What was your first comic.

[fifthfiend]

Some Captain America comic. With um, Diamondback in it.

 

[Karelia]

If graphic novels count, then I got Iron Man: Extremis some time after I saw the film.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Some Captain America comic. With um, Diamondback in it.

 

[fifthfiend]

I think Diamondback was on a cruise ship, and the red skull was paying guys to dress up like Captain America so that he could kill them while wearing a loincloth.

The cruise ship was a cruise for female villains, and in the end it turns out to be a trap left specifically for Diamondback, laid by um.. Lady Dragon? Snapdragon? ...Lady Snapdragon?

And MODOK.

So that was my first exposure to MODOK.

 

[fifthfiend]

Actually come to stop and think about it my first first comic was probably the Ninja Turtles.

My first Marvel/DC comic was definitely that one though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think Diamondback was on a cruise ship, and the red skull was paying guys to dress up like Captain America so that he could kill them while wearing a loincloth.

The cruise ship was a cruise for female villains, and in the end it turns out to be a trap left specifically for Diamondback, laid by um.. Lady Dragon? Snapdragon? ...Lady Snapdragon?

And MODOK.

So that was my first exposure to MODOK.

What was it about that era in Cap and aquatic stuff? One of my earliest memories of Captain America's comic was the Communist Red Skull hanging out in the pool with Viper, Crossbones, and Mother Night.

 

[fifthfiend]

I just assume whoever was writing it really enjoyed, e.g., cruise ships full of scantily clad supervillainesses.

 

[hippie_hunter]

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.

16. I started off with TPBs since I've always loved superheroes when I was growing up. My favorite movies when I was a kid were the Batman movies and I loved Spider-Man, X-Men, and whatnot. My favorite TV shows were BTAS, STAS, Batman Beyond, X-Men, Spider-Man, Power Rangers, etc. I had a bunch of Batman and Power Rangers toys.

So I thought, why not just get into where they started off with. So I was at Barnes and Noble and got Batman: Year One. I just kept going and going reading more and more Batman TPBs, then I got into Teen Titans, then I simply started buying single issues starting with the Crisis of Conscience arc in JLA.

At 22, I'm still the youngest regular customer at my comic book shop, excluding kids who stop by once a month to pick up Sonic comics.

 

[runawayboulder]

It was the later years of Mark Gruenwald's run. The arc was called The Superia Strategem and involved Superia rounding up a female supervillain army in some wacky plot involving Thundra and a nuclear missile that was gonna turn all of the men in the world to women. It wasn't his best work compared to Cap Quits, The Bloodstone Hunt and Streets of Poison. After this arc it was on to stuff like CapWolf and Fighting Chance.

The plot device involving the Red Skull killing guys dressed as Cap dated back to Cap #350 when he came back in a cloned body of Steve. It was some kind of twisted training he was doing to stay in shape.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

"Cap-Wolf" was one of the earliest full Captain America arcs I read. I will always have a soft spot for it in my heart.

 

[mre]

So, what is the secret of Bloodshed?

There wasn't really a secret about him. He was a jackass who forced his brother to break the law. I think the brother went to jail, and Bloodshed skipped town. The brother got out, and started to live a normal life, but was haunted by his past.
Then Bloodshed comes back, this time as a super villain, and his brother is conflicted.
It's actually a great issue, I recommend it.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Ricky and Duane were brothers, Duane the pushy one and Ricky the timid one. They both got caught carjacking by Spidey and left for the cops. Duane built a grudge and skipped town while Ricky did his time and got out of that lifestyle. He built a life for himself hiding from what he'd once done but he always felt like Spider-Man was watching him, he was always looking over his shoulder. Then one day Duane comes back into Ricky's life as Bloodshed (having been experimented on by the military and now working for Bazen of old Darkhawk fame). He tries pulling Ricky back into it by helping him rob Ricky's work full of cash. He's a good guy and conflicted but terrified of asking Spider-Man for help, etc. And the story goes from there. Of course, Bloodshed knows Spider-Man and Spider-Man has no idea who the guy is... so that's where the mystery is.

He also showed up not long after in an issue of Spider-Man Unlimited in a pretty good issue. Then he vanished from comics alltogether until the Civil War Heroes for Hire issue 1 in the background as a random villain, and he's shown up here and there in the background in random comics with Mr. Negative I think. I think it's him because I never buy the issues, so likely it's Spider-Man comics.

It's a really good done in one issue that actually has depth. If it came out these days it'd be fantastic compared to so much dragged out depthless comics.

 

[Themanofbat]

You cab blame the trade market for that... everybody wants a nice done in 6 issues storyline with no concept of an on going soap opera...

 

[Iron_Stark]

Great issue

I liked Iron Man ever since getting the Secret Wars action figure, but never collected comics until a few years later.

 

[Union Jack]

i think one of my first comics was either the real ghostbusters or ninja turtles.
then spider-woman for some reason.

 

[Mace Dolex]

Interesting tidbit as to how I got into Batman in 1987 through a series of Spanish reprints that reprinted stuff from the early 80's so I got issues with Jason Todd and Killer Croc's first appearance with the latter having killed Jason's circus parents.

While living in Ecuador not all comic books arrive there so I was oblivious to DC's Crisis On Infinte Earths that changed a good portion of the DC universe.

But lucky there was a newstand that sold English Batman comics so I pick up Batman 410 and was confused as to how Jason Todd was now a street punk and Two-Face killed his father.

 

[NightBeetle]

http://www.comicvine.com/the-amazing-spider-man/49-2127/

The Amazing Spider-Man #341

 

[Rambo, John J]

As a kid I'd read my older brothers' Star Trek and Star Wars graphic novels. I'd also read Asterix and Obelix and my folks got me the Beano and Dandy (UK weekly kids comics) every week without fail. One year, my mum got me Batman: the Dailies as a Christmas present.

So it seems strange given that all my friends and even family assume that I've been reading comics since... forever; but the first comic that I bought as an adult with a concious decision to actually begin reading and collecting 'these comic things' was Ultimate Spider-Man #9 back in 2001. Been hooked ever since.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, I used to read some Beano back in the day too. One of my relatives used to bring them back from other countries. Little Lulu, too. And my doctor's office as a kid has a bunch of Babar and Tintin stuff.

 

[Iron Man]

The first Marvel/DC comic I ever read was in one of the UK's Collector Editions (monthly editions that put three comics together and are usually about one or two years behind the current storylines; for example, right now in the Essential X-Men CE, they're just coming out of "Messiah Complex"). It was a Spider-Man CE, can't remember exactly what it was called, but it had Amazing Spider-Man #17 and Peter Parker: Spider-Man #22 in it. They both dealt with the death of Sandman after Venom took a chunk out of him, as well as the Secret Six turning on one another, and I loved both stories. There was a classic tale from an earlier decade thrown in there too, but I can't remember what it was. The next comic I got was a copy of Ultimate X-Men #3, I believe (although they were printed differently in the UK too, so I think it was #5 and #6 in American terms).

 

[Tiny Tim]

First comic ever? Probably 2000AD, can't remember which prog though.

First Marvel comic? Probably either Spider-Man or Deadpool from back in the 90s.

First DC comic? Batman: The Long Halloween.

 

[Themanofbat]

Man, I just realized that my beginner stuff was all Marvel....

As far as DC goes, I read a LOT of DC romance comics from the 50's around 1971/72, but I think I remember buying/reading a Batman comic circa 1976 with the Underworld Olympics....

I think it was Batman #273...

 

[JewishHobbit]

http://www.comicvine.com/the-amazing-spider-man/49-2127/

The Amazing Spider-Man #341

Ooooooh, love this issue, and the next one with the Scorpion. The prelude to this and the final issue were decent but those two issues stuck out for me.

 

[runawayboulder]

I remember everyone hated that arc at the time. The big complaint that it was Pete wanting to quit being Spidey for the umpteenth time. Those kinda stories for him are generational, I've read about 3 in my lifetime. Overall it was decent. Even back then SM fans were never happy. Carnage was only 2 years away when that came out. No wonder why everyone embraced him......

 

[BillPardy]

"Spider-Man in Canada #4:Chaos in Calgary"... they gave it away for free at the A&P... It was about bike safety.