How old were you when you started reading comics?

[Spider]

 

 

I was four and just looked at the colored panels

[ivegotneatstuff]

I believe Stan Lee used to visit my mom when she was pregnant, held a megaphone up to her belly and read Spider-Man comics to me...

[gaz2810i]

I started when I was 7 and brought a bag full of comic books while on Holiday here in England. If I remember They were mostly DC Batmans and Supermans plus justice league. I didn't get into collecting untill 3 years ago though (thumbs u

[Norrin_Radd]

33

[Mr.Diggler]

I thought comics were silly for the longest time. I finally started reading comics around the time that hack McFarlane began Spidey.

[Marvelfangirl]

I started reading comic books when I was six years old.

[etanick]

I would have to say 7 or 8, I read Obelix & Asterix and RinTinTin. My dad had a big collection of them in French and I read them a million times before I left the old country.

 

Then I discovered Marvel and DC at age 13.

[Stryfe1000]

I was 5 when i started reading the UK reprints of UXM in 1980. Progressed to the Beano till I was about 8, then the UK reprints of Action Force (G.I. Joe) and Transformers. Progressed to the proper US versions of UXM at about the age of 10.

[piper]

7 or 8

[BaltimoreLauren]

When I was in pre-school I would look at the pictures in the books. I was fascinated by Batman (I was hooked on the Adam West show as a kid) so my dad would usually get me packs of DC books from Price Club and the like.

[goldust40]

I remember reading Tintin: Destination Moon / Explorers On The Moon when I was six, not long before the Moon landings took place, serendipitously enough.

 

Read British comics from that age also until I was about nine when the U.S. stuff took hold.

[lizards2]

4 or 5. I think I was reading Mad and Dennis the Menace paperbacks prior to the full-size books.

[Boozad]

The same age I put in the last thread of the same title.

[Zonker]

The first comic book my dad bought for me was Batman #234 (a Neal Adams issue, wouldn't you know). So I must have been 8 years old or so. I can probably remember the first dozen comics I ever read:

 

Batman 234

Witching Hour 21

Batman 236

House of Secrets 96

Batman 246

Shazam 3

Shazam 4

Shazam 5

(some Super-Goof comic at about this same time)

Justice League 103

Brave & Bold 109

Flash 222

Superman 263

 

...may have missed a couple of the horror-type comics of the day, but that's pretty much the ones that stand out in memory.

 

[JuliusSeizure]

Six.

[wolvie3579]

I was around 5 or 6 yrs old. Got a 3 pack from a toy store (toys r us?) which had the last issue of Star Comics' He-Man, an issue of spiderman where he fights the Tarantula who mind controlled Cap America, and one other book I forget.

[blink]

I thought comics were silly for the longest time. I finally started reading comics around the time that hack McFarlane began Spidey.

 

 

Hack???

 

McFarlane did great work on Spidey!

 

[slym2none]

I had and read comics since I could read, 4 or 5 years old, but those were Archie or Scooby-Doo stuff.

 

I started reading comics (and collecting them) in 1983 when I was 12.

 

 

 

-slym

[-cryptkeeper-]

I began reading comics in French when i was 12 and bought my first U.S comic when i was 16

[Drummy]

I was six and a half or seven...I think seven. My brother had gotten into comics a little bit (not much else to do in Duluth), and handed me down two comics I'll never forget -- Hulk #199 where Hulk fights Doc Samson in a Florida swamp and Fantastic Four #172, when Gorr takes the FF into space to meet Galactus. The Perez/Sinnott art in that FF issue defined for me what comic art should look like, which is why I collect those pages now!

 

Dan