What got you into comics?

[amazingfantasy15]

Then when I could read, I was given the old Marvel and DC comics books that came with the story on a little record and you'd read along. I had The Fantastic Four, and Batman vs Man-Bat, and a weird one about the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.

I remember those! I had some too.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I remember those! I had some too.

I had this:

...and it was pretty scary at the time, heh.

 

[Sun_Down]

My older brother got me into comics when I was a wee lad. I grew up and kinda got into other things. Then around 16, I got back into comics after seeing the first two X-Men movies. I've been crazy about 'em ever since

 

[The IronMan]

my father being in the hospital

 

[terry78]

First comic I ever bought with my own money.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Shameful to say,

Sonic.

Holy crap I remember reading them.

 

[Alexia Dark]

I honestly don't remember. I know I watched Spider-Man: TAS as a kid because the instant I saw them again, I knew all of the characters, and my mother recently recovered a few comics (oddly, they were Batman - and really bad ones, too) that I had bought as a child and didn't even remember. Then I watched Spider-Man 2, saw the contradictory brilliance and wasted potential, and decided that superhero plots are the most awesome, angst-driven, worthwhile stories ever and that I'd love Spider-Man until the day I die. Then I happened to actually begin buying comics around the time Sins Past came out... not a good intro...

I'm sort of an a hiatus from comics at the moment, unless it's research for one of my planned (though very unlikely forthcoming) fanfictions. The current state of comics depresses me.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

No. Now it's even worse. The drawings are good, but they're too slick, and everything's colored with computers so the realistic 3-D shading and light effects overshadow everything, and all of the writers do self-aware Kevin Smith kind of crap. The comics used to be adults, writing for kids. Now they're adults writing for adults.

That sounds like a good thing. Kids ruin everything remember? Star Wars vs Are We There Yet

 

[MattBearPig]

I think it was a variety of shows and movies. I remember being really terrified of Superman when he found Lois dead in Superman:The Movie. I was a big fan of the 1970s live action Spidey show for some reason. I tried rewatching it recently and I have no idea how it kept my attention since it had very little Spider-Man in it. And like everyone else born in the mid 80s, was hooked on all of the super hero toons that were on in the 90s.

 

[SurfDUI]

My first ever comic off the rack-not in one of those 3-packs from Zayre (It was a department store like Meijer back in the day ) My dad bought it for me @ Karma record store back when the record store actually sold records-I thought this was the coolest illustration of all time.

First one bought w/ my own money and it's been downhill from then...gdamn I miss the '80's!!!!!!!

 

[SurfDUI]

...always preached at me about how Jack Kirby is God, and stupid kid that I was, I'd say, "No way, that guy sucks! There's no detail and it doesn't look real." o), just like the stupid kids on the Hype today. It's the Circle of Life.

This was was an incredible time to be really getting in to comics, Kieth Giffen's Legion of Superheroes, Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans, Frank Miller was starting to get big.....then later, the dude got married and moved out, but I was still into comics, getting the Walt Simonson Thors and Beta Ray Bill, Ambush Bug, Secret Wars, John Byrne Fantastic Fours and Hulks....Black Spider-Man costume, all that...it was great. The X-Men was mind-blowing back then, that was when it was a "new" kind of "phenomenon". Nothing about Wolverine was "old hat" at that point.

Then, I noticed that the art got grosser and uglier....instead of being relgated to crap books like "House of Mystery", or "What If" or something, were, inexplicably becoming Superstars.

And then, Image comics was formed, and comic books died and I stopped reading them.

...I dig that.
The only Superhero movies that got made was Superman...and Swamp Thing.
Don't forget about Bart Sears contribution to the downturn.

 

[Danalys]

Seeing the Spider-Man and Amazing Friends cartoon in the 80's.

this and the incredible hulk cartoon that was on at the same time.

then i got an issue of spider-man and zoids at some point but couldn't really get it regulary. when i was older i noticed the complete spider-man in a shop and got that. the complete spider-man reprinted the four monthly spidy titles that were out at the time. eventually Marvel UK started puting out a decent x-men compilation title aswell. i got some trade paper backs of stories from legends of the dark night and knightfall around that time aswell.

 

[bullets]

halloween costumes . i wanted to be superman when i was five . i used to wear the costume and run around like a ******. it must of been a couple years later that my grandmother got me a superman activity book . actually i knew some of the characters
from coloring books . i started collecting when my mom would bring me along to flea markets . i liked reading checkmate, xmen , horror comics, batman, spiderman .i'd pick them up wherever i could . I eventually grew a dislike towards superman because he was so infallible . the death of superman brought me back shortly though.

 

[PyroChamber]

Like many people here, the cartoons got my into comics first. Before that I never knew that Wolverine wasn't always in the X-Men, but when the movie came out I started getting more into the comics and I've still been into them ever since.

The first comic I bought was Uncanny X-Men #1.

 

[WompuM]

and while one of his books was out, either spider-man or daredevil, i saw a giant poster of this...

and that's all she wrote. as they say.

 

[BlackLantern]

My stepmom used to work at a place that did the post-coloring for comics before they went to mass print...this process is now automated...she used to bring home irregulars and leftover books...Green Lantern was the comic that got me into comics

 

[Philly Phanboy]

My primary school cafeteria always had a stack of comics from Archie to Micronauts. Not sure if the reasoning was to get us to read or to keep us out of trouble; anyhow that's what got me into comics I suppose.

The first comic that I actually bought was Fantastic Four. I remember that I had won an art contest for something and the prize was a nifty Fantastic Four jigsaw puzzle so that got me interested in them.

 

[William_C]

Watching the Cowabunga Ninja Turtles, and Spider-Man cartoon. One day I was watching them at my dad's house and he talked about how he had a guap of comics and he took me to the store so I could start getting some.

 

[The Battousai]

Watchmen.





Exactly

 

[darkseid26]

my grandpa gave me an issue of Secret Invasion #7, and after that i read identity crisis also.

 

[POWdER-man]

The old Spider-Man cartoons...

 

[The Geek Vault]

my grandpa gave me an issue of Secret Invasion #7, and after that i read identity crisis also.

YOUR GRANDPA CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME?!?!?

 

[p.marlowe]

the first time- Batman 89. I read The Dark Knight and other books and got schooled; I realized Burton had it wrong, and then watched the next ten years of Batman movies get worse and worse like a snowball effect.

I got out when some ******* drew Captain America with boobs.

I got out of the Army, and got hooked up with a trade paperback of Daredevil by Bendis and Maleev. (Underboss) I fell in love with writing again, and now here I am.

 

[SFII]

when that X-Men cartoon came out in the early 90s, that's when i got into comicbooks.
i bought, read, and collected for a few years during that time. but i think i officially stopped around 1996.

 

[darkseid26]

YOUR GRANDPA CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME?!?!?

my gramp's collected comics and gave secret invasion #7 and X-Men #1 with magneto on the cover by jim lee(best cover IMO)