[Nathan Gardner]

My mother borrowed a bunch of my cousins' "Marvel Tales", which was a reprint title of Lee/Ditko/Romita's Spider-man, in order to help me learn how to read when I was 4. It worked and I've been hooked ever since. What's funny is that I had no idea what a "reprint" was at that age, so for my first couple years reading, I thought Lee's Spider-Man was contemporary (the style of dress didn't confuse me; I jus assumed that must be how adults dressed)! I picked up a new issue of Spider-man one day on happenstance and wondered where Betty Brant and Flash Thompson had disappeared too. I wonder if this still happens to kids who read Ultimate Spider-man and pick up 616 Spidey later and wonder why Peter's life is so different?

[Jake]

The first comic I remember actually owning was the fourth issue of the Magik miniseries, which featured Illyana. I didn't know what was going on and had no idea who the X-Men were. Then there were a few random issues of Amazing Spider-Man and other Marvels. But what got my hooked were three titles: G.I. Joe, Transformers, and The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones. Licensed books all, but awesome to a kid my age back then. I got hooked on superheroes right after the Mutant Massacre, with the two issues of Uncanny X-Men that featured Dazzler taking on the Juggernaut. The rest is an expensive history!

[Robert B]

I had been reading comics off and on before that but what got me "into" comics was G.I. Joe in the early/mid 1980s.

EDIT: Wow, actually, it was a LOT like Jake. G.I Joe, Transformers, and Indy, and literally the first issues of Uncanny X-Men for me were the Dazzler/Juggernaut ones. (Though I had been reading X-Factor before that)

[Jake]

Robert B, on 15 July 2010 - 01:13 PM, said:

I had been reading comics off and on before that but what got me "into" comics was G.I. Joe in the early/mid 1980s.

EDIT: Wow, actually, it was a LOT like Jake. G.I Joe, Transformers, and Indy, and literally the first issues of Uncanny X-Men for me were the Dazzler/Juggernaut ones. (Though I had been reading X-Factor before that)

Ha! I remember getting a couple issues of X-Factor that looking back were immediately post the Massacre. Something with a Morlock dude with a mohawk blasting Cyke.

[steveuk]

I read it in WHSmiths bookshop. Then bought it and read it again. Then bought other books.

[Jake]

I remember this one being one of my favorites. Also this one:

[Craig MacD]

I had read a few comics here and there as a kid and enjoyed them but gave up after a few months of collecting them because they were so hard to get here back in those days. Then while my mom and I were staying at my aunt's place for a few days in another town, my mom brought me back three comics from the store. One was an issue of Firestorm where he fought Captain Atom, which was forgettable. But she also brought me back Adventures of Superman Annual #1 and Flash #4 (Wally West series). The Flash comic, more than anything else I had read at that point, was the most awesome thing I had ever come across. It's still holds a special place in my collection and it started my love/addiction for comics.

That was in 1987. I've been reading comics regularly ever since.

[antonio]

Jake, on 15 July 2010 - 01:41 PM, said:

I remember this one being one of my favorites.

That was my first issue of Cap. It's about the time that I started getting into the Marvel Universe proper. Other issues I bought around that time were Avengers #271 (build up to the Masters of Evil storyline), Captain America Annual #8, Uncanny X-Men #209, Thor #273, Classic X-Men #1, and a few others. I actually had bought X-Factor #1, but didn't pick it up again until #7, which came out around the same time as the ones I previously mentioned. However, like Jake and Robert B, this all came about from reading G.I. Joe and Transformers. I became interested in the comics upon seeing the cartoon comercials for the comic book that used to come on tv at the time, so I started buying the books and liked them much more than the cartoons. And in those comics were Marvel house ads for other books, and those ads (like Romita Jr's cover for UXM #207 with Wolverine raking his claws across the cover) made me want to pick up other books.

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[Patrick A]

The first comic I ever bought was GI Joe #1. I was in first grade when the whole GI Joe line relauchned (1980 maybe? 81?).

There were actually television commercials for the comic.

[Mike Haynes]

It would have been the Superfriends cartoons when I was a kid that and the fantastic Secret Wars action figures that were out in the 80s. Once I had my hands on those figures I needed to know more about the marvel characters and was taken to a comic shop where I bought my first comic book.

[antonio]

Mike Haynes, on 15 July 2010 - 02:21 PM, said:

It would have been the Superfriends cartoons when I was a kid that and the fantastic Secret Wars action figures that were out in the 80s. Once I had my hands on those figures I needed to know more about the marvel characters and was taken to a comic shop where I bought my first comic book.

Yeah, those helped too. The Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends show was the reason I picked up X-Factor #1, I recognized Cyclops from an episode the X-Men were guest stars in. And I had the Wolverine figure from the SW series.

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[IanBuchanan82]

Dang you know I don't even remember what my first comic book was, I know it would have been the beano, I rmember seeing a short strip in one of there annuals about a kid that controlled tiny little robot army men it was awesome, another kid copied his design and there was a big army toy war, that was my first adventure/action story I think, I remember my first X-men was the UK verion of X-men, it was one of those paper non-glossy ones, issue one, I kept it till I got married then lost it! I also remember having a spiderman comic, im sure Todd Macfarlane was the artist, and that was my first interest in comics for there art (I remember a boy laying on molted leaves with a damaged/missing finger i don't remember anything else about it, 'cept spidey looked awesome!) I remember going to florida and finding an x-men comic (A real one) and wolverine had bone claws I was like "What the heck!?!"!. From then on I was hooke on the work of Adam Kubert!!!

Ian

[Ron]

Visited a restaurant in my teens that put comics in their menus for something to read while waiting for food.

One read of an Iron Man comic and I was hooked.

[bob mitchell]

HAMMER OF VENGEANCE!

afternoon all. gassed. been out at the girlfriend's graudation all day, back homne, drinkign some bubbly and lager now while half her family have passe dout on my couches

i know eaxactly what got me into comics. john byrne and jim shooter. this issue of avengers

http://www.comics.org/issue/31632/

that would be issue 165 to you yankees, but it was reprinted in marvelous black and white in marvel supergheroes uk monthly. my mum go tme it out wh smith one day, it's the earliest emmory i have of reading. it's actually still my favourite comic of all time. i think it still holds the test of time. it means a lot to me because it wa smy first time, but that's not the only reason. jim shooter has all the avengers gettign together for a square-go with count nefaria when he goes tonto, they all have time on the pages, but it doesn't fell cluttered, then there's a massive cliffhanger when thor shows up to slap him down. acutally, it feels very like a millar comic in that it has that cliffhanger that kicks you in the nuts, and the story remind sme of the hulk/freddie prinze jr story in ultimates. john byrne's art, amazing. being my first comic i re-read it endless times back when i was a kid, but even now, never makes me feel jaded. the whizzer turns up in it too. he's faster than a mongoose

[Henry Blanco]

I read some Archies and a few Marvel and DC comics when I was very young, but didn't decide to follow/collect any comics until G.I. Joe #13 back in 1983. Transformers followed a year after. Secret Wars #6 in 1984 was the first superhero comic I followed, even though it was a mini. I started reading Claremont's X-Men with the Secret Wars II crossover and then it was off to the races. My best friend also read(s) comics and he encouraged me to get into the hobby.

[Sabrina Peyton]

I was reading up on Marvel comics for my job, after many many issues of the Xmen I begged for something different.

I was given Sin City to read which led me to read a lot more. I rarely read comics at the moment even with the house being full of them.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Growing up I’ve always been surrounded with comics – Marvel, DC, Asterix, Lucky Luke, lots of Disney comics. My brother had tons of Marvel books and one of my cousins was heavily into Marvel too. Maybe as a result I was and still remain mainly a Marvel guy myself, as far as superheroes are concerned. I was able to read before I went to school, because I kept bugging my parents and my brother to explain to me over and over again what those silly scribbles in the word balloons meant. In a way, Stan Lee taught me how to read (with a little help from the family and Sesame Street).

[bill e]

I'd read comics and stuff in the hardcover collected editions from the local bookmobile. Pretty much just the Marvel ones, like Bring on the Bad Guys, etc. It was the only way to get comics in rural MN at the time. Didn't really care much one way or the other. I mean, I always liked Spiderman and Batman, but what sealed the deal for me was the following:



And that issue still gets me all wide-eyed and giddy. Great cover. Great story.

[Stephen G]

My dad was trying to find something for us to bond over...to he took me to Westfield Comics and bought me Web of Spider-Man #100, with the 1 time seen (unless you count the Spider-Man TAS) Spider of Steel / Steel Spider armor.

I have been a near addict ever since'.

[DSolzman]

After I saw X3, I started getting books from library. Heard about Civil War and I started subscribing to that and Spidey.