You know how it often seems that someone posts a cover, and someone else says "That's the first comic I ever had/saw?"

This is the thread to post nothing but those (plus discussion). Search the earliest childhood memories you have of a cover, post it.

What's the first Batman cover you remember seeing?

What's the first Hulk cover you remember seeing?

What were you doing -- buying, or looking at older brother's?

I know I was collecting comics before these but I can't remember any specific stuff before them.

This is one of my earliest "Batman Family" titles -- I had this comic book as a wee lad (new off the rack). I was amazed that a bad guy like the Joker had his own comic book.

I gotta get some backissues of those old Marvel Tales... can't be too expensive and I was pretty into them. Re-read 'em over and over again.

I remember this one too...




I actually wanted this, because I loved it when I saw it on the newsstand, but couldn't find it again...

I got all the Pizza Hut comic books that I saw -- they gave these out when you bought a pizza.

We were crossing the island & province of Newfoundland, visiting my relatives in Robert's Arm. We stopped in a drug store to get some snacks and reading material. I am pretty sure my brother bought this comic...



Oddly, I don't remember what comic I may have gotten for myself, if any. I do know this was my first exposure to Batman comics and the first I remember of any comic.

I always loved that Detective logo with Batman's cape enswirling it.

It was used when I got it. Someone had used a silver crayon to color in the teeth.

Followed by...



Those were my first two comic books, and I held on to them for about 15 years.

(I have no doubt that I read comics before those -- Transformers for sure -- but a bulk value-pack of a dozen (?) Marvel comics including that X-Men and that Cap definitely got me started with the Marvel Universe proper, and that Scraplets issue of Transformers was the first one I ever bought myself at the newsstand.)

Oh, this for sure:

Got those last two off the rack! The Madcap issue didn't fair too well...Cap got a Cop 'stache. I'll scan it in when/if I find it.

I did NOT remember that detail. But you're right! I remember the Nomad-hanging-with-Madcap-and-pretending-to-be-pals part of the story. And I remember the title of the story was "NOMAD-MADCAP-CAP," done in terribly impressively dramatic lettering.

...naw, I meant Cap ended up with a 'stache on the cover of my issue! You had to feel for Madcap though, his Church let him down. Sucks that Jack got cut down by Bucky. I always liked him, since he was in one of my first Cap issues.

See how easy memories can be implanted? You totally had me envisioning an interior panel with Cap in a disguise. No wonder poor Logan is so fucked up.

I remember that Scraplets issue! Of course I collected all 80 issues of Transformers before too long. I had a heck of a time finding 80. It was short printed and is now worth big bucks.

Oh really? I have #80. (Basically a complete run, though some of the early issues I have in the digest-sized double-issue reprints.) #80 is not in near-mint, though -- I fell asleep reading it in bed so it ended up a bit wrinkled.

I loved the fact that they went out with a smile -- it sorta took a bit of the sting out of the cancellation to see that they headlined it above the logo, "#80 in a four-issue limited series."

Ditto. I stopped following Nomad somewhere halfway through his '90s badass-with-scruff phase, but I still had a soft spot for him.

#80 is worth $100 mint. More slabbed.