What is the first comic you remember buying/having as a kid? 5 5

[Montezuma]

9 hours ago, Randall Dowling said:

The Iron Range?

Nope, northwestern side of the state, the Red River Valley.

 

[comicginger1789]

The first comic I had was this (given to me by a babysitter):

The first comic I bought was from a back issue bin in Kingston, Ontario and it was this:

The first comic I bought new:

[Randall Dowling]

26 minutes ago, Montezuma said:

Nope, northwestern side of the state, the Red River Valley.

 

I have friends from Thief River Falls.  Pretty country up there! 

[Drummy]

Glad to see so many Minnesotans in this thread!  I grew up in Duluth (18 years), where the most likely comics you'd find were Gold Key, Archies, Richie Rich/Casper/Wendy, and the like.  

But the drugstores carried Marvel and DC, and man did I look for those like buried treasure!

[Jaylam]

One thing I noticed is that locally as I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, no place around me ever stamped their books with date stamps and I didn't even know it was a practice until I started having access to back issues from other areas and would sometimes run across books that had them.

[AndyFish]

Bought it off the stands with my allowance money.   Loved this cover even though I couldn't understand it.

[Ken Aldred]

23 minutes ago, AndyFish said:

Bought it off the stands with my allowance money.   Loved this cover even though I couldn't understand it.

Nice cover.  

To me, Batman, his cape especially, looks like something Marshall Rogers would’ve drawn, a few years later.

[kav]

1 hour ago, AndyFish said:

Bought it off the stands with my allowance money.   Loved this cover even though I couldn't understand it.

Nice first pick up-the great DC 25 cent 52 Big Pages era.

Edited October 15, 2019 by kav

[oakman29]

Man that's a tough one.  I think I was about 6, and my Dad would buy me Donald Duck, and Peanuts, and I distinctly remember Beetle Bailey. I still have a carp load of my original books.

[kav]

45 minutes ago, oakman29 said:

Man that's a tough one.  I think I was about 6, and my Dad would buy me Donald Duck, and Peanuts, and I distinctly remember Beetle Bailey. I still have a carp load of my original books.

Um I thought your first book was Vampirella Creepy Combat- 

Edited October 15, 2019 by kav

[Hollywood1892]

I remember mine now

Batman annual 14

Wicked twoface cover

[kav]

3 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

I remember mine now

Batman annual 14

Wicked twoface cover

He just better watch himself!!

[1950's war comics]

On 10/13/2019 at 8:19 PM, kav said:

amazing that so many people's first comic was marvel when DC dominated the marketplace.

the only DC i ever bought as a kid was The Flash,,. would rather have bought an issue of Little Lulu than some of the other DC line up of drek  

[1950's war comics]

On 10/13/2019 at 8:34 PM, kav said:

I guess most kids were able to buy comics every month.  Not me it was rare-Marvel with its continued stories was a non starter. 

thats why i never bought a Fantastic Four as a kid , they were always continued and i knew if i bought one i would be right in the middle of a story... also comics had to compete with baseball cards for my allowance and those had the extra bonus of gum !!!!!!!!!!!

[kav]

9 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

the only DC i ever bought as a kid was The Flash,,. would rather have bought an issue of Little Lulu than some of the other DC line up of drek  

[1950's war comics]

11 minutes ago, kav said:

Little Lulu were good reads 

[kav]

33 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

Little Lulu were good reads 

I was more of a Little Dot man.

[Sandflea]

As a kid, I liked the thought of getting 2 Spideys in 1 book for a quarter; also thought the "dark-blue" Spidey was the clone...

[kav]

50 minutes ago, Sandflea said:

As a kid, I liked the thought of getting 2 Spideys in 1 book for a quarter; also thought the "dark-blue" Spidey was the clone...

This was the first Spider man book I ever bought.  It was nothing like the cartoon I was like wtf?  

[JohnH19]

This is the first superhero comic I ever bought.

Two years later I discovered Marvel comics with this issue.