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How old were you when you started reading comics?

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TheDanimal

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7 years old..around 1989...

 

This is when they were sold in convenience stores and I saw this cover and was hooked ever since! I was well aware of spider-man at the time so when I saw this I was so interested to see if Spider-man was really dead. I went home that day and stole the money from our huge family piggy bank (my brothers and sister and I had a great system of taking money from it without anyone finding out). lol

 

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Soon after my brother gave me a short box of comics. I know the 90s gimmick covers are laughed at now, but to someone in their 20s, that's what got us into comics...well me at least. I loved the holographic covers.

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FlyingDonut

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7 or 8 in the summers at my grandparents summer house in Minnesota. There was a general store down the street that had a spinner rack of comics - we would always go and get as many comics as we could get away with. I clearly remember buying Detective 439 off that rack. Started collecting the summer of 1975, when I was 10.

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TheDanimal

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I think anything with Spider-man and Superman got me as a kid!

 

I don't like reading Superman as much. I did like the last thing I read which was Kingdom Come. Took me years to finally pick it up...

 

Spider-man is always good to read TPB's of some good stories.

 

These days though, I prefer to collect Spider-man issues but if I read anything it's usually more mature stuff. Walking Dead is my current reading addiction!

 

One more rambling story....

 

When I was maybe 12 years old, I took my fifteen dollars to the LCS and bought a Wolverine 1982 Limited series #1. I got him to go down from 20$ with my dad standing there. I thought it was my holy grail for a while! I still have a couple sets of that series. Scoring that at that age was more thrilling than scoring something major now!

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nmtg9

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It was 1976 and i was 4. My Dad had a huge collection and i clearly remember him giving me a few to read (i was a clever child and was reading competently before school - dont know what happened though). First one i remember is Marvel Two in One #20 with the Liberty Legion.

 

Also read Marvel UK and disney comics. Didn't really read children's books like the Famous Five. Why would i when comics took me all over the universe and taught me about rights and wrongs, and strength through adversity?

 

Neil

 

 

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Schmakt

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Scoring that at that age was more thrilling than scoring something major now!

 

absolutely!

 

Chalk much of it up to having no idea about what was going on, but I remember being pretty stoked when I finished my set of all 5 X-Men #1 covers ;) We had no comic shop anywhere near tho, so I was the first in school to have them...

 

My first big "grail," however was Sandman #1... didn't think I'd ever get it.

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Comics-n-ERB

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Bought them from drug stores and supermarkets starting at 7. Didn't know back issues existed until I was 13. A friend was over at my house and saw my neatly stacked comics. Said "wow, didn't know you collected comic books". I don't, I just buy them to read. Well, this one is worth 30.00! Really??!!??

 

That very weekend he took me to my first comic convention. I came home with a long box of comics! I was hooked.

 

Thanks Joe!

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ComicsAndCode

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I think I was 8-ish also; my parents bought me a 3-pack of GI Joe comics (early 30's?)...

 

those were the last comics they ever bought me; I started actually collecting and reading on my own in 7th or 8th grade tho... what is that? Like 14?

 

Hey, I remember those G I Joe 3-packs. I was also 8. And I remember them being 2nd prints which for some unquestionable reason bothered me at the time.

 

I started around 7 or 8 with mainly Marvel titles (and yes, Marvel's Star Comics imprint). First book was most likely ASM #263.

 

Wish I started in the 60s so that I can say my crack at comics was a ToS 39 or Hulk 2.

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