What Was Your First SA Book? Still got her?

[Old_Skool]

 

 

Mine was a VF/NM copy of Capatin America #106.Great story and great Kirby cover(like duh).That is the book that really lit the fire under me for the vintage books.I could`nt resist.When I got her home I read her(very carefully)and was blown away by Kirby`s art. Still have the #106 in my collection.

[aardvark88]

1st SA book was a Curt Swan Adventure comics Legion vs the Fatal (Lethal?) 5 coverless circa 1969. Long gone. Upgraded to a raw vfnm.

[goldust40]

Cap 106 has one of the best Silver Age covers, no question.

 

First S.A. book I can remember buying would've been Amazing Spider-Man 51 or Daredevil 2, I can't recall which came first. I bought them both in the early '80s from a comic shop in central London (there were only two at the time) and paid no more than £5 for each of them, which was a fair bit of money for me then.

 

I've still got them. When I went through my early '80s collection after leaving them untouched in mylites for 15 years (I'll never sell any of those books), I checked both comics. The DD 2 was about VG+, but the Spidey 51 was NM- (U.S. unstamped copy, natch).

[Jeffreykli]

My first SA book was a Fantastic Four #48, bought as a NM in 1987. A high school graduation present to myself, bought with my part-time summer job money. Still in my collection and submitted to CGC, and it came back a 9.0 with ow pages.

[Timely]

My LCS had a consigned Amazing Fantasy #15 in poor condition, by far the best book that ever entered that store. I bought it when I was 15 and I no longer own it.

 

West

[COI]

DD #43, bought while on a trip to L.A when I was 13. I was travelling alone, and looking for some comics for the plane ride back, and saw it on the wall for $12. The Kirby Cap Vs. DD cover was captivating. It was actually quite high grade, and would probably grade out to a NM 9.4. I remember thinking that it looked like it just came off of the stands.

 

It's gone now. I sold it 2 years later when I was 15 to get some beer money. I got $20 for it, and I'd now pay 15X that amount if I could get that exact copy back.

[Red Hook]

I seem to recall owning Amazing Spider-man 25, FF #39, and TTA #68.......my dad may have bought them for me....... it was a one shot purchase. 15 months later I started collecting seriously, with ASM 41, FF 54 and the rest of the lineup. I don't have any of those originals, but I do have a copy of FF 54 that I had signed by Joe Sinnott last year!

[Mephisto]

DD #43, bought while on a trip to L.A when I was 13. I was travelling alone, and looking for some comics for the plane ride back, and saw it on the wall for $12. The Kirby Cap Vs. DD cover was captivating. It was actually quite high grade, and would probably grade out to a NM 9.4. I remember thinking that it looked like it just came off of the stands.

 

It's gone now. I sold it 2 years later when I was 15 to get some beer money. I got $20 for it, and I'd now pay 15X that amount if I could get that exact copy back.

 

15 years old?

[Ron_Nasty]

Most of them.

 

I grew up during the Silver Age.

[Zonker]

The first Silver Age book I came across was *free*

 

Walking home from grade school in the mid-1970s I came across a dog-eared copy of Justice League of America #57 (the UN Brotherhood themed issue), thrown out with the trash on the curb. Like a good lil' Gypsy/Tramp/Thief I snatched it up. I remember being let down that the big guns didn't appear in this story, in favor of Flash, Hawkman, Snapper Carr and a clean-shaven Green Arrow. But I also remember the ads in that book for the Batman TV show and the Superman/Aquaman cartoon hour, which were off the air at the time I found the book, but dimly remembered from when I was just a tot in the late 1960s.

 

So at age 11 or so, I already experience nostalgia for the good ol days!

 

(The book was no better than Fair when I found it, and is long gone.)

[batman_fan]

Daredevil 33, still got it, solid poor/poor-

[PovertyRow]

As I recall it was a Doc Strange 169. I bought it off a rack at Million Year picnic for $12 in NM condition. This was in the early-mid eighties. I believe Jerry was still there at the time. The same rack also yielded a Hulk 102 NM for the same price, but I can't remember if I got it the same day or the folowing week. They were sold a long time ago.

[rob_react]

DD #43, bought while on a trip to L.A when I was 13. I was travelling alone, and looking for some comics for the plane ride back, and saw it on the wall for $12. The Kirby Cap Vs. DD cover was captivating. It was actually quite high grade, and would probably grade out to a NM 9.4. I remember thinking that it looked like it just came off of the stands.

 

It's gone now. I sold it 2 years later when I was 15 to get some beer money. I got $20 for it, and I'd now pay 15X that amount if I could get that exact copy back.

 

15 years old?

 

He's Canadian, that's 34 in American years.

[blutobc]

I'm having flashbacks to a used bookstore that had mangled silver age back issues in 1978. I remember picking up an Amazing Spider-man #7 and Fantastic Four #6 for about $20 each. Both were in Fine condition. Sold them in the 90s for a nice profit.

[jmg3637]

This was one of the first books I bought as a 12 year old. I got it so I could read in the car on a cross country trip to Calif. That trip certainly had a major influence on my life as it started me collecting comics. It also helped to influence my decision to live in Los Angeles .

 

 

one of the first holey grails for me was the first legion appearance in Adventure 247( attached). I now have 2 of them.

[stynxno]

Iron Man #4 in good- condition

[burntboy]

how's this for a "first" SA purchase.

 

i was eight years old at the time and had yet to move to Orange NJ (where i found Jades/Sid's Luncheonette). there was a newly opened candy store around the corner on Cambridge street in East Orange, NJ named Jimmie's.

 

i remember buying a book that had this guy dressed in a cool red outfit running off the page across what looked like movie film. it wasn't until many years later that i confirmed that the book did exist (mine has disappeared in the move to Orange) and was actually the VERY first book of the Silver Age, Showcase #4 with the origin of the new Flash.

 

i have since purchased a beautifully restored copy which was graded 8.5 by CGC.

[stynxno]

how's this for a "first" SA purchase.

 

i was eight years old at the time and had yet to move to Orange NJ (where i found Jades/Sid's Luncheonette). there was a newly opened candy store around the corner on Cambridge street in East Orange, NJ named Jimmie's.

 

i remember buying a book that had this guy dressed in a cool red outfit running off the page across what looked like movie film. it wasn't until many years later that i confirmed that the book did exist (mine has disappeared in the move to Orange) and was actually the VERY first book of the Silver Age, Showcase #4 with the origin of the new Flash.

 

i have since purchased a beautifully restored copy which was graded 8.5 by CGC.

 

very cool!

[Sabertooth]

I'd seen comics at some older cousins' and neighbor houses, and I recall having an Archie and a Harvey type book handed down, but the first SA comic I ever picked out myself was Star Spangled War Stories #129 right off the rack at Newsbaum's mini market in Capitola, CA in the Summer of 1966. I was crazy for dinosaurs and prehistoric stuff, and the cover portrayed a giant pterodactyl attacking a WW II fighter. What could be more cool than that?

 

Other early (for me) SA comic rack buys were Avengers #44, Stange Tales #161 (I was a big Cap fan and he is featured on those two covers) and Star Spangled #134, which has a cool Neal Adams story (though I only became aware of this later). All of the originals except the Avengers are long gone, but I've since reacquired other copies. Nothing special as far as condition, VG - F, but I like having them in my hands again.

 

At the San Diego Con a few years back Neal was dong some signings, which actually inspired me to go find #134 again. I stood in line as he chatted, signed, and sketched, mostly signing Batman and GL/GA books, with an Avengers and X-Men thrown in. When I got to my turn and laid down the old war book, he gasped. I guess he hadn't seen it for a while, and his boy had never seen it, though he'd heard about it. Neal told a few anecdotes about the production, how DC had been too cheap to pay him for a spalsh page and had taken a T-Rex panel from the story and blown it up, how they'd botched the color of the giant lobster (making it a just-boiled red instead of dark green), and I think as a result that's why he didn't do the cover. I think Russ Heath did, but I had Neal sign it anyway, since I'm not selling it.

 

I also paid $25 for an ink sketch by Neal of a sea serpent from the story that is hanging on the wall above me right now. I think he got a kick out of drawing something off-beat.

[fantastic_four]

A VF copy of X-Men #23 bought in 1983 for $6. I've still got it, although I upgraded it to a CGC 9.6 copy last month.