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Post by supercat on Mar 12, 2023 19:40:51 GMT -5
I know this is a retread topic, but what the hey. Where did your journey start with a given series or two or several? Actual first issue(s) that you acquired back in the day. Does seeing those covers of your personal "firsts" still evoke that strong nostalgia? Post covers of where you started!!
I'll share a few of mine: Amazing Spider-Man #188. At this point I may have already had a Pocket Books collection, or something Spidey Super Stories related, but this was my first "real" ASM off the rack as a kid. Of course now I can see the nod to ASM #28, but back then, there was something so haunting about the red webbing contrasting with the black, it really made an impression on me. In retrospect, a throwdown with Jigsaw might not make for that important an issue, but again the nostalgia is strong with this one.  Superboy and the Legion #245, right at the end of the Earthwar. I had no idea what was going on, but thus began my lifelong infatuation with the Legion. It was unlike anything I had seen before...so many heroes, I wanted to learn who all of them were. Superboy had all these amazing friends, I had no idea!  This one is a little different...it did not lead to collecting the series (I guess the story inside didn't particularly hook me). But the cover was SO striking (I did not realize GL had been sharing the title with GA prior to this very issue), and I knew and liked Green Lantern from the Super Friends series already. It will always be the iconic shot of Hal in my mind.  |
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Post by badwolf on Mar 12, 2023 19:55:10 GMT -5
 This was my first issue of ASM, and I think one of my first few comics at all. Everyone makes fun of Rocket Racer and the Big Wheel, but at age 8 I thought they were great, and reacquiring this issue after not seeing it for many years was very nostalgic. Also Ross Andru is the best regular Spidey artist. I didn't really "collect" this title until the Hobgoblin saga, but I did have numerous "random" issues I picked up while exploring the world of comics at a young age.  Though my introduction to the world of the X-Men was Hulk Annual #7, this was my first actual X-book. I wouldn't be able to really follow the book at the time as I was 9 and dependent on being taken to the convenience store at the right time and probably having it purchased for me, so #135 was my next issue, but from that point on I had a pretty complete run for years after. I think even at that age I could tell there was something different about this series--it was more complex and mature than other Marvel comics of the time (though I still read 'em all). |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 12, 2023 21:01:34 GMT -5
...there was something so haunting about the red webbing contrasting with the black, it really made an impression on me. That cover, along with the red on black colour scheme, is an homage to the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #28...  |
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Post by supercat on Mar 12, 2023 21:06:43 GMT -5
...there was something so haunting about the red webbing contrasting with the black, it really made an impression on me. That cover, along with the red on black colour scheme, is an homage to the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #28... Yeah! I remember discovering that several years later…it was like “wait a minute, that looks awful familiar…” lol. Killer visual (original and homage). |
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Post by mrp on Mar 12, 2023 21:52:27 GMT -5
I bought way more Marvel than DC as a kid, but I am going to start with the DC edition of this, since the first comic I remember getting off the racks was Batman #250  first Superman issues I got...  my first Kubert cover I got as a kid...  first JLA...  first Flash  though I had an earlier issue as a hand me down. first JSA...  I had later issues of some of these series, but those were pretty much the only DC series I got as a kid. -M |
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Post by mrp on Mar 12, 2023 22:00:08 GMT -5
Ok so Marvel first Part 1... first Avengers comic I got...  I didn't get an issue of the regular Avengers series until almost a year later, which was this one...  My first issue of Amazing Spider-Man was this...  but I had almost as many issues of Marvel Tales (starting with this one) as I did ASM...  My first Hulk comic was this issue of Marvel Super-Heroes...  which I had before my first issue of the actual Hulk series...  but I got my first Defenders issue before that, which was also my first comic with Doc Strange and the GOTG  Marvel part two coming soon -M |
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Post by mrp on Mar 12, 2023 22:07:52 GMT -5
Marvel pt. 2 I am not sure if that Marvel Super-Heroes was my first Sub-Mariner comic or not, as I also had this, my first Invaders comic which is cover dated the same month and I I don't remember which I got first...  First issue of Captain America solo series I got was this...  but I got this about the same time too  which slightly beats this out as my first Iron Man comic, though this was my first issue of Iron Man...  which was also about the same time as my first FF...  though I suspect I picked this one as much for the hockey theme as for the FF. But as you can tell, I got just about as many reprint mags as I did original stuff as they were all new stories to me so it didn't matter. I had some other random Marvels, but these were the key first issues for me. -M |
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Post by commond on Mar 13, 2023 0:20:49 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 13, 2023 5:57:59 GMT -5
Since my original collection is long (long) gone, it's hard for me to determine precisely which issue was the first of a given series I had (using the newsstand at Mike's Amazing World or the cover galleries at Lone Star has only been partially useful). However, there's a few that I know for sure, like my first issue of Marvel Team-up (#38)...  ...and my very first issue of X-men (#120), which sparked a love-affair of many years...  And, of course, the first comic book I ever recall having, the one that started it all, Marvel Tales #59:  |
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Post by M. W. Gallaher on Mar 13, 2023 6:29:14 GMT -5
The first literal 1st issue I bought of any comic was:  I liked THE DEMON a lot, but not enough to commit to every issue. My dimes were judiciously allocated as a kid, and this title often had to be cut from the budget. The first issue 1st issue I bought and then bought the entire run of off the stands was:  SWAMP THING was simply a must-buy for me. The final days were a sad disappointment, but I had to stick with it. The first issue of a comic that drew me in for the long haul, resulting in my buying every following issue (including the Giant-Size run, Annual, and related issues) for over a decade was:  Somehow, this became my first long-term committed relationship with the comics racks. I wasn't a particularly big fan of any of the leads, but I was fascinated by the dynamics of this "non-team". This one was, obviously, not the literal first issue, but my first. You can of course be sure that I eventually picked up the first three issues and MARVEL FEATURE 1-3! (This cover, by the way, was one of my proudest accomplishments in our weekly Classic Cover Contest. For a while, I gave myself the challenge of entering covers that satisfied both the current week's contest and the prior week's contest. I thought I would have to give it up when Favorite John Buscema Cover and Favorite Jim Starlin Cover were back-to-back topics--in some order, I can't recall which came first. But I managed to find this one, which is John Buscema finishes over a Jim Starlin layout. It's not only the sole instance I could find of a Buscema/Starlin cover collaboration, but was literally a true favorite of mine: a great cover with personal significance to my comic book collecting hobby!) |
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Post by james on Mar 13, 2023 7:59:34 GMT -5
While I can't remember 100% if these were my absolute first issues I read, they were the ones that got me hooked on Marvel.   Hooked me on the Avengers  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 13, 2023 8:12:02 GMT -5
Hm, M. W. Gallaher put an interesting twist on this theme, i.e., first first issue. Depending on how one defines it, there are three options for me: DC Comics Presents #1  Although this might not count, because I did not buy it off the spinner rack when it was first released, but rather several months later in a 3-pack bag with the Whitman logo on it. So then maybe it would be World of Krypton #1...  But this was a mini-series rather than an ongoing title, so maybe that really doesn't count, either. In that case, as near as I can recall, the first first issue of an ongoing series would be Rom #1:  |
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Post by supercat on Mar 13, 2023 8:24:17 GMT -5
While I was thinking more the "first issue for you personally" versus the number on the cover, I agree first literal firsts are interesting as well!
I'll just say this...when I started reading comics, for years I never remember picking up an actual number one. When Marvel's New Universe started, I had this feeling like I was FINALLY at the start of something and picked up every #1 from the line. I then sat down and read them all and almost cried when I realized how I had just spent my money.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 13, 2023 9:21:42 GMT -5
My first Hulk comic, in fact my first comic as far as I can remember, was this one:  I think my first issue of his regular series was this:  |
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Post by MDG on Mar 13, 2023 13:17:03 GMT -5
I was always a scattershot buyer as a kid, so didn;t go for "runs." I'd buy what piqued my interest when I looked at the stands. The first issue of a "comic" (or relevant publication for this discussion) that started a years-long run for me was...  The first Marvel I ever bought (because we were on vacation and the gift shop in the hotel didn;t have any DCs) was this one...  Bought another two or three years later--didn't buy other Marvels 'til I graduated from college and couldn;t read my roommate's. |
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