What's the First Comic Book You Remember Reading?

[bleit1701]

The earliest were bugs bunny comics. Superboy and the LSH 201, Action Comics 433 and Flash 226 are the oldest super hero books. Still have them. All from 1974 so I guess that's the year I came to hero comics. Julius Schwartz autographed the Action. He didn't want to sign the cover because he didn't draw it. I countered that he work on the whole book and he reluctantly signed there.

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Also Detective 438. The cover was tattered almost off but i wanted anyway. Great cover. Still have it too.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/detective-comics/438-1.jpg

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

This is a tough one. It's got to be one of these:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=95293162856%2031

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=90256734992%2054

Don C.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yes, and many DC comics of the early 70s had some kind of supernatural vibe to them. This felt like a callback to those stories of just a few years before. The ending was pretty novel for the old vampire tropes too.

Chris

[Mikey]

What's the First Comic Book You Remember Reading?

Where's Huddles

[GordoCrisp]

^Gustav DeCobra!!! Mike Grell drew him EXACTLY like Christopher Lee (he even referenced photos of Lee as Dracula) but Julie Schwartz spotted the swipe and made him change it. He STILL looks a lot like Lee. Great story, I read it every Halloween.

Nice write-up on it in TwoMorrow's Batcave Companion, where I got my info from.

Chris

Yes, he does look like C. Lee! I think that scarier, animal-like vampire characterization hit me hard as a kid after only seeing the earlier, suave Lugosi version. I had yet to experience Hammer movies or the earlier horror comics.

Loved that gritty, dark vibe Batman had in the 1970s.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Gustav DeCobra!!! Mike Grell drew him EXACTLY like Christopher Lee (he even referenced photos of Lee as Dracula) but Julie Schwartz spotted the swipe and made him change it. He STILL looks a lot like Lee. Great story, I read it every Halloween.

Nice write-up on it in TwoMorrow's Batcave Companion, where I got my info from.

Chris

[Sideshow Spock]

Was this published in the mid or late 70s?
Appreciate your expertise Sideshow Spock! Thanks much!

Published January, 1976. Happy to help..

[GordoCrisp]

Maybe this one?

I think that is it! At least, the face of that vampire looks real familiar. Was this published in the mid or late 70s?

Appreciate your expertise Sideshow Spock! Thanks much!

[Sideshow Spock]

I appeal to you Batman experts; one comic that made a great impression on my young mind was one in which Batman battled Dracula (or was it a vampire by another name?) I kind of think it was a "Detective Comics," but perhaps not. It would likely have been the mid-70s era. Batman squared off against the vampire fiend in an old house, pretty sure there was a wooden -stake- through -the -heart climax. If you know this comic I would jump for joy!

Maybe this one?

[GordoCrisp]

I appeal to you Batman experts; one comic that made a great impression on my young mind was one in which Batman battled Dracula (or was it a vampire by another name?)

I kind of think it was a "Detective Comics," but perhaps not. It would likely have been the mid-70s era. Batman squared off against the vampire fiend in an old house, pretty sure there was a wooden -stake- through -the -heart climax.

If you know this comic I would jump for joy!

[boynightwing]

This was my other first. That is to say I don't remember if I got this or the Batman comic first but definitely around the same time. Spectacular Spider-man #51.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

My first trip to a comic shop was in 86 or 87, when The Dark Knight Returns first came out in TPB. I bought it that day, and it rocked my 11-year old world.

Chris

[Figuremod73]

Good old Gold Key. Back when comics had a little variety. They were gone by '84. I was pretty much stuck with Star comics from Marvel when I wanted something "different".

I got a chance to try different types of older comics at the fleas (like Kirby's Kamandi). I didnt go to a comics shop until at least '88.

[palitoy]

pretty sure I still have it.

[johnnystorm]

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Scooby-Doo #4, bought it at the store across the street from the school one morning before school. My 4th grade teacher took it from my desk, and they didn't have another copy at the store. In those pre-Ebay days, it wasn't until the late 1980s until I stumbled across another copy.
Miss Schmitt was a mean old lady, I swear to God she looked EXACTLY like Miss Gump from the Wizard of Oz.