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do you remember the first comic, that you bought ??

and do you still have it ??

i was just sorting through some of my recent issues, and putting them away into their relevant boxes ...... and i came across the VERY first comic that i EVER got !!

it was 'WONDER WOMAN' 240 issue dated February 1978 !! i can actually remember getting it at a newsagent, it was on a 'spinner rack' and i'm sure they can't have had it there for ages, so i suppose i would got it in the month or so of it's issue date !!??

that would make me around 6 years old !!

looking back, the 'WONDER WOMAN' TV was probably on around the same sort of time ?? but i can't actually remember which i would have seen first ??

had i seen the show, and that's i got the comic ?? or did i get the comic and then tune into the show because of it ??

wish i could remember ??

anyone else remember the 'first time' !!

Matthew.

Green Lantern #148, as I recall.

Strangely, I don't really remember that much about getting it.

looking over this 'WONDER WOMAN' issue again, this seems to be the EARTH 2 version of DIANA !!?? as it's set in WWII !!??

i thought by the late 70's the 'WW' issues would have featured the EARTH 1 version ??

anyone remember these issues of 'WW' ??

thanks

Matthew.

Wonder Woman briefly reverted to the Earth 2 version in the late 70s in response to the popularity of the TV show (which was set during WW2 during the first season or so).

Mine was the Wonder Man special from the late seventies-early eighties. I don't have that exact copy anymore but somehow, somewhere I ended up with another copy of it.

Jamie

thanks EDE !!

so was this version of WW really the E1 that moved over to E2 !?

or did we simply just see the E2 version at that point in time ?? and if so, what was the E1 version 'doing' !!??

was DIANA in the JLA then, and was that the E1 version ??

how confusing ...... and people say that 'CRISIS' made a mess of the DC UNIVERSE

Matthew.

The first comic I ever read and owned (I didn't buy it - someone gave it to me) was an old copy of Justice League of America #200. I was 10.

WHAT A WAY TO BE INTRODUCED TO THE DC UNIVERSE!!!

Not only did it feature the best JLA line-up ever (16 of DC's most amazing characters), assorted cool guest stars, and a wealth of comic's top talent (Conway in his prime, Perez, Bolland, Kubert, Infantino, etc) but it was a hell of a good story too and a textbook example of how to do a good Anniversary issue.

Still my favourite comic ever! And not just for sentimental reasons.

There's probably other people who know the details a lot better, but I think the timeline goes something like this:

1) Wonder Woman's powers are restored after her early 70s "powerless" period.

2) She has to complete some big quest in order to rejoin the JLA.

3) About the time she completes the necessary quest, the Wonder Woman TV show becomes a success.

4) The Earth-1 WW continues to appear as part of the JLA, but her book begins focusing on "untold" stories of the Earth-2 WW.

my 1st comic(s) were two (as they were bought at the same time - 1 by my bro and the other by me and we had to agree to it as we had scraped our coins together -- ahhh, the days of spinner racks at convenience stores):
Uncanny X-Men introducing Kitty Pryde and the White Queen -- i thought how cool it was to be approached by exotic strangers to go to some school where my special budding talents would be explored & perfected (rather than to the bars where my wit and flirting would be honed) -- and they had a shocking (to my 5-6 yr old eyes) underwear scene (ahhh, pre-international male homo gazing)
AND
a reprint of the X-men introducing the Vanisher ... and i thought - how lame are they? cool costumes, but they suck ... good thing i never realized they were the same x-team, right?

My first comic was one of the Archie titles in the early 70's, prior to 1975 (as that was the year I bought my first Legion book). Don't remember which and I no longer have it. I sold all of my Archies (the comic books) in 1979 at a yard sale and used the money to buy some back issue Legions.

I still buy Archie digests every month and donate them every year or two to the local children's hospital.

that is a brilliant idea lightning lad.

Um cool, my first comic was Uncanny X-Men 225 sometime in the fall of 1987. Convience store spinner rack. I lived in a small town of 1500 people back then.

It's not lost on me that if I were a kid there now I would not have discovered comics b/c I had no access to a comic shop.

i think my first was...the uncanny x-men where madelyne pryor is possessed by master mind to look/act like phoenix. paul smith drew it. battle royal ensues. probably bought at 7-11. i guess it was around 83.

i agree tamper lad, (nobody woulda drove me to teh comic store even though there was one in my town)although i am seeing more in super markets again. but they seem to be the archie and kids lines.

The first one I remember actually picking out and buying in a store was Richie Rich and Casper#1 (c. 1974-75), so I would have been five.

I also owned Super Friends#1, out at about the same time. I don't still have either one.

I remember my first comic book: it was a black-and-white reprint of ADVENTURE 376's "Execution of Chameleon Boy" brought out in Australia around 1969 or early 1970. The kissing scene involving Cham and Princess Elwinda didnt bother me - when Cham scared off Elwinda's nanny - let's just say i was hooked on the Legion from then on.

I remember my first comic book: it was a black-and-white reprint of ADVENTURE 376's "Execution of Chameleon Boy" brought out in Australia around 1969 or early 1970.

The kissing scene involving Cham and Princess Elwinda didnt bother me - when Cham scared off Elwinda's nanny - let's just say i was hooked on the Legion from then on.

I don't know if it was in an effort to get me to learn to read before starting kindergarden, or in an effort to discourage me from comics, but the rule at my house at around age 3 or 4, was that I could only have a comic book if I could spell it and write it on the grocery list. So I had a bunch of 'Bat-Man' and 'Hulk', and not much 'Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D', or 'Justice League of America'. I also had a few 'Spidey Super-Stories' ("EZ-Reader says this book is easy to read!") Unfortunatelty, all of those old comics were eventually lost in our many moves. The final survivors were the Spidey Super-Stories, which I last found in a box when I was around 12 or 13...but I have no idea what happened to them after that.

Whatever my parents' motivations, the result was that other than a short period of "growing out of them (from about ages 8-10)," I haven't been able to put comics down at all.

Maybe the biggest influence on my childhood was a Flash vs. Superman treasury edition, which my folks got for me one weekend we went camping. It had a "How To Draw the Flash" page, by Carmine Infantino, that I still have a crystal clear memory of, despite the fact that I must have been around 4 or 5. I watched my mom follow the directions to draw Flash's face, and it came out pretty good...which I can only describe as an epiphany. I had alway enjoyed drawing and coloring, but that page really cemented it. Everything I've drawn or accomplished can probably be traced back to Infantino and the Flash...

I have no idea what my first comic book was. I've been reading them for literally longer than I can remember.

My first comic book was #1 of the first Gambit LS. It was by no means the first book I'd ever read (I was already, like, 14 or something) but it was the first one that was MINE. (I have three brothers... they're rather possessive.) Anyway, I won it, amazingly enough. My friend M sent it to me. It was a glorious day when that baby arrived... I really am in love with that damn Cajun. *fangirly sigh*

Don't think I bought it myself, but the first one I remember was a Superman book in which Lex Luthor attacked Fort Knox - around 1961. Most likely a plot which was used every six months....

I can't remember what the fist comic i had was, but i do remember the first coic that got me interested in collecting a series.....ROM #40

The first ones I remember picking out myself (instead of someone giving it to me) were Alpha Flight #1 and the Marvel Universe series (I think it was the second series) with entries on the Phoenixes (Phoenixi?). I was fascinated with the death of one hero and the alternate reality stuff.

When I really started collecting my senior year of high school the first things I bought were the Inferno X-books. Great art, great story, great introduction to the mutants.

Cool! "Rom, Spaceknight" was the first series I actually collected (making sure I got every month) to follow the storyline (I started around #2 or #3). How many people can say they started with "Rom"??

ME TOO!!!!! Love New Orleans, and when Scott introduced me to comics (when we got married) he opened my eyes to the X-Men and Gambit in particular because he thought I'd get a kick out of him. Our first pet as a couple, now almost 11 years old, is Remy LeBeau Scott Sharritt (that's his full name anyway.) On Remy's cat carrier for vet visits is the phrase 'The Rajun Cajun'... So we have something in common chere!

Same here. But the earliest comics I can remember are the giant-sized ones... the DC 100-Page Spectaculars, particularly Justice League and Superboy/LSH, Giant Sized Avengers # 2 (death of Swordsman), Giant-Sized X-Men # 1 (all-new, all different!).

My real first comic could just have easily been an Archie, or Harvey comic too.