Very first comic book

[Jersen]

Just curious to see what everyone's first exposure to comics was. I have always been a superhero freak and loved the old Superman movies and the Adam West Batman, and anything else that was a superhero that I could see on TV or in a movie. Finally I asked my Dad to pick me up a comic book.

I was in 2nd grade ('87/'88) and my Dad brought home a copy of Superman #22. This was John Byrne's last issue on his Superman reboot, and just from my investigation around comic stores in my area, it's a little more rare than other issues in the run. My copy is completely worn out, the cover detached from the pages and all kinds of spine wear on the cover, but I still have my very first comic book.

The first comic book I every bought with my own money (and the 2nd comic I owned) was Classic X-Men #39, which is a reprint of the Dark Phoenix Saga issue where Wolverine takes on the Hellfire Club on his own and the rest of the X-Men are held captive in the club. Another comic with John Byrne art, and it had an additional story at the end with art by Jim Lee! Not that I knew who either of these guys were until YEARS later, but I think it's cool that my first comic books featured art by guys that have ended up being my 2 favorite comic artists.

[tmcneil82]

My first real comic that I owned was uncanny x 262. Before that however, i had read many of the uncanny's since my sister collected comics from the late 60s-70s

[geocarr]

The first one I can remember is New Teen Titans Volume 1 #14 from George Perez and Marv Wolfman. Mom got it from the spinner rack at the drug store where my aunt worked when she picked up my grandmother's prescriptions once a week. After that, she let me pick out one comic every week. My cousin also went with us and he got to pick out one book a week as well and we always got different books so we could swap.

[steverino]

Mine was a Punisher War Journal 8. Funny how my 1st comic was a Jim Lee book. I read that thing cover to cover so many times. I loved it!

[Escaflown4]

The very very first comic I have ever bought was a Transformers issue *I forget which*, but I don't really count that since it didn't really lead me into the hobby. What got me into collecting was when I received a free copy of Uncanny X-Men #276. Afterward, I went to a LCS and picked up issue #275 which blew me away. To this day, I still find that Jim Lee cover to be the best X-Men cover art period! After that, it just went downhill from there...

[Dr. Solar]

I had an issue of Detective comics when I was really young that I never actually read. It was in the 500s.

The first comic I actually bought and read was G.I. Joe 85. That is the comic I blame all this comic-fan crap on.

[superman-prime]

Ironicly transformers 1 a beat up copy I still have shes bagged and boarded now and in the I will die before selling pile

[maraxusofkeld]

My first comic was X-men 2nd series #25, which at the time, I was extremely excited about

[400yrs]

Groo 29 and 33

[Unblessed]

an unknown Spider-Man comic from 1982... carried it everywhere.

[Steve Topper]

Thank you, every single one of you.

Every single comic mentioned in this thread was published AFTER I finished Grad School.

My first comic I remember was probably a Batman 80 Page Giant from 1965 or so. When my dad bought it off the rack because we were heading on vacation and he knew I would be reading it and not antagonizing my siblings. Little did he realize that 45 years later, I'd still be reading and collecting comic books.

Damn youngsters

[tmcneil82]

Thank you, every single one of you.

Every single comic mentioned in this thread was published AFTER I finished Grad School.

My first comic I remember was probably a Batman 80 Page Giant from 1965 or so. When my dad bought it off the rack because we were heading on vacation and he knew I would be reading it and not antagonizing my siblings. Little did he realize that 45 years later, I'd still be reading and collecting comic books.

Damn youngsters

Well, its no wonder you got into comics. It's not like there was electricity those days to play any games. No "talking pictures" to watch.

[Unblessed]

Thank you, every single one of you.

Every single comic mentioned in this thread was published AFTER I finished Grad School.

My first comic I remember was probably a Batman 80 Page Giant from 1965 or so. When my dad bought it off the rack because we were heading on vacation and he knew I would be reading it and not antagonizing my siblings. Little did he realize that 45 years later, I'd still be reading and collecting comic books.

Damn youngsters

Well, its no wonder you got into comics. It's not like there was electricity those days to play any games. No "talking pictures" to watch.

They had to go to a nickelodeon for moving pictures...

[daydreamscomics]

My earliest memories of comics include:

Spectacular Spider-Man #66
Amazing Spider-Man #161 & 162
Marvel Two-In-One #55

My brothers also had some early Marvel graphic novels that had the origin stories for all the big guns.

And as far as I can remember, the first comic I bought from the shop I now own was Amazing Spider-Man #342 off the stand...in 1990

Who woulda thought 20 years later...

[dellamorte]

G I Joe #49. My mom bought my brother and I a comic at the mall one day, I'm not really sure why as we had never had any interest prior to that trip. My brother picked out a Conan book, no clue as to what issue it was. I was hooked and he couldn't have cared less.

[Steve Topper]

Thank you, every single one of you.

Every single comic mentioned in this thread was published AFTER I finished Grad School.

My first comic I remember was probably a Batman 80 Page Giant from 1965 or so. When my dad bought it off the rack because we were heading on vacation and he knew I would be reading it and not antagonizing my siblings. Little did he realize that 45 years later, I'd still be reading and collecting comic books.

Damn youngsters

Well, its no wonder you got into comics. It's not like there was electricity those days to play any games. No "talking pictures" to watch.

They had to go to a nickelodeon for moving pictures...

But I got a real appreciation for calliope and organ music when they put those words up on the screen,

[vikingspawn]

My first comic as a kid was an Archie or a Disney comic. Then the Marvel/Star Wars comics that I would subscribe to by mail.

The comic that really got me hooked to superhero comics was Superman #5 vol. 2 by John Bryne. From that issue on, I started collected all the "Super" connected books and then got into other DC characters that were relaunched at the time (post Crisis). And then I discovered the early Dark Horse Aliens stuff and Hulk.

"I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!"

(Comic Book Guy - The Simpsons Movie)

[ian_house]

My first comic as a kid was an Archie or a Disney comic. Then the Marvel/Star Wars comics that I would subscribe to by mail.

The comic that really got me hooked to superhero comics was Superman #5 vol. 2 by John Bryne. From that issue on, I started collected all the "Super" connected books and then got into other DC characters that were relaunched at the time (post Crisis). And then I discovered the early Dark Horse Aliens stuff and Hulk.

"I've spent my entire life doing nothing but collecting comic books... and now there's only time to say... LIFE WELL SPENT!"

(Comic Book Guy - The Simpsons Movie)

May get that on my gravestone

[superman-prime]

[caxiotis]

When I was a kid I always collected cards. I had a ton of baseball cards and then when the Marvel series I cards came out I started collecting them and was obsessed with the hologram cards. I remember trying to sell the hologram cards back to the hobby shop and they would not take them because they had scratches on them (I didn't understand what condition meant).

Anyway I think my first comicbook was Uncanny X-men 275. Right around then I remember also reading the infinity guantlet (which was awesome).

[depluto]

I got Uncanny X-Men 126 on a long car trip on vacation. I read it about 16 times in the car. I had read comics before, but that was the first one I collected.

[ian_house]

I'm pretty sure the first comics I read were Asterix & Obelix or Tin Tin from the local library. I really should go back and read them again at some point, I remember them as being very good!

[Escaflown4]

When I was a kid I always collected cards. I had a ton of baseball cards and then when the Marvel series I cards came out I started collecting them and was obsessed with the hologram cards. I remember trying to sell the hologram cards back to the hobby shop and they would not take them because they had scratches on them (I didn't understand what condition meant).

Anyway I think my first comicbook was Uncanny X-men 275. Right around then I remember also reading the infinity guantlet (which was awesome).

Can't believe we actually started at the exact same time.

[slym2none]

While I had seen Archie & Scooby Doo comics laying around, they were never "mine." My first comic book of my own was Uncanny X-Men #171, summer of 1983 when I was 12.





-slym

[hulk181man]