and Action and Adventure Comics. I liked Adventure Comics for
their "Tales of the Bizzaro World."

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Archie and Superman too.

The Republican-led Senate at the time held a number of hearings about how they were harming America’s youth and the association of comic book publishers established a voluntary code restricting comic book content. Only MAD survived.
So, as a boy who read comic books, in the late 50s and 60s, my favorite was the wholesome Superman (“truth, justice and the ‘American Way’”) and MAD, which I hid from my parents.

I checked them out all the time and gave myself the creeps reading their ghoulish stories. My parents, open-minded and liberal, had no problem with this. I habitually read everything I could get my hands on. So they didn’t worry about my psyche, or whether I would become a juvenile delinquent.

I also read MAD Magazine voraciously. I’m convinced that it was MAD Magazine, and not any course I took in high school, that taught me critical thinking skills and logical reasoning.

I gave up comic books pretty early in life. They just lost their luster as I discovered more challenging reading (although I do credit them partly for my liberal outlook. I loved the Green Arrow comics.) My favorite comic book series was The Fantastic Four.

with our cousins and friends for Little LuLu, Casper, Richie Rich, Dennis the Menace, and Nancy and Sluggo. One friend had a relative that gave her a box full of Sugar and Spike which we had never seen and she shared them. Fun memories. Thank you😊🩷

My parents didn't like the superhero comics.

Demonic, she said. Necromancy (Casper), Little Audrey going around doing whatever the hell she felt like, edification of the rich (Richie Rich), witchcraft (Wendy), etc.

Roughly age 9-11, and I read DC superhero comics primarily. I guess Marvel comics were too nuanced and ambiguously good or evil for my young mind. Around age 15, however, I got interested in so-called ‘underground’ comics, and I’ve never been the same since.

Late 50's comics were 10-15 cents......

He's Still my favorite!
Dad used comics and his Mad Magazines to teach me how to read, starting when I was 3 years old.

Mad is one of my favorites. (It might be considered a Comic.)
A Close Second would be Groo the Wanderer.

I always wondered what the results might have been were they to have teamed up.

My favorite among the latter was The Fabtastic Four, but I also liked Wonder Woman, Captain America, Iron Man and, of couse. Spider Man.

consisting of Ripley's Believe It Or Not, The Twilight Zone, and Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery. Also, Peanuts, Andy Capp, B.C, Wizard of Id, Grin And Bear It by Lichty

One of my favorites in junior high.

I think I might still have the B & V comic where Betty keeps copying Veronica's clothing for a particular reason.

Veronica called her; the ole sewing machine girl. But Betty got her revenge, so to speak. 😄 It was glorious!

A nod to Mad magazine also.

Archie, Dennis the Menace, Superman, Supergirl, etc.

He never explained why he was so mad.

I can only guess that he read that infamous article in Reader's Digest that claimed that comics made readers into juvenile delinquents.

Comic-book retellings of literary classics like, for example, The Three Musketeers, Hamlet, or Moby Dick.

Those probably helped spur the reading habit in many a child.

Plenty of us got early, important exposure to great literature that way. Wear it as a life-enhancing badge of honor, not an embarrassment.

... SUPERMAN - DC, SPIDER-MAN Marvel, ARCHIE, Gold Key... my favorite of the Archie stories were the ones that had a "surreal" quality. Some of these stories I found were reprinted in the Archie Digests. Very creative, I think. I also liked Jingles, a surreal character the had around Christmas. I would say my favorite was the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES. The feature "grew" and it was the one I continued to read as an adult.

I also enjoyed the House of Mystery, House of Secrets, and Plop Magazines.

And he would read Pogo to me. I loved all the mispronunciations. Happy memory.

Accessory to massive genocide. Regains his humanity and is tortured being immortal trying to repent for it. Very complicated character.

From my 25 cent per week allowance I saved enough to by a Walt Disney comic (Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse) every month. But Pogo was my favorite comic character. Also Mad Magazine because "It's crackers to slip a rozzer dropsy in snide" (my favorite Mad Magazine line, from an issue in about 1956 or so)

I also liked the Jeb Stuart / Haunted Tank series. About a WW2 tank crew that channeled the spirit of Civil War Gen JEB Stuart in battles against the far superior German Panzer tanks.

Any Marvel horror comics, then things like Moon Knight, Werewolf By Night, Man-Thing, etc. I started playing out (music) when I was 12, so after that I got too busy to keep up and lost interest until I started collecting in the mid-eighties.

every Christmas. I tried to like them but the stories went over my head. I don't think they were for kids. The characters were odd. I can't remember much about them. I never told my dad I didn't enjoy them.

For a few years, I had a subscription to a couple of those.

I also loved Mighty Mouse, Little Lulu, and the Harvey Comics. When I got a bit older I discovered the Archie comics and Mad Magazine.

I still love Little Lulu

...some of the panels from the one about the 12 dancing princesses who were perplexing their father, the king, by constantly wearing out their shoes.