Recognizing Superman

Cute story told by one of my office mates today.

He and his family (including their two-year-old) traveled home for a visit over the holiday weekend. While there, one of his relatives happened to show up wearing a Superman t-shirt. Daniel (the two-year- old) immediately recognized the symbol and cried out, 'Superman!'

David (Daniel's dad) thinks they probably have the Kids' WB on at the day care center, because Daniel also recognizes Batman.

This made me wonder

The first superman movie on tape was mine. i didnt get into the comic until the whole doomsday thing.

BTW i dont even have a reprint of action comics # 1. though this weekend i got to read orignal copys of superman anual 2, 3 and superman 215 over at someones house. ~K-mare

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my first exposioure to the superman logo was not superman himself but watching the supergirl film with helen slater. i then got into the superman films and later the superman comic.

ps does anyone know if there is a t-shirt with the electro superman logo on ? i have seen on in the city neer us but i can't find anyway to find it. please help me

The very first exposure I can remember is reading the comics around the time they got rid of Kryptonite and that doppelganger (or whatever it was) came to life. Then the reruns of the George Reeves series and reruns of the 60's cartoon on the local UHF stations. After that would be the Christopher Reeve movies, and then my interest faded until I picked up the 'Death of Superman' TPB (at Tower Records, of all places).

That led to my buying A0S #500 and the four issues introducing the new Supermen, which led to my weekly trips to the comic books stores and buying the back issues from the John Byrne 'Man of Steel' TPB up to just before the issues reprinted in the 'Death of Superman' TPB. (And when I was packing up to move a while back, what did I find among the books I was packing? ANOTHER copy of the MOS TPB

Everybody already knows I'm the oldest person in the group by several years, so it'll be no surprise that my first exposure to Superman was via the George Reeves series, back when it was in first-run. I started reading the comics in early 1960.

Sorry, Brad. I started reading the Superman comics at least a couple of years before you did. (1957 or '58).

Did not start reading Superman in 1958 was only six at the time. But my colletion is complete back to 1958

SUPERMAN, with Chris Reeve. It came out in the same year I was born, and I've been Superman-crazy ever since.

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<<Did not start reading Superman in 1958 was only six at the time.>>

Wow! I'm not the only geezer here. You're actually 2 years older than me . . .

********************************************* By the way, there is no year zero, (not in the Gregorian calendar) and the third Millennium starts in 2001, not 2000.

Probably the old eight-minute cartoons, which used to air in the mornings on Channel 5.

Jeremy B 'Space... it seems to go on and on forever. But then you reach the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.'

The talk of cartoons reminds me that Claude Kirchner used to show the Max Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman cartoons on his TERRYTOON CIRCUS show in New York in the 1950s. I still think my first exposure to Superman was the Reeves series, but I was almost certainly watching these cartoons during the same period, if not a little before.