Thanks to comics writer Jim Zub, #fourcomics was the top hashtag in America for awhile today. Post the covers to the four comics that most influenced you growing up.

Here are mine.

As a kid I didn't buy superhero comics in single issue format, only in digests. So the three here are the first Marvel and DC comics I ever bought. I must have read them 100 times each. The Scrooge one was among my favorite of many Barks stories I read back then. I had no idea who Carl Barks was yet then, of course; I only knew when the stories were good.









I'm breaking the law and adding a fifth, because this one HAS to be included. It shaped my comic love at least as much as the other 4 above.

This is a hard list to top.

It took me awhile before I had the actual issue of Detective #359, though (I was 17 by then).
So, I probably should put THIS book in its place, which I read through quite often:

Oh, I read that a few times when I was a kid! The University my mom went to had a copy of it in their library and she would get it out for me every so often. I absolutely LOVED those cheesy 50s stories as a kid, which I find uninteresting now, preferring the Adams/O'Neil style of Bats. But those Batman II and Robin II stories, narrated by old Alfred? Gold to a 7 year old kid.

Yep, Batman II and Robin II with Batwoman married to Batman I. Fun stuff.