Do you remember your first comic book?

[Warren Oates]

Thor 247. I was 7-8 I think. Cover soon came off, and I took an ink pen and traced around the characters, filled in some eyes, etc. It was trashed fast. I remember it had the jagged "Still only 25 cents" price. I was able to figure out the exact issue a few years back. I think my mom bought it for me when we were at the Red Owl. It must have been tossed, cause it didn't make it with the others I still have. That was the only 25 cent book I ever got off the rack. Next ones I bought were 30 centers, I didn't destroy those (read em ragged though).

[lotemo]

My first comics were my sister's Archie comics. The one I remember distinctly is Archie Annual #22 so that was around 1971. She stopped reading them shortly thereafter and I never stopped.

 

Like they always say, "the first one's free."

[rjpb]

I don't know what my first comic was, but my earliest comic book memory is circa 1965, sitting in the backseat of my parents' '64 Dodge Dart, reading a Sad Sack comic on a sunny Ohio afternoon, waiting for one or both of them to return to the car. I am five or six.

 

I pretty much stuck to Sad Sack and other Harvey books until 1968. My mother has taken me and some friends on a picnic by the river, and purchased comic books of our choice. One of my friends, a girl no less, had plucked Captain America 103 from the rack. I am intrigued by the dynamic Kirby artwork and the vague WW2 references. Within a year my loyalty has moved to Marvel.

 

1971. I am now a "collector" with cabinet full of mostly Marvels, and though I will continue to sporadically collect new and vintage superhero comics and ECs for the next few years, the biggest revelation of that time was discovering a copy of R. Crumb's Head Comix on the coffee table at a hippie friend of my mother's. My interest in other genres may wax and wane over the ensuing decades, but my affection for underground comix has sustained for 40 years.

[Montezuma]

Still have it, though it's a little worse for wear.