The first comic you remember buying 5 5

[drmccoy74]

I remember buying this from a spinner at my local 7-Eleven. It started my original collection (long gone), and lifelong love for comic books.

[Norrin_Radd]

I didn't start reading & collecting comics until I was an adult.  My first trip to a local comic shop was 3/12/2001.  Bought these three comics.

This selection was mostly based on what I watched on TV - Super Friends and The Incredible Hulk as a kid and Futurama as an adult.

Also, started buying on eBay at the same time.  Within a few months, I had hundreds of comics (mostly modern with some bronze age).  Started reading "graphic novels".

 

[Beastfeast]

I'm not sure what my first comic was but the first one I bought with my own money was MCP 117.  This definitely isn't that copy.  

 

[Stefan_W]

My first purchase was at a department store. I was a huge fan of Star Wars after the first movie came out, and when my mom dragged me out shopping one day I noticed a two pack with Star Wars 11 and Laff-A-Lympics. I convinced her to buy that for me, and I was hooked on comics.

Being a kid I was broke all of the time so I had a tough time working backwards to fill the Star Wars series. I did all sorts of little things to earn a quarter here and there, and worked back to issue 6. Even though they had been released only a year or so earlier the first 5 books were already marked up quite a bit at the comic store and they seemed out of reach. One day when we were going out shopping again my mom agreed to take me to the comic store and she said she would buy me one of those comics. She asked to see copies of 1 through 5, and the store owner went into the back and got them out. I was trying to figure out which one to get, and to my surprise my mom asked him how much for all 5. I think it was around twenty bucks, and my heart sank because I knew we did not have a lot of money. My mom quickly agreed to the price and I was the happiest kid you could imagine. 

I still have those books and I would not take any amount money for them. They will be in my collection until I die and they will remind me of my mom each and every time I take them out and read them with my daughter. 

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/3/2022 at 4:55 PM, Stefan_W said:

I think it was around twenty bucks, and my heart sank because I knew we did not have a lot of money. My mom quickly agreed to the price and I was the happiest kid you could imagine. 

I can empathise with that. My parents were low earners, struggled through, but, when she could, mum would give me 50p to buy a few comics from the bus station newsagent while on the way back from the market.  When you look back, you appreciate that a lot more.  As I've said before, I think my first newsstand comic was either Defenders 5 or Captain Marvel 27, one of the early Starlin issues.

[Axe Elf]

I was more into reading actual books as a kid than comic books.  I know my grandma had a handful that I read as a kid, but I can't say if I ever bought a traditional comic book for myself or not.

By the time I was in high school, I stumbled onto CREEPY/EERIE mags and regularly looked for new issues at the local variety store, but I probably only amassed about 20 of them at my peak, and 14 of them survived to be dug out of storage this past January and cue my Warren collecting for this spring.

So my best guess would be a CREEPY or an EERIE, but I have no idea which issue would have been my first.  All of the ones that survived were numbered in the late 80s to early 100s--contemporary with the late 1970s to early 1980s.

EDIT:  Could have also been a CRACKED or MAD magazine.  I liked CRACKED better, but I think I probably discovered MAD first, through a friend in grade school/junior high.  So there's a real good chance that the first "comic" I ever bought for myself was a MAD magazine in the early 70s.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Axe Elf

[Dr Zen]

It was one of these 2. I don't remember which and they both came out the same month.

 

[drmccoy74]

On 7/3/2022 at 2:07 PM, Dr Zen said:

It was one of these 2. I don't remember which and they both came out the same month.

 

Great books. DC Comics will rise to greatness again.  Too many Iconic characters not to.

[paperheart]

[kav]

there have been abt 5 of these threads but I dont mind chipping in once again.  I had 25 cents so bought 2 comics and a red vine.  I read the action first.  I still remember everything about it-the weather, where I was sitting when I read each book, what I had for lunch-

[pickycollector]

In French this one and in English that one

[kav]

On 7/3/2022 at 6:47 AM, drmccoy74 said:

I remember buying this from a spinner

He bought it from a spinner @1950's war comics   

[1950's war comics]

the first comic i remember buying was Spider-Man 102..... a 25 cent double issue

i got 35 cents allowance a week so i still had a dime left  for some candy or a pack of football cards !

[MattTheDuck]

Honestly, I don't remember.  These were the first two I know I bought at the grocery store that I still have.  I loved these books to death. 

I do remember when the grocery store moved the comics and magazines from a little alcove area to the left of the front doors to a long magazine - style wooden rack just inside the front doors.  I didn't like that because the comics were on the bottom and I had to kneel to look down there - my feet and legs were basically out into the aisle where people were entering and I was nervous about being stepped on.

 

[Cyborg-Sinister]

When I was four or so in the very early 70's I would be taken to a Discount Store in Gurnee Illinois and allowed to have a couple of packs of coverless Marvel Comics that were obviously unsold returned comics with the covers torn off that were then repackaged for the secondary market. I think there were three comics per pack with no idea what a pack cost but it couldn't have been much. I seem to remember they were mid 60's titles such as Tales Of Suspense and Tales To Astonish. I would love to be able to remember exactly what issues I had and what the packages looked like, I'm thinking they were in clear plastic sealed bags but I could be mistaken on that.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Cyborg-Sinister
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[telerites]

I have posted before but I still have mine - it was off the stands - well loved and well read now.

 

[kav]

On 7/3/2022 at 12:25 PM, 1950's war comics said:

the first comic i remember buying was Spider-Man 102..... a 25 cent double issue

i got 35 cents allowance a week so i still had a dime left  for some candy or a pack of football cards !

which was it-candy or football cards?  

[Toz]

Pretty sure it was Thor 175.Read it to death.I even remember reading the letters page and someone explaining how no one but Thor could lift the hammer.The next one was Thor #191 & & 193 was the first back issue I ordered.

So much good stuff from 70/71.Somewhere in there was Captain America,Captain Marvel,Lois Lane & Avengers.By the time the Picture Frame covers came out I was buying everything I could afford.

[MattTheDuck]

On 7/3/2022 at 12:57 PM, kav said:

which was it-candy or football cards?  

I tell you, one thing I regret (with 20/20 hindsight) - when I was a kid, we still got things like the measles (when the vax was relatively new) and other junk that would keep us out of school for a few days or a week.  I always asked for a pack of baseball cards when anyone went to the store and I should have been asking for comics.

[KirbyJack]

Shaver’s supermarket, summer of 1974.

I had somehow acquired a few comics previously, but hadn’t ever purchased one. Both heroes get beat in this issue, and I vividly remember an older brother telling me that I couldn’t just leave them like this, and had to get the next issue.

Brother Brian had no idea what he was starting!