Your very first comic book.

My first comic was Uncanny X-Men #123. I read it so many times it fell apart, at which point I gave it to my best friend. It resonated so strongly with me that many years later, after I had stopped buying new comics, I went and found a back issue and reread it a few more times.

I have no idea of the exact issue because it was back in the mid 80's and I was like 6 or 7, but I think I can safely say it was either Incredible Hulk, Transformers, or Iron Man. Though at the time, I'm pretty sure the only reason I bothered with Iron Man was because I thought he was a Transformer too.

good luck D.B.B.

This is the first comic I bought at a store, off the spinner rack. The very first non-canon Star Wars story!

Didn't have a lot of comics growing up on the farm. The Asterix, Tintin, Footrot Flats, and Garfield series were mainstays. However, there are two comics I fondly remember from childhood:



Brave and the Bold Vol 1 #194 January, 1983 (If only heroes figured out they could trade villains and be more effective as well)

and



Incredible Hulk Vol 1 #104 June, 1968 (I actually read this in a Hulk Annual but can't find the title)

My earliest comics (before I started buying back issues) were dated 1970, so I'd have been 7. Don't have any memory of what I first read. The first comic book memory I have is in 1971 or '72, reading a Batman 100-page Super Spectacular. I think it had a reprint of the introduction of the 1950's Batmobile, which is still the coolest Batmobile ever designed.

The first superhero one I remember is a reprint of WWII Batman and Wonder Woman (two separate stories, one comic). Batman with the Batmobile with the shield and his Gyrocopter. Wonder Woman fighting U-boats.

Otherwise it would be "safer" comics like Donald Duck or Richie Rich or Archie.

The first I rember was the Brave and the Bold with Green Arrow and the Martian Manhunter, Tales of suspense with Iron Man , Tales to Astonish with Giant Man and the Hulk.

Sonic the Hedgehog #44. My comic collection consists of Sonic related comics.

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Like I said, and as seen below. Double plastic cover with interior foiling.

i believe it was:



and that introduced me to the very lovely Warren Worthington III.

Twelve Labors of Heracles written down by some guy named Bullfinch


Okay, I know that's not a comic book, but while the comics were a sort of "okay, that's cool" sort of thing, myths and legends filled most of the space comic books are supposed to take in people who pay attention to this genre

When I was 5 years old (1978), my parents decided to take me to Columbia for a couple months, for a combo, friends wedding and vacation. It was a pretty poor decision in retrospect as Columbia was a pretty dangerous place at the time.

We were met with guerrillas that attacked and killed people we were with, gypsies that tried to kidnap me, and malaria. See I was bitten by a mosquito and very nearly died. I was saved by twice daily injections from a "horse needle" that was used by all of the local people and animals, and Superman #344. Even now I can not read it because it is in Spanish (and slightly crispy from 34 year old vomit), but the fantastical pictures of Superman and Dracula kept me going at a time when I thought all was lost.

I know this may sound crazy but believe me when I say I couldn't make this crap up.

Great thread!

To be honest, I'm pretty sure my "very first comic book" was one of the Disney duck books, but I never saved any of those, so I'm going to discount them.

My first ever superhero book, or at least the earliest one I remember and saved, was an issue of The Mighty Thor. I still have it at home, but I don't recall the issue number, or much about the book, offhand.

The first comics I vividly remember (both with April '77 cover dates) are:



and




Additional firsts...

> In the summer of '77 my mom bought me the first six issues of the Star Wars movie adaptation in one of those bagged sets they used to sell at K-Mart, and that is what started me "collecting" a specific comics series.

> In the summer/fall of 1981, I purchased my first two X-Men comics simultaneously: Uncanny X-Men Annual #4 and Uncanny X-Men #150. This was the beginning of me become a serious comics collector. I have since established a near continuous run of Uncanny X-Men. I'm missing only 5 or 6 issues, including, unfortunately, #1.

> In 1985 I picked up an issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths, which, while not my first DC comic, is what opened up the DC universe to me as a reader and collector.

> Around February of 1986 I picked up issue #6 of the Comico series "Elementals." I was my first independant comic.

> In 1996, Leave it to Chance #9 was published marking my first appearance as a character in a comic book (seriously).

I know I first started reading various Superman books in the mid 60s -- I remember books being 10 cents then -- so i could get 2 for my quarter allowance. That didn't last long before they went up to 12 cents. That trend left me scrounging a lot.

I've a cover in mind -- with Superman seated on the right and maybe Lois Lane on the left. I don't know if it is Superman, Action, or Lois Lane, but I haven't been able to ID a cover that fits. Not every cover is scanned and on the net. I do know I received several such comics in my stocking one Christmas and loved them -- all Superman. Whether the issue I remember is one of them or indeed the FIRST one I got, I don't know.

I've been primarily a DC reader every since. I do remember a few Fantastic Four issues I got along the way around that time -- everything got from either the Grocery Store or the Drug store. I never even HEARD of a "comic book shop" until the Eighties...

Amazing Spider-Man #343 (despite the confusion in the upper-right, it was part 3 of the Powerless arc, something I didn't know for years until I got the first two parts as back issues). I was 7 years old and on vacation in Florida, and my parents bought it for me, probably either in the airport or maybe at a store once we got there. I was completely confused and had no clue what the hell was going on in the story, but I was hooked. #347 was my next issue (HOLY *#& HE KILLED SPIDER-MAN WHAT??!?!?!?!?!??!?!) and I was subscribed after that for the next 15 years or so.

My family was stuck in a New Jersey airport one night. My dad went to the newsstand and got me Iron Man #186 to keep me docile. Dunno if he picked it out or I did. A few years later it blossomed, and decades later resulted in ... well, this.

The earliest I remember was a Batman comic from the early/mid-90s. All I can tell you was that it was actually quite a long read (it had several Acts or Chapters), and the art style had him with 5 ft long ears on the cowl and a 3 mile long cape. The cover was him getting electrocuted or something by....a large figure. I can't even remember the premise or what that figure looked like. I also remember it was the first time I'd ever seen Batman swear (one thought bubble says "Damn"....something happens immediately after, and the bubble then says "double damn").

X-Men #9 from the Jim Lee run was my first that I got to pick out and can remember reading.



Had no idea who Ghost Rider was, but I thought he was a total BAMF.

Uncanny X-Men 300 was the first one that I though of as a collectible, cause it was shiny.

Very first comic book was actually a 3pak of Transformers G1...issues 8, 9 and 10....

My babysitter's son had a collection of comic books he let us read. I remember that the first book I picked up and read was Daredevil #1.

The black bagged with bloody "S" Death of Superman.... and the "regular" version to read