When did you start collecting???

[Marvelfangirl]

2001

[nmtg9]

My Dad collected and when I was four in 1976 he gave me some and I learned to read with them.

 

I stopped in 1991 and concentrated on boozing and University and eventually sold them all.

 

I started again a couple of years ago.

[porcupine48]

The first comic I ever put in a bag and board was Wolverine 1

unlimited series.But years before that...I guess around Secret Wars II .

Wow,this is an old thread!

[jerome34]

Two periods:

 

1) Age 8 - All Star 13 got me hooked. (September 1942)

Collected until about 1950. Sold the collection (switched to Science Fiction pulps)

and took a short break from comics.

 

2) Age 39 - Started again in the spring of 1983. Been at it ever since. Still missing

a few of the ones I know I had then. The condition of my current copies is, alas,

no where as good as the ones I had then.

[Manic Eightball]

Started right around the "Death of Superman" shenanigans. Couldn't find the death issue anywhere at the time but did find Amazing Spider-man so got that and it snowballed from there.

[Jeffro.]

I chose 5-10 but I had two periods of collecting.

 

I didn't start what I consider serious collecting until 1981. I was 13. That's when I really started to take care of what I bought. Before that, I bought and read comics but never bothered to try to preserve them in any way.

[LovinTheSurfer]

2008

[Bat-Man]

When I was 12.

[G.A.tor]

1973, 6 years old, first comic for 25c at a flee market was Silver Surfer #1 (why he is still my fav character today)

[Mr 9.8]

1995 I was 9 and I bought them off the comic rack at my localWaldenbooks.

Those were the days

[RockMyAmadeus]

17. My senior year of high school.

[oakman29]

I started reading comics around 5 years old,collecting comics around ten.

[scooter99]

I bought a comic here and there prior to age 10. My first collector comic was Star Wars #1 right off the newstand. I was 11 at the time. I bought every issue until #50 then started learning more and focused my efforts on obtaining first issues and first appearances of my favorite characters. I collected until my college years, the last book I remember buying before I stopped was the Robin death books in the late 80's.

 

I just recently got back in the hobby and look forward to buying and selling.

[Mutant Manatee]

The first comic I remember reading was Where Monsters Dwell #8 in 1971. I was 8 years old.

 

I didn't start collecting comics seriously until 1976 at age 13.

 

Some of the first comics I bought new off the stands and kept were:

 

Incredible Hulk #197

Marvel Team-Up #44

Marvel Super-Heroes #56

Defenders #29

 

[NewEnglandGothic]

Age 6, when my father brought home a Detective Comics #506 in 1981.

[highgrademagiccards]

Age 10-11. It was cool when I a got a subscription and the books would come in the mail!!