What is your favorite comic books?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:38 am

My brother sent me for Christmas my favorite comic book since I was a child-which my cousin found out after all these years was worth alot of money and sold it to pay his college tuition. But it made me think of the fun of comic books characters and heroes, what were some of your favorites? Here is one of mine:

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:00 pm

Every year when I was a child I would get the Rupert Bear Annual as a present. I loved him to bits. Can't post a picture because I'm not sure how :-5

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:03 pm

Aw, that's him Snooze...thanks :-6

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:34 pm

My brothers claim to fame has always been having a joke published in "Whizzer & Chips"

Was always a "Valiant" and "Scorcher" dude myself

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:42 pm

My sister reads these:

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:53 pm

Thanks Snooze. Now I want to start searching for some of the 50s annuals and see how much they cost. Now that would be a find - all those memories :-6

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:05 pm

Theia, know my brother spent a fortune for my 3 comic books, but here is a link to some of the reprints we have here. I'll look for Rupert for you.

http://www.nostalgiazone.com/

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:07 pm

Here is one for Rupert....................he's so cute!

http://www.stellabooks.com/articles/rupert_bear.htm

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:09 pm

Thanks Chonsi, I couldn't access it just now but I'll try again presently. I had never thought of trying to get hold of an old copy of rupert until this thread.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:10 pm

There are quite a few original Ruper places on the thread, punch in google for them.

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:28 pm

Oh, I'd forgotten how much I loved the badger :-4

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:37 pm

Theia, this site has every Rupert Bear annual cover on it-just click on the years!

http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~afm/followers/annuals.html

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:38 pm

Oh I did so love my comics when I was younger. As an adult now, my daughter turned me back on to comics and I follow several series now.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:39 pm

Whar about Felix the Cat?

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:44 pm

Bill Badger, Algy Pug and Edward Trunk..hey, that's the old gang...Theia's going back 50 years :yh_eyerol

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:47 pm

theia · Post by **theia** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:50 pm

BILL BADGER!!!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:52 pm

Official Rupert Bear website:

http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~afm/followers/aboutfoll.html

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:59 pm

Wasn't it Nightmare?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:02 pm

Casper and Wendy................

Attached files

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:08 pm

Good grief! Did you do that to your sister's Barbie dolls!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:19 pm

*whew*

Then I won't say my older brother tied a hangman's noose around my younger brother's Winnie the Pooh one day while he was outside playing....................

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:20 pm

favorite comic book, you ask???

well, let me think....

the Death of Superman story line was incredible. and the entire year that followed where the rest of the Earth's heros had to step up to fill his shoes was amazing.

"Age of Apocalypse" story line in X-men. it was a 15 book series crossing over into 7 different titles. a whole "what if" scenario; what if the biggest bad guy in the world actually DID win and rule the world.

the one story arc that broke my heart as a kid was "Emerald Twilight."Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, was unable to protect his wife, family, friends, from complete annihilation. He was the Guardian of the Galaxy and he couldn't save his family. he went completely out of his gourd and tracked down the dude responsible. went against everything he believed in and killed the guy.

it was quite intense. and a good read, if you can find it.

Graphic Novels....

Road to Perdition: Yep the Tom Hanks/Paul Newman movie was a Comic Book. and it was wonderful.

SinCity. if you thought the movie was good, the novels the movie was based on will knock your socks off.