Not a WWTT but?
This was the first Spider-Man comic I ever bought.
I even vaguely remember where: it was on a trip to Canada for a wedding.
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Mine was Daredevil #168. First Elektra!
My cousin was at the hospital and my mother bought some comics for him. While waiting, i decided to read some of them…
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Star Wars #10. Han Solo & Chewbacca vs. Space Godzilla
It’s been all downhill from there!
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Avengers Annual #10. Mom was in the hospital (maybe the birth of my youngest brother??) Grandpa bought me a stack to get me to shut up.
1st appearance: Rogue! Metal spiders shut down Iron Man. geez. you would have thought Mr. Parker could have kept that in mind!
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Mine was Flash, don’t remember the issue number….maybe 218, something like that. I still have it.
Flash–the Fastest Man….DEAD!!!
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Not sure what my first Spidey was. Possibly the issue where CPT Stacey was killed. Yeah I’m old.
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The first comic I ever bought was Kirby’s MISTER MIRACLE #14. But I had been reading comics before that; my grandmother used to work for a magazine distributor, and when unsold comics were taken off of the racks, they would tear the covers off and send them back to the publishers for credit. They were supposed to then destroy the remaining comics, but instead they would bundle them up in packs of ten or so, wrap them in cellophane, and sell them at local liquor stores for a buck a package. My grandma used to bring me tons of them to read. The first one that really made a big impact on me was BATMAN #251, “The Joker’s Five-Way Revenge” by O’Neil and Adams, even though I was only just learning to read, and I couldn’t understand a lot of the words in the story. Actually, I think comics were a big part of my learning process, and why I enjoy reading so much today.
And by the way, I’ve heard before that when comics would name-check certain cities on their covers, it was often because the publisher was having some difficulties with the distributor there, and they wanted to soothe their ego a bit by putting their hometown in the spotlight.
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It was either Legion of Super-Heroes #303 or GI Joe #4? (the one with a close up of Cobra Commander’s shiny mask and in it reflected the Joes and some Russians in a jeep falling over a cliff).
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Ha! I think that’s the first Spider-Man I ever bought too!
And I live in Canada.
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First comic I ever got was an Archie. My mom baught me my first comic cuz she wanted me to read something other than books, plus she had read Archie comics when she was younger. First one I ever baught with my OWN money tho was I think Alf or Muppet Babies.
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Dierna:
Your mom wanted you to read something other than books? Then bought you comics?? Your mom was COOL!!!!!
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I think my first comic was Uncle $crooge.
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Ooh, fun! The very first comic I bought was What If?: Storm Became Phoenix. I had to beg my mom to take me to the comic store since I had borrowed the comic from a friend to read, and accidentally torn the back of that comic book off when I took it out of my backpack. My mom had to pry me out of the store before I bought anything else. Later the first comic I bought for myself was Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, the very first four issues of that series from Dark Horse. 🙂
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Sackett:
Yea and my dad never thought I’d learn anything from comics and wanted me to throw em away. Sheesh I had one small pile in my room. So I just hid em from him. But I sure showed him when we went to France and couldn’t read the restauraunt menu. I recognized the word for chicken (poulet) cuz I had learned it from an Archie comic! BTW…never order chicken in France…the feet are still attached. *blinks*
Also thanks to Uncle Scrooge I know the history of money and the history of the gold rush! 😀
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My first Spider-Man comic was (I think) #77. It had the Lizard in it.
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My first comic was an issue of Justice League; the one with the notorious “Robin– what have I done to you?” panel.
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The first comic of what I call my modern age of collecting was Marvel Team-Up 144 — Spider-Man and Moon Knight. Before that, things get kind of murky; my dad got me a Superboy comic a few years earlier to give me something to read on a long car ride, and I had that Spider-Man/Aim toothpaste comic and a bunch of Whitman comics that my grandparents would buy for me on occasion. But it all truly gets started with Marvel Team-Up 144.
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My first Marvel comic was Fantastic Four Annual #5 (yes, I’m that old.) And WHAT a first comic! Sue announces she’s pregnant! Psycho-Man’s first appearance! The Black Panther! The Inhumans! Three losers called Live Wire, Ivan and Shell-Shock! And the back-up story was Silver Surfer vs Quasimodo! Up till then I had only read DC comics which were basically “Lois Lane tries to marry Superman/expose his identity”. I was warped for life by FF Annual #5, and I wanted MORE…
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Mine was Spiderman #3 (Doc Ock). Sad to say I tossed it after reading (Hey! They were 12-cent comic books in those days!)
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Oddly enough, I think this is the LAST book (Amazing Spidey, at least) I bought – I stopped collecting pretty-much right afterward, and didn’t buy another for 9 years.
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OMG! It’s so Pittsburgh! I didn’t even have to read the text! I’ve seen some bad depictions of cities, ones that do NOT match up with what they’re supposed to be But dammit that’s the freakin’ bridge going into Fort Pitt tunnel!Which totally takes you onto The Parkway West and my house!
OK…. raving done now. Um…. I like your blog? been back reading, laughing my ass of. Totally.
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Can’t remember the very firstcomic book i owned, but my first graphic novel was Watchmen.
(Alan Moore is a genious)
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