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Your favorite super hero?

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I was never a big fan of Super heroes per se; I always felt that having powers was kinda... cheating, I guess. I tended to like comics like Adam Strange; Tommy Tomorrow; or Magnus-Robot Fighter. And, I also gravitated toward non-Marvel or -DC comics. So, favorite Super-hero? Probably it'd have to be Blue Beetle (the Carlton Comics version). I guess he's part of DC's stable, now...:)
 
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I have a H.S. friend that I met in the 5th grade who collected comics and he actually turned me on to Marvel... This guy hasllection probably valued in the millions now... I am talking first editions and the first hundreds... at least.... of every Marvel book. EVERY ONE. The FF, The Avengers and of course The X-Men were all favorites as well.

Yeah, I had a pretty extensive collection myself. Not as big as what you're describing there, but it was enough that I sold them when I was 16 and bought myself a car. I had all the X-Men. They were my most high value comics (1-224?) I can't remember exactly, around the time Mr. Sinister was introduced, I lost interest.

Interestingly, My 2nd favorite after Captain America was Thunderbird from the X-men. He was in Giant Sized X-Men 1 and was killed off in X-Men 95. (Giant Size 1, X-men 94 and 95). Only three issues and was still awesome.

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I've always had two super heroes i've held in high regard. My mom and dad.

In spite of failing with me, they raised three other very normal and very well adjusted kids and they always did their best with me, i quite simply ignored their every attempt to help me even when i so didn't deserve their help.
 
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Yeah, I had a pretty extensive collection myself. Not as big as what you're describing there, but it was enough that I sold them when I was 16 and bought myself a car. I had all the X-Men. They were my most high value comics (1-224?) I can't remember exactly, around the time Mr. Sinister was introduced, I lost interest.

Interestingly, My 2nd favorite after Captain America was Thunderbird from the X-men. He was in Giant Sized X-Men 1 and was killed off in X-Men 95. (Giant Size 1, X-men 94 and 95). Only three issues and was still awesome.

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Oh yeah I remember him.. Warpath's brother.. I read the X-Men when Kirby was still drawing them.. and for me to this day Neal Adams was one of my all time favorite X-Men illustrators.. I liked the Claremont period in X-Men history.. He was pivotal having created a lot of the characters we see today.. I don't remember if he created Wolverine or not but I know that his depiction of him is the one that we have all come to know.

I also dug the Atom in DC.. I forgot about him.. I thought that whole size to mass thing was interesting..
 
Oh yeah I remember him.. Warpath's brother.. I read the X-Men when Kirby was still drawing them.. and for me to this day Neal Adams was one of my all time favorite X-Men illustrators.. I liked the Claremont period in X-Men history.. He was pivotal having created a lot of the characters we see today.. I don't remember if he created Wolverine or not but I know that his depiction of him is the one that we have all come to know.

Len Wein created Wolverine for The Hulk (issue 181). If you want to get really technical, issue 180 was the real "first appearance" of Wolverine. It was just one panel at the end. 181 was his first full appearance..

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