What was the first X-book you ever read/owned?

[RachelRules]

Mine was X-Men 128. Since I was about 5 or 6 I had collected/read exclusively DC but came to Marvel with this issue when I was in junior high. Loved the story and the art and it got me completely hooked on the X-Men. Now, I collect anything with a remote connection to the X-Men and have for many years.

[Novaya Havoc]

Thank you for sharing this intimate moment with me, RachelRules.

[MuhollandDriver]

My cats left an intimate moment near my futon this morning.

New Mutants double-sized slumber party issue.

i was hooked.

[Trississ]

New Mutants Annual / X-Men Annual crossover Asgard adventure. Good times!:biggrin:

[Phoenix_Force]

I was hooked on the animated series first (born in 1985 here), and then for my 10th birthday my folks got me a copy of adjectiveless X-Men #1, X-Force v.I #1, and some early issues of Peter David's X-Factor v.I. I read the X-Men book first, and although it wasn't my first exposure to the X-Men it was the first comic of them I read, and I never looked back.

[Agent_Torpor]

Thank you for sharing this intimate moment with me, RachelRules.

I feel closer to everyone already thanks to this intimacy.

[Sgt. Preston]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/BDikman1/uncanny150.jpg

Even reading this at a young age I realized that Storm was actually crying about Kitty's choice of costume.

[Mr_Hellfire]

I bought two at the same time:
Wolverine Origins #5
http://i40.tinypic.com/2ufx94o.jpg
And New X-Men #28
http://www.entrecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/newx-men_23.gif

I bought both because I wanted to see the Emma parts, I really had no idea what was going with either at the time.

[Askani's Flame]

Uncanny X-men Annual 14. Days of Our Future Present.

Set me up for lots of love of the X-Men.

[coconutphone]

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/b/bf/Uncanny_X-Men_206.jpg/300px-Uncanny_X-Men_206.jpg



My first non-kiddie comic book (before I'd been getting He-Man adn Heathcliff comics). I was about 9.

[Mia]

X-men #1 by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee. At the time I was reading Dungeons and Dragons comic book which got cancelled, and the guy at the comic book shop suggested that I try it, but it never took. I only got hooked on the comic book when the cartoon came out and I became familiar with the characters.

[NielsVanEekelen]

Don't recall which was first exactly, but one of these Dutch editions:

X-Mannen #20 (Uncanny X-Men #154-155)
X-Mannen #35 (Uncanny X-Men #174-175)
X-Mannen #123 (Uncanny X-Men #283)
X-Mannen Special #2 (X-Men #3-5)

And I think X-Mannen #98 and 99 (Uncanny #254-255) came shortly after that.

Second-hand back issues were everywhere back then, so my collection grew steadily.

[Agent_Torpor]

I popped my cherry on this little dandy:

http://1407graymalkin.com/Images/uxm167lg.gif

Chuck X bending over and a Brood ripping out? Sold!

[Proteus69]

Mine was UXM #128. I had been a DC reader up until then but this changed it all for me.
Now I'm something of a completist, gotta get 'em all! lol

[passer-by]

Uncanny X-Men #172-173.

[bigbluntz]

My 1st introduction to any X-Men related character was Marvel Comics Presents Wolverine #62. Man those were great books :biggrin: Before that I was mostly into Batman & Spidey :cool: My 1st actual X-Book I picked up was X-Factor #74 which was lead by Havok at the time. Great thing about that issue it was written by Peter Allen David :biggrin: Since then I read X-Factor from #1 and am not ashamed to say I loved the original run. The next X-Book I picked up was X-Men Classic #48 which reprints Uncanny X-Men #145, which was written by Chris Claremont :biggrin: X-Book have always had a spot in my collection since then!!!

[mattbib]

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/97792366288.197.GIF

[darknessatnoon]

http://images.comiccollectorlive.com/covers/26d/26d54117-e091-414a-b698-5f4ce0c43657.jpg

[dogprod]

I'm pretty sure It was X-Men 190-191. I remember buying both in a polybag at a grocery store when I was a kid. That was the arc with Spider man, Vision, Capt America and other Marvel heroes were back in time or something. Seeing them in their period piece costumes was awesome. I didn't pick X-Men up again till the Mutant Massacre, but I was hooked.

[Rubicant]

X-Factor #66. I was aware of the X-Men before this, but I think this is the first issue I ever bought. I was about 12 and on vacation with my family in Maryland. We stopped in a convenience store and got the requisite drinks and candy. I saw this issue and said "Dad, can I get this"? Since he owned comics as a kid, he was cool with it. Portacio's pencils were amazing and I thought these were the best team uniforms in the history of the X-Men. The story itself was awesome because you had the Avengers and the Fantastic Four fighting off the effects of Apocalypse's T-O infection of Ship with X-Factor trapped inside.

http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/x-factor/x-factor66.jpg

[kk1]

New Mutants Special Edition #1, Art Adams and Asgard awesomeness all around.

[AZPolaris]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b113/polaris569/uncanny225.jpg

Strictly a West Coast Avenger reader until this issue. What red blooded teenage boy wouldn't be enamored with Rogue's high-heels:confused: The Australian years are when i got to know the X-Men. I only knew Kitty and Kurt through Excalibur, and Storm was "The Leader" of the team as fas as I knew. Didn't get into back issues until much later.

[adamthered]

Uncanny 196 and 197. I received them in a 50 pack of Marvel comics that use to be in the Sears Wishbook when I was 9.

[Prodigy55]

If Ultimate X-Men counts, then it was the first 2 issues. My first 616 X-Men was New Mutants #1 (the second series).

[darknessatnoon]

My first 616 X-Men was New Mutants #1 (the second series).

And you kept reading?

[Prodigy55]

And you kept reading?

Yes, I was 13 and I thought it was adorable.

[Agent_Torpor]

Yes, I was 13 and I thought it was adorable.

Didn't vol. 2 come out in 2003? You are adorable.

[Azure]

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/6/6b/Astonishing_X-Men_Vol_3_1.jpg

[Waterlily]

Dazzler, the one where she fights evil jazz musicians. I stole it from my sister.

[Agent_Torpor]

Dazzler, the one where she fights evil jazz musicians. I stole it from my sister.

Oh that is great canon. She slips on some roller skates ON HER EVENING PUMPS. LOL!

[yanapryde]

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/thumb/a/af/Uncanny_X-Men_281.jpg/300px-Uncanny_X-Men_281.jpg

[Agent_Torpor]

That alliance was so very, very desparate.

[4sake]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/77/88308-18078-106151-1-new-x-men-vol-2_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/18078-106151-1-new-x-men-vol-2/105-88308/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/57349-10731-90344-1-x-men_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/10731-90344-1-x-men/105-57349/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/66630-10731-99627-1-x-men_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/10731-99627-1-x-men/105-66630/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/63814-3092-96810-1-uncanny-x-men-the_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/3092-96810-1-uncanny-x-men-the/105-63814/)

[Prodigy55]

That alliance was so very, very desparate.

Desperate for fashion counsel.

[justinkos91]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/50270-4605-65727-1-x-men_medium.jpg

[Dagger]

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/176-12.jpg
Yummy JR Jr.

[ExodusCloak]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/77/88308-18078-106151-1-new-x-men-vol-2_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/18078-106151-1-new-x-men-vol-2/105-88308/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/57349-10731-90344-1-x-men_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/10731-90344-1-x-men/105-57349/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/66630-10731-99627-1-x-men_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/10731-99627-1-x-men/105-66630/)

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/63814-3092-96810-1-uncanny-x-men-the_large.jpg (http://www.comicvine.com/3092-96810-1-uncanny-x-men-the/105-63814/)

Oh dear lord, I'm surprised you stayed with the X-Men after reading those 4 issues.

[lockerogue]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/33036-4605-36875-1-x-men_super.jpg

[Dagger]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/33036-4605-36875-1-x-men_super.jpg
♥♥ Oh, I loved that issue!♥♥

[lockerogue]

♥♥ Oh, I loved that issue!♥♥

That issue made me fall in love with Psylocke. I was at the tender age of 8. OMG that was a 10 years ago.

I had fell in love with Rogue after watching TAS.

[4sake]

Oh dear lord, I'm surprised you stayed with the X-Men after reading those 4 issues.

I like those issues for the most part lol :biggrin:

[Dagger]

That issue made me fall in love with Psylocke. I was at the tender age of 8. OMG that was a 10 years ago.

I had fell in love with Rogue after watching TAS.
STFU BITCH! I'm 10 years older than you?!?! Life is not fair.

[lockerogue]

STFU BITCH! I'm 10 years older than you?!?! Life is not fair.

LOL where is gun toting maid Moira when you need her. She knows the tricks of de-aging

[Imraith Nimphais]

http://images.comiccollectorlive.com/covers/26d/26d54117-e091-414a-b698-5f4ce0c43657.jpg

Oh! Goddess!
This was my very first as well...I fell madly in love with Storm and madly in lust with Colossus.:biggrin:

[Dagger]

LOL where is gun toting maid Moira when you need her. She knows the tricks of de-aging
STFU. I'm already late for my latest botox injections! lol.

[Prodigy55]

Oh dear lord, I'm surprised you stayed with the X-Men after reading those 4 issues.

Academy X #5 was legendary.

[Agent_Torpor]

Oh! Goddess!
This was my very first as well...I fell madly in love with Storm and madly in lust with Colossus.:biggrin:

That's Paul Motherfu*** Smith goodness right there on the cover. Best x-artist EVER.

[Imraith Nimphais]

That's Paul Motherfu*** Smith goodness right there on the cover. Best x-artist EVER.

I agree, wholeheartedly.:smile:

[Filthy Mutie]

Uncanny X-Men Annual #12.

I know--random, right?

[Disco Jess Minge]

My first issue was X-Men number one that I got at Wal*Mart. It was one of those packs that had a bunch of issues all in one. Me being the clueless noob, I didn't know that all seven issues of X-Men were the same, they just had different covers. I was pissed, my dad was pissed since he spent ten dollars on it (which was a lot of money to spend on comics in 1992.)

Plus, I didn't understand the stories but I loved the artwork and was oddly curious about Psylocke's nipples in the danger room sequence.

[CmX]

The first X-Men comic I have ever bought was the one with Psylocke, Gambit and Revanche on the cover. I was like five years old. What a little gay kid.

[jrrd]

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/97794297722.12.gif

My first was X-Men #12 back in the early 90s.....the issue right after Jim Lee left. I was 13 and thought it was a great story. Isn't it funny how a lot of fans get hooked on X-Men, despite starting off on a mediocre issue?

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/97792366288.174.gif

Shortly after, I bought my first "really old" back issue....Uncanny #174. Now THAT was the issue that really sucked me in. Besides the great Paul Smith art, it had Storm with a mohawk, Kitty and Colossus making out, and the return of Dark Phoenix?! I was clueless about this "old" team of X-Men, but I knew that issue was definitely a FAR better read for a newcomer to comics than the polybagged X-Cutioner's Song crossover that I was trying to figure out.

[psycwave]

I was at the store and i bought this gem

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll105/Bedlam_2008/uncanny217.jpg

Mind you it was 98 and my only other interaction with the X-men had been the TAS cartoon so I was kinda WTF? But as time progressed I caught myself up and became the X-fan I am today.

[Sunbird]

http://www.nexternal.com/dreamland/images/xfactor_annual_6.jpg
Got it as a giveaway, and it introduced me to many great characters from X-Factor (original) X-Force and the Muir Islanders. Prompted me to buy my first comic which was
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/x-force/24-1.jpg

Which at my impressionable age made me think Syrin was the sexiest thing ever.

[Lusus420]

My first issue was Uncanny 244 back in 1989...awesome! This was just after Inferno and just before Jim Lee came on, plus the first appearance of Jubilee, so I think I chose a good time to catch on!

[Perfection/Emma 2]

Savage Finale with Wolverine and Rogue versus Sauron. My very first X-Book my baby brother gave to me for my birthday and ever since, I became a hardcore Marvel fan

[Anodyne]

Mine was Uncanny X-Men #112. Marvel was offering a 4-for-the-price-of-3 subscription deal. I needed something to fill my quota, and I'd heard good things about Claremont's X-Men, so I picked up a trial copy at my local comic book store. I was hooked

[ZNOP]

My first X-Title was...

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/95-2.jpg

[twbasketcase]

Hee. For me it was X-Men (Vol 2) #1 & 2, X-Force (Vol 1) # 54 & 55, and X-Men Annual #2 with the legacy virus stuff.

[The Black Guardian]

One look at that hottie in the center, and I was smitten!

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/139-1.jpg

[Babylon23]

I began with an Australian B&W reprint of this gem:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/3-1.jpg

That led me to check out more X-stories, not realising that the team was completely different. My next issue was:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/129-4.jpg

Fell in love with Kitty Pryde and never looked back.

[Frank]

The one that started it all for the New generation of X-Men:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/4/42/Giantsize1.jpg

The boyfriend of my sister who must have been in his late 20s was getting rid of his old comics and gave me his whole comic collection. The comic above the pile was Giant-Size X-Men 1 and for whatever reason it struck my imagination. But the idea of having this team being formed in front of my eyes was special since I had never seen any super-team in their infancy since I was too young to have seen any of the greats coming together. Thunderbird was my favorite right away(don't even mention it! lol).

Anyway the whole thing was captivating along with stories coming after another without time to take a breather(after recruiting, they faced Krakoa, then Count Nefaria, then it's Scott Land with his false X-Men(robots of the originals) then Jean becomes Phoenix, etc...)

But I did not become obsessed right away. No, it was years later when I was a pre-teen around 12 that I became a diehard X-Men when I discovered the John Byrne run when the team was facing Proteus.

[ExodusCloak]

Academy X #5 was legendary.

Academy X was horrible...it only got better after C&C came on.

[steve2275]

Don't recall which was first exactymine a a classic x men issue

[Grapeweasel]

I think I'm winning....

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/32-1.jpg

[blinkinrogue]

i think the first comic i ever got was a ms. marvel comic where she fought dinosaur people lols. first x-title i think was adjectiveless, not sure though.

[boodha]

My cats left an intimate moment near my futon this morning.

New Mutants double-sized slumber party issue.

i was hooked.

You're lucky. My cats kittens left me lots of intimate moments on my bed in the past week (and they always strategically choose my side of the bed, as if they knew my gf would skin them alive, if they would do so on her side... Damn, I changed my sheets like five times in three days...)

Anyway, my first one was Die Neuen X-Men # ??? (it was Uncanny #199 and the first half of #200). Loved Mystique, Spiral and Wolvie in this mofo... But I didn't understand why the X-Men turned up all medieval style in the second half when I read it the first time.

[Valjean999]

God Loves, Man Kills.

Afterwards, I immediately went out and got all the back issues I could, and have been hooked ever since. To this day, this story remains in my Top Ten of all time.

[blinkinrogue]

i remember now the first x-title i ever read, it was dazzler, dont know the exact issue but she fought some guy with metal/iron fists.

[NickFury90]

Good God, you people are old.

Mine was X-men #1. Even then I hated the wordy dialog, but man those Jim Lee pictures really drew me in. I distinctly remember Magneto sitting in a chair on Avalon resting his wounds, looking like a straight badass.

[limerick]

Good God, you people are old.

Mine was X-men #1. Even then I hated the wordy dialog, but man those Jim Lee pictures really drew me in. I distinctly remember Magneto sitting in a chair on Avalon resting his wounds, looking like a straight badass.
"Darn Pesky young 'uns!Keep your gabberin' down while I read my there first X-book---a Marvel U.K. reprint of Uncanny #5"

[limerick]

That's the one!

[limerick]

Double post!

[limerick]

editing !!!

[Emma]

Does Wolverine count?

http://www.mycomicshop.com/res/unprocessed/fullsize/B2307019.JPG

[coconutphone]

While the previously mentioned Uncanny 206 was my first that I bought I had read several issues that my brother owned. I think the oldest they ahd was the one during the original Phoenix days where they thought the X-Men were beleived dead (except for Jean, Beast and Xavier I think). 150 was another they had and it was a fave.

When I got back into comics as a serious buyer/reader it was the early 90s just after the X-Cutioner Song ended. Pretty much collected lal the X Books across the board for a few years.

[SailorCallie]

Mine was Uncanny X-Men #287. :biggrin:

[rasx]

I can't remember the # but my first X book was a X-factor, one where they were fighting the Brotherhood. After a sabatical from comics between 1995-2000, my first new X-book was New X-men:RIOT AT XAVIER'S!:redface:

[Zarathustra]

The comic for x-2, the movie, is the first one for me.

[ShatterStar]

my first comic was owned was x force #25 when cable and magneto do battle .the drawings blew me away . i was really young at the time 6 or 7 and since then ive been hooked

[Kirayoshi]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20270-3092-22611-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg

Kitty Pryde knocking a zenomorph through an airlock! And she didn't even have a stupid power-loader suit! Top that, Sigourney Weaver!

As a result I sought some back issues, leading to this;

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20133-3092-22462-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg

Great flashback issue, spelling out the ideological debate that's at the heart of the X-Men; Xavier's open hand vs Magneto's clenched fist.

[RBishop]

Mine was X-Men #13.

Bought it at the LCS for $25 in 1990, as some older guy had brought in a bunch of books and put them on consignment, all of them for $25 regardless of rarity, condition or value. I grabbed the oldest one without really knowing what I was buying (I was reading Amazing Spider-Man only at the time), kept it for a couple of years, then had to sell it for $100 while I was in college and needed the money to stay in school.

Follow-up to the above story. My wife gave me a copy of that issue as a gift when we got married in 2002, as I'd told her the above story while we were dating and she felt badly that I'd had to sell the book. So she hunted for over six months to find it in the best possible condition so I could replace it in my collection. Needless to say, she's the best possible wife I could imagine.

[drwho]

the first x book i ever bought was the prequel to inferno and I bought in the mall at a waldenbooks.

[limerick]

Mine was X-Men #13.

Bought it at the LCS for $25 in 1990, as some older guy had brought in a bunch of books and put them on consignment, all of them for $25 regardless of rarity, condition or value. I grabbed the oldest one without really knowing what I was buying (I was reading Amazing Spider-Man only at the time), kept it for a couple of years, then had to sell it for $100 while I was in college and needed the money to stay in school.

Follow-up to the above story. My wife gave me a copy of that issue as a gift when we got married in 2002, as I'd told her the above story while we were dating and she felt badly that I'd had to sell the book. So she hunted for over six months to find it in the best possible condition so I could replace it in my collection. Needless to say, she's the best possible wife I could imagine.
That's a great story!What a princess!

[limerick]

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20270-3092-22611-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg

Kitty Pryde knocking a zenomorph through an airlock! And she didn't even have a stupid power-loader suit! Top that, Sigourney Weaver!

As a result I sought some back issues, leading to this;

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/4/20133-3092-22462-1-uncanny-x-men-the_super.jpg

Great flashback issue, spelling out the ideological debate that's at the heart of the X-Men; Xavier's open hand vs Magneto's clenched fist.
When I saw the cover of this issue I thought it was going to be a 'Dark Xavier 'storyline--I thought the Hydra villain in the background(Stryker??)was Xavier gone a bit mental.......am I stereotyping bald people??I thought he was gonna go bad,join up with 'Neto and kick everyones ass(and I mean everyones!)

[That JonoGuy]

I am fairly certain Uncanny X-Men 320 was my first X-Book.

[Excelsior]

X-men #94


http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/94-1.jpg

[rwsmith]

I was reading Spider-man comics around age 13 or so, and picked this one up:

http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/spider-man/12-1.jpg

That prompted me to go looking for more Wolverine/X-men stuff, and then I bought these two as my first X-men comics ever:

http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/280-1.jpg http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/x-men/1-15.jpg

[Kirayoshi]

When I saw the cover of this issue I thought it was going to be a 'Dark Xavier 'storyline--I thought the Hydra villain in the background(Stryker??)was Xavier gone a bit mental.......am I stereotyping bald people??I thought he was gonna go bad,join up with 'Neto and kick everyones ass(and I mean everyones!)The bald guy with the monocle was Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, former Nazi commander and founder of HYDRA. IIRC, this explained where he first got the Satan Claw, a power-glove that he used against Nck Fury back in the Steranko SHIELD stories.

[IllegalPAP]

I actually have a rather spanning history with the x-men. The first book I ever read was one of my dad's. He collected when he was young (still has the original run intact until it stopped), so he started me off proper with X-Men #1. I had to be so careful with those comics, it was like letting a 6-year-old work the missile station on an army base.

Then the first issue ever given to me was UXM #227. My dad got it to shut me up on a hunting trip. I loved the cover, and the story was just mind-boggling for me. Rogue was pelting through some vietnamese left a strong impression of realism and emotion on me. I still have this issue, though it's been through the ringer after all the times I've read it.

And finnally, after deciding that my dad's xmen were too dumb, and I couldn't relate to them, I picked up a wizard and read about Generation X starting, and used a previews catalog to order Generation X #1 to be mailed to me, and ran out and purchase UXM 316 for the start of the Phalanx Covenant. M looking way fierce on the cover and the prologue with her in the car...absolutely hooked. Line. and Sinker.

Then I finally started reading X-men proper continually with artgod Pacheco's first issue X-men 62, and UXM 342. Through I had intermittently picked up all of the Age of Apocalypse.

http://yourfriendandy.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/xmen1.jpg
http://www.sequart.com/columns/graphics/uncanny227.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/scanec03/UncanX316.jpg
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/generation-x/1-1.jpg
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/342-12.jpg
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/x-men/62-16.jpg

[blinkinrogue]

lol, i absolutely loved the gen x #1 issue and its cover i bought 3 copies with my measly allowance.

the australian outback xmen is without doubt the best x-team ever assembled