The first comic you remember buying 5 5

[marvelmaniac]

 

 

[kazoo]

Looking back with the help of mikesamazingworld.com , I see that my brother and I started buying comics with the August 1973 cover dates.

I was 7 years old and had discovered Superman, so my two first buys were these, Action #426 and Superman #266

My brother was 10 and so more 'sophisticated', he bought a Captain Marvel #27 (July cover date, still on the stands), plus Defenders #7 and Thor #214, the Defenders in particular I read many times over and became a fan of the Hulk and Sub-Mariner.

 

 

[kav]

On 7/4/2022 at 7:26 AM, batman_fan said:

Jungle Action 23 from the Drugstore in Osgood, IN

omg how much was the OA for JA 23??  omg

[Artboy99]

through all the things my comic collections have been through I still have my first comic: Fantastic Four 112. I was 5-6 years old when I picked it up. My Father took me with him into town one day to buy rye bread and lunch meats and when we arrived at the shops he wanted to go to he dug into his pockets and gave me some change and told me to "go buy some comics at that store there." It was a used book store and they had tons of used comics on shelves. Talk about a kid in a candy store!

From that moment I was captivated, and started to draw from the books, and taught myself how to draw. 

Thanks Dad. 

The first comic I bought with my own money earned when I delivered newspapers after school was a Hulk #159. Today I have acquired a nice keeper copy, my original long gone.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Artboy99

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/4/2022 at 11:15 PM, kazoo said:

My brother was 10 and so more 'sophisticated', he bought a Captain Marvel #27 (July cover date, still on the stands),

Same as me; same age, same comic.

Flattered to be considered sophisticated.

6p British copy, though.

[aszumilo]

Bought this off a friend for$1.00, only to find out later I could have bought it for a quarter off the rack.

This is my original copy, probably a VG/F and still only worth what I paid for it.

[sckao]

Marvel Premiere #30

[A.K. - SilverAgeComicsUK]

ASM 50 from a dealer at Stan lees last European convention. Broke my heart to sell it. Love the hobby now and everyone in it!

[comicstock]

Dad picked up the Sunday paper & smokes at the Corner Store in Baptistown, still a small Jersey town you drive thru in 15 seconds.  I saw this book on the bottom of a big magazine rack and asked if he'd get it for me.  He did.  The rest is history.

[Haljordanfan]

First book I remember buying. 

[JazzMan]

This was mine.  Off the newstand off the Van Siclen station in Brooklyn.  Circa summer of '74.

[Robot Man]

I was a teenager in the very late ‘60’s. It’s a wonder I can remember anything…

[KirbyJack]

On 7/4/2022 at 1:44 PM, 1950's war comics said:

fun little run to have ! but unfortunately they aren't worth diddly 

I have learned to really appreciate worthless comic books. They survive every the purge when I do them, and I can read them without worry. 

So here’s to Plop!, Alien Legion, Denny O’Neil’s The Question, and low grade Marvel reprints!
 

 

[Humpty-Dumpty]

JLA #34, first comic I ever purchased, got it at the newsstands/candy store, and FF #49, first Marvel comic I ever purchased, also brand new off the stands.

[Miket123]

This the bad boy right here from a gas station or drugstore. 

The original long since fell apart.

I purchased a copy and have gotten it signed by both Roy and Jerry Ordway

 

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/5/2022 at 9:58 PM, KirbyJack said:

I have learned to really appreciate worthless comic books. They survive every the purge when I do them, and I can read them without worry. 

So here’s to Plop!, Alien Legion, Denny O’Neil’s The Question, and low grade Marvel reprints!
 

 

The value is in the quality of the story and art. Never worthless.

Edited July 5, 2022 by Ken Aldred

[1950's war comics]

On 7/5/2022 at 4:58 PM, KirbyJack said:

I have learned to really appreciate worthless comic books. They survive every the purge when I do them, and I can read them without worry. 

So here’s to Plop!, Alien Legion, Denny O’Neil’s The Question, and low grade Marvel reprints!
 

 

all my paper route money went to

Where Creatures Roam , Where Monsters Dwell, Creatures on the Loose !! 

all those reprints , not worth squat today but i loved them ...

[Ken Aldred]

On 7/5/2022 at 11:11 PM, 1950's war comics said:

all my paper route money went to

Where Creatures Roam , Where Monsters Dwell, Creatures on the Loose !! 

all those reprints , not worth squat today but i loved them ...

Pretty much the only way I knew how to get those older Marvel / Atlas stories in England in the 70s, along with the 100 pagers for DC Gold and Silver Age.

[Drummy]

My first comics were Hulk #199 and FF #172, but I didn't buy them -- we were visiting a friend's house and he had some Marvel comics for us to read.  (*swoon*) 

As far as buying one from the local drugstore, I think it was this one -- what a cover!

Dan

[shadroch]

On 7/4/2022 at 1:01 PM, jokiing said:

I remember reading a 3D Batman (maybe this one) in the 1960's... didn't get very far into the story because the 3D effect made me nauseous. Comic book disappeared soon after.

I have nightmares when I see that book. It's strange how childhood memories can last a lifetime .