Your earliest 1st app. pickup(s) 1 1

[Callaway29]

How on earth do you people have any clue? I haven't the foggiest... My memory must be below average...

[exitmusicblue]

On 7/8/2020 at 10:28 PM, oakman29 said:

You guys are all very fortunate to find some of these big keys as children.  I think my first key was Beetle Bailey trips the sarge.😟

Beetle Bailey for the win !!

[lou_fine]

On 7/8/2020 at 12:24 PM, lou_fine said:

Come on, you people.................just went through this whole thread here and I still haven't seen anybody post their copies of Action 1 or 'Tec 27 yet.  

Well, since nobody has come up with either an Action 1 or 'Tec 27 as their earliest 1st appearance book, I am not sure if this one here would qualify or not:

No major character 1st appearances unless you count Mutt & Jeff as key characters, but still designated by Overstreet as the first modern day comic book issued way back in 1933.  Remember picking up my copy (not the copy pictured above) in a group of 16 books from a private collector during my first trip down to the SD Con way back in the very early 90's as I had been really into the historical comics at the time and simply couldn't pass this book up. 

Sadly, all of these early pre-hero newspaper reprint books have lost popularity over the decades and the book is probably worth no more than what I had paid for it all those long years ago, even though it's still a definite keeper for me.   

Edited July 11, 2020 by lou_fine

[JazzMan]

First appearance of the Human Torch, The Angel and Ka-Zar.  Too bad it's only the second appearance of the Sub Mariner.

 

[Ken Aldred]

11 minutes ago, JazzMan said:

First appearance of the Human Torch, The Angel and Ka-Zar.  Too bad it's only the second appearance of the Sub Mariner.

 

Very nice looking copy !

[csaag]

Took my paper route money starting back in the late 70's and rode the bike ~3 miles to the LCS where I bought mid to high grade Hulk 181, FF 48, GSX 1, HoS 92 off the wall for prob around $10-20

Ones I picked up off the rack during my visits were DCP 26, NTT 2, Thor 337, DD 168

To this day I still remember dreaming about those in the glass case under the cash register when checking out - Showcase 4, FF 1 etc   wish I could remember what they were going for back then

[joeypost]

My earliest first appearance was in 1963.