The Eagle was a famous comic in the 60s Britain that was launched in the 90s and teenaged me was a fan.
Dan Dare was the most famous character. It was typical science fiction with him as the hero against an evil alien mastermind called the Meekon.
The best thing they did was Charlie's War, which was a brilliant (and I later found out) historically accurate portrait of the lives of British soldiers in world war one trenches. I didn't pull any punches in depicting the hellish conditions and characters you like would die. At age twelve we went on a school trip to the trenches of the Somme in Belgium.
I've never been into superhero comics but The Watchmen is brilliant.
I started out with Batman. A friend introduced me to Superman comics (I knew about Superman, of course, through the 1950's television show.). And then I bought my first Justice League of America comic, and I was hooked on DC comics for a while.
During that time I also liked the early Marvel Comics, before they introduced superheroes . "Tales to Astonish" and other Marvel titles had stories of monsters, aliens, etc. I bought one of the earliest comics featuring the Hulk -- when the character was actually gray! They decided to make him green later on when they decided to make him a regular character with his own comic book.
When I was a little older, I made a new circle of friends who were into the Marvel superheroes, and I started buying Fantastic Four, Spiderman, and others instead of the DC ones.
@bijouxbroussard I liked the X-men as well. I remember the originals, way before Wolverine! (You probably do as well.)
By the way, I managed to confuse myself in responding to your post. I saw a notification for it in my feed, but for some reason I thought you were responding to someone else's post. So I commented briefly about Ghosts, and then I gave a longer answer to the OP, without noticing it was you!
And it gets worse! After I gave my second comment, I saw my first one and wondered "why isn't that attached to her comment on the post? Did I mess up?" So I started scrolling to search for your comment, and I couldn't find it (of course!) I wondered, "did she delete it? did the OP delete it?"
As a child in grade school, sometimes I'd go over to the house of a pair of twins and read Superman, Flash, Justice League, and others from DC. Other kids had Archie and I looked at those, but I liked the superheroes better.
I'm not sure when I discovered Spiderman but I read some of those. I had a friend in college who was kind of a collector, and she introduced me to Swamp Thing and Howard the Duck, "trapped in a world he never made!"
Somewhere in a box in the attic I believe I have the full run (two issues) of Buckaroo Banzai. If you saw the movie, the comics were mentioned in it, and Marvel or somebody decided to write a couple issues. But they didn't have the satiric humor of the movies.
I'm old enough that I was around for the "birth" of Marvel with THE FANTASTIC FOUR, SPIDER-MAN, etc. at the very beginning. But i collected all the superhero comics of the time, plus some going back to the 1940s.
@bijouxbroussard I know what you mean! I used to watch and READ scary books, i.e. Amityville horror book. As a kid. I had strange caregivers (it was from them, that I procured these particular tomes! 🤨). Agatha Christie books also, but that's not scary, not in the way that Amityville was.
We loved that program (Ripley's), it's really a mind bend.
@bijouxbroussard YES! Did you know they made some new cartoons?? I forget where to watch it, Disney maybe. But it was a few years ago they started making them again!
Here is the cover of the first issue of X-men. In addition to Professor Xavier, the team consisted of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, The Beast, and Angel.
