Your first key GA book.

[OtherEric]

This is somewhat inspired by the under 40 thread: what was the first Key GA comic book you owned? I'm not necessarily talking a major key; just whatever the book was where you suddenly realized you COULD actually get some of those important books instead of just the lesser (but still fun) parts of the run.

 

For me, it was a copy of Mad #1, over 20 years ago. Very beat up, and I know now it's not particularly rare as pre-code books go. But it remains a book I can mention to even non-comic fans and they know instantly what I'm talking about and know why the book matters. And that was when I knew I could eventually get almost any comic book I might ever want, if I kept working at it. (And the 10 or so books I can never afford have all been reprinted repeatedly.)

 

Horrible shape, I could upgrade easily if I wanted to. But I treasure it because it's the book where I went from "I'll get what I can" to "I can get anything I want". My first Key GA book:

 

 

What's yours?

 

(Although if I was serious about Mad as a title I collect these days I would sure as heck upgrade!)

[Primetime]

Human Torch 4(5)

Marvel Mystery 15

All Select 1

 

My first GA Timelys 1995-96 era

 

[143ksk]

Here's mine Signed by Carl Barks

 

Still have it after 30 years...

 

[Foxtrot70]

I was able to own a Fair/Good copy of Marvel Mystery #2 for a better part of the 90s.

[zzutak]

Still have it after 30 years

(thumbs u

[BB-Gun]

Nothing key about this one but I have had it almost 50 years.

[comicjack]

Nice BB that you have it 50 years later that's a keeper with some history behind it .For me would be Amazing Man 11 not a key but started the hunt which is still going on today and it has been a long hunt at that.!

[ciorac]

Probably True Comics #1 when I was 12 or 13 years old

[GoldenPRGuy]

Don't have them anymore but it was 3 at once out of my Aunt's old camp trunk in the attic ... Honeymooner's #1, I Love Lucy #1 and Adventure #247. Sold all of them in my teens to support my current collection so in some ways they are still here in spirit.

[ChasingKingKirby]

I was very late to the GA party. Though I've been buying books for 30 years, I only bought my first GA in the last 10 years. My first book of note was prolly this one that I still have.

 

[Vision75]

Captain America 10, bought a year ago.

[Illustrious]

I was very late to the GA party. Though I've been buying books for 30 years, I only bought my first GA in the last 10 years. My first book of note was prolly this one that I still have.

 

 

Very nice, I came close to pulling the trigger on that 3.0 signed by Simon and Kirby on clink a while back, but I spent all I had at the time on my TEC #29.

[Dark Knight]

This book I bought of C-link around 2005

 

[G.A.tor]

action 1, purchased in 1990...1 year time payments

[shrunkenhead]

First key was All Star 3. Low grade, took me 18 months to pay it off. Don't have it anymore.

[KirbyJack]

Star Spangled #7.

I couldn't believe I was allowed to own it.

[AmazingSaul]

Well I have had different first appearances of villains. But my 1st major key is batman 1 that I recently picked up this year. Took me years to get the funds and time to find the right copy for me.

[Crimebuster]

Boy Comics #9

 

 

He-She!

[davidpg]

Great reading, iconic cover, underrated and undervalued. Lots of reasons I love it :

 

 

Got it 5 or 6 years ago or so.

[Cat-Man_America]

[font:Times New Roman]Back in the late 70's I bought the Church copy of Silver Streak #7 from Chuck Rozanski (Mile High).

 

It was my absolute favorite key of this Lev Gleason title.

 

Alas, in the early 1990's I made the regrettable decision to sell my collection. (don't ask, ...insert butthurt here)

 

In the interim I managed to pick-up a nice 9.0 Apparent (SP) from Metro...

 

 

 

...but STILL dream of one day being reunited with my long missed Mile High copy. [/font]