Cannot remember my first comic *exactly* but I know it wasn't a superhero comic; my first comics were all cartoon-based eg: Casper, Donald Duck, Archie, etc. In fact, my first superhero may have been Super Goof!
Later on I would get into Mexican reprints of DC Comics, mostly Superman and Batman (usually Silver Age stuff, very wacky.)
Now, my first comic book *in English* was an issue of Spider-Man I saw in a store. It had Spidey fighting Doctor Octopus, who was... romancing Aunt May?? 0_o (I think it was a reprint of an older story, too.) I didn't buy it, however, as I was only a kid who couldn't read English at the time; I just browsed it.
And then I found there was a drugstore in my hometown where they sold dozens of those *every week!* Including heroes I'd never seen before!! (Mostly Marvel characters, for some reason their translations were not available here.) THAT was when I realized the full breadth of their superhero universes and started buying them *even thought I needed a dictionary to read them*
My first DC was Super Friends #10 (where they save a beautiful girl from a team of hollywood monsters! Except what's this, they're actually alien superheroes and the girl was a space criminal?! You didn't see things like that on the show!
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My first Marvel was an issue of the The Hulk that strangely enough, starred someone else (Doctor Samson, his psychiatric) fighting Spider-Man's foe the Rhino. Just a big fight scene, but still miles over the action in DC Comics (way back then.)
I was first introduced to comics on Free Comics Day. Hoo boy. A Young Justice / Batman The Brave And The Bold super-sampler
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If that doesn't count, I purchased Gates of Gotham and Batman: Incorporated soon after.
Everyday I'm Tumblin'! battlegroundbetty.tumblr.comI read a few when I was young, probably a Tex Willer comic was my real first but the first one I read after I got a little older was Sin City.
:)Batman Year One, I think.
"My life is my own" | If you want to contact me privately, please ask first on the forum.First American Comic: JSA: Stealing Thunder. I saw it at the library, and picked it up out of curiosity. I've been a comics fan every since.
(I'd flipped through a couple old Legion of Super-Heroes comics my aunt had before that, but I'd never actually read a whole comic until the Stealing Thunder TPB.)
First Manga: Either Dragonball or Inu-Yasha. Not sure which I read first, but both came from libraries.
My first american comicbook was an issue of Age Of Apocalypse which, in my country, collected X-Men Chronicles 01 (first AoA X-Men mission) and Factor X 02. Mercifully I was aware of the characters already, thanks to the 90s animated series and this book explaned what the Age Of Apocalypse was. I never read the whole story for years, however.
For comic books over all, my first was Monicas Gang, as most Brazilians. My first manga was Dragon Ball.
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As a Brit i'm pretty sure it would have been the Beano, which I used to love as a kid, my first american superhero comic was the ultimate Marvel team up issue with Wolverine and Spiderman which I think I got as part of the British Reprint line, but I'm not sure as my Mother got me it and I was 10 or something
, my first real introduction to american comics and my gateway drug was a copy of ultimate spiderman volume 9 (ultimate 6)after that I just started reading everything the libary had
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The first time I picked up a comic was about a year ago. I was waiting for court, and the local library was next door, so I went in and picked up a TPB of Ultimate Spider-Man.
The first collections I bought were the Ultimate Collections of Ultimate Spider-Man, Top Ten books 1 and 2, Batman: Year One, and The Man Who Laughs.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; the good die early and the bad die late-Daniel DefoeFirst comic? When I was about five or so, it would have been some long-defunct British publication, which had comic strip versions of stuff like https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillowTheWisp
and The Moomins. After that it was The Beano and (like Vampire Buddha) the Funday Times. The first "adult" comic series I actually started buying (as opposed to borrowing or buying the collected editions) was 100 Bullets and 1602.
Some issue of Spider Man. What was it...someone hires the Sandman to trash a super market and Spidey goes into action...only to be captured on a surveilance camera by an economically broken security officer who wants to sell the footage so he could afford surgery for his wife. In the end, he destroys the footage, but Spidey credits him for capturing the Sandman (which he technically did, by activating the fire-sprinkler thing and ruining his shit) so he got the bounty. Yay?
So...does anyone remember which issue that was?
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.The very first comic I ever picked up and looked at was Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men #1. That was a good day. It changed my young life forever.
Uncanny X Men. I never really got into it—I was missing way too much continuity.
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That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulThe Calculus Affair. I'm proud that my first comic included a chase sequence with a tank.
One of the Asterix albums, can't quite remember which one, unfortunately.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.Superman: Man of Steel #91, a story about a board game designer who was convinced Superman was stalking him because his "Invasion: Earth" game would train kids to fend off the forthcoming Kryptonian invasion.
I didn't become hooked until I read the "Superman: Arkham" storyarc a few months later (now known as Emperor Joker). That's when I actually started buying the superbooks regularly, and of course, it spread from there.
Sidenote: In my mind, Ed Mc Guinness' Superman will always be THE Superman.
My first comic was a few months ago, actually. Like seriously. I live in a small town, so I never had any access to comics (other than the newspaper variety, natch), and the nearest comic book store was a Border's Bookstore about one and half/two hours away, which sadly, went bankrupt and closed. Then, a few years back I joined TV Tropes, and although I never really payed any attention to the Comic Books tabs/sections, I occasionally looked through them. However, I've always been a fan of the DCAU shows, but it wasn't until Young Justice began airing earlier last year that I really became interested. Even though I missed the initial airing of the available episode, I managed to watch most of them online one night, and I was hooked. Around this time, I also watched the Red Hood movie, which left me waning more. From there, I went and read a few comic books summaries, read a few snippets, and I obtained Identity Crisis after being informed that it was a rather self contained story. Even then, I was kinda wary of of actually getting into comics because of all the continuity, so when the DC announced the New 52, I got on board. So yeah, I've been consistently reading a few comics ever since, and I'm not disappointed in the least.

I was introduced to comics by reading Finland's weekly Donald Duck comics. I fell in love with Carl Barks's great Duck stories quite quickly.