For me, Saturday morning cartoons are to blame, specifically Spider-man and his Amazing Friends. Ironically though I never collected Spidey, but he had a group of guest stars that wowed the out of me...The X-Men. It was the origin story of Firestar. Juggernaut was featured in a battle with the X-Men and it was pretty epic! I was hooked and bought my very first comic, X-Men 172 right off the rack. Wolverine became my favorite character and remains so today. From that issue I learned about back issues and such so I started collecting mainly X-Men and other mutant related books like New Mutants. And I still have that XM 172, which has since been signed by Shooter and slabbed.