Thursday, November 09, 2006

Super Heroes: "The Secret of the Sinister Lighthouse!"

Here's a scan of the first comic book I ever had! It's basically a Super Friends mini-comic that was a giveaway in boxes of Post cereals that were shipped out in 1980. Mine came from Honeycomb! (Years later, the smell of its sweetness was still lingered upon the comic.)
I remember reading and re-reading this comic over and over again. I used to go through the comic and tally the number of times each character was drawn into the story. Aquaman was used quite a bit (nine times), I thought, and quite effectively too!
How lucky I was to get this comic. My family was poor, and it would have never occured to me to go and buy comic-books. Super-heroes were characters I could follow on the tee-vee on Saturday mornings for free. Thank you, the powers-that-were in 1980 at General Mills and DC Comics that put this giveaway mini-comic together and slapped them into the cereal boxes of poor wretches like me!








1 comment:

88_keys said...

Wow! So the Super Friends would've been screwed if Aquaman hadn't been able to contact that whale!
HOLY NEPTUNE! What an important role; to have control in an environment such as water!

I'm slowly being converted- ^_^