I was a ten-year old in 1961.  He was a test pilot - very cool, since John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts were America's greatest heroes then.  They also had a thing going with Hal Jordan and his two brothers being very much like the three Kennedy brothers.

I think I missed the comic book phenomenon and was more into the graphic novels of the late 80's.  Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, Crying Freeman, Sin City, Lone Wolf and Cub, The Watchmen

Man...I don't even remember the names but one of my favorites was 'Richie Rich' (is that right?), and then of course there was the kids - Jughead, Moose, and I forget the rest of them?? Betty?
Of course, Caspar, and Little Lulu..LOL

Gilbert Shelton was da bomb.

I never missed a copy of "Sergeant Rock".

Also I liked all the "Wierd" ones... "Wierd Tales", "Wierd War", etc.

Horror and War, basically. Never cared as much about "super heroes".

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"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", by Michael Chabon, is one I would recomend highly to anyone who loves good writing - a very enjoyable read.

When I was a blond, blue-eye kid growing up in California in the early 1960s, I was a big fan of superhero comics.  I was not Jewish, and didn't have a single Jewish friend.  Slowly I became aware that all the comics were published in New York, and that the writers and artists were mostly Jewish.  A lot of then had changed their names, like Stanley Lieber, who became Stan Lee, or my favorite character Green Lantern's artist Eli Katz, who had emigrated from Lithuania and become Gil Kane.  I realized vaguely that there nmight be some meaning to this, and perhaps a dramatic story behind it.

During the "Golden Age" of 1940s comics, there were a number of superheros, most notably Captain America, who specialized in fighting Nazis.  The young Jews who were creating these comics knew through rumors that something like the Holocaust might be coming, but the American public at large was still ambivalent in pre-Pearl Harbor 1938-1940 about the need to stop Hitler.  Creating the stories of Captain America and the others was an attempt by these young Jews to try in their small (or perhaps not so small) way to wake up America to what was going on in Europe, and how monstrous the Nazi ideology really was.  

This novel is about this story, and focuses on a very talented young Jewish man who comes to America and joins his younger American cousin in working in the comic book industry.  I can't really do it justice in a short post, but I can tell you that it absolutely deserved the Pulitzer.  The book actually is much lighter and funny than my description makes it sound. Chabon is an incredible worddmith.  I recommend it highly.

Has to be anything with Spiderman....reading how he thinks and see things...he could be any one of us.

As for my favs, Spiderman and Venom, all the Image titles (esp Gen 13!!).  Graphic novels, mine was Druna (from Heavy Metal).  Cant wait to see how they did Dare Devil (Ben Afflec??)  i dunno about that....

BTW... Cherry Poptart ROCKS!!

The idea of a walking talking Aardvark with a bad temper and a short sword fascinates me

They always kicked nazi ass!

Those animals crack me up (Ralph alswys inventing rocket belts...) - and poor Frank, he is like me..
because he lusts for beautiful busty brunette Brandy !!!

Although I don't read comic books much anymore, I still fondly remember Green Lantern, Superman, and Hulk.  Even though, in my opinion, the TV show sucks, I am obligated to like Buffy, The Vampire Slayer comic books as a friend of mine helps write them.