Your first comic books?

[Zorak Masaki]

Heres a new topic,,what was the first comic you remember getting (either by yourself or as a gift), and if possible, show a cover scan. Heres mine,,this issue of spiderman:
http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,spiderman_spectacular,096.jpg

And this issue of G.I Joe:
http://www.yojoe.com/comics/joe/joe2.shtml

Thats the earliest i can remember having. (I also had some of the Spire Archie Comics (Christian comics featuring the Archie Characters) but i cant find any cover scans of those comics). And as for the first one i remember buying myself:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2900/400/2900_4_1.jpg

I actually thought cyclops (who i knew from his cameos on spider man and his amazing friends) was going to be in the book, believe it or not (well he WAS on the cover, after all)

[James Meeley]

Mine was DC Comics Presents #69, which featured Superman and Blackhawk. I remember my best friend and I were at lunch and he was into comics. He was doing some comic trading with another kid (remember when kids used to do stuff like that? :sad: ) and he got that issue as part of the trade.

However, he wasn't a fan of Superman and asked me if I wanted it (for free). I took, read it and the next day I was trading my lunch money to that kid he traded with for more comics. Thus, a new fanboy was born. ;) :D

[Style]

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/14669ZLKnU/662718.jpg

The trade edition that is. Ofcourse, they've altered the trade cover since to look more morbid. But the cover of my '92 edition still looks roughly similar. And yeah, this was a morbid choice.

Besides that, I seem to remember that when I was 6 or 7, my dad retrieved a bunch of his old comics from his parents house and stored them in our basement. We're talking Silver age Superman and Batman, people. So, the first thing I did was try to read them...

...When my dad put me down. Hard. I was NOT to read his comics, he said. You see, this was the era when collecting comics was considered an "investment," and he thought he was sitting on a gold mine. Ofcourse, he made little effort to preserve them, so they were hardly mint condition, just readable. And he never put one iota of effort into trying to "cash in" on them. He just let them rot in our basement, and refused to let me touch them. And a few years later, our basement was flooded and they were destroyed. Bastard.

Oops, heh heh, lucky my dad doesn't know my screen name, or I'd never hear the end of it, (Even though I'm totally in the right and he's totally in the wrong.)

[Kury Wagner]

The first I got? Not read? Okay, that's an easier question...

I bought the first trade of Roman Dirge's Lenore, Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer & Spiderman, and Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer & the X-Men in early summer 2003.

Yeah, I know... I'm a comic newb. Oh well. =P

[EinBebop]

Being that I was such a heavy reader as a child, I'm sure I picked up other comic books, but this is the one that sticks out:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/ein/dccomicspresents2.jpg
Was actually easy to find, since it was the second part of a Superman-Flash race. :) Of course, this book came out in 1978 (I was only 4), and I'm thinking it would've been about 1984 that I read this book.

I know that I read other books here and there, including G.I. Joe, but I officially became a collector in 1986 with Son of Ambush Bug and Groo the Wanderer. DC's 'Legends' miniseries brought me into Justice League and the DC Universe.

I've had brief forays into the Marvel Universe, but nothing ever held my interest.

I loved Groo. I think it's time to change my avatar.

[Peter Paltridge]

I was 4. On Christmas 1986 I was handed a stack of comic books after begging for some every time I saw them in the store. Memory is hazy, but I definately know one was about the Get-Along Gang getting lost in a haunted house.

And before anyone asks, I could read perfectly at age 4. I started at 2.

[Michael24]

I've thought about this for awhile, and the earliest comic book I can remember having was Issue #1 of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ADVENTURES by Archie Comics in 1988 (I was 9), the three-part adaptation of the 1987 cartoon mini-series. I'm not 100% sure, but this might have been the first comic book I ever had.

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/9830/tmnt01cover8bu.jpg

[The Dork Knight]

I'm not sure what the exact comic was, but I remember getting either a Casper or Richie Rich comic when I was a really young kid.

[Anthonynotes]

If comic strips count, I've been reading the comics since I was five (1980)---recall reading "Priscilla's Pop", "Winthrop", and the old Bugs Bunny daily comic strip, along with stuff like "Peanuts".

My first comic *book* is a bit hazier, since our family didn't buy me comics much as a kid (and I got into buying them in high school, when I had the money to do so), but aside from maybe some vague memories of seeing some random New Teen Titans, Spider-Man, Superman, Superboy or Flash titles, the first one I clearly recall is this one (which they gave us at school):

http://www.spiderfan.org/cgi-bin/cover.pl?80123,spiderman_social_acs,smokescreen.jpg

One of those anti-smoking message books---the back cover has Luke Cage holding up a giant block and saying something about the crushing burden of smoking, or something.

Otherwise, my main superhero exposure as a kid was through watching their TV cartoons...

[Sharklady]

I don't remember the exact issues, but all my first comic books were Archie ones. I still retain a certain fondness for that title.

[Cyber E.]

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/3386/200/3386_2_00000082.jpg

It wasn't that sexy holographic cover, and it was in one of those 5-for-$2 packs of comics that you used to find at Wal-Mart, but that was the first comic I've ever read. It didn't make a lot of sense to me, but hey it was something.

[Darknight]

Click for a description and review
http://batmanytb.com/comics/titles/batman/401_500/batman430.jpg (http://batmanytb.com/comics/titles/batman/401_500/batman430.htm)

Right after the end of Death in the Family. What a place to start. I didn't quite understand everything that was going on outside of the issues story, but I knew that Robin had died. This is probably still a favorite story of mine too.

[KRnut82]

The earliest two I ever got (that I can remember that is) are Detective Comics #464

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/87/400/87_4_0464.jpg

and Superman Family #180.

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2154/400/2154_4_180.jpg

[screw on head]

I can't ever remember what the first comic I ever recieved was. I'm pretty sure that Knightfall was the first DC comics I ever read... which I did sort of enjoy but I don't have any real fond memories of it.

The first comics I remember seeking out month after month were the Archie Sonic comics, some issues of which I'd still like to track down to complete my collection :D. The first one I remember getting was the issue where Sonic and Tails first meet Knuckles... I forget the artist but it was sort of the corny era of the Sonic comics.

The Archie Sonics continued to be my favorite monthly comics, which I faithfully picked up until they switched to the revamped Dreamcast style. I did enjoy both the Sonic run and Knuckles' solo effort, which was pretty good. Yep, very fond memories... I really want to track down the second issue of the Mecha Wars someday, I never did see the Mechanized version of Knuckles and his beat down with Sonic...

[EinBebop]

I can't ever remember what the first comic I ever recieved was. I'm pretty sure that Knightfall was the first DC comics I ever read... which I did sort of enjoy but I don't have any real fond memories of it.Not surprised. Knightfall was a decent enough story, but it was part of a bad trend in comics, about the time when many (including me) stopped reading.

[90'sCartoonMan]

He just let them rot in our basement, and refused to let me touch them. And a few years later, our basement was flooded and they were destroyed. Bastard.
My...how HORRIBLE!

Here's the first comic that was my gateway drug. It started me on the path of having tons more:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2359/400/2359_4_0199.jpg

I bought it because it had Spider-Man AND The X-Men!

My copy of it is in horrible condition, though, I should really buy another copy just for sake of nostalgia.

[Blue Zeo]

http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/b/buffyp2.jpg

I think I was 9 or 10 when this first came out. I was a huge fan of the show and while I was at a store with my mom I saw this by the rest of the comics.

[sdp]

I am not sure as i was always interested in comics but intimidated by the numbers like Batman #321 etc, so even when iw as a little kid i was a huge continuity freak ;D so i didn't want to get into tem if i couldn't read the begginings and since i thought oh and batman #1 is worth millions so i'll never read it, but they still interested me, so i think i might have owned a few comics, before it but the death of superman was a huge event so my parents bought the TPB of it, that could have been one of the first i remember, but i also collected a Power Rangers comic (in mexico it was an ongoing series that lasted for a while not miniseries like here in the US) and i did collect that one fromt he beggining.

[Elven Moon]

My first comics were Muppet Babies, Disney (like Mickey Mouse, I think I had some Scrooge McDuck stuff), and Archie.

[MR.MXYZPTLK]

the first comics I was into was tales of teen titans

[EinBebop]

My first comics were Muppet Babies, Disney (like Mickey Mouse, I think I had some Scrooge McDuck stuff), and Archie.Holy smokes! How could I have forgotten I was a Richie Rich fan from the time I could read?