Superman, Batman, The Flash, etc.
Though I did like Marvel characters like The Hulk & Thor.

I was around 10 when I got into comics, and the straightforward plot lines appealed to my childlike sensibilities. Marvel Comics had too much nuance and ambiguity over good and evil for me to appreciate at the time. If I'd encouintered comics for the first time as a tweener, I may have preferred the more 'edgy' Marvel Comics.

Maybe more like 7 or 8.
Plus, episodes of Superman were still being aired on WGN & the Batman series hit network at about 10.
Much higher profile.

Archies was good, too, at earlier ages I loved Huey, Dewie, and Louie, and their adventures versus the Beagle Boys.

I liked the variety of characters/abilities and that they were a family except for The Thing.

Superman franchise which included
Action and Adventure Comics. The best
part of Adventure Comics was "Tales of
the Bizarro World" BTW, DC also published
Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis comics.

After I got older, I read the Archie comics but I never dropped the others, Someone gave me a subscription to the Disney ones when I was about 7, and I had it for several years.

One of the reasons Mr YD and I loved the original Duck Tales was the art, which was so much like the comics of our childhood. The new ones; not so much,

My mother wouldn't buy us comic books, but her sister did when my sister and I would go visit her in the summertime.

But Mad Magazine….what me worry?

and later National Lampoon.

My dad would actually buy them and read them first and then give them to us kids. By the time it got to me the back pages were already folded and creased.

She thought it was inappropriate for young ladies. So we had to buy it at the drugstore while walking home from school and sneak it in the house! I can still remember some of the articles that made me howl with laughter, and Mort Drucker’s artwork was genius.

“The Lighter Side of….” “Spy vs. Spy” …. the Mad fold-ins ….. TV show and movie spoofs (“Voyage To See What’s On The Bottom”, ). etc. etc. “Price 35c. Cheap!”

Richie Rich, Archie, Dennis the Menace, Casper, Sugar and Spike, Superman are ones I remember. We would check regularly at the grocery store to see when the new copies would arrive. We shared back and forth with cousins and friends since none of us had enough money to buy them all on our own. I remembered how much we enjoyed them when my grandkids started reading kid graphic novels. Thanks for the memories!!😊

Plus Little Lulu and Betty Boop!

Boop-oopa-dooop! 😂

OK, I was in college. But I was still very much a kid...

Sgt. Rock, The Haunted Tank.

I’m old enough to remember the price change from 10¢ to 12¢.

another soda glass to recyle.

I remember 20 cents to 25 cents. Always more of a DC guy, but I read the deaths of Gwen and Green Goblin, first appearance of Wolverine, and Giant Size X-Men off the rack.

the workers thought they were change and read them off the rack. Got caught and told not to come back into store.

was a weekly cartoon in my newspaper.

....before reading the actual books. It was like a synopsis and then reading the book filled in the book report.

can I say.

they quoted , not enough original material. had they hanged on they would have had aplenty,. anything that was non superhero. seems that has really been the money maker for them.

I especially liked the Archie comics with the girls in swimsuits.

Dick Tracy

Books - Nancy Drew mysteries.
I also recall "Smilin' Jack", "L'il Abner and "Brenda Starr" as lesser newspaper interests; "Katzenjammer Kids", when I was really little. I'm much older than most DUers.

it was Superman, Batman, Archie, and Casper.

Archie comics and Mad magazine were items I collected. I also read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

recommended them to students during book fairs?

After that it was Marvel and specifically The X-Men. I was also a huge Moon Knight fan having found some issues right when Bill Sienkiewicz took over on art. That got me to find the original 'Werewolf BY Night' where he was introduced.

I collected for a while in my twenties and thirties. I still have the titles that I liked. I just wish I had not gotten rid of a few titles, because they were really good.

and then we miss them.

They were $.12. I had the very first issue of the incredible Hulk.

25 cents was too much for a comic book. Do you still have the first issue of the incredible Hulk?