1st appearances - just the comic equivalent of rookie cards? Oh and post a cover of a 1st appearance book in your collection 6 6

[southern cross]

First Perry White

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First Namora

[MR SigS]

On 6/27/2024 at 5:51 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

Errr...

1st Valkyrie in Sarah Parrington's body?

[Shazbot]

I hear they’re just gonna go ahead and weld the waterskis directly on to HERBIE and call it a day.

[MR SigS]

1st Spider-Man 2099. 1st Rick Grimes. 

 

 

 

[D84]

First Joker cover appearance (correctly colored Joker... Sorry, Detective 40,  DC recolored the original cover to make it not be the Joker)

First Penguin cover appearance

First Scarecrow cover appearance

First Catwoman cover appearance

First Vicki Vale cover appearance

[Hepcat]

The first appearances of certain villains:

Hector Hammond

Sinestro

Sonar

Star Sapphire

Doctor Polaris

Tattooed Man

Shark

Black Hand

Evil Star

[Shazbot]

High grade theme-songs!

[Shazbot]

And filthy animals

[MattrixAlien]

Having a comic which is the 1st appearance of a character you like is awesome. By the same token I don't get chasing 1st appearances of characters you don't care about. During the boom in particular we had people going crazy for the 1st appearances of any character appearing in an MCU show or movie including some I'd never heard of such as miscellaneous Skrulls. That is probably more about speculation & flipping rather than collecting.

In my digital reading of moderns I enjoyed the Uncanny X-Force run which included a cool new character Fantomex. Anyway while digging through boxes at an out of the way comic book garage sale I was happy to stumble upon his 1st appearance to add to my little run of New X-men's. (See the Paris Olympics thread where I've posted his 1st cover which was also there.)


 

Edited July 21 by MattrixAlien

[Hepcat]

Multiple firsts in this one:

Edited July 22 by Hepcat

[Deathlok]

Recent purchase

 

Edited July 22 by Deathlok

[Deathlok]

another recent purchase

[Hepcat]

The top one is the better looking comic of the two. Hopefully the bottom one was cheaper.