What was your first comic.

[marcvader]

What was your first comic book that got you into wonderful world of costumed crimefighters, amazing adventurers, and astonishing aliens? What was the first title you became obsessed collecting?

 

[marcvader]

My first comic was Marvel Triple Action #47 back in 79. My mom bought it for me at a Kmart, I was 8. The title I got obsessed with collecting a few years after randomly selecting them was Alpha Flight.

 

[hippie_hunter]

JLA #115, I had just gotten into comics starting with Batman: Year One and after reading so many TPBs I started getting into individual issues and the one where the Justice League got their cummuppance for mindwiping Batman intrigued me.

 

[runawayboulder]

Superman volume 1 #380 February 1983.

I was 4 years and 4 months old and I haven't looked back since.......

 

[TimBisley]

I honestly don't remember. It may have been an old issue of Worlds Finest, because I have vague memories of having a comic with the Composite Superman in it. Also, I had some Batman or Detective issues that had living gargoyles or something in them. It was so long ago and I no longer have those comics, I just can't remember.

 

[Dread]

Mine was probably an issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN from the 80's that was drawn by Todd McFarlane, because my mom had a subscription to it. I don't recall which, as I was pretty young and mostly just looked at the pictures. I'd recognized Spider-Man from NBC's "SPIDER-MAN AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS", which was airing in syndication at the time (by the time it ended it's original run, I was three). As I got older and learned how to read better, I usually re-read a lot of Mom's ASM books, although some of the words were big and I didn't understand a few until I was well into elementary school - so much for comics rotting your brain, eh?

When I was very young (in kindergarten or younger), Spider-Man was in his black costume in the comics, and the Hulk at the time was gray. Mom had subscriptions to ASM, WEB, INCREDIBLE HULK, FANTASTIC FOUR, and THOR, and I vividly remember asking Mom about why Spider-Man's costume was different on a subway or bus somewhere, and somehow that led into asking why the Hulk was gray and not green. I remember when the Hulk became green again in the comics, that was a stunning thing to me; it took years for me to be aware that green was his default color.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I was in the 6th grade. I don't remember the number but the Uncanny X-men when a zombie-looking Marvel Girl chases down Rogue who gets rescued by Magneto.

Jim Lee drawing the X-men, I was hooked!

 

[runawayboulder]

I was in the 6th grade. I don't remember the number but the Uncanny X-men when a zombie-looking Marvel Girl chases down Rogue who gets rescued by Magneto.

Jim Lee drawing the X-men, I was hooked!

Uncanny X-Men #269!

That was a great time for the X-Men comics. Claremont was beginning to plot bringing all of the team back together since they were disbanded after going through the Siege Perilous in #251 (the end of the X-Men in Australia status quo). This was Rogue's long awaited return after she went though the portal in #247.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Yup that would be it. Thanks.

Those were some great comics. Claremont and Jim Lee made a great combo.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

Marvel Team-Up #7: Spider-Man & Thor! 1973. That was the start (first issue of Amazing Spider-Man was #120).

 

[Anubis]

"What If? Professor X Became the Juggernaut."

 

[Themanofbat]

The first comic that my father bought for me was some early issue of Thor circa 1973... possibly Thor #218

The first comic I ever bought with my own money was Werewolf by Night #30, followed by Amazing Spider-Man #148, both in the fall of 1975...

 

[IBRAH08]

Simpsons something. I wanna say #53 but I have no idea why

 

[bored]

I don't know how they were acquired, but at some point when I was little I got two issues of "West Coast Avengers" from like a year or two before I was born. They were from the brief period that the Thing was a member.

 

[blksuperman2]

Amazing Spider-man 293

My mom had gotten me a 12 month subscription out of some magazine. I was really into "Spider-man & his Amazing Friends" at the time. It's funny 'cause I look back at that time and wish someone had me to keep those comics in mint condition. Who knew that some guy name Todd McFarlane would show up a few issues later and blow-up?

 

[Mace Dolex]

My first comic was probabaly a Star Wars or Indiana Jones comic in the early 80's later I got me a Marvel Tales reprinting Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six which was like 64 pages and tons of fun reading that thing.

It wasn't that I discovered Transformers and G.I.Joe comics that I got into serious comic book collecting that I must've read those dozens of times followed by Batman before there was talk of Tim Burton's film.

 

[Vartha]

my OWN first comicbook was Werewolf By night #5. I'd always read the neighbor's comics including Spidey #5 before that

 

[Crockett]

I think it must be a issue from The Phantom at the age of 9. Prior to that I've read Tintin, think it was Flight 714 which my dad owned.

 

[Darthkush]

I don't remember my first comic but i know it was probably an 80's transformers comic or an Alf comic. The first comics I read regularly were

-all 4 early 90's Superman books(during the "Reign of the Supermen".) I got the death of superman trade x-mas of 92' and started following it when I could.

-Don't remember the issue number but it was a Detective Comics from early 1992 where Batman battled the Electrocutioner(it was a 3 parter). When Knightfall hit, I jumped on around part 5 or so. Stayed on batman and detective until the conclusion of knightsend.

-X-men beginning with issue 16(part 11 of x-cutioner's song). It became my first monthly buy and my overall fave book of all time having stuck with it from 1993 all the way to about 2008 with very little issues missing.

I've read and followed many other books since then but those were the ones that got me into it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Don't remember. I think the earliest one that I can recall (although my memory is notoriously shoddy) is Green Lantern Special #2.

Certainly one of the earliest. First comic I really got into collecting in a big way, though, was Amazing Spider-Man. Bit ironic that now I can't stand either Hal or Spider-Man. Funny how things work out.

 

[Norman Osborn]

Pretty sure it was ASM 82 "Then Came Electro:"

 

[JewishHobbit]

Web of Spider-Man 81. To this day one of my favorite comics. My mom bought it at the local grocery store and I loved it. She bought my brother Amazing Spider-Man 351 (team up with Nova vs the Tri-Sentinel) and he didn't care and gave it to me. So the next week I went with mom and she bought me Amazing Spider-Man 352 and Spectacular Spider-Man 182 I think... part 3 of the Child Within with Vermin and Harry Osborn. No turning back after that. I'd rub mom's feet for 20 minutes a night to earn comicbooks on payday. I was hooked!

 

[chamber-music]

the death of superman Funeral for a Friend and X-Force 1

 

[Themanofbat]

The first comic I ever bought with my own money was Werewolf by Night #30...

my OWN first comicbook was Werewolf By night #5.

Brothers in arms...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

More like great-uncles-in-arms.