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Post by hondobrode on Jul 25, 2018 0:36:00 GMT -5
What got me with this cover was those fireballs, and Nazis ! and the action exploding off the cover. As I was looking through Mike's Newsstand, I remember why it took me a year before I picked up my first Marvel : I was 8, and the Marvel covers, honestly, were either too intimidating or scary mostly. Of course that would quickly change, but that was my impression at that age. The Human Torch throwing those fire balls and melting the Nazi gun was the main reason I had to get this with that beautiful Kirby cover.
This was the first comic book I ever got off the newsstand. My mom and I stopped at Piggly Wiggly on the way home after catechism (Wednesday night Catholic school for us public school students). There was a spinner rack up front. I'd watched and liked Super Friends and knew some of the characters on the cover. I asked my mom, who never bought us anything outside of our birthday or Christmas, if we could get it. Amazingly, she didn't resist ! That was the only comic she ever bought me. After that, my dad would spring for them when we went grocery shopping but that was in lieu of us ever having gotten an allowance. He saw that they were great for us. He never read any of the superheroes but he'd thumb throw Conan or Tarzan. This issue had a crossword puzzle and word find IIRC, which of course I filled in. My brother and I were as fascinated by some of the ads in the issue as much as the story including flash powder, potato guns, real police hand cuffs, kites, book safes and more !
This was one of three Whitman comics that were in those polybags way back in the day. I remember one comic having Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam and the third was a Road Runner. I'd never heard of The Little Monsters but really enjoyed this issue for some reason. I guess the classic "they're kids like me" but much more interesting because, you know, they're monsters.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2018 1:24:03 GMT -5
This is the earliest DC Comic I remember having.  I had a few Marvels from earlier than this, but they were inherited later from neighbors, cousins, etc. This is the earliest I remember having that I picked out off a spinner rack based on the earliest cover I remember going through Mike's Newsstand that I know I didn't inherit later.  I remember reading a bunch of non-Marvel & DC books brought by friends of my parents to the bowling alley on Sunday nights for me to read while they played in their league. I may have even been given some to take home. I remember things like Speed Buggy, Gold Key Star Trek, Pink Panther, and other things based on animated properties, etc. and reading a lot of paperback collections (Tempo books maybe) of Beetle Bailey, Hagar the Horrible, PEanuts, etc. based on newspaper strips, but the firs ttime I picked out non-Marvel & DC comics for myself off the spinner rack at Ideal Drugs were these two gotten the same week at the drugstore...   based on two of my favorite TV shows at the time. -M |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 25, 2018 3:39:58 GMT -5
The first Marvel is easy, it's basically the first comic I ever had, which started the addiction:  My first DC was harder to figure out, I had to use Mike's Newsstand to help, and near as I can tell, it's this one:  I'm going to cheat a bit for the first non-Big 2, because I honestly don't remember - it was probably either an Archie or Gold Key Disney book, sometime in the third grade (before that I was pretty strictly loyal to the Big 2). However, rather early on, I pulled this one off the rack and very carefully paged through it before deciding it wasn't for me, as I couldn't figure out who the good guy and the bad guy were. The cover, however, has been etched in my memory ever since:  |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 25, 2018 3:55:59 GMT -5
DC  Marvel  Other working from a 30 year old memory, i can specifically recall where, why, and approximately when I bought this one, but after hours of searching covers, I'm only reasonably sure it was one of these two:   It was sometime between 1987 and 1989, the cover was a bare dark blue or green, the triplets were on the cover, and Dewey was yellow instead of blue. Both covers meet this criteria. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 25, 2018 5:26:35 GMT -5
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 25, 2018 7:44:06 GMT -5
First Marvel, Fantastic Four #172 (July 1976 cover date), with George Perez art!  First DC, World's Finest #236 (March, 1976 cover date)  First non-Big Two comic, Road Runner #55 (December 1975 cover date)  I got all of these at the local Convenient Food Mart down the street, before I knew anything about comic shops. They were bought off a comic book rack, but if I remember correctly, it didn't spin, so it wasn't really a spinner rack. |
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Post by MDG on Jul 25, 2018 8:05:51 GMT -5
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Post by badwolf on Jul 25, 2018 8:19:11 GMT -5
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Post by MWGallaher on Jul 25, 2018 9:13:22 GMT -5
Here's my first DC, and first comic I bought for myself:  I wrote extensively about this in a post on my currently-stalled comics blog, Off The Spinner Rack:
my blog write-up on Jimmy Olsen #141
My first Marvel purchase was:  which I wrote about in my write-up on Avengers #95
My first venture (with my own coins) outside of DC or Marvel territory was this:  My blog stalled before I could get to writing about Dell's Dracula #6 (a reprint of its Dracula #2), but now I'm getting the itch to start that blog back up again and continue the journey. The common link between these early purchases? Monsters. I was more of a monster fan than a comic book fan, so I gravitated to books with books that appealed to monster fans: Kirby gave us the faux Universal monsters of Transilvane, the Avengers issue opened on a memorable Neal Adams splash page of Triton, the Inhuman who looked like he was straight from the Black Lagoon, and Dell was serving up a super-hero Dracula (I somehow had overlooked the first three issues of the more authentic Tomb of Dracula, which had already been published by the time I picked up this legendarily bad comic. I suspect the fact that this was 5 cents cheaper than anything else on the stands made it a little more appealing, given my limited budget. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 25, 2018 10:51:00 GMT -5
DC is easy, the rest is a little unsure. I didn't really have much in the way of my own comics, until about 1977/78, when I was starting to earn my own money. My first DC is very easy...  I was sick, with bronchitis, and, on the way home from the doctor, my mother let me get a comic book, from the drugstore newsstand. I grabbed this one. Marvel is a lot harder. The first I ever read was either a Captain America or a Daredevil special, reprinting the Emissaries of Evil story, where DD runs up against most of his foes (great Gene Colan artwork). The Defenders were another early book, when the Guardians of the Galaxy showed up. But, those were all borrowed from a friend. The first I can remember picking up was this...  I had some money, I was a fan of the tv show; so, I picked up this comic, along with a Mister Miracle. I would soon start getting my own books, mostly via the Whitman bag samplers. My first indie is definitely a Western/Gold Key, and was definitely Super Goof, with Disney's Goofy. However, I have no idea which one. So, I use this...  I could also swear I had a Fox and the Crow and a Three Mouseketeers, from DC, though the timeline doesn't work out right for the Fox and Crow, unless it was from a bagged set or was a hand me down. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 25, 2018 11:47:12 GMT -5
This is tough...the first Marvel comic I remember having is this.  My babysitter at the time gave it to me. However, the comic I remember pulling out of a back issue box during a trip to Kingston, Ontario was this  This started the road to collecting for me. First DC book? Hmmm now that is tricky. Definitely has to be a war book because when I started collecting, war books were the only DC material I liked. This one is the likely candidate.  I am fairly certain I still have it. It is listed on my collection list but god, I haven't looked at in in a looong time. I remember buying it along with a G.I Combat (this one) and a Fantastic Four #161 at an antique store. They wanted like $20 for all three but I think my dad talked them down to $15 because the Star Spangled issue was very rough.  Finally, my first non-Marvel or DC book is probably this one. I have since only added a handful of Turtles issues. Was never a big fan of the cartoons although the comics are not bad from the limited issues I have read.  |
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 25, 2018 11:59:21 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 25, 2018 13:38:50 GMT -5
First Marvel, and first comic ever. Purchased in September 1963 from a little newsstand/candy store on Belleville Ave. in Belleville NJ.  First DC, and second comic ever, purchased in October 1963 at the same store.  First non-Big Two, purchased in April 1964 at the same store.  |
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Post by The Cheat on Jul 25, 2018 14:30:52 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 25, 2018 15:38:06 GMT -5
I poster earlier the comics I remember buying with my brother as a young lad. We weren't avid comic buyers, just enjoying the occasional book here and there. But as a teenager there was one comic I bought which set me on the road to being a life long reader and collector. It profoundly changed my life.  Within a year of buying Conan #1, I was buying every Marvel on the stands and a few DC and others to boot. |
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