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Does anyone have a story how a comic book had a significant impact on your life?

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paw broon:
I'm afraid it wasn't an American comic.  What it was was an Australian Phantom (Frew), that I saw in a newsagents window in a Fife town around mid '50's - the family was on holiday.  I never actually got the comic as it was much dearer than a British title and my mother thought it was "too old" for me, but the image haunted me and I was hooked. Thing is, even now when I have a big collection of Frew Phantom books, I don't know which one it was I saw all those years ago.
The other comic that had a huge impact was Showcase 23, with that amazing "Invisible Destroyer" cover.  For a wee boy of around 10, it was a revelation. This was just on the edge of American comics starting to be imported and distributed in newsagents here. Not quite sure but I think the price, which was stamped on the cover, was 9d - dearer than the standard British comic of the time.  But this was all in colour.  That comic started my lifelong addiction to comics.  And coupled with my memory of The Phantom, confirmed my love of superheroes and Masked Mystery Men.

Yoc:
Thanks for sharing guys!

Personally I didn't really get into the collecting comics until the early 1980s.  I was shown a copy of the Overstreet Price Guide #11 (with the LB Cole cover) and it has those colour pages of covers in the middle that I drooled over.  The comic cover I recall most vividly was Silver Streak Comics #6 with that amazing Jack Cole cover of the sinister Claw.  You can see the cover here but sadly we only have this issue as a fiche scan.  https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?dlid=1687

After seeing that Price Guide and that comic cover in particular I was hooked on the idea of wanting to read more GA books.  And when I finally got online I started looking for scans like those we share here on DCM.  Eventually I found the old Golden Age Comics (GAC) site and it wasn't long before I joined the staff there... and just over 10 years later here we are today!

Defiant1:
When I first started buying comics in the 70's, I was only familiar with stand-alone stories. One day I bought a Hulk comic that had the Rhino as the villain. I knew of the Rhino as Spider-Man's villain from the TV cartoons. If Hulk was battling the Rhino, then Hulk must exist in the same world as Spider-Man. It blew my childhood mind that all the Marvel characters could exist in a shared universe. After buying an Avengers comic where the Vision mentioned an event that happened in a Marvel Team-up comic that I just read, my mind was blown again. Everything in one comic affected the shared universe. I was hooked. I dropped DC and all other publishers and became a proud Marvel zombie.

Poztron:
At age 11 in 1961, I was a fan of JLA comics from DC and followed the letters pages where I ran across a plug for the Comic Reader (and Alter Ego?) from Jerry Bails / Roy Thomas. I contacted them and I was easily drawn into early '60s comics fandom. From there I jumped to satire fandom, which was a brief sub-fandom covering Kurtzman's Help!, Sick, Monocle, and related mags. When that collapsed, I returned to comics fandom, which had now been invigorated by the new Marvel superhero comics. I still have a carton-full of fanzines from the mid-60s. Great times.

erwin-k:
In some ways, my older sister helped shape my interests. She had a number of comics. I still have her copy of Dell's 4C Cisco Kid #1, for instance.

But, far more importantly, circa 1952 my Grandmother read to me her copy of "Only a Poor Old Man" from Uncle Scrooge #1. That long & complex story is what really got me interested in comics.

Later, her fiancé passed on to me a pile of his stuff. This included a couple dozen issues of Dell Tarzan's, the first three original Tom Swift books I'd ever seen, & the first two books of John Creasy's character the Baron when he was still called The Blue Mask. But most importantly, there were three books in the Rick Brant - Science Adventure series. I still re-read the whole series from time to time.

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