I don't know if it was the first comic I read, but I do remember reading A Death in the Family at a very young age. My parents got me a Batman comic cause they knew I loved the Batman cartoon that was on at the time.
You there! Check out my Youtube Channel! The power of Ponies compel you!I honestly have no idea what my first comic would've been. I just kinda grew up with them. My brother's four years older, and he read comics, so I read them. I can't even really go through my old comics looking for the oldest one, because we also bought bags of unsold comics, some of which were a couple years old.
So, yeah. I never really started reading comics. They've always just sorta been a part of who I am.
I did stop reading for a few years, as a cynical teenager. I went back with Civil War, when I started growing out of my cynicism. I don't know if comics bring out the best in me, or if the best in me just really loves comics.
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As for me, I was interested in the world of comics — Marvel and Dc specifically — ever since I was a kid. I read up on all of the various heroes and their dastardly villains, and the incredible worlds they inhabited. ...Via 'Ultimate Guides' and Wikipedia. I didn't actually do a whole lot of reading of the comics themselves. I did watch the DCAU cartoons, but that's not the same as reading the comics themselves. Although, my first comic might have been that PSA special with Spiderman, Luke Cage, and Storm.
This changed when I was around 20. I thought to myself that I only knew about comics from what I read about them; that I needed to actually read the comics themselves. So I did so, Marvel especially. By now, I've read a ton of comics, from both Marvel and DC, as well as some non-Marvel/DC works. The series I liked the most, and read the most of, were the Avengers and X-Men, and those are still my two favoritires. (Well, Avengers used to be, until Bendis got his mits on the title...) Since then, I've been a tried and true comic fan.
I enjoyed Civil War well enough. I was also reading Amazing Spider-Man, and a few X-Men comics. (I think it might've been Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and maybe X-Factor or it might've come a year or two later - I know I did start subscribing to it, but since it took 3 fucking weeks for comics to come in by subscription, I actually downloaded them before I got them just so I could read them sooner; I no longer subscribe to any comics, and simply walk to the comic shop to get the ones I want.)
I'm not sure how I'll feel about it once I get around to re-reading it. That'll be years from now. I'm still reading through comics released before I was even born. Though I'm almost at 1985 - just four more months to read through. 128 comics. I kinda wish I could see what comics came out the week of my birth. I was actually born on a Wednesday. But the Marvel Wikia doesn't record the exact release dates that far back - only the month, not the week.
X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics.my first comic, wasn't exactly one comic. it was a Spider-Man annual, and it had a ton of Spidey's early adventures in it. i used to spend hours on end in my room reading that thing.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.Really? Don't subscriptions normally get you the comic before it appears in shops?
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I think it's because I'm Canadian. Marvel sent it to another company to ship it to us, and they took fucking forever.
Amazing Spider-Man #410 was my first. I remember buying it a grocery store after seeing the cover with Spider-Carnage and thinking "how did Spider-Man get like that? 'Course I was also slightly confused that there was someone named Ben wearing the webs instead of Peter. Thinking back, this does explain why I enjoy Ben more than Peter and why I always wear Ben's costumes in the video games.
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edited 28th Aug '13 12:38:43 PM by ScarletCajun
Lafayette StrongMy first comic was some Monicas Gang comic, which is a boring answer for someone from my country.
My first American Super-Hero comic book, however, was a random Age of Apocalypse comic, from my brother's collection. Which is kind of a weird place to start. Said comic includednote the origins story of the x-men in said universe, so it was easy for me to follow. Thinking now, that comic is probably the reason I am a fan of Magneto nowadays.
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I actually don't think it was my first comic, but the first one I remember was an issue of Superman the cover of which showed Superman being restrained by Frankenstein's Monster while Dracula prepared to bite the hero on the neck. I remember absolutely nothing about the story other than that it had the Phantom Stranger in it. Another contender might be an old DC Digest which presented their "Year's Best Comics Stories" (I still have that one, and yeah, they were pretty good at that!).
If I were to not include the Batman and Simpsons comics I got once when I was in elemetary school, the first comic book I picked up out of actual interests was One Hundred Bullets. The art was kinda sucky in retrospect but at the time it looked like the coolest thing to read because of its premise.
The first comic book series, in a change of pace, I completed was Y The Last Man. It's probably still one of my favorite series.

I read comic strips like Garfield and Calvin And Hobbes when I was young, but I think the first comic book I ever read was the 9/11 issue of Amazing Spider-Man. After the tragedy, they had it free to read on their website or something, and I, being a little kid, went onto marvel.com to read about Spidey and whatnot.
The first one I can remember physically owning was Spider-Man's Pal, Gus Beezer, about a kid growing up in the Marvel Universe who was a huge superhero fanboy. After that, I got one of those Classic X-Men books that had the first two original issues and Giant Size #1. Then came the first two years of Ultimate Spider-Man in trade format, and after that, I was hooked on comics thanks to Bendis and Bagley.
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