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paw broon:
Despite what I wrote above, I took to Kirby's FF right away.  It looked so good back then.  But what impressed me even more was Ditko on Spiderman.  That was the bees knees. To the extent that when his run finished, I sort of lost interest.  Ditko on Captain Atom and Blue Beetle was just as good, imo.  As I keep saying, our comics were different and we had very little exposure to American comics prior to 1960.  Interestingly, to me at any rate, I still love to read Ron Turner on Rick Random and Bill Lacey on Blackshirt, or Dan Dare or P.C.49 and many more rather than F.F. but those early Spideys still have that air of greatness about them. Also, the recent(ish) vols of Rip Kirby leave lots of other stuff choking on dust, they are just so good.

Yoc:
The first Spidey issues are very good Paw, but if you haven't seen the first Dr Strange stories in Strange Tales (debuted in Strange Tales #110) - get them!  Just mind blowing stuff!
:)

narfstar:
I agree that Doc S was probably Ditko's best work. I do not like magic characters at all but those early Ditko's will still get my attention. I did not take as much to his Spiderman but love his Captain Atom. I liked Kirby up until his BIG WOMEN

tilliban:
Never was and never will be into superheroes.

For me comic art is the european ALBUM:
Western by Jijé, Herman and Giraud
Funnies by Morris, Herge, Uderzo, Franquin
Fantasy by Moebius, Paape, Mèziéres and Bilal
Adventure by Herman, Jijé and Vance.

The franco-belgian masters. So what am I doing with American golden age comics?
Love the pure manic craziness of 50s comic books!
This is raw energy and wild creativity. And I think it is just around here that graphic art is truly unleashed.
It's a wonderful ride - from trash to art and back again.
A "Wundertüte" as we say in German (a "lucky bag"? bag of goodies?, doesn't seem to translate well)...
 ::)

paw broon:
Yes, but the majority of European comics are non-superhero fare.  That's why there are so many detectives, pirates, archers, spacemen and all those historical characters.
And how good to find someone talking about Jije', and not only his westerns - that's really good work.   While I love superheroes, I'm still very keen on many Euro. comics and albums and would add Corto Maltese, Le Scorpion and Masquerouge to your list. There's so much more but a list would take up the page.  But there are masked mystery men, costumed heroes and some genuine superheroes in British and European comics and most of them are virtually unknown in N.America.
Yoc, thanks for reminding me about Doctor Strange as I had forgotten it.  I used to have some of the Ditko then Brunner comics, but, no longer.  Seriously good art but perhaps I prefer Spidey and Cap. Atom because they aren't magical heroes.
Vaillant, I've been reading a Spanish book on comics, Apuntes para una Historia de los Tebeos, by Antonio Martin and they mention Superman who appeared in landscape comics and his name was changed to Ciclon el Superhombre.  I'm also sure Ciclon was in a weekly, Spanish anthology but as yet, I can't find the reference.  There is also a cover of Juan Centella, who is Dick Fulmine.

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