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I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

Amazing Spider-Man 1-441...plus variants...then going after the 30 and 35 cent variants and beyond...
My favorite comic is Amazing Spider-Man 6 because the Lizard is my favorite character. That was probably my first sub-100 issue.
Oh, yeah...I opted for ASM 1 over AF 15 because it was 2/3 of the price then and had so much more story...and then AF 15 took off and I never got one...could've had a 2.0 for $1500...

Back in the late 70s or early 80s I completed X-Men 94-up.  That was the first run I needed to seek out back issues for.  Then I started collecting every New X-Men appearance and related characters.  Then Marvel over-saturated the new issue market with .  So I stopped.  And they've been sitting bagged and boarded for just about 40 years.  Obiously, I bought plenty of other comics.  But, new X-Men was the first time I decided to be a completest.

My first complete run was MTU 1-150. Then X-Men 1-331 or so. 

From grade 7 until the end of high school in the 90's I focused on my favorite character, Iron Man. Was able to complete the first three volumes of his book then (often picking up what I could in low grade just to have a copy) as well as most of his Tales of Suspense issues (Snagged #39 off ebay for $100). The last issue I actually bought for that entire run turned out to be #55, and only because I thought I already owned it (and it turned out I did, but that copy was misfiled with other books). At the same time my best friend did the same for Spider-Man.

edit: more details, the first Iron Man comic I remember reading was #200 which a kid brought to school in maybe grade 2, but it wasn't until I read #253 at a friends house that I decided to keep reading, and then fell in love with the Armor Wars 2 story line (but would be another few years until I would try to collect all Iron Man issues, which would take years due to my small allowance and only pick up once I got my first job - Tales of Suspense #39 was one of my first major purchases then, after spending my first pay check at a local VHS store on movies of course). Technically though the first 'run' I completed could be the small 3 issue series from DC "The Psycho" - now THAT series made me love all comics.

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

I went for JIM/Thor as well...but figured there was always time to get 83.  Nope.  But I have all but ~5 issues from 84-200.  That is a great run....and they were dirt cheap for so long in the 90s when I was putting the run together.  I did complete FF 1-100.  My #1 literally has a band-aid on the back cover sealing a rip.  But hey...it's complete and it's in the collection!  

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

I went for JIM/Thor as well...but figured there was always time to get 83.  Nope.  But I have all but ~5 issues from 84-200.  That is a great run....and they were dirt cheap for so long in the 90s when I was putting the run together.  I did complete FF 1-100.  My #1 literally has a band-aid on the back cover sealing a rip.  But hey...it's complete and it's in the collection!  

I started collecting in 1985.  Friend of mine in my dorm in college asked if I wanted to go to the comic book store.  One of the first books I bought was X-Men 201 or 202...something like that.  One thing lead to another and I ended up with the full run 1-350 or something around there.  But it was issues 94-141 that I was focused on completing in the early days.  
What run did you first complete??
 

Not a great photo...but you get the idea.  16 copies...bought them ages go.  Sunk some cash for grading, but it will work out in the end.  
 
There are a lot of people with a lot of high grade copies.  I wonder when will this market saturate?

Not a great photo...but you get the idea.  16 copies...bought them ages go.  Sunk some cash for grading, but it will work out in the end.  
 
There are a lot of people with a lot of high grade copies.  I wonder when will this market saturate?

Not a great photo...but you get the idea.  16 copies...bought them ages go.  Sunk some cash for grading, but it will work out in the end.  
 
There are a lot of people with a lot of high grade copies.  I wonder when will this market saturate?

3.5-4 IMHO...love that cover...all time classic.

3.5-4 IMHO...love that cover...all time classic.

I give you my copy of FF1...not far from the one here!  

I give you my copy of FF1...not far from the one here!  

Sold my CGC 9.6 copy for $2850 in the early 2000's.  Doh!!

I actually picked this copy up in Mt View, California at Big Guys comics sometime around 2000.  It was $300 pre CGC.  I didn’t intend on selling, but once a book gets crazy I tend to move on.  If only I knew!!  

For $350 try to find this book in 6.0 or better. Classic cover and great characters. 
http://www.dtacollectibles.com/catalog/product/view/id/234960

I would say a solid 6...maybe 6.5 but no higher.  5.5 seems too low.