What was your first comic?

[ss5rmp]

x-men adventures #1 was the first i remember making my dad buy me. what can I say I loved the fox series.

[steveinthecity]

Always had comics as a kid. First I remember buying was a

2 for 25 cent pack with no covers and one was Fantastic

Four #159. Loved comics and FF ever since.

[trip74-migration]

What was the first comic you remember purchasing?

Mine was Amazing Spider-man #64

I bought it when I was 8 for 25 cents (Im 29 now). I had it slabbed for nostalgia.....it was a 4.0

 

does. not. compute.

 

Amazing Spider-Man #64

 

maybe I'm misunderstanding?

 

I don't recall my first comic, but I recall the time. I remember 2 friends in Junior High talking about X-Factor and the return of Jean Grey. My first purchase must have right around the Mutant Massacre time frame.

[TheGeneral]

[Ken Aldred]

Defenders 5

[rjrjr]

 

Star Wars 26 was the first book I remember getting which started my regular comic habit. There were other comics before this, but they were random and didn't lead to the habit. Star Wars 26 is the first issue where I started getting the subsequent issues (27, 28, 29, etc.) at the airbase news stand in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Prior to this, I remember a House of Mystery that had an octopus (or monster with tentacles) on the cover and some kids standing in front of it (which I got at the airport for the long trip to Germany when my dad was stationed there) and some earlier Star Wars comics that must have come in a value pack (Star Wars #10, 11, 12.) Yes, all those comics we bought in Germany had the Mark Jewelers inserts.

 

It's so hard to nail down an exact issue since it is seems like comics have always been a part of my life.

 

[sk8dima]

The first comic I read was the reprint of the Amazing Spider-man 3. God, this was so awesome! I'm still looking for a copy, but it's too expensive for me. Maybe one day.

[Hammerhead]

The first comic I remember reading was a copy of Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man #59 that I got with some others from my brother. I thought the Beetle was awesome. I read it numerous times.

 

The second book I got was a Amazing Spider-Man #281 again with the Beetle, I tried to find the first part to this story #280 forever but my local shop didn't have it. I gave up.

 

A few years later I saw ASM #316 on the rack at a drug store and loved the cover. After reading that I went back to my local comic shop and wanted a subscription. I had to sign up for at least 5 more titles to get a save slot. I did and been collecting ever since with a short break in the early 90's....my wallet couldn't afford all them fancy covers and variants!!

[Jeffro.]

I have two early memories of buying (or rather my parent's buying for me) comics. Both examples are from the late 70s. I had comics before that but these are my earliest memories of actually buying comics.

 

It was either a copy Weird War Tales 34 at a local used book store, or a few DC war comics at a show that my dad took me to. Stuff like OAAW 170, 242, SSWS 159, and a couple others.

 

Wish I could go back to that late 70s show.

[lb jefferies]

Mine was this:

 

 

 

So when I had the chance to get this it was a no brainer:

 

 

[Bosco685]

Let me see if I can find my first comic. Meanwhile, for your listening pleasure.

 

[kdoginohio]

[Senormac]

Good stuff. I honestly can't remember which book I bought myself. My dad had been bringing me home comics from the store for a couple of years.

Might be this one. Its definately the right time period.

 

[Bosco685]

 

Oh yeah - I see Betty Page on the fourth row, sixth character in.

 

[GL1]

Can't remember exactly, but I am sure it was a two-gun kid or rawhide kid.

 

Loved the westerns and war comics when I was kid.

 

 

[Senormac]

 

[TupennyConan]

There is a pretty good chance it was Fantasy Masterpieces starring the Silver Surfer #4. I still have it.

[Conan]

 

[kdoginohio]

But seriously, this was the first comic given to me.

 

This is the first one that I bought.

[Silent Master]

 

My first was GI Joe 26 - I had to save up to buy 1 thru 25. (Issue 2 was expensive and hard to find!)