A First Time For Everything: Animal Man
The very first time I heard of Animal Man was in Crisis of Infinite Earths. He was in something on the order of 4 pages, crammed into panels and just being this dude named Animal Man. That was it. Oddly it was...
A First Time For Everything: Dick Grayson
The first time I really met Dick Grayson? Well that wasn’t a Batman comic. Look, I had read Batman comics. And there was Robin, and I guess he was Dick Grayson but it didn’t really stick. It was Batman,...
A First Time For Everything: Cannonball
Marvel Graphic Novel #4. 1982. New Mutants. It was the first time any of us saw Cannonball, and I was included in that group. Man, I remember reading that book when it came out and being so amazed. See I grew up...
A First Time For Everything
So here’s the thing. I’ve been reading comics my entire life. In an odd order too. MY dad had me reading his old Lee/Kirby Marvel stuff and random Dc things for years before I got to the...