As a nine year old if you could have spent a summer with any fictional character, who would it have

[Floyd R. Turbo]

been?

Me: Superman

[rownesheck]

1. Blanche Devereaux

of the Golden Girls. As a kid, I thought she was hot, even though she was my grandmother's age.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. You dog you!

[Glorfindel]

2. Me, too, Floyd. Runner-up: Tom Sawyer.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

40. Good one!

[lark]

3. Don't remember my ages, but I remember crushing on LIttle Joe and Hogan from Hogans Heroes.

There were only 3 channels and this was back in 1961, so not much selection. I also remember and loved the comic books but the first character I really felt attracted to was Gambit. Think I was probably older than 9 though when I got turned on to the XMen?

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Catwoman as played by Eartha Kitt

Never went through that "girls are icky" phase that so many boys went through.

[FalloutShelter]

5. Roz Russel's Aunite Mame

[Beatlelvr]

15. Yes yes yes

Absolutely love Rozz in that part. How about when she had lost everything and had to take a job as a switchboard operator...hilarious.. Auntie Mame was and still is a treasure.

[yellowdogintexas]

58. I have probably read the book a dozen times and seen the movie

at least 5 times.

Patrick Dennis crafted a character who could have only been portrayed by Rozz Russell.

The sequel is also great fun (Around the World With Auntie Mame)

My favorite of his books is The Joyous Season, which may be the most hilarious holiday story ever.

[Tikki]

6. Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook.*...

GEOLOGY RULES....


Tikki


*Journey To The Centre of the Earth

[Solly Mack]

7. Pippin Took

[Scrivener7]

8. King Arthur. I was a weird kid.

[Earth-shine]

9. Captain Kirk of Star Trek. Preferably hanging out at his place.

[Lochloosa]

22. Just don't wear the red uniform.

[alphafemale]

34. That was me as well.

I was convinced space travel like the Enterprise would be a "thing" by the time I grew up.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Close For Me

I would have wanted to hang with Spock!
My other one is Andy Taylor, but I think I'd have wanted to be more like 13 for him.

[Rastapopoulos]

10. Encyclopedia Brown

We would spend the summer solving mysteries.

[Lars39]

28. My choice, too! He was cool.

[Layzeebeaver]

11. The Robot

from Lost in Space.

Why not?

[Doc Sportello]

12. Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched

Even as a kid I had a thing for her.

Great question Floyd.

[ret5hd]

21. I was an "I Dream Of Genie" man myself...

but yours is a valid option.

[ProfessorGAC]

51. That Was A Thing When We Were Kids!

Jeannie or Samantha
Ginger or Maryann.
Same conversation.
I was a Maryann & Samantha kid.

[ret5hd]

53. Jeannie and Maryann...

Ginger…nah, never interested.

[ProfessorGAC]

63. I Think Ginger Was For Adult Males

Maryann for boys & teens.
Since I was 10-12 years old, Maryann it was.

[pnwest]

13. Aslan the lion and the kids from Narnia.

[NCjack]

14. Tonto.

[sanatanadharma]

16. At nine years, I believe my choice was Mary Jane

Mary Jane and Sniffles and poof-poof-piffles magic.



More about Mary Jane's magic at the Comics Bin

[livetohike]

17. Trixie Belden. Loved the books. n/t

[wnylib]

30. Same here. I was going to post that

but thought nobody else would recognize the name of the book series. Good to know that at least one other person enjoyed those books. My sister and I used to trade them with a girl our age in the neighborhood since we had some that she didn't have and vice versa.

[if..fish..had..wings]

18. Thorby

Thor Bradley Rudbek, to be precise, from RAH's Citizen of the Galaxy

[rsdsharp]

41. That's just because they gave him a megabuck for walk-in' around money.

[catbyte]

19. Nancy Drew

[Desert grandma]

38. Same here!

I had many of the books in the series. I was so happy to receive one or more of the books as gifts at Christmas or for my birthday.

[yellowdogintexas]

59. YES! Original Nancy Drew rocked

I still have a few of my old ones. The rest were lost in my mother's house fire; one of my cousins had these and her mom gave them back to me.

I do NOT like the more modern versions. IMHO they have been significantly dumbed down.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. Age nine? Maybe James West -- i.e., Robert Conrad?

I was probably weirdly fascinated by TV reruns of "The Wild Wild West" at a younger age, though, maybe at age 7 or 8.

I definitely wanted to be just like James West, with all of his handy gadgets, back then at some point.

The more I watched that show, as I got a little older, the more idiotic it seemed. Especially the general plots of the show, which I'd largely ignored at a younger age to focus on the gadgets.

Edit: I was 7, based on an old photograph of me trying to dress like James West.
I don't know about age 9. Those were my terrible red-haired years, being the object of scorn by classmates AND teachers because of it. So probably Grizzly Adams by then.

[Fla Dem]

23. With Nancy Drew and her friends; Ned, Bess and George in River heights.

[Desert grandma]

42. Me too!

Loved reading about the mysteries and the adventures of this group of friends. It was a great fantasy escape.

[Peregrine Took]

24. I would move into the Plaza Hotel and spend the summer with....Eloise!

Here is her room today:

https://www.theplazany.com/eloise/

[northoftheborder]

25. Nancy Drew, or Jo, from Little Women

[tblue37]

26. Superman or the Black Stallion.

[Cartoonist]

27. Johnny Quest

Adventure time

[Claire Oh Nette]

44. Fun Fact:

Johnny Quest was voiced by....Otter from animal House.

Tim Matheson when he was about 12.

[First Speaker]

29. Either Mr Fantastic or Dr Doolittle

[Shrike47]

31. Swiss Family Robinson. Loved that book.

Although I also loved The Black Stallion.

[Aristus]

32. Princess Leia.

The woman of every nine year-old boy's dreams...

In 1977, anyway.

I know a lot is said about gold-bikini Leia. But that was in 1983. I fell in love with her in her flowing white royal robes during the first movie in 1977. I've loved strong, intelligent, iron-willed women ever since.

Getting to spend a summer with her would have been Heaven.

[Bayard]

33. That's a tough one

Mr. Spock or Davey Jones (Monkees).

[Butterflylady]

35. Zorro, gosh I loved him.

[Timothy Goodwin]

36. New Guy On The Block Jumping In With An Answer

I'm the newest and not so new addition to these forums and would like to say howdy first and foremost. Second, to answer the question when I was 9 it was Popeye The Sailor Man and dreams of the Navy believe it or not. I finally got to join the Navy when I turned 17 and it sure opened up my eyes. But all that is for a later time and conversation.

I am glad I found DU and look forward to meeting many of you soon. Please have a beautiful day and evening.

[Rhiannon12866]

45. Thanks for the introduction and welcome to DU!

We're glad to have you with us!

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Another Welcome From Me!

There's a lot of long timers.
This August, it'll be 20 years for me!!!
It's a great place to commiserate, and it's not an echo chamber.

[NNadir]

61. Welcome here! n/t.

[murpheeslaw]

37. Marine Boy

He had OXY-gum!! so he could stay underwater without tanks! And jet boots to move through the water fast. This was a mid sixties anime even before Speed Racer (I thought a poor substitute). He had a mermaid friend who had a dolphin companion. His Dad was the leader of a submerged city.

[Claire Oh Nette]

43. Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and the Hardy Boys

Or Nancy Drew, to appease my mother....

[pressbox69]

46. I would choose

James West. Maybe I could sub for his partner Artie Gordon. Hopefully Dr. Loveless wouldn't cause too many problems. Maybe I could convince the good Dr. and his lovely partner Antoinette to perform a concert in my honor.

[July]

47. Pippi Longstocking!

[surrealAmerican]

48. Snoopy.

At that age, I was a huge fan.

[frogmarch]

49. Roy Rogers! nt

[Raven]

54. Nancy Drew.

[patricia92243]

55. Elizabeth Bennet from "Pride and Prejudice." Get to see

how life was 250 years ago plus get to see England.

[sarge43]

56. Horatio Hornblower n/t

[haele]

57. Pippi Long stockings.

That or Misty of Chincoteague.
Spending time with some other fictional characters -Sherlock Holmes, Bilbo Bagging, and others I was reading at the time would be too much like spending time with grownups or a bit too scary.

Haele

[Tracer]

60. Jim Hawkins. The boy in Treasure Island.

Disney's Treasure Island movie had come out that summer and I spent the rest of the summer pretending to be Jim.

I was lucky enough to have been able to spend my summers at the beach, so I re-enacted Treasure Island (and Long John Silver) right by the ocean.

[Alpeduez21]

62. Speed Racer

and the gang. The mach 5 was the most awesome car ever. IMHO

[Doc_Technical]

64. Sam Valiant, private nose

Loved the original The Alvin Show

[liberaltrucker]

65. Bugs Bunny

[csziggy]

66. Walter Farley's The Black Stallion!