MY FIRST COMIC! by RICK BERG
The first comic I remember was the Power Records Werewolf by Night issue. It terrified me to no end with a werewolf fighting Dracula. My friend and I hid as his older brother tortured us by cranking the volume and playing the screams over and over again. The first comic I owned was Marvel Tales #85, a reprint of issue #106 of Amazing Spider-Man. I loved the reruns of the Spider-Man cartoon on Channel 32 and got to choose a Spider-Man comic of the spinner rack at the drug store. The story was awesome, Spider-Man found a camera on the roof top taking his photo as he unmasked. Terrified his secret identity was in danger he went to Dr Curt Connors for help. They made a latex Halloween mask to wear under his Spider-Man mask! He stuck straws up his nose and everything. Later Spidey gets caught in a giant web and a huge Spider Slayer shows up on the last page. Brilliant! I could not read it yet but I poured over the pages until the book nearly disintegrated. I have been hopelessly hooked ever since.
