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The Knowledge +1

14:47 / 30.12.01

Mine? The very first ones I got were of course the Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, a few others like that, then Eagle (remember Computer Warrior anyone? How cool was that strip?) My first half-proper comic was a collected newstand copy of Spider-man (with 4 different stories, including the Wendigo and Wolverine with art by Todd Mcfarlane). My father brought me home some signed copies of the New Mutants from the States (he met Rob Liefeld, cause his father was doing business with my father) but I never really took an interest in them until one day I picked up my first proper comic - X-Force issue 10, 11, something like that, which featured Deadpool beating up Domino, and it blew me away.

And then I discovered that there was a comic shop in town - And my first trip there...what a brill time I had!

Matthew Fluxington

15:29 / 30.12.01

My first comic was most likely some random issue of either Transformers or Star Wars circa 1985.

yawn - thing's buddy

15:43 / 30.12.01

Marvel UK Fantastic Four Feb. 78.

issue number...wait for it.....

23.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

15:48 / 30.12.01

I always had comics in the house. As a kid, I learned to read from Uncle Scrooge books, and remember searching madly for more "Jackie Jokers" Harvey stuff when I found it...a kid who did stand up comedy and was freinds with Richie Rich, how could you go wrong? Do you realize at one point there were 15 monthly Richie Rich books?

The first comic that wasn't a kids book I bought was Marvelt Tales #59, a reprint of the "Prowler" story by Lee and Bucema, and a FF reprint. Imagine my shock when I discovered they were reprints and the new stuff wasn't nearly as good.

18:51 / 30.12.01

apart from random archies and various dandy and beano annuals, i'd say Transformers #1 or WEst Coast Avengers #1.

Zoom.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:14 / 30.12.01

It was UK Star Wars weekly, somewhere in the first few dozen. I got all the way to issue 99 then stopped, and started collecting Transformers weekly from about issue 16.

19:42 / 30.12.01

New Mutants #38 (or 39) - the one with them all in their graves on the front cover.

I picked it up after reading the pervious issue where the Beyonder destroys the New Mutants.

09:28 / 31.12.01

I can't actually remember which was first because I've literally *always* read comics I learned to read with 'teddy bear's playtime' and 'Jack & Jill' I was bought the Return of the jedi (uk weekly)(probably later - around the age of 5 - i still wasn't totally proficient with my reading) I was also steadily inheriting a stream of whoopeee!'s and various other IPC comics from friends of the family.

My first US comic was some issue of spectacular spiderman (137?) with the tarantula in but the one that got me coming back for more was ironman 229...

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09:29 / 31.12.01

I can't remember exactly, but it was almost certainly a Superman comic of some description. I was obsessed with Superman when I was a young'un (actually, I still am).

The Damned Yankee

09:29 / 31.12.01

The first one I read was an issue of the Incredible Hulk, where the Hulk gets his clock cleaned by General Ross in a giant robot. Ah, the seventies...

09:29 / 31.12.01

Mine was a Marvel Team-Up. I forget the exact number but it was around #15-17 the year being around 1974-75 (if I remember correctly).

It had Spider-Man teaming up with the Human Torch against the Basilisk.

09:29 / 31.12.01

My first comics were those Goldkey Disney comics. My father used to bring home piles of them (I have no idea where he got them from) from work. They wernt all disney..alot of Vault of Terror and other horror comics. I think the horror comics influenced me more than anything else as a child. The smell of old comics still brings back a jubilant flood of childhood memories...

The Natural Way

09:29 / 31.12.01

I've been into comics for as long as I can remember. I suppose it really started when I was living at my Nan's in Harrow-on-the-hill. I must have been 3ish at the time and used to take little trips down to the local newsagents with my Grandad where they had massive stacks of american comics. I really grew up on Marvel, DC and 2000ad and I didn't really *get* Beano/Dandy/Eagle et al -as far as I was concerned, they were just something you read when there was nothing else.

Big, powerful early comic reading memories:

Cloak and Dagger and how extremely fucked up they were. Ex Junkies? Cloaks as portals to dark dimensions? 80's makeup as warpaint? Scary and cool.

Flicking through Dad's Tarot deck and a Fantastic Four comic featuring Mephisto and the Silver Surfer....comparing and contrasting Mephisto and the Devil card....

The Black Cat. I was totally in love with the Black Cat.

"Spidey....put your mask back on!!!"

Rom, space knight. Nuff said.

A little later on....
Spidey ripping out Doc Ocks tentacles. This was real horror movie stuff; Webhead was actually tearing off Otto's limbs!!!! TRAUMA. Really upset me...

09:29 / 31.12.01

My first comic was probably one of those hard back collected editions of Rupert the Bear that used to be put out every year. Not exactly comics but...

I was a pretty average kid in the seventies... (at various ages)I read the Dandy, Beano, Wizzer and Chips, Buster, Battle, Starlord and finally 2000AD. Poor kid. I was hooked.

Picked up the occasional American comic in a local market... but finally got hooked on them in the mid-80's when I discovered a shop in the town where I lived sold six-month old imports. Started reading Rom The Space Knight...

and the "Sin Eater" issues of Spiderman. Quickly discovered Alan Moore was writing Swamp Thing and that was followed by Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen and Miller's Daredevil... especially the Born Again Series.

Cerebus was the first independent comic I picked up apart from a few quickly forgotten Eclipse comics.

11:44 / 31.12.01

Whizzer and Chips, Monster Fun, Krazy.

Then UK editions of Marvel comics - first one I can remember featured the Avengers and was printed lengthways rather than normal magazine fashion.

Then 2000AD, and around the same time US Marvels and DCs - whatever they had lying around the newsagents, because comic shops hadn't been invented in those days.

First comic I remember buying from a specialist comic shop was the first issue of the Wolverine mini-series - it was Marvel's first ever mini-series, I think. Prob early 80s. I discovered this shop in Dorset and thought it was heaven.

12:20 / 31.12.01

Earliest comic I can remember was one of three books.

GI Joe
ROM Space Knight (was that the name?)
or some series that had these motorcycle stunt men in it.

12:27 / 31.12.01

Team America? Who turned out to be mutants, didn't they?

12:49 / 31.12.01

This is strange. As with a lot of us I have always read comics. Just can't remember when I started (obviously after 1973 as that was when I was born).

But at times it seems I have read, at one time or another, every British title that came out:
Action Force; Battle Action Force; The Beano; Buddy; The Dandy; (the 80's reworking of) The Eagle; Captain America; Fantastic Four; Mad; Marvel Action; Spiderman & his Amazing Friends; Spiderman; Spike; Shockwave; Strip; The Mighty Thor; Toxic; Deadline; Thunderbirds; 2,000AD; The Megazine; Zones; Transformers; and endless others I've forgotten.

I have old american comics from the same era (early 80's), like ROM and World's Finest, just have no idea how I got them.

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15:15 / 31.12.01

The Beano (Again)

First US Comic was a very early spiderman story in amazing adventures in about 1963. My mun ripped it up as a nasty thing, and bought me Hotspur instead.

15:39 / 31.12.01

quote:Originally posted by Sax:
Team America? Who turned out to be mutants, didn't they?

I think Team America sounds right. It was some kind of really patriotic thing like that. Not sure about the mutants stuff. I don't think I acctually read a second issue. I think I just caught that one.

16:38 / 31.12.01

I was 12, and it was a GI Joes comic where Snake Eyes, Scarlett, Flynt, and Lady Jane were vacationing in Grenada. A week or two after that I bought Punisher #3. They had guns. That rocked. Guns and blowin' shit up.

Prisoner no. 1300

17:17 / 31.12.01

I read Buster and the Beano when I was a young estranged type.

I only really got into real comics a couple of years ago, I found Sandman: Preludes in a library and read it in bed one night. Ha ha ha, that terrified me I can tell you. it was a round this time that I started smoking cannabis, and hey hey! Here i am, with a Christmas subscription to 2000AD!!

The Knowledge +1

09:46 / 01.01.02

Yes, the cannabis was a strange thing at the time, and a damn strange attractor...

09:46 / 01.01.02

A reprint of Unacnny X-Men #3. X-MEn vs the Blob. Looking back, i could've started worse.

- MULTIpossible

13:00 / 01.01.02

Is Rom still being published? That was also one of my first comics. I had the issue with the incredible hulk in it. It rocked.

13:32 / 01.01.02

I still have my first comic. Its from 77, 78ish. A Marvel-Team Up Annual with Spidey, the Hulk and the Angel. Lots of good baddies too. Silver Samurai, Viper etc. I think I'll dig it out sometime soon.

My mom used to buy me these religious comics too. Plus, back in the 70's there were a lot of comics that were basically public service announcements and they would give the things out for free at school. (Here in the US that is.) Like Superman fighting tooth decay or Spider-Man teaching bicycle safety. Comics were everywhere when I was a kid and I lived in a very small town. Everykid read them just as sure as every kid watched Saturday morning cartoons. Its a shame kids today don't have comics as a part of their lives.

I also seemed to have a lot of dinosaur comics and a lot of the Charlton war comics.
When I was a kid, the public library would let you check out comics. I would check out 20 to 30 at a time.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

15:35 / 01.01.02

quote:Originally posted by kegboy:
Is Rom still being published? That was also one of my first comics. I had the issue with the incredible hulk in it. It rocked.

It was ended back in the 80's (and the last few issues were Steve Ditko inked by P. Craig Russel), but they did a Spaceknights mini-series a few years ago. I bought it as a set but couldn't make it through the first issue.

18:11 / 01.01.02

I'm PRETTY sure that the first comic books I actually remember buying were these from 1982, when I was ten: <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dstudham/1982.htm">Crisis Times Three</a>. I'd actually really like to get my hands on them again. I remember going into the newsagents in Wroxham with my friend Adam and buying two issues each. But I don't think we ever found out what happened in the end. They were GOOOOD apocalyptic stories. Loved them.

The next one I can remember is an issue of Firestorm from 1984 called something like "Call my killer, Goldenrod" or something. Really disturbing cover - always liked Firestorm.

13:36 / 02.01.02

As a kid, the Classics Comics versions of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Time Machine," as well as a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" comic that had a photo of a skull with glass eyes on the cover and inside was more like "House of Secrets" than Ripley's newspaper strips.

Mad Magazine in the orthodontist's office.

In high school, I borrowed X-Men first, then Power Man & Iron Fist, and then Frank Miller's Dark Knight came out.

And that was that.

14:52 / 02.01.02

holy crap. Lozt Cause's post sparked a long-forgotten memory. My first comics were also the Star Wars Weeklies, given away by my parents before I moved to Canada.

Wow.

Zoom.

14:56 / 02.01.02

whizzer and chips, then 2000ad circa necropolis. what a story that was.

16:22 / 02.01.02

Mine was a little pocket-book sized collection of a couple of Batman stories, one of which featured Batman, The Flash and their respective love interests getting trapped in a Dance Marathon (you know, like in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) by the ghost of the compere. Creepy. I think it's still around here somewhere.

Pin

09:45 / 03.01.02

A Batman one that had him attacking a motorcyclist with a chain and then being loicked up in Arkham and escaping cos he had a paper clip hidden under his tounge. In another story he used on how he had once slept with Catwoman. On the back it had an advert with all the most famous villans and is said that next month they found out all of batman's secrets and crushed him. I don't think the writers liked the character much...

I got it when I went to see some relative of mine we were doing family tree research on. I was young, though don't know who young, and he must have had the fuckoff biggest grates on the floor in his garage, cos I lost my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles footsoilder toy down one of them. Then we drove in his Royls Royce and my parents made annoying "Isn't ths wonderful?!" noises.

11:55 / 03.01.02

I think I learned reading from comics. No, wait. My father bought three comic books as kinda of a reward cos I had learned to read (yeah, I was that small).
I don't remember, I think it was with that french girl with red dress, Lulu something.

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17:50 / 03.01.02

I must have been four or Five... probably 4, when my older brothers passed me a box full of comics... BATMAN, SUPERMAN, the FLASH, AQUAMAN, SPIDERMAN... and Uncanny X-men #66 I think... featuring the SUPER ADAPTOID!!! plus a bunch of Casper, Hot Stuff & richie rich

I pretty much ;learned how to read from them & would then go on sunday excursions with my folks that featured a trip to the local pharmacey, newsstand to pick-up usually Spiderman...

later around 1980ish I discovered X-men AGAIN #126.. the starting point of the Proteus saga... still one of the all time best X-men story-lines... & later the Avengers.... then I found out about the comic shop adjacent to the nearest toystore....accross the parking lot from the local Mall... it was called THE BATCAVE!!!

How cool is THAT!!!

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