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Post by majestic on Aug 15, 2021 21:38:58 GMT -5
DC: an issue of Worlds Finest around 1966-67. Marvel: an issue of Amazing Spider-Man from the same time.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 15, 2021 22:03:59 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 16, 2021 4:00:40 GMT -5
As I've mentioned in the past, we already had comics around the house when I came along and my mother used one to teach me to read at age 3. Of the many books available for my youthful perusal, this is the one that made me fall truly, madly, deeply in love with the medium:
Cei-U! I summon the awesome possum!
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Post by MDG on Aug 16, 2021 8:23:37 GMT -5
I got a stack of five or six Superman books from my uncle. This is the one I remember the most:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2021 9:14:51 GMT -5
I am not sure what the first comic I read was. I started with Sunday funnies read with my dad, and then whatever odd comics people would bring to the bowling alley for kids to read while the adults bowled on league night (Sundays) that my parents participated in. Those were mostly licensed Gold Key books if I recall, but I don't remember specific issues. The earliest comic I remember owning and reading multiple times until the cover and the fist wrap fell off was this one... but it was earlier than any other comic I remember owning, as all the rest I remember having as a kid that were acquired off the racks and not as hand me downs I got after I got into comics were 25 centers. -M
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Post by tonebone on Aug 16, 2021 9:28:09 GMT -5
First one I ever read... My uncle would bring me comics to read when he would visit my family. He would always make me read the comics section of the newspaper, or, in this case, a comic book. this was the first of many he would bring me. Years later, I found out he was illiterate. I think he was making me read them to him to know what was going on. I was probably 5 at the time, and was an early reader. It took me decades to piece together what exact comic I was remembering... and the mystery was solved when I bought two TPBs on the same day that BOTH reprinted the story! This is the first comic I remember buying with my own money. There were LOTS of comics in between my first and this, but all were given to me by relatives, parents, etc.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 16, 2021 13:16:58 GMT -5
I started with the Sunday comics in the newspaper - my father identified with Dagwood at that point in his life. Then in my first month of second grade, September 1963, I was in the local newsstand/candy store with one or both parents and these colorful little magazines caught my eye. The parent(s) encouraged me to choose one - I later found out that they had both been comics fans in the 1930s & 40s - and I picked this one: Which I still have, although it's been coverless since about 1965.
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Post by SJNeal on Aug 16, 2021 19:21:19 GMT -5
I received a small stack on then-current Archie books for my 6th birthday, and while I can't remember all four of them, I know this issue was my favorite. It turned me into an Archie fan, and eventually a fan of comics in general. I kept this copy forever, long after I'd graduated to superheroes and sold off all of my other Archie books. I'm not sure what happened to it, but I'm guessing it's still in a long box in my storage unit - it'll probably be dust before I get around to digging it out again.
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Post by String on Aug 17, 2021 13:58:39 GMT -5
At this point in the game, I can no longer remember how I got introduced to comics. My best guess would be by my mother who was an avid reader and had always encouraged the same within me. By now, as far back as I can recall, I've always read comics. When I was very young, I dimly recall having a very small stack of comic books stacked nicely behind my bedroom door. The only issue I remember from that stack is: But I can't recall where I got it, what happened in it or even what happened to it for I no longer own the issue. So I think then I was vaguely aware of Marvel and DC. The earliest recollection I do have is riding home one night with my parents and holding onto this issue for I think they bought it for me: I do remember reading and re-reading this issue (which I still own to this day) and this issue probably jump-started my love for Superman ever since. The first comic I recall buying with my own allowance money: Like the cover says, all of that for six dimes, sure why not?
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 17, 2021 16:17:58 GMT -5
First comic I remember buying by myself was Superboy 106, on sale around the third week of May, 1963, just before I turned nine years old.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Aug 17, 2021 16:43:52 GMT -5
This is the one I have the earliest memory of. I would have been 5 years old at the time. I really took that blurb in the question mark to heart and was very worried for Spidey!
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Post by Duragizer on Aug 17, 2021 16:59:59 GMT -5
I was 5 years old, with my mama as she was shopping at one of the local supermarkets, when I came across the spinner rack. I was initially drawn to an issue of X-Factor with an !!!EXTREME!!! Liefeld cover, but my mama, knowing I was a B:TAS fan, persuaded me to grab this one instead. I wasn't much of a reader yet; I followed the plot by the illustrations alone. In hindsight, it reads better that way.
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Post by SJNeal on Aug 17, 2021 18:33:29 GMT -5
I was 5 years old, with my mama as she was shopping at one of the local supermarkets, when I came across the spinner rack. I was initially drawn to an issue of X-Factor with an !!!EXTREME!!! Liefeld cover, but my mama, knowing I was a B:TAS fan, persuaded me to grab this one instead. I wasn't much of a reader yet; I followed the plot by the illustrations alone. In hindsight, it reads better that way. While I had already moved on from Archie to DC/Marvel books by 1993, my conservative parents found Kelley Jones work to be "demonic" and wouldn't buy me any of the Knighfall titles despite my insistence that they'd be worth millions one day! I had to literally steal quarters from the ashtrays of their cars, and then buy what I could the next time I went to the grocery store/pharmacy with my friends parents.
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Post by String on Aug 18, 2021 13:14:02 GMT -5
First comic I remember buying by myself was Superboy 106, on sale around the third week of May, 1963, just before I turned nine years old. Who knew that Krypto had such similar will-power too?
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 18, 2021 15:12:12 GMT -5
First comic I remember buying by myself was Superboy 106, on sale around the third week of May, 1963, just before I turned nine years old. Who knew that Krypto had such similar will-power too? Doggie-see, doggie-do.
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