The First Time You Saw/Learned of These Characters

This post applies equally for DC and Marvel, but I’m posting it here because the same posters frequent both boards, and I’m interested in reading your thoughts. Basically, in what way do you remember first seeing these characters, whether by the comics themselves, TV shows (animated or live-action), or movies? 

A few reasons I’m doing this, but I hope others are interested; you’re allowed to choose any characters you’d like. I was never particularly interested in comics (except Golden and Silver Age stories), so you’ll see few of them on my list.

Superman is, of course, such a pop-culture icon that everyone seems to grow up with him, but I think I first saw him in the ‘40s Fleischer cartoons. I learned pretty much everything I knew about superheroes (not much) from my grandfather, who loved them, and I watched those cartoons, which he vaguely remembered from his childhood, with him. They’re still tons of fun. From there I saw the Christopher Reeve Superman, which I still consider the best superhero flick of ‘em all, and Superman: The Animated Series.

I first saw Batman probably in Batman: The Animated Series, which I never got into at the time (and am kinda rediscovering now). Also the animated Justice League and its sequel-series. 

I always loved Spider-Man as a kid, though I remember being scared by this vampire-esque storyline in the ’94 Spider-Man series (! ). That was a really fun show, as was (the admittedly inferior) Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Then cemented by the movies, of which the first two have that “movie magic” that scabab and others have mentioned elsewhere. 

I probably didn’t see Wonder Woman until the Justice League show, but the actress who voiced her was very good in that. (And I greatly enjoyed last year’s Wonder Woman movie.)

I really have no idea where I first saw Captain America; it might have been on a collectable lunchbox in our garage or something. I liked him because he reminded me of Superman—that patriotic theme, I guess. I remember the newspaper running an article on the character when he “died” in the comics. 

I suppose that I first learned of the Fantastic Four when the ’05 movie came out—they weren’t particularly on my radar. 

I probably learned of the X-Men thanks to the ‘90s Spidey show, which I remember very well…and, yes, a ‘90s Spidey guidebook that I vaguely remember. 

I learned of Captain Marvel (the DC character) very early because he was my grandfather’s favorite superhero. I eventually found the ‘40s Captain Marvel serial and watched it with my grandpa—a great memory… 

I didn’t know of most of The Avengers and Justice League characters until the movies for the former and the TV show for the latter. I had vaguely heard of most of the heroes but didn’t really know anything about them.

OK, off to you!