Since when did you start to read Batman Comics?

[Guyper1]

Mine was ever since I bought Batman Begins DVD at launch, I was watching the interviews with the filmmakers and learned that one of the reason why Begins was such a fine Superhero movie was because they've borrowed a lot of resources from the comics. That's how it inspired me to read them then

 

[Mee]

My dad used to read them to me as a kid, bedtime stories. I got out of them for a while though, and started up again when one of Brubaker's caught my eye in a store a few years back.

 

[Buttman]

It's been semi-recent, but I've always had Batman in my life, one way or another.

I'm 17 next week, so, I'm not that old. I started getting the Batman TAS comic books when I was about 7, and bought 50 issues until giving up at about 11. At this point, I sorta got out of comics. I think I was told too many times they were for kids and that I should stop reading them, so I did.

At about. 12, my brother bought me a one off Nightfall story. It was when Batman fights Firefly, when Bane is "wearing him out." I also happened to lay my hands on the Death of Superman, by pure accident really.

Then when I was 14 I started going back and collecting all the GEs and buying every comic I could. If you count the TAS comics, the GEs, the one-stands, and the arcs, I have about 600 Batman comics, and it's still growing.

I still need to get The Cult, Knightfall, and No Mans Land. Oh, and The Man Who Laughs, but that ani't out in England yet. (When I asked my comic guy about it, he was like "Wuhh? You mean Year One?")

 

[Motown Marvel]

i had always been a superhero fan in general....but i started picking up comics at the beginning of the No Mans Land arc, which was a little over 10 years ago....although, even before this i was picking up TPB's when i could.

 

[The Joker]

Since 1992, after I saw Batman Returns.

Been hooked ever since.

 

[CConn]

Honestly...just a few months after I joined the Hype.

Although, I had gotten Year One and DKR a year before.

 

[Bathead]

Since about 1962, when I first saw Batman and other comics in a drugstore. Yes they sold comics in drugstores once! (Geez, I feel old)

 

[Mee]

Since about 1962, when I first saw Batman and other comics in a drugstore. Yes they sold comics in drugstores once! (Geez, I feel old)

Now they probably sell drugs in comic stores.

 

[Two-Face]

1995 was year the I started to read Batman comic and with a Batman Forever being released after seen B&R I started to read less then for few years I give up on Batman comics but around 2003 I started to read Batman: Year One because Darren Aronofsky was attached to direct the movie with a script from Frank Miller and I was excited to see if this happens which didn't so WB didn't like what Aronofsky & Miller had so they hired Chris Nolan they liked what Nolan wanted to do anyway after the BB was released I read Batman: The Long Halloween & Batman: The Man Who Falls which inspired the movie, I read Batman: The Killing Joke and Batman: The Man Who Laughs which came out in 2005 so I started to read comics since then.

 

[Swordmaster]

Now they probably sell drugs in comic stores.

Funny thing is, at my local comic shop, it's true

 

[Fledermaus]

I want to get a pull-box there.

I've been reading Batman since 1989.

 

[Swordmaster]

I want to get a pull-box there.

I've been reading Batman since 1989.

Trust me...you don't

The stuff there makes you hallucinate you're banging Alice from The Brady Bunch.

Every. Damn. Time.

Then again, she was quite attractive for her age...

 

[Fledermaus]

I hallucinate that I'm banging Alice from The Brady Bunch al the time, so it wouldn't be much of a switch.

 

[Kraven]

Actually I started about a year ago, at the second half of The Red Hood story.

 

[batmaluco]

Since 1984, when I did read: "The Joker's Five-Way Revenge".

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Not sure. Since late 2004, early 2005 I guess.
SHH inspired me.

 

[Fred_Fury]

when I was younger I never really read much batman, I thought he was lame, but now I read batman almost exclusively, batman comics are kinda like reading crime novels. He's more realistic than other comic heroes.

 

[SouLeSS]

I was about 7, and bought 50 issues until giving up at about 11.

At about. 12, my brother bought me a one off Nightfall story. It was when Batman fights Firefly, when Bane is "wearing him out." I also happened to lay my hands on the Death of Superman, by pure accident really.

Then when I was 14 I started going back and collecting all the GEs and buying every comic I could. If you count the TAS comics, the GEs, the one-stands, and the arcs, I have about 600 Batman comics, and it's still growing.

I still need to get The Cult, Knightfall, and No Mans Land. Oh, and The Man Who Laughs, but that ani't out in England yet. (When I asked my comic guy about it, he was like "Wuhh? You mean Year One?")

How exactly does a kid your age afford all those comics?

 

[super85]

Have been reading on and off since even before I learned to read. Probably since I was around 4-5 years old,back in 1989-1990. Mostly reprint stuff. Picked up Grant Morrisons JLA becouse it looked cool (and I always loved both Batman and Superman) around 2001 and have been reading comics pretty regulary since then. Mostly also done my homework with reading older Batman stories just to know the myth well.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

I was familiar with Batman from the Superfriends and Adam West show, but in 1987 when I picked up a spanish reprint comic that had Batman bitten by a vampire that got me hooked for life.

 

[Cobb]

Since about 1962, when I first saw Batman and other comics in a drugstore. Yes they sold comics in drugstores once! (Geez, I feel old)

I started in about '77 and yes they had the turning racks then too. I actually had a book store very close to me so I was able to get older comics, the O'Neal and Adams run, at an early age. While it might be a little outdated now that run still is the best I've seen in any comic.

 

[CConn]

They should really get comics back in drugstores and places. God, I probably would've gotten into comics years earlier had they actually been, y'know, accessable.

 

[Cobb]

They should really get comics back in drugstores and places. God, I probably would've gotten into comics years earlier had they actually been, y'know, accessable.

Yeah running to the comic racks was actually something I looked forward to when my mom went shopping. Now its like you have to go to the comic shop or bust. I guess that comics are more mature and some shouldn't be on shelves for younger kids but there are youth titles that should still find their way to drugstore racks.

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

Probably since I was 6, 7 years old. I'm 26 now.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

They should really get comics back in drugstores and places. God, I probably would've gotten into comics years earlier had they actually been, y'know, accessable.

I remember 7-11 and Thriftys having them, nowadays I see them carry the Archie digest books.