What was the very first comic you bought? What hooked you on the hobby? For me, it was FF #243, "Everyone versus Galactus", purchased at a second-hand bookstore when I was 6 years old. The cover stood out on the stands, I paid my $0.60, and that was that - still buying the things 25 years later.
Defenders of Dynatron City. I believe the property was originally created for a game, which then had comic and Saturday morning cartoon tie-ins. I still stand by my opinion that it's the most perfect superhero team ever created.
You have the big, burly heroic leader, who fires his own head off his body, and then flies by grabbing hold of it. You have the lady with the big Farah Fawcett 'doo, who has a buzzsaw where her legs should be. There's the spunky tech-head with electricity powers, whose toolbox became the team's requisite robot. Then there's a talking monkey with banana bombs, and a flying, radioactive dog.
Oh, and the TV show featured Tim Curry and Whoopi Goldberg. Fucking. Awesome.
Also, may be why The Tarantula is still my favorite Spidey villain.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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Cool thread.
Mine was X-Factor #68, I was 6 and got it at a Stop N Go after having Friday Night dinner at some restaurant.
I couldn't care less about Cyclops giving away his son, but what made me think Cyclops was the coolest was when he goes full blast on a fat Apocalypse robot and destroys him.
And then a few months later I got that X-Men #1 super special edition with the glossy pages and the gatefold cover and all the posters in it. And that pretty much did it. Left for a few years after Onslaught, came back around the time of the X-relaunch with Morrison's New X-Men, and now the big 2 are trying to make me quit reading comics again. It's cyclical, like a comic book death.
I had some GI Joe/Transformers/other toy-oriented comics when I was a wee tot (under 10). But they don't count.
My first comics were Uncanny X-Men #293 and Iron Man #285:
Picked them up at Wal-Mart and read them at my grandmother's house.
X-Cutioner's Song started the next month and while to this day I still don't have the complete collection, it really hooked me. The Iron Man was cool - it starts with Rhodey having a funeral for a cremated Tony! - but I only picked up 2-3 issues of that series.
The first one I remember growing up was Detective Comics 667, with Azrael Batman. Got it as a gift. Needless to say I was a bit confused as to what was going on.
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AngryThe glory I had witnessedwas just a sleight of handRegistered Userregular
edited July 2010
some TMNT comic that my dad bought me from safeway.
he then bought me each new issue that came out for the next few years.
I barely even remember what happened in the comic, though I do remember being confused about why Hulk was articulate and fully clothed. Also, Spider-Man did in fact get his ass kicked by Hulk, who was under the influence of some kind of Gamma Virus. I think he and Doc Samson saved the day with science, though.
Also, sudden burst of nostalgia from Munch's posting of Defenders of Dynatron City. I loved that cartoon.
I know I had comics before this one (I had collected all of X-cutioner's Song I remember), but Uncanny X-men 312 was the first issue of my first subscription to anything. It's probably why I love Joe Mad's aesthetic just so much (I think this was his first issue of his Uncanny run). Anyway, from this issue it would take me to the Phalanx Covenant storyline to Legion Quest to Age of Apocalypse to Onslaught. Goddamn I loved Uncanny in the 90's.
My grandfather gave me this when I was about four years old. This and the second issue were what I was first taught to read with, so you all realize I never really stood a chance, lol.
This is one of my most treasured items given to me by my grandfather. RIP gramps!
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It was so awesome to 9-year-old me.
Except that it was part four of a crossover, and I never had the chance to read any of the comics before or after it.
I think the not knowing is part of the fun. For example, FF #243 has the FF, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Wasp, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Galactus, Terrax - I didn't know any of those characters beyond knowing what Spider-Man looked like, but I was still able to enjoy the issue. And it gave me an incentive to seek out more issues to find out what happened before (and after).
It actually took me about 5 years to find FF#242 to read the first part of that story (FF#244 was easy enough to track down, but #242 was a pain in the ass for whatever reason).
70% of the comics I bought as a kid I bought just because the cover was cool
I don't think this has changed much as an adult
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited July 2010
Covers these days are mostly done by other people so they never give you a good representation of the art inside. 95% of the time, unless it was a #1 back in the day or a variant, the artist in the book drew the cover.
but other than Roadhouse and Red Dawn and Next of Kin, Swayze ain't do shit for 80's action
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I remember seeing Roadhouse when my Dad rented it along with Problem Child.
One of them was ok for an 8 year old to watch.
The other was not (naked Patrick Swayze is terrible, but naked Kelly Lynch with those legs and that other chick is excellent). Also ripping out throats.
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edited July 2010
I'm pretty sure my first comics were hand-me-downs, reissues of Lone Wolf and Cub with Bill Sienkewicz covers...I have them somewhere but I can't dig them out now. Some pretty heavy stuff for 3rd grade, heh.
I was young and looking through my brothers box of comics and found an issue of The Punisher in which some poor shmucks go to a game of "paintball" only it turns out the other team is actually hunting them for sport with live ammunition.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited July 2010
Those 100 pack comics for 20 bucks (with the guarantee that one comic was worth $10!) from Toys R US and Target/Walmart were such a great thing as a kid.
Me and my friends would get those packs, and sometimes ride out bikes all the way to the nearest conveinience store against our parents wishes to get new comics and then trade them around going by the Wizard Price Guide.
Nostalgia waves are hitting me faster than Hank Pym hitting Jan.
There used to be this Everything For A Dollar store in the mall when I was a kid. They sold these packs of comics for cheap, but the comics they sold were all First Comics. So as a kid, I had a big pile of Grimjack, American Flagg, Badger, Jon Sable, Dreadstar, and E-Man.
None of which you should ever give a child.
Oddly enough, the sole issue of E-Man that I own focuses not on E-Man, but on his buddy Mauser, and his origins. That's another one I remember reading endlessly as a kid, as it follows Mauser through a childhood of torment, the Vietnam War, and eventually seeing a Vietnamese girl he knew as a child turn into a stripper, and eventually get shot in the face on-panel.
Let me reiterate: None of these comics should be given to children.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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I always made it a point to hide the questionable stuff from my parents, at least in terms of cheesecake and T&A.
But then one time they wanted to be nice and bought me X-Men #17 after they went out to eat. In this comic there is a two page splash of Psylocke, fresh out of a steamy shower, seducing Cyclops. And my parents tried to tell me what is going on in this comic. And I was trying to tell them I don't know what was going on because I hadn't even read it yet so you can't blame me for buying it because you bought it for me.
Thank God they never looked through some WildCATS issues.
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One of those New Teen Titans anti-drug comics that Nancy Reagan made DC do.
I got a massive box somehow, can't remember any details, sometime between my fifth and seventh christmas. It had death of superman, world without a superman, and part of (but unfortunately not all of) the return of superman in singles.
It also had almost all of knightfall (except, once again, the resolution where Bruce becomes Batman again), Emerald Twilight/New Dawn, and build-up to Zero Hour.
I feel like there may have been some books before that, but I was raised on the Tim Burton Batman movies and watched Batman:TAS and the 90s X-Men cartoon from the day they started, so it's very possible that I just have my wires crossed.
To this day I have still never read the end of Return of Superman or Knightfall, but I somewhat ironically got the Emerald Twilight/New Dawn trade and it only has the exact same issues I had as a kid; no more, no less.
I figure that was Christmas 93 or 94. That's what really solidified my stance as a DC fanboy. When I heard Green Lantern got "fixed" in 2004, I was really excited and I wanted to read it again, but I didn't get out to the shops regularly enough. I meant to get it in trades, but I never actually owned up to that until last year when I was finally able to start reading singles again.
Beyond all that, I bought Superman from a grocery store near my house right after they turned him blue, and until the end of the dominus 60th anniversary dealy (the store stopped carrying the books at the end of that crossover, so I never got to finish it either. Or millenium giants).
After that, the only singles I read until last year were pre-packaged old issues of Marvel books that I found at the dollar store. Even in 2004 when I first started hanging around on these forums, I only picked up a handful of trades; Ultimates 1, Cable and Deadpool Volume 3, Batman Year One, and Essential Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 were my collection for the longest time.
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These days I feel he's all I ever talk about. Need to cut down on that really.
Defenders of Dynatron City. I believe the property was originally created for a game, which then had comic and Saturday morning cartoon tie-ins. I still stand by my opinion that it's the most perfect superhero team ever created.
You have the big, burly heroic leader, who fires his own head off his body, and then flies by grabbing hold of it. You have the lady with the big Farah Fawcett 'doo, who has a buzzsaw where her legs should be. There's the spunky tech-head with electricity powers, whose toolbox became the team's requisite robot. Then there's a talking monkey with banana bombs, and a flying, radioactive dog.
Oh, and the TV show featured Tim Curry and Whoopi Goldberg. Fucking. Awesome.
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Before I knew what Marvel was, before I knew anything about comics in general, I was like "This is pretty sweet dude."
'nuff said
Also, may be why The Tarantula is still my favorite Spidey villain.
Mine was X-Factor #68, I was 6 and got it at a Stop N Go after having Friday Night dinner at some restaurant.
I couldn't care less about Cyclops giving away his son, but what made me think Cyclops was the coolest was when he goes full blast on a fat Apocalypse robot and destroys him.
And then a few months later I got that X-Men #1 super special edition with the glossy pages and the gatefold cover and all the posters in it. And that pretty much did it. Left for a few years after Onslaught, came back around the time of the X-relaunch with Morrison's New X-Men, and now the big 2 are trying to make me quit reading comics again. It's cyclical, like a comic book death.
My first comics were Uncanny X-Men #293 and Iron Man #285:
Picked them up at Wal-Mart and read them at my grandmother's house.
X-Cutioner's Song started the next month and while to this day I still don't have the complete collection, it really hooked me. The Iron Man was cool - it starts with Rhodey having a funeral for a cremated Tony! - but I only picked up 2-3 issues of that series.
Edit: as long as we're not counting the Dandy or the Beano, of course.
But the first comic that I bought on my own was Infinity Gauntlet #1:
he then bought me each new issue that came out for the next few years.
( then shortly after the marvel addiction began
I barely even remember what happened in the comic, though I do remember being confused about why Hulk was articulate and fully clothed. Also, Spider-Man did in fact get his ass kicked by Hulk, who was under the influence of some kind of Gamma Virus. I think he and Doc Samson saved the day with science, though.
Also, sudden burst of nostalgia from Munch's posting of Defenders of Dynatron City. I loved that cartoon.
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This is one of my most treasured items given to me by my grandfather. RIP gramps!
It was so awesome to 9-year-old me.
Except that it was part four of a crossover, and I never had the chance to read any of the comics before or after it.
It actually took me about 5 years to find FF#242 to read the first part of that story (FF#244 was easy enough to track down, but #242 was a pain in the ass for whatever reason).
I don't think this has changed much as an adult
These people are wrong.
Roadhouse is a goddamn fantastic movie
but other than Roadhouse and Red Dawn and Next of Kin, Swayze ain't do shit for 80's action
One of them was ok for an 8 year old to watch.
The other was not (naked Patrick Swayze is terrible, but naked Kelly Lynch with those legs and that other chick is excellent). Also ripping out throats.
Point Break (1991) falls within your timeline. As does the Outsiders. And Dirty Dancing almost kind of counts as an action movie.
Point Break, however, is a shameful omission.
Then the Punisher fucks them up.
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Me and my friends would get those packs, and sometimes ride out bikes all the way to the nearest conveinience store against our parents wishes to get new comics and then trade them around going by the Wizard Price Guide.
Nostalgia waves are hitting me faster than Hank Pym hitting Jan.
None of which you should ever give a child.
Oddly enough, the sole issue of E-Man that I own focuses not on E-Man, but on his buddy Mauser, and his origins. That's another one I remember reading endlessly as a kid, as it follows Mauser through a childhood of torment, the Vietnam War, and eventually seeing a Vietnamese girl he knew as a child turn into a stripper, and eventually get shot in the face on-panel.
Let me reiterate: None of these comics should be given to children.
But that's why my Mom and Dad were awesome.
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But then one time they wanted to be nice and bought me X-Men #17 after they went out to eat. In this comic there is a two page splash of Psylocke, fresh out of a steamy shower, seducing Cyclops. And my parents tried to tell me what is going on in this comic. And I was trying to tell them I don't know what was going on because I hadn't even read it yet so you can't blame me for buying it because you bought it for me.
Thank God they never looked through some WildCATS issues.
Guess Speedy should have read his fucking comic.
Aww yea. My two favorite characters as a child
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It also had almost all of knightfall (except, once again, the resolution where Bruce becomes Batman again), Emerald Twilight/New Dawn, and build-up to Zero Hour.
I feel like there may have been some books before that, but I was raised on the Tim Burton Batman movies and watched Batman:TAS and the 90s X-Men cartoon from the day they started, so it's very possible that I just have my wires crossed.
To this day I have still never read the end of Return of Superman or Knightfall, but I somewhat ironically got the Emerald Twilight/New Dawn trade and it only has the exact same issues I had as a kid; no more, no less.
I figure that was Christmas 93 or 94. That's what really solidified my stance as a DC fanboy. When I heard Green Lantern got "fixed" in 2004, I was really excited and I wanted to read it again, but I didn't get out to the shops regularly enough. I meant to get it in trades, but I never actually owned up to that until last year when I was finally able to start reading singles again.
Beyond all that, I bought Superman from a grocery store near my house right after they turned him blue, and until the end of the dominus 60th anniversary dealy (the store stopped carrying the books at the end of that crossover, so I never got to finish it either. Or millenium giants).
After that, the only singles I read until last year were pre-packaged old issues of Marvel books that I found at the dollar store. Even in 2004 when I first started hanging around on these forums, I only picked up a handful of trades; Ultimates 1, Cable and Deadpool Volume 3, Batman Year One, and Essential Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 were my collection for the longest time.