Your very first comic books? Mine have you read them?

[Ite]

What were the comics you remember first starting out with?

Here are mine.

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On another note does anyone have or read any of these books? The comics I was introduced to the comic world with?

[JeffreyWKramer]

The first comics I ever read were some Gold Key ones - either Disney books or ones featuring some licensed cartoon character. I don't recall any specifics.

The comic that actually hooked me on comics was the issue of SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES that introduced Erg-1, later renamed Wildfire.

[Ite]

Most of those comics you see in my links are all comics I found at Price Chopper when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool to start collecting comics, I think it was around 1987,1988, or 1989 judging by the times these comics came out.

I wonder if anyone else has any of these comics.

[Sam T.]

I have the Marvel ones...

[Ite]

I have the Marvel ones...

All of them? I updated with two more.

[Sam T.]

All of them? I updated with two more.



Yes, all of them!

[Ite]

Yes, all of them!

How old are you?

[Jared H.]

Very first comic I read I got from a Batman signing at Big Cheese Pizza around the time of the Tim Burton movie. It featured Batman fighting a flaming-skull-dude in a sewer, a villian who I have never seen in a Batman comic since.

[Sam T.]

How old are you?


I'm 34 yrs old, why??

[Nikita]

Hmmm....I guess it was the early 80's when I started reading comics as a kid. Lots of Wonder Woman, Dazzler, Amethyst, etc. I always tried to look for comics that had cool female characters even at a young age. I did read Batman, Spiderman, and some of the other main heros back then too.

[Michael P]

My brother and I had been playing out back, the kind of play between brothers that eventually turns into fighting, and somewhere in there my head smacked up against the back of the house, and I had to go to the hospital and get some stitches in my scalp. And while I was recuperating overnight, the first time I'd spent the night someplace my family wasn't, my mom got me these to read.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=75539&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=44637&zoom=4

And that's where it all started.

Thanks, Mom.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I think this was mine. If not, a cover that looked very similar to it.

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=0785120467

[diablo7]

mine was a treasury starwars and a treasury avengers that was left in the house we moved into by the old owners...i was maybe 7...after that old war comics and capt americas at the barber shop i used to go to

[jaguarshark]

I started 'reading' comics so early that I really can't be certain, but I've narrowed it down to either Byrne's MOS#1 or an issue of Transformers. I think I was watching all the superhero cartoons before I got into the comics, but again, this is all from that "so-young-I-can't-remember-any-of-it" phase, so it's hard to say.

Edit: To answer Ite's question, I've got the JLE issues, I think that's about it.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

[QUOTE]What were the comics you remember first starting out with?

Here are mine.

http://www.comicspriceguide.com/include/resize.asp?path=D:\users\cpg\comicspriceguide.com\ www\images\covers\656\11600.jpg&width=225

http://www.comicspriceguide.com/include/resize.asp?path=D:\users\cpg\comicspriceguide.com\ www\images\covers\2397\98867.jpg&width=225

Just these 2 outta what you listed are what I own.

[Kevin Vetter]

Haven't read any of the ones you listed. I don't know what my first one was but the first comics I got were x-men classic 83, wolverine 54, 57, 64, 68, 69, fantasic four 368 and most of the x-cutioners song crossover. The vast majority of my comics I got a few years ago from a friend so now I have older issues than what I mentioned and there was probally a 10 year gap between when I got the listed comics and what I got from my friend so I remember my originals were, just had to look at my list to get exact numbers.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

My 1st comic ever was Batman #489. It was when Azrael 1st posed as Batman since Bruce was so weakened down.

[Frodo-X]

My first comics were:

What If....Hulk had Killed Wolverine

X-men Adventures #8

X-men #17
X-men #18
X-men #19

[Chris N]

On another note does anyone have or read any of these books? The comics I was introduced to the comic world with?

I've read all the Marvel books and most of the Supermans.

My first comic ever was:

Avengers #309. (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/CocaC0la99/Avengers309.jpg)

Shortly thereafter I got some comics for Xmas. I don't remember all of them but I know they included:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/CocaC0la99/Avengers208.jpg
Silver Surfer #15 (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/CocaC0la99/silversurfer15.jpg)
Silver Surfer #28 (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/CocaC0la99/SilverSurgfer28.jpg)

My first comic I purchased in a comic store came soon after:

Transformers #2 (http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o1/CocaC0la99/Transformers2.jpg)

[jaguarshark]

My 1st comic ever was Batman #489. It was when Azrael 1st posed as Batman since Bruce was so weakened down.

Man, I bought that issue on holiday when I was a kid, and must have read it a hundred times. I didn't know anything about the whole Bane/Azrael/Knightfall story before that, and from then on I was hooked. I'm guessing it had a similar effect on you, seeing as you're still reading?

[Ite]

It's cool to see alot of you guys started around the same time as me.

[Chris N]

Man, I bought that issue on holiday when I was a kid, and must have read it a hundred times. I didn't know anything about the whole Bane/Azrael/Knightfall story before that, and from then on I was hooked. I'm guessing it had a similar effect on you, seeing as you're still reading?

Knightfall Book 1 (everything up to Batman being broken) was my second trade ever. Trial of Galactus was the first.

I love the issue where Bane breaks his back. To this day I point to it to illustrate the strength of the medium.

I'd been reading comics for a few years then, but I think I read comics today because of 4 stories I read in my first few years:

1) Infinity Gauntlet
2) X-Men #1-3 (1991)
3) Avengers #343-375, the Gatherers Saga
4) Batman: Knightfall, Book 1

[jaguarshark]

Knightfall Book 1 (everything up to Batman being broken) was my second trade ever. Trial of Galactus was the first.

I love the issue where Bane breaks his back. To this day I point to it to illustrate the strength of the medium.

I'd been reading comics for a few years then, but I think I read comics today because of 4 stories I read in my first few years:

1) Infinity Gauntlet
2) X-Men #1-3 (1991)
3) Avengers #343-375, the Gatherers Saga
4) Batman: Knightfall, Book 1

Yeah, I loved Knightfall: Book 1. It's a really good example, to me, of a big event storyline that doesn't suck, is well paced and plotted and usually makes sense. I'd put 'Reign of the Supermen' in that category too, but not, say, 'Death of' or 'Funeral For', which also played a big part in my childhood reading.

X-Men #1 was one of my first exposures to the X-Men, too, although I didn't get it until a fair while after it came out.

[Chris N]

Yeah, I loved Knightfall: Book 1. It's a really good example, to me, of a big event storyline that doesn't suck, is well paced and plotted and usually makes sense. I'd put 'Reign of the Supermen' in that category too, but not, say, 'Death of' or 'Funeral For', which also played a big part in my childhood reading.

X-Men #1 was one of my first exposures to the X-Men, too, although I didn't get it until a fair while after it came out.

Somehow I'm comfortable saying Knightfall Book 1, the prelude and parts 1-11 is awesome, but Book 2, parts 12-19 is mediocre at best.

[jaguarshark]

Somehow I'm comfortable saying Knightfall Book 1, the prelude and parts 1-11 is awesome, but Book 2, parts 12-19 is mediocre at best.

To me, they just did such a good job of building up (or should that be breaking down?) Bruce's downfall that everything after that was always going to be anti-climatic. The fact that it was spread out over such an unmanagable amount of issues didn't help (I think it says something about this storytelling sprawl that, despite being a hugely popular story, Knightquest/Knightsearch has still not been traded).

[Chris N]

To me, they just did such a good job of building up (or should that be breaking down?) Bruce's downfall that everything after that was always going to be anti-climatic. The fact that it was spread out over such an unmanagable amount of issues didn't help (I think it says something about this storytelling sprawl that, despite being a hugely popular story, Knightquest/Knightsearch has still not been traded).

Especially since they traded Knightfall and Knightsend, just leaving the middle out. Yeah, it was unmanageable, and you're exactly right.

Yeah, I have little else to say, you're just exactly right about Bruce's breaking being so climactic that there was nothing else they could do, except maybe drag the story on for 80 more issues.

[Jeff Brady]

My first genuine bought-in-a-comic-shop comic was Batman #459. It was six months after BATMAN hit the silver screen, and a week after finding out that my town had a comic shop in it.

http://www.dcuguide.com/Bm/Bm_459.php

[Chris N]

My first genuine bought-in-a-comic-shop comic was Batman #459. It was six months after BATMAN hit the silver screen, and a week after finding out that my town had a comic shop in it.

http://www.dcuguide.com/Bm/Bm_459.php

I love that comic.

[jessecuster3]

My first was this:
http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/bhoc/images/sooomc.jpg


My cousin gave it to me, the cover was shreds, he had written his name in crayon on the first page, I must have been about 8.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Man, I bought that issue on holiday when I was a kid, and must have read it a hundred times. I didn't know anything about the whole Bane/Azrael/Knightfall story before that, and from then on I was hooked. I'm guessing it had a similar effect on you, seeing as you're still reading?

Yep.....it started me out so to speak. I became a huge fan of the meduim with Knightfall. I slowly branched out after that. My all-time favorite Batman issue since I started is actually Batman #490 where Batman faced the Riddler. Jim Aparo was The Batman artist for a reason.

[Jeff Brady]

My first genuine bought-in-a-comic-shop comic was Batman #459. It was six months after BATMAN hit the silver screen, and a week after finding out that my town had a comic shop in it.

http://www.dcuguide.com/Bm/Bm_459.php

I must be on crack, because that book came out 18 months after BATMAN did, not six. Hmmm.

[Chris N]

I must be on crack, because that book came out 18 months after BATMAN did, not six. Hmmm.

Last time I trust anything you say. You're facts seem as reliable as certain Land supporters.

[Sophisticated_Gamer]

The very first comic book I read was about 9 months ago, it was spider man the End...I thought it was ok :D

[TimGunn]

The first I read was an issue of X-Men classics that reprinted a Rogue story (probably around Ucanny 180-something). Rogue was flying home after the X-men had fought Fing Fang Foom in Japan, and she gets confused b/c she has Carol Danvers memories. She ends up going to Carol's old boyfriends house and he is all freaked out.

The first regular issue I read was X-Men 22(?) which was the second half of Fabian messing up Psylocke's transformation to a ninja. It was a very confusing issue to start on, but I've gotten every issue since.

I wanted to start reading b/c I liked the X-Men cartoon on saturday morning tv.

[Magneto_X]

Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog #5.

The second was Archie's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #48.

[Chris N]

The first I read was an issue of X-Men classics that reprinted a Rogue story (probably around Ucanny 180-something). Rogue was flying home after the X-men had fought Fing Fang Foom in Japan, and she gets confused b/c she has Carol Danvers memories. She ends up going to Carol's old boyfriends house and he is all freaked out.

The first regular issue I read was X-Men 22(?) which was the second half of Fabian messing up Psylocke's transformation to a ninja. It was a very confusing issue to start on, but I've gotten every issue since.

I wanted to start reading b/c I liked the X-Men cartoon on saturday morning tv.

I think you're talking about Classic X-Men #86, reprinting Uncanny X-Men 182. Good stuff.

And that Psylocke/Revance stuff is confusing no matter where you began reading X-Men!

[Chris N]

Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog #5.

The second was Archie's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #48.

Sonic is one of the better comics out there as far as being aimed at kids but great for adults, IMO. There's a few classics ahead of it (Bone, Leave it to Chance etc.) but Sonic is a great ongoing one that I never hear anyone appreciate.

[jaguarshark]

Sonic is one of the better comics out there as far as being aimed at kids but great for adults, IMO. There's a few classics ahead of it (Bone, Leave it to Chance etc.) but Sonic is a great ongoing one that I never hear anyone appreciate.

The current JLU book is great for that, too. I hope that in ten years time, a thread like this will feature a lot of DC (and comics in general) fans talking about how they got started with JLU. Honestly, the most recent issue- the Phantom Stranger Christmas story- was the balls. I don't know what kid wouldn't get hooked on comics from stuff like that.

[king mob]

My first comics were Lion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_%28comic%29), probably some Asterix and TinTin and early Marvel UK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_UK) titles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mighty_World_Of_Marvel).
It wasn't til i was about 7 or 8 that i started reading American imports and my first ones of those were probably and issue of JLA at around issue 100.

[twilight]

One of Chris Claremont's Fantastic Four issues from after Heroes Reborn.

[Mikl C]

Storm and Yukio and Gambit vs. The Phalanx.
That was a really good issue actually.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

One of Chris Claremont's Fantastic Four issues from after Heroes Reborn.

CC never really gets the props for that run. I have to admit I loved seeing Sue's grown up daughter from an alternate time line and the whole Reed stuck in Doom's armor storyline.

[Spackling Compound]

On another note does anyone have or read any of these books? The comics I was introduced to the comic world with?

Nice collection.
Sadly, compared to your first comics, mine were basically written on papyrus or carried on through oral tradition.....

[Matthew E]

I think this (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=34816) might have been where I climbed aboard. Not the first comic I ever read--God knows what that might have been--but the first one I bought with my own money.

[DarkBlade]

Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power were my first comics.

No, not the full size He-Man comics, the ones that came with the toys. ^_^

These:

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/motu/comic_pages/00079120/01-02.shtml

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/pop/comic_pages/00075220/03-04.shtml

The ones I had as a kid are long gone.. I've been trying to track them down on ebay and stuff. I've gotten some of the He-Man ones, but the She-Ra tend to be more expensive.

There's some names in there.. the MotU one I linked there was written by Steven Grant, pencilled by Bruce Timm, and lettered by Stan Sakai.

[Ite]

Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power were my first comics.

No, not the full size He-Man comics, the ones that came with the toys. ^_^

These:

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/motu/comic_pages/00079120/01-02.shtml

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/pop/comic_pages/00075220/03-04.shtml

The ones I had as a kid are long gone.. I've been trying to track them down on ebay and stuff. I've gotten some of the He-Man ones, but the She-Ra tend to be more expensive.

There's some names in there.. the MotU one I linked there was written by Steven Grant, pencilled by Bruce Timm, and lettered by Stan Sakai.

LOL! If you count those then they were also my first comics, well the Masters ones, but I didn't really think to count them.

Also the other guy in this thread said he started out with Infinity Gauntlet and X-men #1-3, those were also some of my early readings after the first years.

[jaguarshark]

Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power were my first comics.

No, not the full size He-Man comics, the ones that came with the toys. ^_^

These:

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/motu/comic_pages/00079120/01-02.shtml

http://www.he-man.org/primary_sects/comics/html/mini_comics/pop/comic_pages/00075220/03-04.shtml

The ones I had as a kid are long gone.. I've been trying to track them down on ebay and stuff. I've gotten some of the He-Man ones, but the She-Ra tend to be more expensive.

There's some names in there.. the MotU one I linked there was written by Steven Grant, pencilled by Bruce Timm, and lettered by Stan Sakai.

I didn't think to include mini-comics like that... I did some digging, and my first comics might actually have been the mini-comics that came with the Superpowers Collection toys. And yeah, I was hooked on those MotU mini-comics, too.

[Rob Allen]

It's funny, this topic has come up on the GCD list also. My answer here is the same as I just posted there - I started with Amazing Spider-Man #7, "The Return of the Vulture" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; cover date December 1963, on-sale date 10 September 1963.

Yes, that was a long time ago.