What was your first comic.

[Themanofbat]

More like great-uncles-in-arms.

Shush... or I'll put you over my knee!!!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Don't you have a school to walk 3 miles to, through the snow, uphill both ways?

 

[SpideyInATree]

Mine was Batman # 424

I remember begging my mom to buy it for me when we were at the supermarket. She finally gave in. I remember this and I did get an issue of Secret Origins with it but I just can't remember the issue number. I just remember that Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Black Canary were in it and they turned into trees.

That issue of Batman was the issue where Jason Todd "supposedly" pushed a guy off the side of a building. It was only a few issues later that Death in a Family started.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm curious: What ages did people start reading comics at? Personally, my dad, my uncle, and my cousin were all into comics and the latter two would let me flip through their comics when I visited, so they were omnipresent for me basically my whole life. Plus, I started drawing comic characters on my own right about the moment I could hold a pencil steady. So there's kind of a blur of various comics that I very vaguely remember being around a lot at a very young age, and the one I mentioned is just one of the earliest that I can clearly remember reading. I have a feeling those of us who concretely remember exactly which comic was their first probably started a bit later.

 

[Norman Osborn]

I'm curious: What ages did people start reading comics at? Personally, my dad, my uncle, and my cousin were all into comics and the latter two would let me flip through their comics when I visited, so they were omnipresent for me basically my whole life. Plus, I started drawing comic characters on my own right about the moment I could hold a pencil steady. So there's kind of a blur of various comics that I very vaguely remember being around a lot at a very young age, and the one I mentioned is just one of the earliest that I can clearly remember reading. I have a feeling those of us who concretely remember exactly which comic was their first probably started a bit later.

I got my first comic before I started school ....in fact it was the summer before I started school....don't ask me why I remember it so well but I do.....we were visiting cousins and my Aunt took us all to some local store and told us we could get a comic each....I never heard of Spider-man at the time and am still not sure why I chose it......been hooked ever since

 

[marcvader]

I was 8 and definitely started drawing right off the bat. It was reinforced by older cousin cuz he had some old Conans and Captain Marvels and was an artist.

 

[Holiday]

Hard for me to say really... It was probably a Bat book, possibly something from Knightfall. It may have also been a GI Joe comic. I can remember GI Joe being the first comic I ever sat down and actually read for sure, but dunno if that was the first I owned.

As for collecting, I never did collect any comics as a kid. I would occasionally get one at a grocery store until they stopped carrying them here. It wasn't until about two years ago when I found out there was a shop nearby that I started reading them again and getting books monthly.

 

[Doc Destruction]

 

[Doc Destruction]

Oh, to answer your question, Corpy...I was 13.

 

[Doc Destruction]

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.

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes

 

[mjdiddy1]

I vaguely remember around the age of seven or eight I was in a grocery store with my mom and I was talking a lot so she grabbed a magazine off the rack and said, "Hush and read!!" It was Marvel's Star Wars (I can't remember what issue) but I remember reading that book over and over and it never got boring until I discovered Detective Comics, X-Men, and Thor. My love affair with comics has continued ever since.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I had Archies and magazine-based ones here and there, but the one on the top of the pile that started my actual collection was Silver Surfer vol. 3 #55.

 

[Themanofbat]

I'm curious: What ages did people start reading comics at?

I probably started around 3 or 4... my grand-mother had old Archies, 50's DC romance comics, and some cheesy 70's Marvel horror comics that I read when I was at her house (considering that I lived with her during my first year, I was over at her house a LOT)...

I remember reading a copy of Tomb of Dracula #16 at my aunt's house, which came out in 1974... which I would have been 6 at the time...

Also, my own son, by the time he was 3, was able to tell me all the villains as well as the issue titles of the first 30 issues of ASM (I gave him my old Marvel Masterworks to look at over and over again...)

My wife started reading Archies, Pink Panther Digests (little flip books), Walt Disney, Hulk & Andy Capp around 4 years old...

So comic book reading happens early in my family...

TSoB's mother (whom was never my wife) can barely read...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh yeah, Archies. I think I must've read a bunch of those before I got into superheroes.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I was 10 years old when I got that Web of Spider-Man up there. Before that I was into baseball cards heavily. But the moment I got that comic those things went by the wayside. I only got back into baseball this season.

 

[taskmaster]

I got my first comics when I used to get Marvel Legends figures as presents. They reprinted important issues from the character's history. I remember the Gambit and Wolverine ones specifically. I was always fond of comicbook characters because of their various cartoons but that was when I actually started reading them. I didn't start collecting until high school though.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I'm curious: What ages did people start reading comics at? Personally, my dad, my uncle, and my cousin were all into comics and the latter two would let me flip through their comics when I visited, so they were omnipresent for me basically my whole life. Plus, I started drawing comic characters on my own right about the moment I could hold a pencil steady. So there's kind of a blur of various comics that I very vaguely remember being around a lot at a very young age, and the one I mentioned is just one of the earliest that I can clearly remember reading. I have a feeling those of us who concretely remember exactly which comic was their first probably started a bit later.

When I got that issue of Batman # 424 I was probably about seven going on eight at the time, because that was 1988 I think? Well, I was about that age range. I had that comic forever and beat it to hell because I read it so much. I would go over a friends house and read his comics every now and then, that's how I read Death in the Family.

A year after that my grandma got me a trade paper back, they weren't trades back then just collections, and it was Spider-Man. Reprinted Amazing Fantasy # 15 I remember and it reprinted those two page spreads where it highlighted one of Spider-Man's powers. There were pin ups of the villains, I remember. It also reprinted another issue, # 60 something. I just remember that it had The Chameleon in it and John Romita did the artwork.

It wasn't until I was about 12 that I started buying comics on a weekly basis.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I'm curious: What ages did people start reading comics at? I have a feeling those of us who concretely remember exactly which comic was their first probably started a bit later.

I was into Superman from the films and the Superfriends so I didn't know he was in comic books until later, I had a Star Wars comic which I just looked at the pictures because I couldn't read yet.

But the collecting buzz came in the 4th grade when a friend brought three G.I.Joe comics to school and I read them and was shocked at how diffreent it was from the cartoon.

 

[mre]

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!

No ****! This was my first comic too! My mom got it for me at a garage sale.
Web of Spider-Man 81 was a great story... I agree with you, one of the best I have read. I loved the story of the brothers, and the inner monologue of the one brother when he sees Spider-Man but was too afraid to call out to him.

 

[TimBisley]

So, what is the secret of Bloodshed?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The secret was that no one cared.

 

[Still A ThorFan]

It was a Thor comic from around 92 or something, when Eric Masterson was Thor and he was fueding with Bloodaxe. I have it in a box, I think it was issue 350.

 

[Spider-Gnome]

Age? While I got the odd Abbott & Costello, Disney's Robin Hood, and even a World's Finest with Batman & Superman, I was 8 when I started reading and collecting (as mentioned starting with Marvel Team-Up #7 & ASM #120).

 

[Manic]

When I was a kid, my mom used to get comic book bundles from Costco. I'm not sure which I got first-- the bundle that included the issue of Reign of Supermen where Clark gets his full powers back, or the bundle that had an issue of What The--?! featuring Forbush Man.

 

[Spider-Man '92]

I'm pretty sure my first was ASM #392. Would make sense as I've been an avid web-head for my entire life.