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Post by badwolf on Mar 17, 2023 16:52:29 GMT -5
I'm not sure what my first #1 was. New Mutants maybe.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2023 18:33:53 GMT -5
My first issue of Star Wars was #32, which was a very late discovery of the series considering I was just old enough to have been around for the first movie and had loved all things Star Wars for the past couple of years before this issue came out. This is obviously not an issue from an ongoing series, but it was the very first Spider-Man published work I ever owned. Might be why I love Ditko era so much...this and the other 2 volumes that were published I read into the ground (they covered the early issues of ASM), the covers actually fell off of all of them eventually.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 18, 2023 5:48:39 GMT -5
(...) This is obviously not an issue from an ongoing series, but it was the very first Spider-Man published work I ever owned. Might be why I love Ditko era so much...this and the other 2 volumes that were published I read into the ground (they covered the early issues of ASM), the covers actually fell off of all of them eventually. Yep, had the three Spidey pocketbooks, as well as both Dr. Stranges, both Hulks, Fantastic Four and Spiderwoman. Loved those books, but esp. the Spiderman and Dr. Strange volumes - which I similarly read and reread until they began to fall apart. And I gained a true appreciation for Ditko's art from them.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 18, 2023 18:31:42 GMT -5
(...) This is obviously not an issue from an ongoing series, but it was the very first Spider-Man published work I ever owned. Might be why I love Ditko era so much...this and the other 2 volumes that were published I read into the ground (they covered the early issues of ASM), the covers actually fell off of all of them eventually. Yep, had the three Spidey pocketbooks, as well as both Dr. Stranges, both Hulks, Fantastic Four and Spiderwoman. Loved those books, but esp. the Spiderman and Dr. Strange volumes - which I similarly read and reread until they began to fall apart. And I gained a true appreciation for Ditko's art from them. I had the first two and read them over and over.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2023 19:41:50 GMT -5
The first X-Men comic I ever bought back in late 1999 would be #375. This lovely painted cover still gets stares by those who never knew this variant existed. At the time I didn't even know what a variant was....but my dealer, who was now getting into ordering comics, tried a web store called 'AnotherUniverse.com' and picked up some of their special covers.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 18, 2023 19:43:10 GMT -5
That is a really cool cover!
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Post by jason on Mar 19, 2023 15:27:29 GMT -5
(Sorry for using a reprint cover) This was the first issue of Marvel's GI Joe I remember owning. I thought Kwinn was a cool character (he becomes a recurring character later), and that last panel with Snake Eyes wearing the Weasel skull necklace stuck with me.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 22, 2023 14:16:17 GMT -5
Oh, you kids with your first issues in the 1980s... My first issue of Spider-Man, and my first comic ever: The following month, my first issue of Green Lantern: Two months later, my first Flash: and Atom: Next month, first Adventure: and Aquaman: and JLA: and X-Men: One more month, my first Brave & Bold: and Strange Tales: Those are the first ten comics I bought.
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Post by MDG on Mar 22, 2023 14:44:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2023 15:33:10 GMT -5
....a cover signed and sketched. This was signed by all creators (Ennis, Dillon & Palmiotti, nd Palmiotti did the sketch on the cover as well)
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Post by james on Mar 29, 2023 20:06:53 GMT -5
Oh, you kids with your first issues in the 1980s... My first issue of Spider-Man, and my first comic ever: The following month, my first issue of Green Lantern: Two months later, my first Flash: and Atom: Next month, first Adventure: and Aquaman: and JLA: and X-Men: One more month, my first Brave & Bold: and Strange Tales: Those are the first ten comics I bought. What a great time to get into comics
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Post by MDG on Mar 30, 2023 10:02:28 GMT -5
Oh, you kids with your first issues in the 1980s... My first issue of Spider-Man, and my first comic ever: The following month, my first issue of Green Lantern: Two months later, my first Flash: and Atom: Next month, first Adventure: and Aquaman: and JLA: and X-Men: One more month, my first Brave & Bold: and Strange Tales: Those are the first ten comics I bought. What a great time to get into comics To be honest, I've often wondered how kids in the 80s discovered comics. By that time, newsstand distribution had dwindled to next to nothing so you weren't seeing comics "everywhere." And although LCSs were popping up, you often had to really look for them, somehow get there, and even then, they weren't always inviting (thinking here of a kid who didn't drive and was reliant on public transportation or parents.) On top of that, prices for individual issues kept rising and storylines were becoming complicated, if not impenetrable. And portrayals of comic characters in other media were often less than compelling... From what I hear here and on podcasts, it seems like the biggest ways kids got into comics after '76 or so were: - An older sibling (or parent) who had a bunch of comics
- Star Wars
Thoughts?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 30, 2023 10:08:28 GMT -5
What a great time to get into comics To be honest, I've often wondered how kids in the 80s discovered comics. By that time, newsstand distribution had dwindled to next to nothing so you weren't seeing comics "everywhere." And although LCSs were popping up, you often had to really look for them, somehow get there, and even then, they weren't always inviting (thinking here of a kid who didn't drive and was reliant on public transportation or parents.) On top of that, prices for individual issues kept rising and storylines were becoming complicated, if not impenetrable. And portrayals of comic characters in other media were often less than compelling...
From what I hear here and on podcasts, it seems like the biggest ways kids got into comics after '76 or so were: - An older sibling (or parent) who had a bunch of comics
- Star Wars
Thoughts? I started buying comics in 1975, but I was still buying them in my hometown in the early 80s, a town that has never had a comic book shop. Up to 1986, when I went to college there were at least six or seven spinner racks in the two towns (across the river from each other) where I grew up. Almost every grocery store, convenience store and most of the drug stores had comic spinner racks. So up through the mid 80s you could easily find comics.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 30, 2023 10:14:26 GMT -5
Comic books were still prevalent in book stores and convenience stores well into the 80s.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 30, 2023 10:38:32 GMT -5
The first comic I can clearly recall owning was Star Wars Weekly #18, which my mother bought me when I was 5 in mid-1978... Star Wars Weekly contained black & white reprints of Marvel's U.S. Star Wars comic, and this particular issue reprinted parts of the American issue #9, which featured Jaxxon, the green, six foot tall, carniverous space rabbit that I have as my avatar here. However, I know that I definitely had been bought some Marvel and DC superhero reprints before this, like Super Spider-Man and various Batman or Superman pocket books, but I've never been exactly sure which issues I had. As well as being bought Star Wars Weekly fairly regularly between the ages of 5 and 7, I also got bought issues of the British war comic Commando, and I belive this was my first issue... I was also being bought some Spider-Man and Fantastic Four pocket books like these... However, the first proper American, colour Marvel comic I ever owned was Marvel Two-In-One #90 in 1982, and by this point I was buying my own comics with my own pocket money allowance...
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