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For me, Dick Grayson went off to college and Bruce shut-up the old Batcave and moved operations to the Wayne Foundation building in downtown Gotham.
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I debuted the same month as the X-Men, going by calendar month.
I already posted in the original threadjack but it's so cool that I don't mind posting it again.
Wolverine made his debut the same month I was born.
In other news: Superman betrays Krypton, Betty and Veronica wear bikinis ten different times (Josie and the Pussycats make it eleven), Falcon fights alone, Conan enters the Tower of Blood, Magneto is turned into a baby, Batman teams up with Manhunter, Spider-Man teams up with Shang-Chi, Power Man fights Power Man, Richie Rich has three new number ones (and eleven titles total) and Green Lantern drops in on Wonder Woman for the third of her twelve trials.
DC: The Legion are turned into babies, the JLA find a conscience, the Teen Titans make their second groovy appearance, we meet the Superman of 2965, Wonder Woman battles Egg Fu, Ann Margaret takes over Young Love and the sizzling debut of Ultra the Multi-Alien!! Plus a Prince Ra-Man cover!
Marvel: Spidey vs the Master Planner, the Avengers battle Power Man and the Enchantress, the FF encounter them nutty Inhumans, Captain America has a Sleeper problem and worse the X-Men deal with Sentinels!!
And there's Mighty Crusaders #1!
You "reely" do.
Jeff of Earth-J said:
Let's see:
Very few Marvel superheroes -- only Fantastic Four, Strange Tales featuring The Human Torch, and Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor -- but lots of romance (Linda Carter, Student Nurse; Millie the Model; Life With Millie), teen comedy (Patsy Walker, Kathy), Western (Kid Colt Outlaw, Two-Gun Kid), horror and bug-eyed monster stuff (Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish).
I'm surprised at how many comics were adaptations of TV series (Car 54, Where Are You?, Ben Casey, Bonanza) or kid cartoons (Bugs Bunny Show Time, Daffy Duck, King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, The Flintstones, Rocky and His Fiendish Friends, Yakky Doodle and Chopper, Woody Woodpecker, Snagglepuss, Little Audrey TV Fun Time), plus a movie (National Velvet, of all things!). The Charlton, Gold Key and Harvey stables were still alive, offering romance, horror, Westerns, funny animals, kid humor (Casper, Richie Rich, Baby Huey, Wendy and the like). And of course, there's Archie and the usual stuff from DC (Superman, Batman, Justice League, G.I. Combat, Our Army at War, Strange Adventures, etc.).
Pretty run-of-the-mill stuff. But the biggest "event," I'd say, is Flash #133, with that classic cover line: "I've got the strangest feeling I'm being turned into a puppet!"
Okay, March 1962 for me.
Going by cover dates, which were actually released in January of that year: Aquaman was only on its second issue and the Fantastic Four was on its third. Archie is still doing some superheroes. Harvey, Charlton, and Dell Comics were still going strong. Ellery Queen was in the Four Color Spotlight (Dell #1289) and I wish I could find a copy of his comics since I have read practically all his prose mysteries. Otherwise, nothing stands out in the cover images.
Jumping ahead to the actual month as a release point, which would probably be a May 1962 cover date for most comics:
Amazing (Adult) Fantasy is still a couple of issues away from Spiderman's debut. A lot of first issues from Dell listed as released, but nothing truly spectacular from a historical perspective except maybe Yogi Bear visiting the United Nations (Dell Four Color #1349).
Overall:
Guess you folks will just have to settle for the fact that I was born that month.
After all, we can't all be born the month the Justice League forms for the first time, Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider, or any of those other truly historic moments in the four color realm.
At least my birth didn't fall on a title's last issue or a character's death. 
Nothing specific about the month I was born, but it was the middle of The Kree-Skrull War, Orion and the New Gods were in their full glory under Kirby's stewardship, and Hal and Ollie were doing their hard-travelling schtick.
So not bad. :-)
(It was a rough month for Speedy, though!)
Not bad. The first appearence of Elongated Man and the second of the Justice League of America!
Here's what was happening in Superman:
They were still publishing lots of romance and war comics in May, 1952. And The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog!
There was quite a bit of variety in May 1954, but nothing that sits up and says "cool!" to today's readers (or even teen-agers back then), except that Basil Wolverton cover to Mad #11.
By the time I was six and ready for reading comics, the offerings were definitely improving. I remember starting out on Little Lulu and Donald Duck and progressing to Marvel monster comics as I found Superman, Batman, etc.
Still, I bet I would've bought this issue of Adventure. There's just something...compelling about it that I can't quite put my finger on.
-- MSA
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