Your very first comic book.

Looking at the other thread about where to start with comics got me reminiscing about my very first comic books and I wondered what other people started with?

For me, it was around October 1988, or somewhere around there. I live in the UK so the dates might not be completely accurate due to delivery times and the like, but I remember my Nanna being in hospital for an operation and I was going to visit her, only to discover that it would be an hour or so before I could go to the ward to see her.

This led me to the hospital shop (I love the little shop! ) and browsing through the UK magazines and comics. On the shelf though, were a few US comics, all DC comics, including a couple of issue 1's, as well as few characters I recognised. So I bought...

Hawk and Dove mini series issue 1.
Starman issue 1
Action Comics 623

Now, of the three, the first I read was Starman and he's always been one of my all time favourites, just for that character. I love all the variations of Starman over the years, but Will Payton holds a special memory after reading the Roger Stern version, which introduced me to comics Was thoroughly gutted when he "died" saving everyone from Eclipso, but hey, this is comics, no one ever really dies

The Action Comics I bought because of the awesome cover had one of the few heroes I really knew much about, Superman, and he's continued to be one of my all time favourites ever since, but the comic itself confused me as it was doing it's weekly anthology thing back then and half of the characters and storylines made no sense, but I was very much a fan of Green Lantern soon after

Hawk and Dove I also loved, even the Rob Liefield artwork (Hey, I was young and didn't know any better! :P ) but I could tell there was some back story to it, it was a true new set of characters. This is what led me to find my local comic book store, which luckily my home city had one at the time (and still does to this day, so it's not a completely dying industry after all ) and I found out more about them, as well as the world of DC Comics. Again, I was completely devastated when I saw what happened to Hawk and Dove in Armageddon, but hey, retcons ftw

So, there we go, that's my first, who wants to tell us how they popped their comic book cherries?

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The earliest one I remember and can name was probably Micronauts. I know I poked through others (issue here, issue there,) since I remember the various things like the Hostess Fruit Pie adds, superheroes thwarting crime with Twinkies and the like.

I tended to be more interested in scifi and history growing up (still am,) so that tended to shape my tastes. You'd likely find me reading Omni or Airpower instead of a comic. The ones I did read? They were at the library. Stuff like Sgt. Rock, GI Combat (I tend to remember the Haunted Tank,) some series with WWI flyers, etc. Captain America, Thor, etc. never grabbed me.

When I started buying, I grabbed GI Joe when it started. Transformers, too. (GI Joe still has what's probably my favourite issue - one with Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow, and no text at all. It was an interesting experiment.)

And then Marvel came out with their New Universe, and I jumped in. No decades-of-stories to have to deal with. Fresh start with Star Brand, DP7, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters... think those were the three I mostly kept up with. Heck, DP7 eventually, and in a sort of roundabout way, led me (via Silver Age Sentinels) here.

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Sheesh. I don't know! I've read comic books for much longer than I can remember (but then, I barely remember what I had for lunch yesterday). A first? Well, a good guess would probably be Lucky Luke or Asterix. Or maybe Tintin.

Or possibly something like The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. My hippie parents began their indoctrination early.

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You're going to make me go there aren't you?

(Gah, here's my age showing again)


an issue (no idea which one) of Sgt. Rock ca. 1978

Yup, been doing this for a while.

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Silver Surfer, volume 3, #70, August 1992. Still on my wall at home.

If we're counting Asterix, Tintin, Gaston Lagaffe and other BD, started reading those (in English and French) from about age six-probably started with Tour De Gaulle.

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It was an issue of what I think was Turok, Son of Stone, from the late '70's. I made my mother get it for me at the grocery store because it had dinosaurs in it. I must have been between three and five, probably closer to three or four, because I couldn't read any of it and had to have her read it to me. I always liked being read to with prose, but I felt it didn't work as well on a comic. I remember thinking at the time, "I'll have to be so old before I can read this stuff!"

About the only thing I remember about the comic itself was the characters constantly referring to the dinosaurs as "honkers." (For you younger folks, you could get away with stuff like this in the '70's and '80's without everyone pointing and laughing.)

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Let's see - we were living in North Carolina for the first time, so it was 76-77, so I was 7 or 8 years old [yes, I'm THAT old](we moved around so much I remember my aged based on the house we were in).

My dad brought me some giant-size comics, I remember Fantastic Four with a reprint of "This Man, This Monster" and the Superman vs Flash "Race of the Century".

I think I learned to write in cursive from one of the FF stories where they have to all vote for a new leader and they each vote for themselves. Sue's ballot was in cursive handwriting, which fascinated me for some reason.

Shortly thereafter I had $0.25 burning a hole in my pocket and I bought the issue of Teen Titans that introduced Duela Dent, aka Joker's Daughter. I remember not knowing how to pronouce "Titans" and saying "tit-ans" (short "i"), much to the amusement of my parents.

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The very first comic I know was mine was an issue of Magnus Robot Fighter from the early 70s where some rogue bots take over the weather control system for North Am. I loved it. Still have it too.

Some of the very first comics I ever read though? Heh heh heh... down in my grandmother's dark basement was an old dark brown bureau that contained my father's childhood stash of EC comics, an equal mix of the sci-fi and horror titles. To my young self, this was like stumbling across the Necronomicon, yellowed pages of frightening implications, tales of weird worlds and alien creatures... Today I own a ton of them in reprints and they still hold up well (esp. the art, oh man...); Magnus not so much, but I do own a bunch of them anyways.

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Time for me to show my age.....

The earliest comic that I have any memory of reading was a 1950's black and white reprint of World's Finest, featuring the Batman/Superman robot. As for an actual issue of a comic (in Australia, there wasn't much in the way of dedicated comic book stores back in the 70's), it was New Teen Titans #1 (reprint, of course). Made me go and buy virtually every back issue ever printed when I was an adult.


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Uncanny X-Men 112. Magneto tormenting the X-Men on the cover. Shelled out 35 cents of my hard earned allowance at the newstand by the Newport Beach ferry on Balboa Island. Instantly hooked. When I found out there was a new one of these EVERY MONTH!!! I was in heaven.

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Lots of random ones over the years, but the first comic I actively collected was Howard the Duck circa 1976 or so. I figured out what day the local convenience store got their magazine/comic shipment & haunted the racks so I wouldn't miss it.

I dug it mainly for the goofy surreal stuff & could never figure out why my mom was also a fan until I re-read the series as an adult a few years back...'Dr. Bong', indeed.

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I remember reading Archie, Spiderman, Superman, etc., when I was a kid, but I couldn't tell you what I read first.

The first comic I ever purchased using my own money was X-men #130, which was the debut of the Dazzler. I had read the previous issue from a friend, and was intrigued by it. I continued buying X-Men for quite awhile after that.

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Well, it took me a bit to figure out what would have been my first...

Asterix The Gaul!

When I was a child, my maternal grandparents used to send us boxes full of stuff (from candy, to clothes, to books and comicbooks) from across the Atlantic ocean.
And my brother and I grew up reading the British translations of Asterix books (extremely popular around much of the world, but mostly unknown within America). Really great and funny stuff. The animated movie "The Twelve Tasks Of Asterix" is actually quite well done and a nice adaption of the book of the same title.
I always loved the artwork in those... It was just a great blend of cartoony and quality illustrations. And the humor and wit, combined with the satirical look on history, were all just delightful and, I think, a great source for young people to read and kick start their brains.


As for comics that I ventured out and grabbed myself (besides completing my collection of Asterix books along the way) when I was a little older... I never really got into collecting comics so much, but I did venture out and grab some Spider-Man issues... Right around the time of Venom, I believe. Unfortunately, there were so many crossovers and such going on, that I ended up missing what I needed to buy in order to follow one story arc and I gave up, haha.

Then I just stuck with being loaned books when they were suggested to me or sounded good.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (That is, the kid-friendly Archie comics publications of them. )

First "real" comic book I ever picked up was some weirdo Marvel superhero named Sleepwalker, about a transdimensional being who accidentally got himself stuck in a teenage kid's head and could only walk the world while the kid was asleep. He shot eye beams that could warp reality and bring nightmares to life.

Friggin' loved that comic.

These days, I mostly read manga or collections of comics (e.g., trade paperbacks and the like). Collecting individual comic books is too expensive and time-consuming. :/

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I can remember reading the secret wars when I was kid. I used to have the issue in which spider-man got the black suit for the first time. but I was a kid and read that thing to death. I also remember power pack.. man I loved power pack growing up. I also had the issue in which superman gave batman the ring of kryptonite. Obviously the He-man comics that came with the toys. Transformer comics as well, I can remember those.

I don't really remember which was my first comic but one of my earliest memories is from when I was four and watched the original Spiderman and Spiderwoman cartoons on television so I'm guessing I've read comics in some form or another for all my life as I've always loved superheroes.

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This is the first one I bought with my own money.

Crisis on Infinite Earths #5

I would have linked the picture on here, but the thing is huge. Link leads to the comic cover btw.

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My earliest clear memory of an actual comic book was picked up from a rack in a convenience store/gas station on a trip with my family. I don't recall the actual issue title or number (and it might have been a reprint), but the story involved Spider-Man teaming up with Angel to fight a brainwashed Iceman following the collapse of the Champions super-group. I believe Spidey finally snapped Iceman out of it by chucking him into a car wash.

There was also a backup story featuring (Peter Porker,) Spider-Ham going up against Tombenstein Bear and the Punfisher.

Read that thing to death, man.

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The earliest comic I can remember reading was Issue #29 of Transformers. This would be the G1 Transformer comic series from Marvel. The issue featured Bumble Bee and Blaster getting infected by scraplets.



At that age, the only time I would get a comic was when my parents thought to pick one up, so I never knew how it ended. Later, I did a little digging and found out the cure was nothing more than water. I'm sure if I had read that as a kid I might have found it cool, but finding out later made me realize it was some pretty weak writing.

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I know I'd read some old Fantastic Four B&W flipbooks, but this was my first actual buy-it-from-the-rack comic book:

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My first comic book? Damn. Later-70's. Disney book. Donald Duck I think.

First superhero book? High school. 1987. An X-Men book at a local drugstore. No comics shops came into my area for another 2 years.

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My first comic was Marvel, The Avengers, #90, 1971.



What a great comic to start with! It featured not only the mutants Wanda and Pietro, but aliens Mar-vell, Ronan, and the Super-Skrull, the Kree Sentry, the Kree-Skrull War, the Inhumans, the synthezoid Vision, the Fantastic Four, Goliath (the first hero role I knew of for Clint Barton), the Wasp, Yellowjacket (the first hero role I knew of for Hank Pym), and Rick Jones.

My next comic book was DC, Justice League of America, #91, 1971.



Which featured not just the Justice League of Earth 1, but the Justice Society of Earth 2. So another introduction to a huge cast of characters.

The comics also featured Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, who did their own "crossovers," working both for Marvel and DC around that same time.

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I don't remember if it were exactly this one. But I do remember it was one from Valley of the Dinosaurs. So it must have been sometime in the mid 1970s.

This one though looks like a re-print issue with the UPC code.

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Fantastic Four #33. For a mere $.12 New. Off the spinning wire rack at Dennis's Mom and Pop. If you ask me what a Mom and Pop is I'll beat you to death. Ya' know, if my hip doesn't go out.

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