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Post by Søren on Jan 31, 2018 15:04:18 GMT -5
If can remember, what was it? I ask as saw The Simpsons comic is a shop today, didn't know were still being published and use to buy them regularly. My first ever was #26, apparently was out in 1996 when I was six  Surprise me as thought I was older when started collecting them. I stopped buying really only as didn't like the humour as much, guess as I was older.  |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 31, 2018 15:23:18 GMT -5
I was also six years old when I came home with this:  I still have it, minus the cover. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 15:26:43 GMT -5
I can't recall the first comic I bought with my own money, but the first that were bought for me (by my Dad) were Justice League of America 149 and 150.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 15:34:40 GMT -5
The first comic I remember picking out off the racks was Batman #250, I would have been going on 4 years old at the time (it was cover dated July '73 and I turned 4 that July.  There may have been some humor or cartoon based comics previously that were given to me (my parents were in a Sunday night bowling league and had no sitter, so I sat at the bowling alley and played with toys or read comics while they bowled, other people in the league used to bring comics for me to read after their kids were done with them). I didn't get any other comics until early '75 so this was an exception, not the beginning of regular purchases (those began in '75). -M |
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Post by Søren on Jan 31, 2018 15:41:25 GMT -5
I kinda wish for nostalgia I still had my old Simpsons comics but my mum threw them out Many were pretty battered and torn. I would read them a bit obsessively most nights. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 31, 2018 16:35:31 GMT -5
I'm really not sure which would have been the first I bought myself ... when I look at Mike's News-stand, the earliest I recognise as having read at the time are various FF, Thor, Avengers, and Dr. Strange issues from 1967-68 when I would have been 5 or 6 years old. But I assume that in the earlier part of that time span they would have most likely not have been bought by myself.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 31, 2018 16:49:42 GMT -5
These two have the same cover date, but they are the earliest I can remember getting new (I was 5 so there probably wasn't much before then if any):   |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2018 16:51:31 GMT -5
Cavern of Deadly Spheres - JLA #16 Bought an used copy of this book in 1967 and I still have it ...
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Post by shaxper on Jan 31, 2018 16:55:35 GMT -5
 I tried to read this thing when I was six, and boy was that a mistake. What could have been the beginning of an amazing love afair with comics ended up being the cause of its postponement for five more years. For what it's worth, I reviewed the issue many many years later, only to discover it didn't improve with age. |
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Post by MDG on Jan 31, 2018 17:10:53 GMT -5
Checking dates, it looks like the first I bought myself was this...  |
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Post by brutalis on Jan 31, 2018 17:13:09 GMT -5
Can't remember the issue#s or cover dates off the top of my head. Mentioned before: Thor issue where he and Silver Surfer fight together against another cosmic opponent (Big John Buscema art) and an issue of Underdog. both hooked me and from that moment on I was a comic seeker anywhere and everywhere that I might find them...
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 31, 2018 19:10:02 GMT -5
I think this thread has popped up before...either way, this was it for me.  My dad took me and my brother to a comic shop back in the late 90's/early 2000s. I would have been 8 or 9 at the time. I was so blown away by comics and remember pulling this from a long box, seeing the forty cent price and thinking it was so old and vintage. Plus, unlike Amazing Spider-Man, these issues were only $1 or so (most ASM books at this shop were marked between $5-10 a piece). So I could buy so much more with the $20 I was allowed to spend. I recently was going through my collection and reminiscing about this being the first ever series I collected. I just loved the stories and, turns out the ones I loved most were done by Mantlo. Well, I was vaguely aware of his situation and what had happened to him but I read more about it and felt compelled earlier this week to reach out and thank him for really getting me into comics and inspiring my love for Spider-Man and comics in general. I also sent him a link to the video I recently put up for my Wall of the Week. His brother replied with a nice email. Felt good to say thanks to an underrated writer on a great series. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 31, 2018 20:15:31 GMT -5
With my own money...  That I got to pick out...  |
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Jan 31, 2018 21:35:22 GMT -5
I tried to read this thing when I was six, and boy was that a mistake. What could have been the beginning of an amazing love afair with comics ended up being the cause of its postponement for five more years. For what it's worth, I reviewed the issue many many years later, only to discover it didn't improve with age. The quotes from the story in your review are hilarious. The first comic I remember buying for myself (back when I was first really getting interested in comics, 6 or 7 years ago) was a hardcover of Grant Morrisson's Time and the Batman. Maybe it's great if you've read the rest of Morrison's run, but to me at the time it was absolute nonsense. It still makes zero sense to me. But it gets better! The next time I went to the comic shop, I decided to try a Spider-Man book. Knowing next to nothing about the current state of comics, guess which one I picked out? A hardcover of One More Day. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 31, 2018 21:49:18 GMT -5
Can't remember the issue#s or cover dates off the top of my head. Mentioned before: Thor issue where he and Silver Surfer fight together against another cosmic opponent (Big John Buscema art) and an issue of Underdog. both hooked me and from that moment on I was a comic seeker anywhere and everywhere that I might find them... It might be this comic  |
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Surprise me as thought I was older when started collecting them. I stopped buying really only as didn't like the humour as much, guess as I was older. 
