Post the book(s) that made you decide to become a comic book collector

[Shadow]

This is the one that got me hooked at age 12.

 

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So many heroes, so little time...

[Kamandi]

My collecting catalyst is a mixing of three different books:

 

First comic ever read. Well, I looked at it. I don't remember reading the mag at four years old

 

First Avengers I read as a child:

 

First Avengers comics bought straight off the rack (and not second hand at a flea market, etc.)

[Hawkman]

punisher: war zone (the issue featured the french foreign legion) got me started.

[Tatterdamillion]

X-Men #211. I knew I was going to love it from page 1.

[moloch]

Star Wars #1 for me. Couldn't get enough of the movie and started buying these, then found out some of the issues were reprints and I knew I had to have the originals. The OCD collector is born!

 

[piper]

The Gang War storyline in ASM!

[alecholland]

Thanks to all who have posted books so far. Keep 'em coming. I think it's interesting to see the catalyst that turned you into a comic collector or at least had a big influence.

 

That's a great page from Captain Marvel by the way, Joe. (thumbs u

 

 

 

[thanos_oftitan]

For me it was Justice League 83. A classic JSA team-up book...

 

[Guest]

I don't have a specific issue to post but the first book I started collecting in my childhood was Richie Rich. I don't remember what I had or where they ended up but I had quite a few. After that, I started collecting Marvel and Iron Man was the first title I got into.

[Mr. Zipper]

The first comic I can recall buying from the newsstand:

 

The first "backissue" I recall buying at a flea market in the late 70s. A beat up copy for $3:

 

[joeypost]

I was with my grandmother in Manhattan and saw this cover in the store window. I stopped and staired at it and before I knew it she purchased it for me and I had something to read on the train ride home. Funny thing is at the end of the story Thor is thrown into fire while his hammer is stuck to a magnetic slab, took me at least 10 years until I purchased issue #211 to find out how it went for him.

 

 

[Wally's Comics]

 

 

The orignal clone saga rocked!

 

 

[Anfield Fox]

Not sure which issue it was in particular but this was one of the first i remember picking up

 

[davidpg]

I had bought a few books off the racks a little earlier (my friends were into VERY hot Byrne FFs at the time...my earliest recollection of speculation!), but I vividly remember buying this book off the rack at TJs depanneur (that's french for corner store) at 9 years old:

 

 

Which led me into the Brood saga (still a great read) and picking up the Wolverine mini-series off the stands (bought #1 at Pierette's depanneur) not really knowing who he was .

 

I was also into Daredevil in the 180s that I would pick up at the pharmacy where my grandmother would play her lotteries.

 

All these places were within 5 minutes walking distance...GREAT memories, and I still have all the actual books!

[chromium]

This one....

 

Yeah, I got in very late in the game

[joe_collector]

The orignal clone saga rocked!

 

Definitely, and that's what probably made me a comic reader. Some of the stuff was pretty out-there for kiddies, especially the parts where Gwen returned.

[Wally's Comics]

The orignal clone saga rocked!

 

Definitely, and that's what probably made me a comic reader. Some of the stuff was pretty out-there for kiddies, especially the parts where Gwen returned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[batman_fan]

The first book in my collection was this one, although not this copy. A friend of my older brother dropped off a box of his old comics for me. Mine has tape all down the spine as I got into restoration at an early age. Still have it today.

 

[TheShadowKnows]

For me, it was probably the Starlin Captain Marvel run. I had the book posted below, and another one (Captain Marvel 27) from my childhood collection, but it was Captain Marvel 32 that I read and reread over and over. I absolutely loved the story, the art, and It was probably the most amazing comic book my young eyes had ever seen.

 

As time went by, my mind kept coming back to the cliffhanger ending (also shown below), where Thanos emerged from a fiery pit to face off against the over-matched Captain Marvel. I would often wonder how that series ended, as well as what happened before and after CM 27. Since there were no comic stores near, it led me to the world of mail order and Robert Crestohl in Montreal (before he joined that numbnuts Gerry Ross), and I proceeded to order there regularly.

 

But without that impetus from Jim Starlin, I might never have started collecting.

 

Joe,

If you dont mind me asking.How old are you?

[TheShadowKnows]

No one here, but for Doc Watson, will ever guess which comic was my first. Once he sends me the book in question I'll post it here. Take your guesses though.

My guess would be gi joe or heroic.