ext_66018 ([identity profile] whizzy.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] cap_ironman2013-11-13 02:45 am
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50 Years of Cap and Iron Man: the meme


The Avengers had their 50th anniversary back in September. As you're probably aware, Cap was not a founding member, but joined the team in Avengers v1 #4, which was published in March of 1964. Which means that we're about to celebrate 50 years of Steve and Tony goodness--and badness, oh comics!--starting with a meme style fic and art challenge which will remain open for the next few months.
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[identity profile] evilmissbecky.livejournal.com 2013-11-13 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have a Dreamwidth account. Can I leave my prompts as anonymous and just sign the post?

[identity profile] whizzy.livejournal.com 2013-11-13 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
Yup! I'd bet a lot of people who might want to participate don't have a DW account.

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2013-11-13 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh God... I am so old! I remember walking along Abbeydale Road in my home town of Sheffield and seeing Avengers #4 on a newstand, leaping for it and reading it on the bus coming home. I'd been to the dentist, which was why I wasn't at school...

Fifty years... oh my...

[identity profile] salmastryon.livejournal.com 2013-11-13 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
:D That's awesome!
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[identity profile] garrideb.livejournal.com 2013-11-14 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That is really awesome that you read it when it first came out! You shouldn't feel old; you should feel hip... you were an original fan ;-)

Seriously though, I wish I'd gotten into comics when I was younger. My parents (who are both in their 60's) would buy us Archie and Casper comics for my sisters and me on road trips, but I didn't get into superheroes until I was around 20. Ah well!

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2013-11-14 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I discovered American comics when I was seven, with a black and white British reprint of a Blackhawks story. My brother is four years younger than I am, and I remember reading DC comics (which we bought pooling our pocket money) to him at the start of the Silver Age. When we discovered Marvel (with Tales to Astonish and FF #9) we moved our allegiance. We sold our collection of Silver Age DC to buy more Marvel. That collection is nearly intact and still in store.

I went cold turkey on comics in the Bronze Age, but was lured back in after ten years or so by Vertigo, then the JLI, and my housemate's love of Wolverine... Things sorta snowballed from there.
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