The first comic you remember buying 5 5

[1950's war comics]

the first DC issue i can remember buying off the shelf was PLOP #1 and i still have it in VG/F condition so it's worth maybe $10  

[kav]

On 7/3/2022 at 6:12 PM, 1950's war comics said:

where are the Little Dots  ??   

 

I forgot to mention I did also have lil dots, rich richie, lotta little and few hot stuff.  cpl charltons too and some magnus robot fighter but I cant remember which ones.  plus the wham-O giant comic book I traded for with a neighbor kid.  that was a real coup.

Edited July 4, 2022 by kav

[kav]

oh yeah and some classics illistraytid.

[nepatkm]

On 7/3/2022 at 7:49 PM, Parabellum said:

Awesome book to be your first comic purchase.  My experience was opposite from yours.  Team America 6 is the first book I remember buying. 🤣🤣🤣

In my defense I was 5 and thought motor cycles were cool. 

 

That’s 😎 @Parabellum - I was 13 at the time Team America came out, and buying that title as well. 🏍 🇺🇸 👍

[1950's war comics]

wow !! that team America is some major drek !! it actually hurts my eyes to look at it ,,,,,,

[kav]

On 7/3/2022 at 6:23 PM, 1950's war comics said:

wow !! that team America is some major drek !! it actually hurts my eyes to look at it ,,,,,,

yep if that was my first comic I would have never touched another comic book.
This is why many ppl dont read-first book was some boring thing like to kill a mockingbird.  for a 13 year old that will kill any and all urge to read.

[AJD]

This one (but not this copy), when I was 8. I was with my mum visiting my grandparents in Melbourne and we got it from a street newspaper seller. I can remember the comics spread out on the pavement alongside stacks of newspapers. I owned earlier comics than this one, but I can't remember buying them.

[Parabellum]

On 7/4/2022 at 10:23 AM, 1950's war comics said:

wow !! that team America is some major drek !! it actually hurts my eyes to look at it ,,,,,,

It’s horrible 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 7/3/2022 at 9:37 PM, Parabellum said:

It’s horrible 

So, kinda, was TMNT adventures or what not #2, but I told myself from the cartoon experience there was still more to comics.

 

[The Commissioner]

Loved watching Batman The Animated Series when I was growing up, so naturally, the first comic I purchased was Batman. 

[kav]

when I saw my first comic-action 350, I was amazed.  never saw anything like it.  Was intensely curious about the skeleton superman.  Of course I didnt even know who superman was.  did you guys have a similar amazed curiosity about your first book?

[Galen130]

The first comic I remember getting as a kid was Ghost Rider #1, Johnny Blaze, not Carter Slade.  I don’t have it anymore…no photos.  I sold it before I heard about CGC.  I do have the Carter Slade Ghost Rider #1 slab now…signed even.  That was purchased earlier this year.

[southern cross]

This Peter Parker the spectacular spider man was the first comic book I bought.

This is the exact issue bought off the news stand at Lincoln st newsagents, Strathpine, Brisbane, Australia.

[Pat Thomas]

I'm almost sure it was ASM #139 or Avengers #130. I almost immediately started buying a bunch of Marvel titles, and there were so many from that particular era that came out really close together. I knew Wolverine was cool when I bought Hulk 180 & 181, and a few months later he was on the cover of a new Giant Size X-Men, so I thought I would try it. Then X-Men 94 came out a few weeks later, so I got it, too. I had $1.50 invested those 4 comics and never expected they would be worth thousands of dollars someday. Wolverine was the coolest looking character I had ever seen, though.

Since I started reading Marvel, I was used to the continuing stories. I was only 8-10 years old, but the current DC comics I tried reading seemed so corny compared to Marvel. The difference was night and day.

[KirbyJack]

On 7/3/2022 at 8:23 PM, 1950's war comics said:

wow !! that team America is some major drek !! it actually hurts my eyes to look at it ,,,,,,

A friend of mine has a letter printed in either that one or #7. So of course, I have one,

[MyNameIsLegion]

On 7/3/2022 at 1:07 PM, Dr Zen said:

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

 

Great minds and all that!

My first Marvel and DC: Only I took it a step further and I have pages of art from both.

Edited July 4, 2022 by MyNameIsLegion

[Cat]

The first I remember getting was an issue of Transformers UK (we actually got both over here, that got confusing, leading to me getting some of the same stories twice). It was an iconic cover, part of the Target:2006 storyline, of Galvatron on top of a truck Ultra Magnus gauging his internals out. Very well known cover among TF fans. Geoff Senior, iirc. 

I didn't know what it was, but this was different to the normal stories, more frantic. I'd discovered the Furman-done UK exclusive stories. 

[Tank the Dog]

Uncanny X-Men 299, I loved the chess themed cover of 299.  Although the marvel trading cards from the early 1990’s is what got me interested in the first place.

[davidpg]

I had some comics from 1980, though the first book I bought after seeing it on the newsstand was Wolverine MS 1.  Don't know why, didn't really know who he was...saw it and had to buy it, and I remember the moment like it was yeaterday even though it was literally 40 years ago.  I bought the rest of the series off the newsstand as well (and I still have the copies...fun the  2,3,4 are of course CPVs ;) ).  That's the book that really ignited my lifelong love for comic books.

[Axelrod]

Not the first comic I ever bought.  I don't remember the first comic I ever bought.  I read plenty of random comics before New Teen Titans.  But this is the first one I have a distinct memory of buying, because it's the series that really kickstarted my love of comics.  It's probably the book I have the most sentimental attachment to for that reason.  And I actually bought this one first (and then walked across the street and bought issues #1 and #3 from off a different spinner rack that I remembered they were on.

Years later I was gifted a nicer copy of this, but still got my original, well-loved copy.  Sent it off to CGC just this year for the (sadly, cancelled) Perez signing.