What was your very first DC Comic Book?

[ryerye17]

Reminiscing is fun.

Mine was, when I was around ten years old, "JLA in Crisis: Secret Files & Origins" (cover date 1998. YES I'm YOUNG)..I bought it because the thickest book I could find and I wanted something worth my money.

It was a nice read in retrospect. Like, I had all the DC events in one book for reference. OF COURSE IT TOTALLY SPOILED THE ENDINGS WHEN FINALLY I READ COIE, Legends, Armageddon 2001 etc....but it was still a fun read. I hope they make something like this again for things like Identity Crisis, Day of Judgment etc..

[ANewHope]

Batman getting his back broken by Bane.

Or at least I think that was my first DC book.

[nepenthes]

Superman issue with two guys fighting on the surface of the moon. One is a green guy with pointy ears in a superman costume and he's holding a giant rock over the other guys head who's lying on the ground with his arms up. pretty intense cover.

[carabas]

I do not recall the exact issue, but I reckon it probably was a Dutch translation of some O'Neil/Adams issue of Batamn or Detective Comics.

[joint venture]

Some Neal Adams comic book i'm still trying to find.

[Ilash]

I'm pretty sure it was issue 10 of Superboy (the series that was tied into the show). I only really started buying comics regularly though with a three part KGBeast story in Batman/ Detective Comics.

[Lemurion]

If I remember right, Superboy 198 back in 1973 or 74. It was right before the Legion took over the book, and I one of the last issues set in Smallville. (Though the Legion did guest-star). "The Fatal Five who twisted time" with Dave Cockrum pencils.

[Paul Newell]

Not sure if it's the first one I read, but the first I remember reading was a B&W reprint of Justice League of America #10 in Mighty Comics. Back then the import restrictions had been relaxed, but the original comics didn't start reaching my neck of the woods until 1977 or so. Back then we used to buy big bumper reprint issues which contained several comics and this particular issue was second hand and took my fancy because it had a picture of Felix Faust with his fingers transformed into tiny people.

I think some of the other stories in it were Wonder Woman, Metal Men and possibly Space Ranger.

I think I would have been about 9 or 10.

[Superbeast]

I can't remember exactly what issue it was but it had Lobo fighting the Demon and came out sometime in the early 90s. I got it from my local newsagent. Basically two immortal invulnerable freaks kicking the crap out of each other. It was beautiful.

[dumbstruck]

While I remember having various issues, such as a DC Comics Presents with a crossover of Superman with Masters of the Universe, the comic that really started my DC collection was Man of Steel #1.

[Jorriss]

About 8-10 months ago I bought Batman Year one.

[Talisman]

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Up until this series, I'd bought nothing but Marvel, but this got me to start buying some DC and off and on I've been collecting it ever since.

[Rev. Calibos]

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Not your standard introduction to the world of DC comics but this was mine.


I'd be a Spiderman/Hulk fan exclusively throughout my childhood. Never once did it occur to me to sample the 'Distinguished Competition' until I saw this at my LCS.

The Buscema art was what got me but I was intrigued by what was going on in the book. Who was this Morgan Edge character? Where was Perry White? I had seen the movies and THIS was certainly nothing like what we had seen.

So that curiousity lead me to pick up some DC books, namely some Action Comics issues and Superman issues.

And I lost interest. Quickly.

They just weren't as interesting as what was going on in Marvel's books. It wasn't until post Crisis and this book right here:

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that I became a fan of the DCU.

[The Chief5425]

All I know was that I was around seven or eight years old, which would make it mid-'70s, and it was an issue of "Justice League of America."

I'd recognize the cover if I saw it, and I would dearly love to find it again.

[Fatguy]

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lol I remember Batman (either in this issue or the next) punching out some bitchy old lady that was leading a gang of kids. I was hooked!

[DonEMC]

My first DC Comics was Justice League of America 139 from February 1977 with a beautiful Neal Adams cover and awesome art by Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin and then came Super-Team Family 9 from March 1977 with the Challengers of the Unknown and a reprint of a Doom Patrol story that really got me interested in the DP. But, it would be years before I'd find Super-Team Family 10 and any more Doom Patrols. Then, my Grandad Clark bought me JLA 142 at a Maloney's department store in South Williamson, Ky. Then, I think there was a Flash after that and a Brave and the Bold with Batman and the Flash, a Star Hunters, the last issue of Shade the Changing Man, another Flash (with Green Lantern from Earth 2 and they were trying to track down a Flash comic), an Unknown Soldier where they were trying to get a Rembrandt painting Hitler wanted, a couple Sgt. Rocks, Unexpected 186, DC Comics Presents with Superman and the Metal Men fighting Chemo, a couple Justice League of Americas that included the death of Zatanna's mother and 185. By that time, I was trading comics with the kids in school and I was getting DCs like the Return of the New Gods, a lot of Brave and the Bolds, a bunch of Supermans (which I hated, but traded for anyway; I was building a comic book empire) and DC Comics Presents (which I loved because they were done-in-ones and had great art and teamups). I discovered Starman and Plastic Man in Adventure Comics and Superboy fighting the Yellow Peri.
Around that time, I discovered a little old store called the Red Jacket Supermarket where they still had 1960s and early 1970s DCs on three spinner racks that sat over near two big pool tables. The floors were old and it was very cold in the winter time. It was a 1950s coal company store that had survived into the 1980s, but nothing inside had changed. The only thing was that the comics were all remaindered. They sold them at, like, 15 cents apiece, and there were bunches of DC 100 Page Giants, Detective Comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League of America and many, many others (lots of Gold Keys that weren't remaindered for some odd reason and a bunch of Charltons that were still in good shape, too). I bought all I could carry home and kept going there until I had bought all the comics I wanted; there were still hundreds on the spinner racks, but none that I really wanted. The store closed a year or so later and was bulldozed (probably with a bunch of comics inside).
Then, not long afterwards, I discovered Crisis on Infinite Earths 2 and Who's Who 2 at a little record store in Matewan, W.Va., along with a few other DCs with really vivid coloring (I remember the coloring was vastly brighter and different than the 1970s comics I had collected). Then, I remember buying the Legion of Substitute Heroes Special by Keith Giffen and I reckon Ambush Bug came out somewhere around that same time (and Son of Ambush Bug).
Since then, I've been a DC fan.

[Plex]

I had a pile of those giant size Limited Collector's Editon presents: Batman, Superman, Shazam- with the live action cover from the TV show, and Christmas with the Superheroes. I can't even remember where I got them, probably Ames when I was a kid or I bought them in a bundle at some yard sale. I still have them some place. Here are the Superman and Shazam books:

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Here's the Christmas book:

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The batman one wasn't a Limited Collector's Edition it was a Famous First Edition.

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[robbieglenn]

mine was George A. Romero's Toe Tags for DC. Was a birthday present from my brother. was a good read.

[dmhaight]

Mine was an issue of the Justice League, #163 I think the number was...the middle of a storyline featuring the origin of Zatanna, and her eventually acceptance into JLA membership.

The points I remember most about collecting DC comics at that time are...

1) I wasn't able to find the first two parts of the storyline for quite a few years...until comic book stores started popping up in the mid-1980's....and yet, I didn't feel like I missed out on any significant portion of the story.

2) For some odd reason, even though I didn't get the previous two issues, I did manage to get the three issues before that (#158-160) of JLA through the Toys-R-Us three-packs they had at the time, which apparently collected random issues from 4-6 months ago into a packet for a single purchase. I also got my first issues of Superman in these packets, a two-parter where he faced off against some pink-sporoid creature that'd infection one of his Superman-robots, and was being used by an army general who hated Superman to get revenge on the Man of Steel. Of course, in true Silver Age style, it turned out that the reason the general hated Superman (assumed carelessness in deflecting shrapnel from artillery tests that caused a piece to lodge itself in the general's arm and ultimately made him have to get it amputated) was in fact not caused by Superman himself, but the very robot duplicate in which he'd merged with to seek revenge.

3) DC and Marvel comics seemed to have a real difference in style of how their stories were put together. It seemed like the DC Universe was more "stable", which is probably what ultimately led to their Crisis on Infinite Earths. Now there doesn't seem to be that much difference between the two universes, or at least in the way they're written/portrayed. I'm not so sure that's a good thing either....

[KYLeo71]

Geez. I'm not entirely sure what my first DC Comics was. When I was really small, I know I got some randomly from time to time, but they were bought for me and I didn't have much of a choice in what was bought. I *think* my first DC Comic was either one of the $1 sized Detective Comics are Batman Family. I know there was a Man-Bat feature as well as a Robin/Batgirl feature included. Also, it might have been a Wonder Woman, but I can't remember. The first DC Comic I picked out all on my own (and read the hell out of) and I mark as my official launch into comicbookdom was 'Justice League of America' #190.

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[Street Worm]

Probably an issue of 'World's Finest' sometime in the early '60s~ :biggrin:

[Personamanx]

I don't know. I was into Marvel longer than DC so I've only been into DC for A c ouple of years.............. I'll come back when I figure it out.

[Shellhead]

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[Werehunter]

My dad has a hardcover book with a lot of the big Golden Age character's origin stories. I read that a few times growing up and boy was I surprised when I read stories with the silver age version of those characters.

[The Black Guardian]

Superman #311

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[Blue Blazes]

Batman 375

i was almost 7. Needless to say its not in great shape any more...but i bought another copy.

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[olympichero62]

I didn't get into DC until a few years ago.

I bought:

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[40footwolf]

My very first DC Comic was also my very first comic EVER: "Batman +Arsenal" #1, read when I was 4. I couldn't understand 75% of it, but God knows I loved flipping through that thing.

[Karl O'Neill]

I think it was Flash #225.

The conclusion of the Rogues war storyline.

[Hyperzoanoid]

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/1/15/New_Teen_Titans_28.jpg

[dodger8804]

The first Issue of the Superman Vs. Atlas Story arc last year.

Laugh it up, you old timers.

Laugh it freaking up.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

The first Issue of the Superman Vs. Atlas Story arc last year.

Laugh it up, you old timers.

Laugh it freaking up.

We're not laughing; mostly, we just feel bad for you.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

And sticking with the floppy, chapbook variety of comic, it was actually two at once: Superman #80 (the fall of Coast City v. 1) & Superman #82 (the 'official' death-comeback).

[Babylon23]

My first DC comic was a black & white Australian reprint of JLA 100, featuring the amazing JLA/JSA/7 Soldiers of Victory crossover. I was 6 years old.

Shortly after reading that story, I bought All-Star Squadron #1 because I was fascinated by DC's Golden Age characters.

[True Herald]

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[Captain Jim]

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[kalorama]

Detective Comics 476, part two of the Laughing Fish story by Englehart, Rogers, and Austin. I got it from my homeroom teacher; she had a box of "contraband" she'd confiscated during the school year and on the last day of school she let everyone take one item from the box. (I never did find out who she nicked the comic from originally).

[celticwarlord]

Mine was GLC #205.

http://www.steveenglehart.com/Comics/Comics%20Images/Green%20Lantern%20Corps%20205.jpg

[Jarath]

I couldn't tell you the precise issue numbers off the top of my head. But I found them in a crumby seaside town's post office. They were 50p each and I bought a load. There was some Catwoman where she was with a gang of other cat themed thieves. There was some Soveriegn Seven I think they were riding a horse on one cover. Erm, a Wonderwoman issue too. Two random issues of the Contagion Batman event. Some Azreal, some superman, some aquaman maybe, or did Dolphin get a mini series? Pretty sure it was her on the cover. Superboy in his camp 90's costume. Maybe a few more but they're the ones that come to mind.

[Dial W for What the...?]

The first one I read that started me collecting was Shogun Warriors #1, and I think the 1st DC I bought on a regular basis was Teen Titans#1 vol.2.

[The Chief5425]

We're not laughing; mostly, we just feel bad for you.

Maybe you're laughing. Myself, I'm seething with envy at his youth. :mad:

[Walter West]

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[dodger8804]

Maybe you're laughing. Myself, I'm seething with envy at his youth. :mad:

I will tell you, have you even seen how complicated some DC's universe is with it's Crisis(es) and what not...

Makes me shudder to think about what it'll be like when I'm 20 years older.