What book have you owned the longest?

[Jeffro.]

Don't know the exact title and issues but it's almost certainly either an Uncle Scrooge or Richie Rich book from around 1972 or 73.

[joe_collector]

All of them.

 

Except the ones left at the car rest site of course...

 

You just had to remind me of those, and it was a campsite... right on the picnic table, in a huge stack...

[Monstro]

i bought this in the mid 80's at a comic shop in Ellicott City, MD

 

my first back issue comic ever

 

[chromium]

All of them.

 

Except the ones left at the car rest site of course...

 

You just had to remind me of those, and it was a campsite... right on the picnic table, in a huge stack...

 

Wasn't there a Hulk 181 in the stack ?

[gilbertotorres]

ultimate spiderman 18.my first comic.

[DocGo]

Uncanny X-Men #212 & 213, early winter of '87, at a Navy Exchange, with my own money too.

[Wally's Comics]

All of them.

 

Except the ones left at the car rest site of course...

 

Like Ben Stiller in Something about Mary,...

 

he just had to "go pee".

 

 

[thehumantorch]

FF #50, 6 cents at a second hand book store in 1972 when I was 12. The book was beat up but zongo bongo did it blow my mind.

[joe_collector]

All of them.

 

Except the ones left at the car rest site of course...

 

You just had to remind me of those, and it was a campsite... right on the picnic table, in a huge stack...

 

Wasn't there a Hulk 181 in the stack ?

 

Yep, and all my BA Spideys, from about 124 to 141 or so. It was about 1975 or so, and I brought all my fave books with me, and bought a pile of multi-packs when I was there too.

 

But at least that got my parents so guilty they bought my multi-packs from the local bookstore for months and I built up a significant 1975-76 collection that way, but I had to work for the earlier ones, using mail-order when I had some extra cash.

 

If I never lost those books, I wonder if I'd still be collecting today?

[WiseGuyX]

 

Good question, I know for a fact my oldest comic is Star Wars #1 but my mother bought it for me. I haven't really thought about the first comic I bought my self. Since I rarely ever sell a comic, it has to be around here some place. If I get bored I'll pull out some boxes and see what I come up with.

 

 

 

[rodan57]

Swiss Family Robinsons, Classics Illustrated #42: bought off the newsstand in the summer of 1966.

[Silver Surfer]

FF#195 off the rack.

[Green]

Transformers 24 given to me by grandma on my 7th birthday. She wrote me a letter telling me how much she loved and missed me and when she did she laid the piece of paper on the cover. The letter in its entirety is indented into the cover. (writing this made me tear up actually. i miss her )

[Arcade]

Wow. Another chance to post this book. Thanks.

My first purchase ever and longest owned book.

Still my personal favorite.

 

 

[seanfingh]

 

I still have my OO GS X-Men 1. Somewhere between 0.5 and 1.8 with a whiff of mouldy acidity.

 

I had a couple of 100 pagers that were older but I threw them out when they were almost completely disintegrated.

[Designer Toast]

Don't laugh (I know that's an open invitation for cracks) ...

 

Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters. One of the few books I kept from when I sold my collection the first time around. Don't know why, but as a kid I loved that book and got it signed by Grell last May.

[cd4ever]

ultimate spiderman 18.my first comic.

[telerites]

Defenders #2 - off the rack in 1972.

[murty]

Capt Marvel #55.Gift to me in 1946!!!!

[Duffman_Comics]

Strange Tales #124 - and here it is: