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So for 2 different reasons. The Defenders was a coverless holiday bargain bin find, which i read til my eyes bled. Who'd a thunk that Starlin fulla would ever amount to much. Funniest Hulk moment ever, and DDs spirit captured to a T.

The Cap issue is the start of my personal comicbook nirvana, however the reason it also belongs here sentimentally is the association it has with a friend of mine. In the early 70s, as a 10 year old, our lives revolved around westerns. We lived for the numerous shows on TV and spent any daylight minute outside, playing out the back of the neighbours property, or from one end of the street to another, all the front yards a communal playground. My best friend at the time, fellow cowboy afficionado, the Kid Curry to my Hannibal Heyes, or Kid Colt to my Rawhide, was also the beneficiary of a benevolent uncle who would bestow cartons of comics on him at a time. We were in heaven. 
So through those years we devoured the adventures of Cap, Spidey, the FF, and many more. They shaped my tastes, my lifelong preferences,and a love of the Marvel Universe that may well be unbefitting a man of my age...heh heh

Sadly my friend Wayne, passed away in a car accident in 1981 or 82, only 17 or 18 at the time. Life moves on, I've had other friends who were right into comics, but he was always there first. Does he count as a #1.

The Marvel Super-Heroes reprint of this was one of the first comics I remember having.

As for the most sentimental, that would be this one:


Depending on what time of year the book came out, I would have been 7 or 8.  I think I got it at a convenience store when my family was on our annual vacation to Atlantic City.  I might have known about the Hulk already, either from the above comic or the TV show, but this was definitely my first encounter with the X-Men.  There's a bit of history recounted within (Trask/Sentinels), just enough to make me want to read more.  The next summer, I would get my first X-Men comic.  John Byrne's version of the Hulk, though it would evolve over the years, it still my favorite.  Still a great issue by Roger Stern, Byrne and Bob Layton.

I became a fan after your posts about RQ made me curious and I rifled through a copy. I bought the first 5 in one full swoop then got the others on my pull list, including the variants.

I like Betty the most...she was my avatar for a while....

Yeah, but if it's true I'd be throwing him down stairs.

I thought all the Cosby crap was bad enough, now this.

I need a damn chocolate bar.

I have only two covers that I wanted to share with you.


The 1st One - Superman and Captain Marvel



This one above has a heroic cover featuring two of the mightiest DC Comic heroes and I enjoyed reading this novel from a friend of mine and six months later I found this issue in a bin for $1.99 and quickly brought it because I just loved the artwork of the cover itself.


The 2nd One - Superman - Return to Greatness



Superman returns to Metropolis, still searching for Jimmy Olsen, and finds that Lexcorp is under new management. But he doesn't yet know that Lex himself has been restored to health.

Without a doubt, John Stanley's Melvin Monster #1.
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I know this is the last issue, it reprints issue #1.