Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1964

With a body of work that’s been added to for long enough to have “developed” by at least some definitions but where taking in every bit of it has become “optional,” “first moments” seem to wind up getting much more attention than the mere early steps that follow them. DC and Marvel comics might come to mind here, or perhaps Doctor Who, but I have to admit that after forming that thought my mind jumped to the first Peanuts comic strip, which I saw many years before seeing just how things got from “the little guy in the plain T-shirt” to “the morose boy in the collared shirt with the zig-zag around it.” Likewise, it was one thing to think about “watching a bit of anime from each of the years since Mighty Atom got on TV,” another to find anime from the first years after its premiere. (Mighty Atom itself did keep getting new episodes until the end of 1963.) When I found “sample fansubs” of Big X, a series that had premiered in 1964, that filled in one of my very last gaps.
( The secret of Big X )