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Can you still remember your first comic ?

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Flaming_Telepath

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Strangely enough I never ever saw Marvels on sale at news-stands in England.

 

Well, I managed to pick up an Avengers #66 back in '69 off the newsstand.

 

Followed by a Nick Fury #5 and an X-Men #57.

 

Barry Windsor-Smith, Jim Steranko and Neal Adams in three quick hits. :cloud9:

 

No wonder I got hooked.

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Supernovaa30

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Whilst technically a comic, my very first exposure to Marvel was the Amazing Spider-Man Annual 4 which was reprinted in this UK annual from 1979...

 

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Not the best story ever but I read this thing over and over when I was a kid. I was born in 81 so I probably read this around 85 or so. Managed to pick up a copy recently and also bought an the original ASM Annual 4. Had a lot of fun re-reading it!

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Strangely enough I never ever saw Marvels on sale at news-stands in England.

 

Well, I managed to pick up an Avengers #66 back in '69 off the newsstand.

 

Followed by a Nick Fury #5 and an X-Men #57.

 

Barry Windsor-Smith, Jim Steranko and Neal Adams in three quick hits. :cloud9:

 

No wonder I got hooked.

 

Probably depended on the distributor and with what news-stands had what contracts with whomever.

 

 

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GREAT topic for a thread! an_boggienight.gif

 

I most definitely remember my very 1st comic book!

 

It was 1970. I was 10 years old, and attending summer camp up in the Adirondacks (upstate New York). On a campers field trip to Fort Ticonderoga , we went to a local convenience store.

 

I purchased my very first Marvel. I have been hooked ever since!

 

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Not only was I introduced to Marvel coming into the Bronze Age, but to the character Silver Surfer and most importantly Jack "King" Kirby!

 

I must have reread this book literally dozens of times while at camp until it was worn out.

 

When I returned home to Miami that fall and to elementary school, I started my collecting. My parents would give me a weekly allowance of $1.00, and I would buy 6 Marvels each week. I would be so excited and enthralled each time I would go to the local 7-11 each week to scope the new arrivals. Seeing what new Marvel arrivals came on the spinning rack was a highlight. My eyes would scan for the best copies and covers.

 

Those were the days.

 

I owe it all that Silver Surfer 18 I bought 40+ years ago, and it's a memory I will always cherish!

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GREAT topic for a thread! an_boggienight.gif

 

I most definitely remember my very 1st comic book!

 

It was 1970. I was 10 years old, and attending summer camp up in the Adirondacks (upstate New York). On a campers field trip to Fort Ticonderoga , we went to a local convenience store.

 

I purchased my very first Marvel. I have been hooked ever since!

 

Z-SilverSurferComicBook.jpg

 

Not only was I introduced to Marvel coming into the Bronze Age, but to the character Silver Surfer and most importantly Jack "King" Kirby!

 

I must have reread this book literally dozens of times while at camp until it was worn out.

 

When I returned home to Miami that fall and to elementary school, I started my collecting. My parents would give me a weekly allowance of $1.00, and I would buy 6 Marvels each week. I would be so excited and enthralled each time I would go to the local 7-11 each week to scope the new arrivals. Seeing what new Marvel arrivals came on the spinning rack was a highlight. My eyes would scan for the best copies and covers.

 

Those were the days.

 

I owe it all that Silver Surfer 18 I bought 40+ years ago, and it's a memory I will always cherish!

 

I unfortunately no longer have that 1st comic, sold it along with many others when I really got into back issue collecting during the mid 80's. (My older comics were not of a quality I wanted anymore, as I was intersted in only NM or as close as I could get, so the 330 simply got replaced by a better copy).

 

 

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I unfortunately no longer have that 1st comic, sold it along with many others when I really got into back issue collecting during the mid 80's. (My older comics were not of a quality I wanted anymore, as I was intersted in only NM or as close as I could get, so the 330 simply got replaced by a better copy).

 

 

Hahahahaha! I don't have the "original" Silver Surfer 18 I purchased in 1970. That was literally in tatters from my rereading it. 100x over. Same thing happened to my Amazing Spider-Man 129 and Hulk 181. When I bought them as a preteen, I reread them over and over until they were worn out.

 

I collected religiously from 1970 to 1975ish. When Marvel started charging 30 cents a book on their cover price, I stopped collecting. I lost my desire.

 

I rekindled my passion as a collector of high grade books in the early 1980s. Obviously, I wish I would have collected more "keys," but I'm pretty happy with what I collected then and now.

 

I have about 300 "reading" copies representing almost every title of the Bronze Age of Marvel from 1970 to 1975ish. Represents my childhood very well.

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Stryfe1000

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UK reprint of X-Men 1 (Circa 1980)

Followed by a lot of Beano, Action Force (G.I.Joe UK reprints) and Transformers.

 

Then Uncanny X-Men 238. Inferno kicked off then I was hooked fo life.

 

I have some very vague recollections of Star Wars UK comics (Circa 1978). I'd have been 3 at the time. Can still remember the pile in my bedroom. Can't remember anything else about them though :(

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Chespirito

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Strangely enough I never ever saw Marvels on sale at news-stands in England.

 

Just as a matter of interest, aren't you from the Ukraine? ???

 

Bred and born and lived for 34 yrs in England, moved here to Ukraine 8 yrs ago :)

 

Well..that's different

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Oh boy, my "first" comic? I don't remember, except that my grandmother would bring me all kinds of mixed MARVEL/DC Bronze age books when I was a kid, but the book that got me hooked was years later - UNCANNY X-MEN #202. I still have the VG/FNish copy and I had both ROMITAS sign it, even though Sr. had nothing to do with it..

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It was April of 1987. I was 9 years old and went with my dad to get haircuts. We stopped at the pharmacy next door and he bought me Mickey Mouse #225 from Gladstone. I started to get the Disney comics regularly. Then I discovered superheroes and the rest is history.

 

I still have that first comic, kept it as a keepsake. Anyone else still have theirs?

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