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Konungrcomics Posts: 62
9/2/2018
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Hello all, So my first comic was Creepy Issue 100 dated Aug 23rd 1978. Though the original issue was put through the blender for many years, I recently purchased a NM copy just for the sentimental value. It was a gift from my uncle and started my vice of comic collecting, how about the rest of you?
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Speaking of getting the young into comics, my nephew's wee boy (Luis), is comic mad. He is 10 or 11 yrs old and has also been to comic art classes. He frew this for me when I was back visiting last February/March. pretty good for his age I reckon. 
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Konungrcomics Posts: 62
9/6/2018
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Ronbatman wrote:
Pthomas, love the Hulk 180 story. fun stuff.
There is a trend here. Most of the time someone introduced you to comics and then you were hooked. We need to be introducing people/kids to comics. If someone asks me about my collection I always have a stack of comics that I let them choose from. "Here, read one." I have some all-ages comics for kids who ask. Some of those people that I give comics to come back to me and say, "I'm hooked".
All you stated was very true bud, the thing I have found of late especially with the younger generation " my kids, and soon to be grand-kids LOL" is there's no want anymore for hands on hard copy comics. I actually heard a young man at my local shop bragging to his buddies the other day about his Comic collection on his Kindle. To me its always been about the hunt, opening the cover, the read, the smell of the pages, and the wait to run to the shop for when the next issue drops. Guess I'm officially a dinosaur lol!!
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solarno Posts: 164
10/26/2018
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This is a cool question to think about, so here is the very long story about my first comic book.
It was a dark, bitingly cold winter day in early 1980. The term day is being rather generous as days are almost non-existent in the frozen north that is Alaska during winter. I was a typical 7 year old at the time, probably playing with toys or reading books acquired during Christmas the previous December and longing to ride the shiny new black and yellow bike that was just waiting for the perfect day to emerge from hibernation. When the wind chill is frequently negative double digits and the days short, there is not much for a 7 year old to do in 1980 Alaska. Live TV was practically non-existent unless we went to the officers club on the Coast Guard base. A town of 2,000 people, mostly fisherman and military, doesn't offer much in the way of entertainment. And the internet was still nearly 20 years away. Thank god for our Atari 2600!
I mentioned that live TV didn't really exist, but we still watched current-ish shows. It's just that since cable or satellite wasn't an option we had to wait weeks if not months for copies of shows to be literally shipped to the island to be broadcast on the local stations. At some point in 1979 one of the local stations finally received copies of a show that premiered on ABC in late 1978 for the lower 48 states and, as I had found out much later, had most likely already been cancelled by the time I fell in love with it. That show was Battlestar Galactica! I had seen a little known movie called Star Wars in theaters only two years before so was incredibly excited to see more adventures in space on our small (probably 13") TV. To my young mind this was just as amazing as Star Wars and seemingly more accessible as I could watch episode after episode, week after week. Colonial Vipers were just as cool as X-Wings. Cylons were even more intimidating than Stormtroopers (they actually hit their targets). And the Galactica itself... I was completely enthralled.
Back to the cold winter day. Eventually my Mom needed to go into town so she loaded up my sister and I and off we went. The local store had a small newsstand filled with the usual periodicals of the time, mostly. Like TV shows, most consumer goods were shipped to the island so things like publication dates were basically irrelevant. You got it whenever it arrived. This particular newsstand also had a small collection of comic books. I was never really interested in them except that this time there was one with a Colonial Viper being chased by a Cylon Raider and they were both flying off the cover right at me. Battlestar Galactica, in print, in front of me. By this time the local TV station would have played all the episodes they had and I was dying for more. I had to have this. I'd like to think I asked my mom nicely to buy it for me, but being 7 I was probably a little pest. I wouldn't have understood the value of the book at the time, but we didn't have a lot of money and I know now that $ .40 at the time wasn't cheap for something that my mom probably thought would just get trashed within a few weeks if not days. Because of how expensive it was to ship products to Alaska at the time it's very likely that the store actually charged more than cover price for most of the comics and periodicals.
My mom relented, or took it out of whatever allowance I might have earned at the time. Those details are insignificant bits of neural dust some 40 years later. It also didn't matter that it took over 6 months for this comic book to arrive in my little town in Alaska. A 7 year old doesn't care about things like publication dates. What matters is that I had Battlestar Galactica #4 in my hands and I could read it over and over. It was based on two episodes of the TV show and I could now relive the adventures I had watched on TV. Visit my fictional friends. Be enthralled with artwork that seemed to jump off the pages.
This book that engaged my imagination did not get trashed. Like all of my books I took care of it because I wanted to be able to read it whenever I needed to revisit my friends. Shortly thereafter there was a divorce, and we moved, a lot. It was in and out of moving boxes at least five times over the next five years. I didn't know what bags and boards were and I probably wouldn't have cared. This was something to hold in my hands and interact with, not an object to collect. No, I would just pack in with my other books. Somehow it managed to survive all of the moves. The cold winter in Alaska. Warm summers and more frigid winters in Michigan. The tropical humidity and bugs of a year in Hawai'i. And finally, in August 1985, the sometimes oppressive heat of Southern California.
By that time I was five years older and had been through a lot. I had had new homes, new friends, new interests. Battlestar Galactica had faded from being this amazing world I felt compelled to visit. (BSG 1980 didn't do much to help with that.) Star Wars had solidified itself in my psyche. I had discovered Tolkien, MTV, Dungeons and Dragons, cartography, and anime, especially Robotech. Two words for when I started watching Robotech in 1985: mind blown. It was possibly the coolest thing I'd ever seen on TV. It was BSG all over again, only I was older and wiser and could process more complex storytelling. My now 5 year old copy of Battlestar Galactica, which had been across the country and back with me now lived in a box in my closet, an afterthought lost to youth and growing older.
With so much change over those past five years, and so many new creative interests, comic books never really took hold in my mind as something to read. I was 12 and living in a new town in Southern California. It was 1985 so wandering around at that age by myself or with friends was no big deal. I had finished seeing a movie at the local multiplex and saw there was a comic book store right next door. On a whim I decided to walk in and I saw a comic book that said Robotech on it...
And here I am still in Southern California, 33 years and 5600+ comic books later. I'm happy to say that I still have that very first comic book I owned. It's in a bag and board now. It's in surprisingly good shape considering the number of times I would have read it. It lives with dozens of other BSG comic books. It's certainly not the most valuable comic book I own, but it means more to me than any other comic book I own.
You can see a picture of it here: https://thejimfurey.com/2018/10/26/my-first-comic-book-battlestar-galactica-4-june-1979-marvel/
Cheers!
Jim
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expander Posts: 241
9/6/2018
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I love the hunt. I take the kids with me whenever I can. Yard sales, flea markets, auctions that's where the fun is. Then you get to experience a whole different kind of joy to see and hear the little ones reading them and debating on which characters are more powerful or who would win against who. It takes me right back to my school days doing the same thing.
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Stitch1769 Posts: 17
9/20/2018
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First comic was G.I. Joe #1 Marvel. Went to the NAVY years later and my mom threw everything into a garage sale. So now in my mid life crisis, I get to blow my Porsche money on collecting everything I used to have. But I gotta tell ya', the hunt is fun!
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JGMelville Posts: 21
10/23/2019
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I was sick with Chicken Pox and my aunt gave me a Scooby-Doo comic. Not sure of the publisher or issue #, but it was the mid-70's. I received a Brave and the Bold 142 (Aquaman) (https://comicspriceguide.com/titles/brave-and-the-bold-the/142/ybpvk) with no cover. I liked the story so much that I had to get a version of 142 with a cover to see what the cover looked like. That's where I caught the fever, and as I got out of school and got my first job, I was into collecting. Batman, Detecitive, Brave and the Bold, World's Finest. I still collect Batman and Detective 40 years later.
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BC2015 Posts: 5
11/2/2019
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It was Star Wars #7. I remember clearly because I was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, and my parents bought it from the gift shop because I was needing something to read and they knew I liked Star Wars. I was so confused with all the new characters and had no idea what the heck was happening in the book. Despite that, I was still hooked.
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pthomas2010 Posts: 116
9/4/2018
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I'm pretty sure it was either Avengers 130 or Amazing Spider-Man 139. I vividly remember laying on my stomach in our front yard reading that Avengers book, but I also remember getting the ASM 139 off the rack. What I loved about those days is that just about every boy my age had comics and would trade. Also when I got my $5 allowance and was dragged out shopping with my Mom, I could buy a stack of new comics and have money left over. There was a comic rack at most drugstores and grocery stores back then, and most malls usually had one of those, and there were plenty of times I would read comics while Mom shopped elsewhere. I remember reading Hulk 180 at the grocery store while Mom was going up and down the aisles, and I was blown away by a cool looking new character in the very last panel, Wolverine. I was so excited I that I found Mom and showed her this awesome new character, yet she was unenthusiastic about it. Old people, I swear.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2381
9/5/2018
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Pthomas, love the Hulk 180 story. fun stuff.
There is a trend here. Most of the time someone introduced you to comics and then you were hooked. We need to be introducing people/kids to comics. If someone asks me about my collection I always have a stack of comics that I let them choose from. "Here, read one." I have some all-ages comics for kids who ask. Some of those people that I give comics to come back to me and say, "I'm hooked".
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Konungrcomics Posts: 62
9/3/2018
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Awesome stories guys, after 2 wives and 7 deployments my collection as a kid was either sold, thrown away or given away lol. Now that I'm retired I have once again have been drawn to the Gods of comics. Every box lot i get, or flea market I go to makes me feel like a kid again, loving every minute of it!
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expander Posts: 241
9/2/2018
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For me it was a $5 stack of comics from the flea market there was Fantastic Four #371,Gammarauders #3, Namor the submariner #8, ASM#279, Iron Man #180, X-men #1(1991), and a few others It would be years before i even knew what bags and boards were. they stayed in a shoe box under my bed until I moved out to live with my mom in Virginia. Where she took me to yard sales on weekends in search of more comics. I love to hunt down deals that's almost as good as reading them, Almost....
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dav1 Posts: 56
9/2/2018
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first one i bought myself was star wars 1 marvel first autograph was jim lee xmen 1 but very first was a superman or spiderman
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brianpeppers Posts: 7
9/2/2018
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I don't even remember. I was maybe nine or ten years old, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't one single comic. I got a bunch of early '70s stuff, a lot of which was reprints of the classic Lee/Kirby stuff.
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Biddle7819 Posts: 170
9/3/2018
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First one I purchased was Transformers #42, Marvel UK Weekly comic. Still have it now - its trashed after being read hundreds of times!
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2381
9/3/2018
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I read comics as a kid but didn't keep them. Pretty sure it would have been Casper or Richie Rich. Later, when I got back into comics I picked up a Batman comic issue 408. It was a great time to pick up Batman comics because Year 1 just finished and I was able to find them on the shelf, then 10 nights of the Beast then Death in the Family. It makes me smile just thinking about it.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
9/3/2018
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As others not really sure of issue number but it would be a Incredible Hulk or Captain America in the early 1970’s. I’d get a quarter or two from my mom and I’d go to the book store to get candy. I’d end up by a rack of comics and sit down in the isle and read a few till the clerk would tell me leave or buy something. Most times the candy won out but if I couldn’t finish reading the comic, I’d buy it.
Didn’t start real collecting till I was buying comics for my daughter in the 90’s.
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Crowman Posts: 165
9/3/2018
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I cannot recall the issue or even the title. But my reason for getting into comics was the batman TV series in 1966 and that would have been my first ever superhero comic. probably a Batman or Detective Comics issue.
I did have other comics before then, but these were classic British comics.
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rperryx2000 Posts: 144
9/4/2018
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I don't remember exactly but I believe it was Spider-Man #24 that came out in July of 1992. I got it from the local gas station spinner rack. That venue was my primary spot to pick up comics for the next several months until I learned about the local comic book stores. Over the next several months I distinctly remember getting Marvel Tales 272, Iron Man 290, Superman 75 4th print, and Batman 498 from that same spinner rack.
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
9/4/2018
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I honestly don't remember. I had a bunch of Archies and Duck books long before I collected. I know for sure I only have at least three books left from my first five years of collecting one would be very close to the first book I bought and that is Human Torch #1 (1970's). I bought it back issue not new off the stands. I wouldn't be surprised if one of my very first was an issue of Invaders.
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jarhead_84 Posts: 481
9/4/2018
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From what I can remember, it was Spidey Super Stories, got a subscription, waited anxiously at the mail box for em to arrive!! What got me started was Marvels Secret Wars, I was stationed in North Carolina in the mid eighties and at the unit I was assigned to, there was a magazine rack that had I think 3 issues of Secret Wars, wanted to read the whole series, that's what got me started. There were two LCS in Havlock, NC. Started buying the series so I could read it, then onto Spectacular Spider-Man (loved the covers) should have got Amazing Spider-Man, but what did I know at the time. By the time I got out in 88, I had 8 long boxes full, mostly marvel, but some DC, and 25,000 books later!! My wife thinks I am nuts!!
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Crowman Posts: 165
9/5/2018
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Thanks Pal. He is usually all over me when I go back, asking heaps of questions and wanting to see my latest books.
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fdaz89 Posts: 56
11/5/2019
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Star Wars #1 (first series) and Amazing Spider-Man #167 (first appearance of Will O' The Wisp).
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2381
12/9/2019
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When you tell us about your first comic be sure to say the issue number. It gives us some perspective.
Got to love Batman
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Gilgandra Posts: 1246
12/12/2019
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WaveWarrior wrote:
My first comic book purchase was when I was 13 years old. I bought Amazing Spider-man #252 ...
https://comicspriceguide.com/titles/amazing-spider-man-the/252/xlwvl
I was hooked and began my treasure hunt of collecting all kinds of comic book heroes! 
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Imcubillo Posts: 50
1/1/2020
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I bought amazing Spider-Man 298 first cameo of venom and read that thing at least 100 times. In the years since, I have kept that book and it is equivalent to Scrooge mcducks lucky penny where it is beat up but I will never get rid of it. I have several mint copies, but that beat up version is the prize jewel.
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imatonkatoo Posts: 151
9/24/2018
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Mine was Rising Stars, Ultimate Spider-Man and Hellblazer. Wife got them for me on a whim for Christmas about 7 years ago.
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comic droid Posts: 52
11/17/2018
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The New Teen Titans No. 5
New off the stand. I still have it.
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BasementComics Posts: 784
11/17/2018
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I don't recall my first comic but the series that jumpstarted my collecting comics was Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight in 1989 and going crazy from there.
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rixmaxx Posts: 459
11/17/2018
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I went to my local Tom Thumb grocery store in March 1976 with $3.00 and bought: Daredevil #130 & #131, Avengers #145, Thor #245, Defenders #33, Ironman #83 & #84, Incredible Hulk #187 and ASM #154. Still have them all, all in VG condition, all were read many, many, MANY times. The start of a long, long (on & off again) love affair.
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drewzer15 Posts: 84
6/16/2019
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Batman #352, 356, 357 in a 3 pack. I wish I still had #357.
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Sparky Reynolds Posts: 11
7/30/2019
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I can't remember the first, but I remember saving my allowance for what seemed like forever to buy the Death of Superman issue 75 in the black bag with all the goodies inside...It was so hard not to open and read it, I think I lasted a week and a couple of days before I carefully cut the bag open....I was 12 or 13 at the time, it was 1993, can't remember which month.....
Right around the same time my friend told me to grab any comics that I wanted from this shelf in his garage, none bagged and boarded, all readers in good condition just sitting there. They belonged to his moms X Boyfriend, and she wanted to throw them out, and my friend could care less about comics. I wish I took them all, but I was in a hurry to go home because "Life Goes On" with Corky was about to come on....
I did come away with Peter Parker the Spectacular Spiderman #1, and ASM #'s 297-303, but didn't realize at the time how important 298,299,300 and 301 were, or gonna be.....I have more than one of each of these issues now, well not 301 yet....but none of the ones I now have, are the ones I got that day.......
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life goes on.....La, Da, Da.....
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Stivemorgan Posts: 1
9/24/2019
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Hi there. I am new to this forum. My first comic was Batman
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