I had the
last part, too, I did not have the first....
Adventure
Comics
#369 o/s 30 Apr 1968. And it's another continued story, this one
the first part. I did get both parts and remember this as one of my
favorite comic stories of all time. That cover is one that impressed
itself deeply into my memory.
Aquaman
#40 o/s 2 May 1968. The beginning of the “Search for Mera”
story that played out over nine issues – a year and a half since
this was a bimonthly title. I remember being heartbroken when I
could never find one of the issues along the way, only buying it as a
back-issue and reading the full story years later.
Wonder
Woman
#177 o/s 2 May 1968. Even as a kid I liked the idea of two girl
super-heroes together in one issue. Hey, I was precocious.
Teen
Titans
#16 o/s 23 May 1968. The first issue of Teen Titans
I ever remember. I would have been familiar with the characters from
the couple of short cartoons as part of The
Superman/Aquaman Hour, and I
remember being disappointed at the color-scheme of Kid Flash's suit. I also presumably would have wondered at the "replacement" of Speedy with Robin, but I don't really remember that.
Action
Comics
#365 o/s 28 May 1968. The conclusion of the Virus X story. …
sort of. I don't remember having the next issue, but apparently it
formed the actual conclusion. I must not have ever known how it
turned out. Like Superman would have been dead, anyway....
Adventure
Comics
#370 o/s 28 May 1968. The conclusion of the Mordru story. And
at this point I have five comics from one month listed. That's only
the ones I know I owned, there are others whose covers I recognize
and I may have had, but no way to know now.
Justice
League of America
#64
o/s 13 June 1968. This might have been my introduction to the Golden Age heroes of the Justice
Society and the idea of multiple Earths. I remember being
fascinated. I never found it confusing. ... Another clear memory of
this issue is that it was the first comic I ever bought a second copy
of. As I remember it, after I'd already had it for at least some
period of time, my mother and I were in Piggly Wiggly and I was
allowed to get one comic book. I couldn't find anything else I
wanted so I picked this one. My mother said that I already had it,
but I successfully convinced her I didn't. ... Why did I want another
copy? I have not idea except that I was allowed to get a comic and
by golly I was going to get one! ... Then my cousin Alan ratted me out
and I got in trouble! Thanks, pal!
Adventure
Comics
#371 o/s 27 June 1968. Increasingly, many of the
covers are looking familiar, but I'm limiting myself here to the ones
I know I had.
Aquaman
#41 o/s 2 July 1968. I remember for the longest time misreading
the title as “The Trial of the Ring.” I have a memory
associating this comic with the barber shop as well.
Justice
League of America
#65 o/s 25 July 1968. Aw, look at the cute little Atom alcove! Continued from the previous issue with the JSA.
Captain
Action
#1 o/s 29 Aug 1968. I had the toy, I loved the comic even though
it had nothing to do with the toy as I recall!
Teen
Titans
#18 o/s 24 Sep 1968. A Russian super-hero. A French villain wiss ze Frinch accint! I liked the way he planned his heist.
Justice
League of America
#68 o/s 22 Oct 1968. If I remember correctly, this was just a tale of a little boy lost.
Adventure
Comics
#375 o/s 31 Oct 1968. Notice that Saturn Girl ripping off her chest emblem does not leave a great gaping hole in her uniform....
(Brave
and the Bold
#81 o/s 31 Oct 1968. This is another comic I may not actually have had although I remember that cover.)
Aquaman
#43 o/s 5 Nov 1968. … and I had missed the previous issue.
Heartbreak! Didn't acquire it and read it until years later. ... In this issue, I remember not liking the idea that the Atlanteans were given the power to breathe water. If I recall correctly, the ones in the TV show couldn't
– or at least under the dome was an air-breathing environment – and as long as I'd been reading the comics they didn't. Why they lived under the sea I didn't really wonder about, I just thought it was cool!
Teen
Titans
#19 o/s 26 Nov 1968. I remember the art on this issue being
really wonky. This was the first non-Nick Cardy issue. Coloring was
off as well – at one point Aqualad's gloves or boots – maybe both
– were wrong, as was his hair, colored brown rather than black. At the end of the story Aqualad headed off to "take care of Aquababy while Aquaman searches for Mera," which didn't please me then even though now I find it an interesting example of the increasing cross-continuity between DC titles.
Brave
and the Bold
#82 o/s 24 Dec
1968. Aquaman! This is the comic I remember buying in Otasco. It's another example of growing cross-continuity in that Aquaman's frustrating search for Mera helps explain his state of mind.
Captain
Action
#3 o/s 31 Dec 1968.
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