Comics Off-the-Rack - Your first Issues!

[KaineMorrison]

I thought this was a good Idea for a thread as I don't think we should bog down the "All-New Amazing Spider-Man Thread with this...
Anyway,
What were your first issues?
Post images of your covers...
- 1st issue you read
- 1st issue you started following
- 1st issue you started collecting

If you want to include you age as well for reference, by all means...

 

[KaineMorrison]

1st Issue that I remember reading:
Web of Spider-Man #6

1st Issue that I started being interested in Spider-Man and his world:
Amazing Spider-Man #365

1st Issue that I started collecting:
Web of Spider-Man #124

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

first one I read...

first one I started following and collecting... picking up back issues back then was a breeze at that point...

 

[Picard Sisko]

My first issues are all from the 90s, but sadly I can't remember them too well. Most of them had Venom though.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

My first Spider-Man comic:

My first issue of Amazing Spider-Man:

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

My first issues are all from the 90s, but sadly I can't remember them too well. Most of them had Venom though.

I swear, back then, EVERYTHING had Venom in it... talk about MAJOR overusage and overkill...

 

[Picard Sisko]

This was one of my first issues actually:

And another one:

Although the 90s had its issues (e.g. Clone Saga), I really do have a soft spot for that era.

 

[runawayboulder]

Although the 90s had its issues (e.g. Clone Saga), I really do have a soft spot for that era.

That is not the original cover. I don't know what the hell that is.....

 

[runawayboulder]

My first ever comic bought, Feb 83:

My earliest issue of ASM I own from Nov 66:

And my first ASM "off the rack" from Oct 84:

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

"Alas poor SIPDERMAN" ?!?... the hell?... LOL...

 

[Nicko-Ray]

Cool thread.

I obtained the following when I was in elementary school somewhere in between 1998-2000. Some from a friend's father who dealt with comics, and some I bought at a corner news stand store on W 3rd and Fairfax. (Los Angeles, California) [Fun fact : In Jackass 3D, they perform a prank at this very news stand.]

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First issues remembered reading :
Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2), #23, #24, #26, #28.

28 being the one I remember the most/love.


Fast forward to now and many years of loving Spidey in between, after watching TASM, my love for the character grew so conveniently I picked up #698, and a few prior issues leading up to it. (Ends of the Earth)

First issue starting to follow/collect :
AmazingSpider-Man #698.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Man, I really loved the Relaunch issues, especially during the Straczynski/John Romita Jr. era.

 

[runawayboulder]

"Alas poor SIPDERMAN" ?!?... the hell?... LOL...

Those were actually 2 really awesome issues. It ended with Venom taking Spider-Man to an abandoned island and Spidey tricked Venom into thinking he was killed in an explosion. Venom decided to stay on the island forever enjoying his new found peace.

It was a great send off for the character but Marvel, being the over-kill ****es that they were/still are, brought him back shortly thereafter for the Carnage debut.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Those were actually 2 really awesome issues. It ended with Venom taking Spider-Man to an abandoned island and Spidey tricked Venom into thinking he was killed in an explosion. Venom decided to stay on the island forever enjoying his new found peace.

It was a great send off for the character but Marvel, being the over-kill ****es that they were/still are, brought him back shortly thereafter for the Carnage debut.

That storyline really was fantastic. They should have let Venom stay where he was and maybe bring him back much later one, but oh well. Still a great character IMO. He is probably my third favorite villain (behind Green Goblin and Doc Ock).

 

[runawayboulder]

That storyline really was fantastic. They should have let Venom stay where he was and maybe bring him back much later one, but oh well. Still a great character IMO. He is probably my third favorite villain (behind Green Goblin and Doc Ock).

It was probably the last great storyline that was done before they got into the Clones. ASM 349-350 (the Dr. Doom/Black Fox story) was great as well.

 

[Picard Sisko]

I think the 90s is a great era without the clone saga. I think the Relaunch was a good idea in 1999.

 

[KaineMorrison]

That is not the original cover. I don't know what the hell that is.....

That's the Cover to the Trade PaperBack "Venom Returns"

 

[Spider-Gnome]

It was probably the last great storyline that was done before they got into the Clones. ASM 349-350 (the Dr. Doom/Black Fox story) was great as well.

I enjoyed it through the Eric Larsen era. Once Bagley became the steady artist, I enjoyed it a little less.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

back then, Larsen came onto the Spidey scene right after MacFarlane left... seeing how Todd gave Spidey that spidery look and feel to him, Larsen, I felt, took Spidey's poses and anatomical positionings a bit on the extremely painful-looking side, but I still liked it... but when I look at Erik's work back then NOW, it just seems to turn me off with the physical impossibility of his poses...

as for Bags, I will ALWAYS enjoy his work... he was on for a pretty long stretch, honing those Spidey skills, before heading on over to his crowning Spidey achievement with the USM book... too bad Marvel's animation department couldn't or wouldn't use the comic as the basis for the wretched animated series that they have on now...

 

[runawayboulder]

I have nothing against Bagley. He just happened to came aboard when Michelinie hit a creative ditch and ASM went into a downward spiral.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Didn't most Marvel properties suffer in the 90s? I think it had something to do with them going bankrupt (which then had to sell film rights to other studios to save themselves).

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

Didn't most Marvel properties suffer in the 90s? I think it had something to do with them going bankrupt (which then had to sell film rights to other studios to save themselves).

yeah, if I remember correctly, Marvel was going thru some serious s**t sometime around the early to mid 90's... it didn't look good at all for Marvel back then...

 

[Picard Sisko]

And now they look back on those days and laugh.

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

And now they look back on those days and laugh.

maybe so, but back then, the entire comics industry was in dire straits at that time...

 

[Themanofbat]

Marvel suffered in the 90's because MOST of their TOP artistic talent LEFT and went on to form Image Comics...

Here's an interesting article...

http://www.tcj.com/sean-howe/