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Post by dlw66 on Nov 17, 2005 8:41:30 GMT -5
Van stated in another thread that Avengers #162 was his first issue. What's yours (and other titles, too, if you can remember) -- the first book you either remember having or buying? Feel free to list the first few!
1st: a Marvel Triple Action reprint of Avengers #19 (Swordsman).
2nd: Avengers #130 (the Slasher, Crimson Dynamo, Radioactive Man, and the Titanium Man).
3rd: Spidey #138 (the Menace of the MindWorm -- I should file that under the other thread "Dumb Things"!!).
4th: FF #159 (Inhumans crossover!).
5th: an issue of JLA with a JSA crossover -- can't remember the number.
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Post by Ultron on Nov 18, 2005 13:26:12 GMT -5
To me - at a time i didn't really get what the appeal of superheroes were, i was a kid - a friend got me some Marvel books.
Since our comics were in non-american, several issues in one magazine, i'll break down by american numbers.
The first one ever was Incredible Hulk 272 (hulk vs sasquatch vs Wendigo), thn i read the rest of the lot he gave me it also had Hulk issues from that era, like Hulk vs U-Foes.
Also in those issues came FF 150, the marriage of Quicksilver and Crystal of the Inhumans.
Good times.
If i had started reading comics today (or in the 90's) i would most definitely not be into comics, at all.
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Post by Adrian J. Watts on Nov 18, 2005 17:40:11 GMT -5
Wow - ALL of those comics came out before I was even born! The first comic I remember having was TRANSFORMERS (US) #13 - or maybe ASTERIX THE GAUL (the first Asterix book, if we count that as a comic, and IIRC I had it as part of a six book collection). I believe I had them both in 1991, although they of course came out way before then. After that I read plenty of Asterix, Tin Tin and Transformers, until AVENGERS Vol.3 #1 was released. And then the superheroes started flooding in - by the end of 1998 I had about 250 issues of Avengers, most of the FF, and all of Thunderbolts up to that point. However, I found in my roof, all nicely packed away, AVENGERS Vol.1 #171-172, which apparently I had owned since shortly after I was born. Why they were bought for me I don't know. Perhaps my parents predicted my Avenger-lovin' way back then? Oddly, the late 1990s, with the exception of a very small number of issues, is my least favourite Marvel period - even though it is when I got hooked.  1993 all the way, baby! - Adrian |
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Post by captparamedic on Nov 18, 2005 19:36:58 GMT -5
Superman #300 was my first comic I remember buying and that was in 1976.
Captain Paramedic
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Post by Shiryu on Nov 19, 2005 8:08:55 GMT -5
My very very first comic was a Mickey Mouse one  The earliest superhero comic I remember was a Marvel Fanfare reprint (The Savage Land, with Spidey and the X-Men). I then started to buy comics just to figure out in which team Spiderman was, and so I bought two F4 issues by Byrne and two Avengers issues by Shooter (the court martial of Hank Pym and the Elfqueen story). Eventually I realized that Spidey was "solo" and I bought some Spiderman issues (the fight with the Spot was the first one). |
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Post by Van Plexico on Nov 21, 2005 22:39:20 GMT -5
Oh, fun topic! My first Marvel comic was Avengers 162, but here are some other comics I discovered during that first month or so, sometime in 1977: IRON MAN #96: My favorite Avenger, vs Ultimo! But Shellhead wasn't nearly as cool when that George Perez guy wasn't drawing him... AVENGERS ANNUAL #7 / MTIO ANNUAL #2: Jim Starlin! The Avengers! Captain Marvel! Warlock! Spidey! The Thing! Thanos! Lord Chaos and Master Order! My single favorite comics story ever. WHAT IF: The Avengers Had Never Been? Everyone has Iron Man armor, but Iron Man himself gets killed! MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION: Blitzkrieg in Central Park! Beginning my long love affair with the Super-Adaptoid! (Okay, that didn't sound right...) AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #165: JJJ confronts Peter with photos of Spidey "killing" Peter Parker (the clone). I was lost! UNCANNY X-MEN #111: The X-Men are brainwashed and working in a carnival, under different names! Never cared much for DC in general, but there were some great DC comics I read during that time, too: SUPERMAN #3??: A great multi-issue storyline involving the Parasite and a laser cannon in orbit! SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES: Another amazing storyline with the Khunds, the Dark Circle, the Dominators, and Mordru! Earth is invaded and defeated! I've been a Legion fan (more or less) ever since. SUPER TEAM FAMILY: Green Lantern, Hawkman and Atom on an epic quest across the galaxy, searching for the Atom's wife. I've liked Lantern and Hawkman ever since (and am now reading the TPBs of the 2002 Hawkman series). Anyone remember these? |
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Post by Shiryu on Nov 22, 2005 7:53:14 GMT -5
Hmm, I remember that What If, think I read it somewhere, but none on the others. The Avengers Annual in particular sounds like a complete mistery to me  |
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Post by dlw66 on Nov 22, 2005 10:30:13 GMT -5
Ah, the Legion. I started buying those (when I could -- back in the day when you depended on drug stores or your local 7-11 it was hard to build long runs of books!) when Mike Grell was doing the art. I was hooked immediately. I have all 12 of the Legion Archive editions, plus everything since the reboot in the early 90's. Like you, Van, DC didn't appeal to me as much as Marvel did. In fact, I wouldn't read Superman -- but whenever I could find an old Superboy or Adventure Comics I snatched those up. I guess as a kid I could relate to Superboy (and the original Teen Titans, too).
I've always been more of a team book kind of reader. Avengers, FF, Defenders, X-Men, Teen Titans, Legion, Champions, Inhumans, Invaders, All-Star Squadron, Marvel Team-Up and Two-In-One -- outside of the Spider-Man books and the Batman books, it was always team books for me.
Man, I look at that list of my buying habits from the mid and late 70's -- can you imagine what buying 15 books a month costs now? And now there are multiple titles for many of those books I listed above!! That's why I only buy a few now (New Avengers, Ultimates, Legion, Alex Ross' Justice, and anything my friend Don Kramer (recently of JSA but climbing DC's ladder -- doing a little Batman work shortly!!) does and occasional TPB's and Essential Marvel books -- plus Marvel Legends and some DC Direct figures).
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With Great Power There Must Come Great Responsibility
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Post by Spider-Man on Nov 30, 2005 0:14:40 GMT -5
my first comic...was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle one...from Archie...lol not sure which issue. My first Marvel comic was Venom: Carnage Unleashed #2 and from there I got into Spidey before branching out into other titles.....my first DC comic was the issue of Batman while Jean Paul was Batman. The issue where he took down Bane.....but that's kinda a sad story....I traded a comic for that DC comic. What sucks about that is.....the comic I traded was worth A LOT of money (especially now after the first Spidey movie). It was the first issue with the original Green Goblin in Spider-Man. I bought that issue in a minimall. There was a box of comics and I chose that one....FOR ONE DOLLAR!!!!! it's worth LOADS more now....but at the time I was just getting into comics and didn't really realize that it was an old comic (cause I didn't know necessarily that Amazing Spider-Man had had a continuous run since the 60's without relaunching at that time and wasn't as well versed in Spidey's villains or how old certain villains were so...yeah...i was totally stupid then........
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Post by curt on Dec 3, 2005 20:37:42 GMT -5
As i said in another post, I inherited my habit from my sister. She had a small stack of comics in her closet including (as I recall) an Archie, a Patsy Walker, and Avengers #20 (the second swordsman issue). I blame her for the thousands of dollars I've spent since, the current lack of space in my apartment, and the days of enjoyment I have had reading comic books ever since that day that I snuck into her room and found her stash.
Thanks, sis...
Curt
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Post by dlw66 on Dec 5, 2005 16:41:00 GMT -5
What's the one book you know you had and have no idea what happened to it? Or, what did you have and later traded away?
Recently, I know I had a copy of Hulk 340(?) -- the McFarlane issue with Wolverine on the cover and Hulk reflected in his claws. Pure gratuitous violence, but fun nonetheless (that sounds terrible!!). Can't find it.
I traded away all of my Miller DD's, and a run of Peter Parker 1-40. Something really classic, I guess there isn't anything that I can remember.
Toys-wise, I used to have the Evel Knieval stunt cycle. Anyone remember that??
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Post by Van Plexico on Dec 6, 2005 11:14:02 GMT -5
Hey, yeah, I had the Evel Kenievel bikes and action figures. Fun stuff.
Comics that vanished from my collection include the first fifty or so issues of STAR WARS and the entire classic Frank Miller run on DAREDEVIL. I have no idea what happened to them.
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Post by Van Plexico on Dec 6, 2005 11:19:48 GMT -5
Shiryu-- AVENGERS ANNUAL #7 (and MTIO Annual #2) is the story that wraps up most of what Jim Starlin had set up in all of his previous work with Warlock and Thanos and their supporting cast. Everything built up to that one story-- the infinity gems; the odd, half-hero/half-villain behavior of Thanos, with regard to Warlock, up to that point; the fate of the villains Warlock had absorbed into the soul gem; the conclusion of Captain Marvel's efforts to stop Thanos (and leading to further ramifications with Drax the Desroyer, in CM's own book).
It really is the ultimate Jim Starlin story, and all the "Infinity" stories later just sort of rehashed what happened in this story. And this one was more concise and tight and told it better, IMO.
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Post by Bored Yesterday on Feb 23, 2006 15:46:27 GMT -5
The first Avengers I remember clearly was issue 184. They fight the Absorbing Man in an all out battle royale. It was one of my favorite comics for years. I was about 5 years old when it came out. Still have it, and it's wear is quite severe. www.avengersjournal.blogspot.com |
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Post by AVFOREVER on Mar 18, 2006 7:10:09 GMT -5
My first comic ever was an Avengers comic book...Issue #198...when they battled Red Ronin. I got it from a neighbor who basically just threw away his old comic books after he was done reading them. I also remember getting and reading X-Men #136 at the same time(the Dark Phoenix saga)...unfortunately when I went to the store to get the follow up issues(I loved the fact that the stories continued from issue to issue)...I found that my neighbor was a little behind the times...I had to settle for Avengers #211 and X-Men #149.
But those issues got me into comic collecting as I soon discovered the comic book shops and the magic of back issues. God I loved comic collecting and reading back then. I still have my entire collection...but haven't bought a single comic since like 1993 or so...when the whole Image comics thing went down and "ruined" the industry IMO.
Good times while it lasted though.
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Post by dlw66 on Mar 20, 2006 22:53:32 GMT -5
Anyone remember the first comic-related book they had? I know I had some of the small paperbacks that reprinted Marvel and DC stories. Probably the coolest book I had was Marvel Treasury Edition #1 with the Amazing Spider-Man!! Anyone have any of the calendars that Marvel put out in the '70's? My first one was the Bicentennial calendar!
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Post by Shiryu on Mar 21, 2006 11:03:32 GMT -5
I don't have any of the calendars, but I remember my very first Marvel comic book very well: the fight between Spider-Man and The Spot.
For that month I bought Avengers, X-Men and FF wondering which group Spidey belonged to ;D
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Post by celticphoenix on Mar 22, 2006 4:56:00 GMT -5
I was introduced to comics in 1976 by a friend. The first one I bought was Avengers 161. I thought the cover by Perez was so cool (Antman growing and knocking out two avengers while Scarlet Witch was covered in ants). I also bought Logan's Run 4 and learned about multi part story lines. Fantastic four !85 (Salem's Seven) and also Legion of Super Heroes (not sure of the number, but I think about 228). I loved the Legion. It was about a year later I got into X-men with#107 then Byrne took over. WOW! But Avengers was my number one group until after Ms. Marvel was badly treated in 200.
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Post by scottharris on Mar 23, 2006 4:11:29 GMT -5
My first comic book was one of the last issues of Blackhawk, sometime in ( I believe) the spring of 1984.
This was realtively soon followed (in the fall) by Thor #350 and Warlord #90.
My first Avengers issues was #256.
In the early days I was a big fan of stuff outisde of the super-hero genre, some of my favorite titles being Warlord, Conan, Rom, Micronauts, G.I. Joe, Transformers and Atari Force. Hey, Atari Force is cool. And you can probably get the whole 20 issue run for $5 on ebay.
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Post by Avenger4Ever on Apr 3, 2006 18:24:11 GMT -5
The first comic book I ever purchased was Batman #232 October 1971. Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams baby! The first Avenger related book I bought was Thor #195. The cover caught my attention and I vaguely remembered that Thor was in the Batman comic ( a brief cameo at a costume party) I had picked up so I bought it to see what this big guy with the wings on his helmet was all about. That led to me picking up Avengers #96 and the rest is history.
Brian - A4E
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Post by The Night Phantom on Apr 3, 2006 21:07:57 GMT -5
I was a casual comics reader for several years before comics reading became my hobby. I remember having some kiddie humor comics before first grade, possibly before kindergarten. I specifically recall having a Pink Panther comic that my first-grade teacher confiscated.  Around this time and over the next few years I also had some Archie comics (digests) and some Disney funny-animal stories. I no longer have these. During a vacation when I was eight (1978), I got my first Star Wars comics, which became the seeds of my collection, though I was not a collector or habitual reader for quite a while yet. I was definitely a Star Wars fan, but for the next few years (until about 1981) I didn’t know where I could get Star Wars comics regularly. When I could get new ones, I would; and at other times, I would just reread the ones I had; otherwise, for my Star Wars fix, I contented myself with action figures et al. My interest in superhero comics germinated slowly. I was familiar with Spider-Man, chiefly from cartoons, and one day I saw an Entertainment Tonight piece heralding Spider-Man’s new black costume. Curious, I bought the costume’s debut issue, Amazing Spider-Man #252. This, of course, was a Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars tie-in, alluding to “past” events in the upcoming limited series. The secret war captured my attention more than Spider-Man’s own series, and I ended up reading MSHSW, which was my introduction to the Avengers—and the Marvel Universe as a whole. And I was fascinated—yet I still hadn’t been sucked into superhero comics as a whole, though I did start buying Spidey’s various series after a little while, and somewhere in there I started reading Rom (which of course had virtually nothing to do with anything else). Nevertheless, megacrossovers do work, for it was the Secret Wars sequel that finally got the ball rolling. I was picking up all the tie-ins. Predictably, my first Avengers issue was #260 (and then I found #259 before #261 hit the stands). Indeed, zombielike, I was picking up every Marvel superhero comic I could find, even those, like West Coast Avengers, that didn’t have an official Secret Wars II tie-in. (The Whackos appeared elsewhere in the megacrossover, and I suppose that’s enough.) Marvel superheroes have remained a large part of my comics diet ever since, though I have diversified somewhat. I feel like I buy a lot of comics today, but something of the caution of my early years does remain—lest I go broke! |
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Post by The Night Phantom on Apr 3, 2006 21:25:01 GMT -5
Now that I think about it...although my earliest comics were kiddie humor books (not necessarily for kids—I still enjoy a good Archie or Uncle Scrooge), my comics hobby was built on science fiction. That’s obvious with Star Wars, but I think it was the sci-fi appeal of a mysterious war on an alien world that drew me from ASM #252 to the Secret Wars. And shortly before its sequel debuted, I started reading Fantastic Four, which was a little more sci-fi-based than most superhero comics (my first issue: #279, which takes place chiefly in orbit!). For that matter, Avengers was in mid-space-epic when I started reading it. Rom’s sci-fi allegiance is obvious. I didn’t mention it before, but around this period I was also reading DC’s Star Trek. Not all the comics I like are sci-fi-oriented, but I think science fiction was a large part of the original appeal.
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Post by bobc on Apr 5, 2006 16:26:41 GMT -5
Van I think you and the Super Adaptoid would make a lovely couple. Don't be coy.
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Post by wellsoul2 on Apr 7, 2006 2:43:37 GMT -5
Wow..now I feel old Actually I got my first comics free at the barber shop when I was seven. You got to pick one to take. I remember them well. Well read but my first. Journey into Mystery (maybe 123?) (Thor battles in the Netherworld to save Hercules) Tales of Suspense (Iron Man vs Mandarin) I got into Avengers seriously around the issue where Yellowjacket and Wasp marry (60? offhand guess)
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Post by Shiryu on Apr 7, 2006 7:49:02 GMT -5
Journey into Mystery (maybe 123?) (Thor battles in the Netherworld to save Hercules) That is one story I've always wished to read. Pity is so old that it's nearly impossible to find it as far as I know (and I don't like the Essentials, black and white is not for me). |
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Post by dlw66 on Apr 7, 2006 9:15:13 GMT -5
I was skeptical several years ago when Essentials first started to hit the market, whether or not I would like the B&W format. I bought Essential Spider-Man #2 so I would have the first Romita issues (I own the Goblin issues 39 and 40, and I have reprints of a couple of other issues in that volume as well as a few of the comics), and I figured for $14 I wouldn't be out much if I didn't like them. I am a fan of original art, and do own a few pieces. I think from that standpoint, I didn't mind the format, and I can say it's actually grown on me. I now have 5-6 Essentials with plans to buy more. I'm also looking to pick up some of the DC ones -- Showcase Presents...
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Post by Avenger4Ever on Apr 7, 2006 19:27:42 GMT -5
For the cost break the Essentials line and DC's Showcase line is a great bargain. I know that some people only will read color comics but, the black and white hasn't been too bad. Some of Marvel's horror Essentials like Dracula, Frankenstein & Werewolf By Night have actually improved by being in black and white.
I like the Masterworks but, the cost is a bit prohibitive. The same goes for the DC Archives. Since I am more of a Comics Reader rather than a Comics Collector, I much rather be able to read and enjoy the stories regardless of the format. I really like the DVD collections that are available as well. Dollar for dollar you can't beat the price for what you get.
A4E
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Post by dlw66 on Apr 7, 2006 21:13:32 GMT -5
I have several of the Masterworks, but stopped because reprints in other formats were quickly becoming available. I do have a run of the Legion Archives, which was second only to Avengers when I was a kid. Too bad Mike Grell never (to my knowledge) did any Avenging -- in his heyday he was very close to Neal Adams, whose short stint on Avengers is hallowed ground.
As for other hardcovers, I do intend to pick up vol. 3 of Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams. If they release another Legion volume (would it be 13 or 14?) I'll probably buy that as well. For most other things the Essentials/Showcase Presents work fine, and I am planning to get in on the DVD collections.
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Post by Avenger4Ever on Apr 9, 2006 0:14:32 GMT -5
I really liked Mike Grell's original Warlord series. His artwork meshed perfectly with the Sword & Sorcery genre. I do believe DC is putting out a Showcase Presents volume for it.
A4E
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Post by Shiryu on Apr 10, 2006 9:04:14 GMT -5
Reprints can be a tough call I guess.
For some reason I really struggle with black and white stuff, so I don't have any Essential, even though I was often tempted to buy that.
Masterworks have great colors, but cost a lot !
Thankfully in Italy they are reprinting Amazing Spider Man now, in color and at a decent size/price ratio, so I'm finally reading the Ditko and Romita stories that I didn't know yet.
For the other titles, I will probably wait until my job get's better and then try to buy at least a few Masterworks.
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1993 all the way, baby!
Around this time and over the next few years I also had some Archie comics (digests) and some Disney funny-animal stories. I no longer have these.