What was your first comic?

[Spider-Variant]

Avengers #104 (1972)...here's my OO copy, which was purchased coverless (from the local Handy Market chain which sold--illegally--repackaged return copies):

 

 

When did you get Roy Thomas to sign it? Or did it come that way?

[JazzMan]

Astonishing Tales #26 was the first I bought off the rack. It was at the news stand on Fulton Street and Van Siclen Avenue in Brooklyn. A couple of years later that whole building burned to the ground.

 

[DiceX]

 

 

[NewEnglandGothic]

Detective Comics #506

[Senormac]

Mine was this:

 

 

 

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

 

 

Now that is just plan sweet!!!

 

Yea.... thats a perfect ending

[Senormac]

Marvel Super-heroes 56, Fantastic Four 165, Amazing Spider-man 153, Hulk 196, Iron Man 82, Marvel Team-Up 41, Marvel Two In One 13 are among the first I bought off the rack. I still have them. No scans handy though except for the MS 56:

 

 

 

 

Here's one of my first back issues, found in the basement of a house my dad was working on.

 

 

 

Finally, here's one of the earliest back issues I bought. It was a beater even then, but I could afford it and those early Ditko ASMs really transported me; reading it was almost mystical, the art was gorgeous.

 

 

Great story and pics....

I wish I had some original owner books....

That is the rarest and most awesome prize for a collector in this hobby

[garsull2]

The first comicbook purchase that I made was at a yard sale in the mid 70's. It had a bunch of Amazing Spiderman and Fantastic Fours and a few Hulks. I Think there where about 50 that I got for $2. Befor that my mom bought my comics and they where either Richie Rich, Hot Stuff or Archies.

[Senormac]

Befor that my mom bought my comics and they where either Richie Rich, Hot Stuff or Archies.

 

Imagine a high grade collection of THAT stuff

[Conan_Aficionado]

G.I. Joe 52

 

 

[BeachBum]

I bought other books here and there as a kid but this was the first book that got me into collecting a series. This is still one of my favorite covers.

 

[Prince Namor]

I've repeated this story a few times but it was a $0.30 Batman comic. I ran to the store with a $1 and bought 3 comics. I was so excited that I didn't realize until I got home that two of the Batman comics were identical.

 

 

You were subconsciously hoarding on your first purchase!

 

[sassemble]

 

My first comics were DCs, but the first REAL comic (that I consider) my mom bought for me off the rack was this one, ASM #80. I learned to read from this era of comics. I also bought an FF #94 the same month. My next ASM was #84. I missed #85 and then began a 10-year run with #86 (except for traumatically missing #90) through #205:

 

[Jonesin4Comics]

The first book I purchased was Uncanny X-Men #284. Portacio's cover art dropped kicked my eyeballs. It looked like X-Men vs the Predator....

 

Just looking at the cover now gives me that same feeling I had.......ah, nostalgia....

 

[Ken Aldred]

 

Yes, must agree, that's a great Bronze Age starting point !! (thumbs u

[Freekster]

I had my Dad take me to the LCS a week or so after I saw Batman (1989). I was on the hunt for Batman comics but I saw this cover and had to have it. This cover blew my 12 year mind.

 

 

Been a Marvel zombie ever since.

[kidcolt]

This Popeye is the first comic I remember buying off the shelf, apparently it is rare .

 

I mainly bought Archie and Richie Rich digest as that was all that was available in the small town where I grew up. The first comic I ever purchased at a comic shop was the 4 issues of Batman "Death In The Family" and Magnus vs Predator.

 

[Hammerhead]

I had my Dad take me to the LCS a week or so after I saw Batman (1989). I was on the hunt for Batman comics but I saw this cover and had to have it. This cover blew my 12 year mind.

 

 

Been a Marvel zombie ever since.

 

A few months after my first comic! I know in my neighborhood Mcfarlane's art brought in many, many new people. Marvel Zombie's!!

[KEY ISSUES Comics]

G.I. JOE #1 by MARVEL was definitely one of the first I bought, but the book that got me hooked years later was X-MEN #202 featuring the BEYONDER and SENTINELS. I still have the beat up copy in my possession. Heck, I even got JOHN ROMITA JR. and his pop to sign it.

 

Some great stories here! I just remembered that I read the French HERITAGE reprints prior to buying the X-MEN #202.

[Sandflea]

 

I remember trying to read this to my then new baby brother.....

[Mike Bray]

 

and I still have my original copy -- minus cover --- Mike