Sentimental Grails

[phoenix215]

I don't know if this has ever been asked but... What is your sentimental grail? What book is one that you are searching for/found/or would like to have simply because it has sentimental value for you. Whether it be the first book you ever bought or read. The first book that brings back those memories of picking it up fresh off the rack and racing home to read it gleefully.

 

For me it is X-Men #1, not because i've ever owned it but because the x-men was the first comic book i ever read, the first comic book i ever bought from my LCS. And for many years enjoyed the stories held within the covers.

 

So what is yours?

[Fan4Fan]

After my mother died a few years back, I needed to get a Marvel Two-In-One #8 because that was the book she bought me for Christmas one year when we went away to visit friends while my parents were having difficulties.

 

I remember pondering over whether to keep my original copy when I sold my first collection. I should have, but at that time (almost 30 years ago) it seemed like my mom would always be around.

[OrangeNemesis]

I have to agree that x men # 1 is mine as well. Ive never owned a copy nor was ia live when it came out but the x men has always been my fav book.

[deathlok]

Right now, easy answer would be Werewolf By Night #32.

[brasseye]

X-men! I had most issues from 9 up, but sold them to fund good times at uni. So now it's a scattering of mods in the collection, and not a single issue under 200 (not counting GS x-men #1).

But there still is a fondness for those early issues, they were true SA marvel at is's most innovative!

[nearmint]

Like many other collectors of Action and Superman, my first exposure to Golden Age issues from those titles was from the cover galleries in "Superman: From the 30s to the 70s" from Fireside books. As a little kid, I was in awe of those two page spreads of really old comics. To own many of those books now is pretty darn cool.

Never thought I'd own this!

 

[Omega Editions-migration]

I have just started collecting a short lived series I loved as a kid. Devil Dinosaur. Fairly easy to find copies on ebay as well.

[jools&jim]

Adventure Comics #79. One of Kirby's greatest GA covers, and a great interior story, too, which I first read in a Detective 100-pager when I was a kid. The original cover was also reproduced in that issue (I think), and to my 9 year-old mind it was just about the coolest damn thing I'd ever seen.

 

Back in the mid-90s, I lucked into a low-grade copy after years of searching, but sold it during my big Golden Age purge in 2003 to pay for my kid's school tuition. So much for sentimentality! Doubt I could find (or afford) another copy these days!

[bullseye]

The green lantern issue where he's selling the rings, can't think of the number off the top of my head, but it was my first SA comic, and I intend to get it back some day.

[october]

Albedo 2

 

[seanfingh]

 

Mine is Uncanny #94. I still have my copy that I got in '75. ( CGC .5 candidate) I really want a high grade copy, because when I was really active in the hobby in the eighties and nineties I got a lot of stuff that I wanted to replace my beater copies. Not 94 though, because it was always out of my price range. If I could get off the SS submissions and the other half million things that crop up that I have to have, I'd buckle down and get it.

 

--Sean.

[joeypost]

Thor 210. First book I ever owned.

[-cryptkeeper-]

FF 4 was the book i always dreamed to have when i begun my comics collec', i saw the cover in a book called Special Origines Strange, colors were not the same but i swear at that time to get one copy, and my dream comes true

[GreatEscape]

This was the cover that launched my comic obsession...

 

 

Seeing this cover as a teen-ager, I bought several silver/bronze Torch vs. Subby issues (Strange Tales #107, HT #14, etc) but my collection never felt LEGIT until I could afford and bought the real thing, baby!

 

GE

[Fan4Fan]

This was the cover that launched my comic obsession...

 

 

Seeing this cover as a teen-ager, I bought several silver/bronze Torch vs. Subby issues (Strange Tales #107, HT #14, etc) but my collection never felt LEGIT until I could afford and bought the real thing, baby!

 

GE

 

Anti-Flame Fluid!

[Kramerica]

Tales To Astonish #83 1st back issue I ever purchased.

[worldsbestcomics]

Amazing Spider-Man 121 (Death of Gwen Stacy) and Amazing Spider-Man 122 (Death of the Green Goblin) were grails for me when I started collecting seriously because I still had strong memories of my feelings when I first read those issues as a teen. Amazing Adventures 11 was the same thing. The Beast was my favorite character and the mutation plus the darker storyline about prejudice really stuck with me.

 

My sentimental grail is Uncle Scrooge #1. I have an ungraded 2.0 copy that I call my "Old Number One" and I like to break it out and read it (and other Scrooge & Duck books).

 

[kc120us]

X-Men #1 is my grail as well. The first copy I owned I bought in the late 80's for a few hundred. It was advertised at my LCS as a VF and signed on the first page by Jack Kirby. I had it slabbed in 2004 and it came back Qualified 5.5 (staples replaced).I sold it on ebay the follwing year for $1200. Have since upgraded to CGC 8.0.

[rodan57]

Amazing Spider-Man 121 (Death of Gwen Stacy) and Amazing Spider-Man 122 (Death of the Green Goblin) were grails for me when I started collecting seriously because I still had strong memories of my feelings when I first read those issues as a teen.

 

With perfect registration. This book would star in any collection.

 

Dennis

 

p.s.

My first Spider-Man, and a sentimental favourite, was #53 with Doctor Octopus. I remember that as a kid I coudn't figure out what the phrase, "Nuff Said!," on the cover meant.

[underthebigw]

It's probably a very close tie:

 

Thor King Size Annual 3--my first superhero book, bought off the newstand in Mt. Vernon, NY by my grandmother before we went to Mass one morning. I've got 2 copies, a NM gem I pulled out of a $3 box about 10 years ago, and my original tattered copy that first exposed me to Kirby's Asgard.

 

Invaders 8--bought by my father while on vacation on Long Beach Island in NJ. One of the books that converted me from a reader into a collector. Not only did I love the story, but it meant a ton to me that the title reminded my dad of some his favorite books. My true grail is the original cover art, which I really have no hope of affording.