Dad bring you some comics when you were sick? Best buddy have a big collection? Saw Superman on TV and was stunned to see other adventures existed?

SPILL IT.

I have vague memories of reading comics while I was sick, when I was staying the summer with my Grandma. I was about 7 years old. (1972) I also had the Mego action figures, ( Batman, Superman, Spider-Man) but can't recall which came first. I was a casual reader til I was about 11 or so and was earning an allowance and a bit more mowing lawns and such. This is about 1976. I remember going to the 7-11 up the street almost daily, not understanding the delivery schedule. I would also bike to a newsstand/bookstore in town and get some of the old Warren stuff. I really started collecting and following the fandom and such around 1980 when we moved to Corpus Christi and I met another comic fan. Until then I was pretty much the only guy I knew who read comics. Or books for that matter.

I'd read comics since I was old enough to read, but I remember picking up Avengers #152 and the first caption in the book said "Avengers Mansion, 42 seconds after the end of last issue", which immediately made me want to find out what happened in #151. I was hooked.

To help herself learn English, when my mom came to Canada she read kids books and as she got better at reading, comics. So when I started to be at a reading age, she would give me comics. Superboy and X-Men were the first two comics I remember by name.

They were always there. My parents and grandparents spoiled me rotten with them. The oldest comics I remember picking out for myself was from 1977 (a month or two before I turned seven years old - these were on the stands http://www.dcindexes.com/timemachine/ga ... a&site=all ), but I'd been getting them for a few years before then.

In just a few days it will be my 47th anniversary of reading comic books.

I watched the Batman TV premiere on Wednesday night, January 12, 1966. The next morning I was with my mother in the local shopping centre and we went into the stationery store (which was imaginatively called Stationery Store), where there was a big wall full of comics and magazines opposite to the register. It had probably been there forever, but it hadn't held any interest for me until I'd seen the Batman show. I picked out this book:



See the joined date in my profile? That was the day I joined IMWAN, i.e. joined the ranks of comic book readers. And here I still am!

Here's the competition that issue of Brave & Bold had: http://www.dcindexes.com/timemachine/ga ... a&site=all

There was a small privately owned convenience store across the street from my elementary school, and it was a four block walk from home. I started buying Mad magazine and some of the cartoon related comics. Scooby Doo, Donald Duck, and the like. I started that in '73 when I was 8. I started reading Marvel comics late in the summer of '75. By the summer of '77 I had a four store circle that I would check for comics. I did this on my bike of course, so in winter I was resigned to just two stores, and I had to hope that I wouldn't miss an issue. In the summer of '79 I found the holy grail, a store that had back issues.
From 84-87 I would work for a chain of that store.

Dad (and Mom) would buy one here and there for me when I was very young. I always kept all of them. Always. Had a small stack.

Pizza Hut came out with free comic books (Superman and Batman).

Had about a three inch stack by the time I was 10. Started looking for them more systematically.

My cousin was three years older than me -- he gave me his whole collection. All he had was 1970's Spider-man.

I was hooked by age 10.

Loved the Godzilla cartoon so snapped up an issue when I saw it at a drug store. Plus was given the Sar Wars treasury editions for Christmas... The ads made me curious so I explored and never turned back.

My much older brother left his comics at my mother's house when he went into the service (mid 60s). I read them around when I started watching the Superman Aquaman Hour of Adventure and Batman. I was hooked.

Just drawn to them like magnets on the grocery store spinner racks.. First Casper, Hot Stuff, and Richie Rich, then Spider-man, Hulk, and the rest. Good times.

me too. Except that I also bought Archies before I started buying Superheroes.

You could also buy used 60's comics in bookstores for a dime

I was told that my brother and I asked for them at thes tore. My Mom bought them because her parents wouldn't let her have comics. Too lowbrow. The first comic I remember is the marriage of Reed and Sue. That would be The FF Annual #3 in 1965. I was born in '65 but the story was reprinted in 1973 in FF Annula #8 with the retirn of the Original Human Torch. I was 8. There is a photo of my brother asleep with a earlier copy of the FF and he was about 5 (1971) but I don't remember the issue right now.

I was a bit of a late bloomer. I found Batman Year One in the school library in 9th grade, and loved it. Randomly picked up graphic novels here and there for the next several years. Moving in with Matt meant easy access to lots of comics, and recommendations on what I would probably like, so that's when the habit started in earnest.

Always been part of my life.The interest waxes and wanes,like anything else,but I've always followed comics when it was cool and when it wasn't.

I have memories of the earliest comic I have, but answering "How?" is difficult for me.

It's like asking me "How did you start watching TV?" or movies, or reading, etc.

My brother (who is 11 years older than I am) took me with him to a friend's house when I was 11. He left me there while the two of them went out (probably to a bar) with a box of comics to read. I don't remember everything that was in it, but I know there were some old Legion of Superhero comics (I feel like this was one of them, but it's possible my memory is playing tricks on me):



And I know for sure that Uncanny X-Men #175 was one, because it's the one I decided to read.



After that my brother started buying comics again and would mail them to me from college after he read them.

I got a black and white reprint of a Hulk comic in a Christmas stocking when I was around six years of age. It had the Hulk fighting a giant robot built by The Leader. I was obsessed with comics from then on, until I was in my early 30's.

Same here. I'm always amazed by fans who can remember their first comicbook. I don't remember a time when I wasn't interested in comicbooks and superheroes. I imagine I first saw Superman or Batman on TV and the comics were a natural extension.

I started late (mid-teens). My brother got me into it, not that he was a collector himself, but he was excited about Secret Wars and urged me to get them. I didn't (at the time) but I was intrigued by OHOTMU Deluxe. I also saw some of Uncle Walt's Thors at a friend's house, which further stoked the fire. I think the first comic I bought was Transformers 17.