What's the First Comic Book You Remember Reading?

[megowgsh]

Defenders 18. Bought it along with a Marathon candy bar for 25 cents each back in the mid 70s at the corner drug store in Berwyn, Illinois

[bobws]

I'm pretty sure my first reading one was at my barber shop as well, it was X-Men # 25 and it took over 30 years for me to read #26 and see how the story ended.
I didn't even remember reading 25 until i bought in my 30's. Maybe a Popeye comic when i was 6 but i cant remember anything about it. I do remember buying and reading JLA 100,101 and have my mom throw them out and then getting a Bobby Sherman and Partridge Family comics to replace them. Then nothing until i could drive and bought GL/GA 121 and fell for Comics Big Time.

[torgospizza]

The first one I remember getting was DC's Tarzan Digest Vol. 1, Issue 1, which was back in '72. I'm reasonably certain I was reading comics before this, though. I think I was mainly reading Tarzan comics, but was probably picking up Brave and the Bold, World's Finest, and Adventure Comics here and there.

EDIT: This might sound strange, but it just dawned on me going to the barbershop probably introduced me to comics. My grandma told me she read Green Lantern when she was a girl (Alan Scott's first appearance was when she was 10) and she'd buy them for me, but I remember being exposed to a lot of variety (Leave it to Binky and stuff like that) at the barber's. It might have been there I first noticed them.

[Sideshow Spock]

Wow, I had that hulk issue too.. I remember being pretty disturbed about how bad Hulk destroyed him

My earliest memory involves me being home from school, terribly sick and my father bring home a bunch of comics for me. These three were definitely included. It's insane that I remember this but the cover dates match up.

[StrangeVisitor]

Around 1973/74 when I was about 6 or 7, my grandmother gave me several of my Aunt Beth's comics without my Aunt's ok. I'm not sure how good my reading was at the time but I looked them a lot. Some of them were:



The first one (I think) I got new and read - probably partially because i was an "Apes" kid - was by the King himself:

[The Toyroom]

As far as the first comic I still have that I actually remember purchasing (my mother had previously thrown away any of the ones that were on my closet floor) that would be "Amazing Spider-Man" #170:

[The Toyroom]

There was a coverless issue of "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" that I recall in which he thought he was a reincarnated viking or something like that that I've never been able to pinpoint...

[VintageMike]

My earliest memory involves me being home from school, terribly sick and my father bring home a bunch of comics for me. These three were definitely included. It's insane that I remember this but the cover dates match up.

[Random Axe]

Fantastic Four 178 fighting the Salems Seven. Strange turn of events on that book as it was early George Perez, my all- tlme favorite. I didn't know he drew that issue till a few nights ago.

[The Toyroom]

I think the first one(s) I remember reading were Batman, Archie and Casper (Television influences). The Batman one might have been "Detective" #400 (the first appearance of Man-Bat)...I seem to think it was that one or one with the Elongated Man in the back-up.

[toys2cool]

I use to collect them and never read them lol..The first one I actually read was a tales from the crypt

[Red Hulk]

West Coast Avengers Mini series issue 2 the villain was a bank robber called the Blank.I had comics before that but this is where I started actually reading them.

[Sideshow Spock]

No specific memory of what comic was the "first", but just to throw out a title that I know I bought very early in my comic reading...

[madmarva]

The first comic I remember having was a World's Finest with the sons of Superman and Batman, which was confusing when I got some Superboy comics later on. I also had Spider-Man 120 and 121.

I don't know which one was the first I read myself. I had comics before I could read and I didn't begin reading until the first grade around 1974.

[Mego Milk]

Wolverine ALONE!