What was your first/favourite DC comic?

[RachelRules]

What was the first and/or favourite DC comic that you ever read/owned?

For me, it was a Justice League (though I grew to enjoy Legion of Super Heroes much more). I don't know the number but it involved the Watchtower and beaming in and out of it. I don't have that issue anymore. It had an ad for a Phantom Stranger comic in it that showed a tree reaching for a running man. I was all of 4 or 5 at the time (which would make it probably 1968 or 1969) and the trees reminded me of trees we passed on our way to my grandmother's and, after awhile, it just freaked me out too much and I threw the comic out. Wish I still had it (or at least knew the issue number).

As for favourite, well . . . anything Legion or Wonder Woman. I've been collecting both since I was 6 or 7. My favourite Legion stories were those featuring my favourite characters, Princess Projectra, Shadow Lass, and Duo Damsel. As for Wonder Woman, one of my favourite story arcs was from the 1970s with Diana's 12 labours to get back in the JLA.

Any fond memories of DC past out there?

[janthonyh]

I can't remember which one was first, but it was definitly between Tales of the Greean Lantern Corps #1 and an issue of Wonder Woman that had a Huntress back-up.

[KYLeo71]

The very 1st DC comic I ever bought (or, more accurately, picked out myself instead of having it picked for me and given to me) was Justice League of America #190. As far as the DC comics that were my earliest to read religiously and were my favorites, it would have to be a 4-way tie between Justice League of America, Legion of Super-Heroes, New Teen Titans, and All-Star Squadron.

[Superheroic]

I'm not 100% positive but I think the first DC title I bought off the stands was Crisis on Infinite Earth's #1.

[Paiute 1]

Justice League, started reading it, first series #101 and have always had a soft spot through most of there incarnations, even to a lesser extent there Detoit days.

[FanboyStranger]

I was a Marvel Zombie growing up, then stopped reading comics throughout most of my teens. When I came back to comics in the early '90s, I went back to Marvel exclusively for a few years, but eventually I picked up my first DC comic: Preacher: Blood and Whiskey solely on its cover and the description on the back ("...hard drinking Irish vampire?" How can you not pick it up?) After that, I went through a phase where I tracked down all DC and Vertigo back issues of quality, be it Doom Patrol, The Spectre, Starman, etc.

[Avenger08]

Okay, a couple of years ago when i was 6 my brother gave me all of his old comics and the first ones i ever read were Batman and The Justice Society of America #10. They were my all time favorite comics. The batman was the first issue of Knightfall and i still remember Mr. Zsasz from the issue where he cuts the lines into him for each of his victims and the women who he had kidnapped (come to think of it it was a little mature of a book for a 6 year old). Also, i had thought that the Justice Society was the Justice Guild of America from the Justice League show.

[F1uke]

I started reading my grandfathers comics from the basement when I was a kid, but what really got me into comics was Identity Crisis.

[AdamYJ]

I don't remember exactly, but one of the biggies was Blue Beetle #1 from the '80s Len Wein series. I bought it from a bin at a used book store. I also got a bunch of Hawk and Dove comics from the Kesel run at about the same time.

[Violently Apathetic]

Identity Crisis was my first venture into the DCU. Yeah....

[Shellhead]

My first DC comics were Kamandi #5 and Brave & the Bold #109 (Batman & the Demon team up).

[Paladin573]

Maybe OMAC #3

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[Jaded Devil]

Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #3.

[buttler]

I don't remember what my first DC comic was, but the first series I was fanatical about picking up as a kid in the '70s was DC Comics Presents, although I was also a faithful reader of JLA, Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Brave & the Bold.

[Sean Walsh]

My first DC comic was the BATMAN: YEAR THREE storyarc from BATMAN back in the late 1980's.

My favorite...........Walt Simonson's ORION. The whole thing. :smile:

[Rev. Calibos]

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/45004343634.24.gif

I grew up, like a lot of kids I imagine, with the notion that the JLA was comprised of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.

So when I found this and read it I was perplexed, perplexed but interested.

When did THIS team pop up? Who is this other Green Lantern and why is he such a dick? Is this a younger Flash? When did he show up? Why are they fighting so much, aren't they supposed to be friends?

I was hooked. It was an interesting time in JLA history and this was my doorway into it.

[Phantom Druid]

The first DC title I really got into was their revival of Shazam. I vaguely remembered a t.v. show when I was a kid, but I was so little all I could remember about it was a kid with big hair and the big yellow lightning bolt. My dad must have watched it or something. For some reason, it stuck in my mind and I began to wonder "who was that guy? And what ever happened to him? So I did some research, found out who he was, and went back and started reading the 70's Shazam series, along with some miscellaneous Batman comics. I remember growing up and all my friends were reading X-Men. Gambit and Wolverine were really popular, while I was reading Shazam, lol. My friends weren't into him and it made it real hard for me to trade comics with them, hah. Oh well, I still love Cap. He is a beacon of light in a world full of grim, gritty, and angst ridden heroes. Breaking away from the norm and reading a good Cap story once in awhile can be refreshing. That's why I'm looking forward to Grant Morrison's All-Star Captain Marvel

[Avenger08]

I know i have allready said my first comic, but my favorite DC comic has allways been Justice Society of America #1 (vol. 3 i believe). Just, great book.

[Babylon23]

My first DC comic was an Aussie reprint of JLA vol. 1 #100, featuring the JLA/JSA travelling through time searching for the 7 Soldiers of Victory. Although I knew the JLA characters from Superfriends I was more interested in the JSA. This issue led me to pick up issue 1 of All-Star Squadron, the first series I regularly collected. I still love the JSA and All-Star characters and will pick up anything featuring them.

My favourite DC books are Kirby's 4th world titles, especially New Gods. An amazing series that I stumbled on when I was 8. I saw the "Orion fights for Earth" cover and just had to buy it.

[scandalsavage]

A cousin handed me a big stack of old Lois Lanes and Batman family.

[Lusus420]

My first DC issue was Batman 436, but some of my earliest "DC memories" are from Justice League Europe. Man, those issues were funny....

[Carter Hall]

I think the first DC comic I ever read was an issue of the original Mark Waid run on the Flash when Wally was up against Abra-Cadabra (and if I recall, he's peaking into a top hat on the cover). But the first DC story I went out and actively started buying was actually the aftermath of the Death of Superman, and the very intriguing Reign of the Supermen storyline. Still loved all of Death/Return. Great stuff.

[celticguy]

I am pretty sure it was a copy of Worlds finest. I think I was only allowed to buy one and rather than chose between supes andf Bats I got them both plus a back story I forget of who.

[Wilder Midnight]

Comic books are a very big part of my earliest memories. I always say the teen Titans...I remember watching the filmation cartoon and then always as a reward for completing my weekly piano lesson my dad would stop and let me buy a few comic books...among them a handful of DC Superstars and Super team Family that featured reprints of Teen Titans stories from the first series. I must have been in the first and second grade for those.

I had the cousin with the awesome comic book collection...it was mostly exclusively silver age DC comics and he had all the biggies. I was barely allowed to look at his comics let alone read them. when my mom would visit i was allowed to have one comic of his choosing and i had to give it back when finished.

I hated him.

I also remember comic books at the barber shop...for the most part these were "funny books"...archies and harvey comics...but tossed into the mix was a lot of silver age dc as well...all very well read and beat up copies of justice league, adventure comics and batman. i remember pretending to have to go to the bathroom so i could sneak through the boxes of stored comics the barber kept there.

[bongoes]

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(Actually it was a few issues before, but I couldn't find the picture.)

I didn't really read DC regularly until recently. I only had a few DC comics, and I read mostly Marvel.

[xorn87]

Superman #400 and Batman #400, My dad gave me this book and I was hooked on DC after that. I still have them too.
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[Shazam]

It was probably a Justice League or Legion book, but I started reading DC books regularly with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.
Prior to that, it was mainly Marvel books.

[Phantom Druid]

It was probably a Justice League or Legion book, but I started reading DC books regularly with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.
Prior to that, it was mainly Marvel books.
Nice avatar & name, that's all I gotta say :cool:

[CBikle]

In the 70's, pretty much all the DC superhero titles were my favorites (especially the 100 page spectaculars).

I guess it'd be a tie between JLA and Secret Society Of Super Villains.

[americocaine]

Batman - Gotham by Gaslight graphic novel

Not necessarily a fave but the first one ever I bought.

[Samy]

Read bunches of Superman and Batman when I was really really young and didn't understand anything. But the first one I read after attaining sentience was an abridged version of LEGENDS. The fact that I loved meeting all the esoteric characters I'd never even heard of, would reflect all across the rest of my life, as I even today still don't understand the perspective of supposed "inaccessibility". I didn't know who Captain Marvel or Guy Gardner were, but I followed the story just fine.

[Street Worm]

1st DC?
Probably a 'World's Finest' in the '60s-
Favorite? (the start of something great)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1a/JSA1.jpg

[Sizzle]

Batman #457

[Dard]

My first DC comic that I can actually remember the content of was a german edition of Green Lantern.
It featured Hal, Green Lantern and Black Canary. Hal was at that time in love with a gypsy called Kari Limbo and they were fighting against a spanish conquistador who was buried alive for centuries. Don't know which issue (or even series) it was from.

Looking back, this was my favourite run of Green Lantern, but there have been many much better DC series since then.

[Timoteo]

Justice League by Giffen and DeMatteis with art by Maguire. Great stuff!

[dumbstruck]

While I had the odd DC issue, the first DC comic that really got me into the DCU was John Byrne's Man of Steel #1.

[4thHorseman]

Adventures of Superman 503 - Cyborg Superman vs Superboy in the ruins of Coast City. Love the issue, and it is still my favorite issue probably.

[Calybos]

Legion #291: "A Sign of Darkness Dawning."

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/superboy/291-1.jpg