The First Comic You Ever Purchased? 3 3

[Mercury Man]

7-11 off the rack.   Slurpees and Comics.  Kids today just don't understand. 

[tvindy]

3 hours ago, ender said:

I guess this is first magazine. Bugged my dad about it until he broke down and bought it at Barley’s 7/11 in Childress Texas. This is that copy. 

I had my parents buy that for me when it came out. I completely devoured it in anticipation of the movie. One interesting bit of trivia is that the magazine shows a still from the movie of the little girl on the train who sees teenage Clark run by at super speed. The caption to the picture identifies the little girl as a young Lois Lane. Many years later, I learned that that scene had originally intended for that to be Lois, but that piece of info was later cut from the movie. I was so confused as a child as to why the magazine was making that claim.

[BanjerD]

This is the first book I remember getting at the comic store. I was 12 years old in 1978.

[WolverineX]

9 minutes ago, BanjerD said:

This is the first book I remember getting at the comic store. I was 12 years old in 1978.

Getting expensive... what grade is it?

[BanjerD]

18 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Getting expensive... what grade is it?

My first copy was read to death, and later sold with my other WaRP magazines.  But I have a CGC 9.8 copy now (or three)

[WolverineX]

1 minute ago, BanjerD said:

My first copy was read to death, and later sold with my other WaRP magazines.  But I have a CGC 9.8 copy now (or three)

Nice,  it's slowly trending up... it will sky rocket if there is ever any news.. would make a great TV show

[Sweet Lou 14]

Edited December 5, 2020 by Sweet Lou 14

[ChrispyC66]

14 hours ago, Ken Aldred said:

One of my favourite Bronze Age FF comics.  A two-parter.  Psychotic Marvel Boy.

Yep! I eventually picked up FF 164 a while later. 

[ChrispyC66]

On 12/3/2020 at 3:19 PM, Poekaymon said:

Are you sure you guys aren't just picking some favorite from back in the day?  I don't see how you could possibly remember "your first."  I can't even remember what cereal I had this morning.

Nope. Definitely FF 165,

1975 - I was with Mom, grocery shopping at Moss’ Supermarket on route 21 in Uniontown, PA.  I saw the comic book spinner rack. Mom kept going while I thumbed through all the comics they had. It turns out a spinner rack is a good  babysitter for a nine year old in a grocery store. She came back later and said I could pick only one to buy. Mom never had a problem getting me to go grocery shopping for the next few years 

Mom and Moss’ are long gone but I still have the comic book and the memory.

[1950's war comics]

Just now, ChrispyC66 said:

Nope. Definitely FF 165,

1975 - I was with Mom, grocery shopping at Moss’ Supermarket on route 21 in Uniontown, PA.  I saw the comic book spinner rack. Mom kept going while I thumbed through all the comics they had. It turns out a spinner rack is a good  babysitter for a nine year old in a grocery store. She came back later and said I could pick only one to buy. Mom never had a problem getting me to go grocery shopping for the next few years 

Mom and Moss’ are long gone but I still have the comic book and the memory.

i bought that issue also ,,, and i kept buying them as the price went to 30 cents ,,, but when they went up to 35 cent i was outraged and quit collecting as they had become too expensive  

[1950's war comics]

On 12/3/2020 at 12:19 PM, Poekaymon said:

Are you sure you guys aren't just picking some favorite from back in the day?  I don't see how you could possibly remember "your first."  I can't even remember what cereal I had this morning.

you never forget your first one .......

[Revol]

Conan The Barbarian 269. I was 12, on a family holiday in Spain,and I bought it in a local corner shop, as it was one of the few comics in English. It was my first American comic book. I still have it, the cover is all wrinkled from when I would read it by the hotel pool after a swim with wet hands 

[1950's war comics]

1 minute ago, Revol said:

nice cover that i had never seen before

[rfhbv100]

 

I love to tell this story. I was about 12-13 years old when my mother brought me to some kind of fair. There was a lot of stuff and at the end of the room I saw a comic book sale. I walked over and was very surprised. These were real comics. Not the ones that were sold in our newsstands under the guise of comics, but inside there were only mini games, stickers and cards. These were real comics with only 20 plot pages (though it's worth noting that our comics do not have ads, unlike the American ones). I looked at it for a long time, but I had only 150 rubles (2.50 dollars at the then exchange rate). The salesperson sold me a second set of "Hard Boiled" and gave me a third at a discount. I came home, read it and just fell in love with comics. Since then, Geof Darrow is my favorite artist. I still keep these issues.
But it was a translation. And the first comics in the original were some random episodes of Spider-Man and Daredevil of the 90s. I bought them because I seriously believed that they would grow in price over the years. I may not have been born in America in the 90s, when many children bought comics with the hope that their prices would rise, but I quite felt this experience in 2015

[Poekaymon]

On 12/3/2020 at 6:27 PM, csaag said:

 

And for the record the record, i had a bowl of Life cereal for breakfast today.

Cinnamon or Original?

[Poekaymon]

7 hours ago, rfhbv100 said:

 

I love to tell this story. I was about 12-13 years old when my mother brought me to some kind of fair. There was a lot of stuff and at the end of the room I saw a comic book sale. I walked over and was very surprised. These were real comics. Not the ones that were sold in our newsstands under the guise of comics, but inside there were only mini games, stickers and cards. These were real comics with only 20 plot pages (though it's worth noting that our comics do not have ads, unlike the American ones). I looked at it for a long time, but I had only 150 rubles (2.50 dollars at the then exchange rate). The salesperson sold me a second set of "Hard Boiled" and gave me a third at a discount. I came home, read it and just fell in love with comics. Since then, Geof Darrow is my favorite artist. I still keep these issues.
But it was a translation. And the first comics in the original were some random episodes of Spider-Man and Daredevil of the 90s. I bought them because I seriously believed that they would grow in price over the years. I may not have been born in America in the 90s, when many children bought comics with the hope that their prices would rise, but I quite felt this experience in 2015

Hard Boiled was one of my favorites as a kid as well.  I rebought them recently and read it again and realized for the first time that it has almost no story whatsoever.  Darrow is awesome though.

[kav]

22 hours ago, tvindy said:

I had my parents buy that for me when it came out. I completely devoured it in anticipation of the movie. One interesting bit of trivia is that the magazine shows a still from the movie of the little girl on the train who sees teenage Clark run by at super speed. The caption to the picture identifies the little girl as a young Lois Lane. Many years later, I learned that that scene had originally intended for that to be Lois, but that piece of info was later cut from the movie. I was so confused as a child as to why the magazine was making that claim.

when the movie was shown onTV there were extra flying scenes when superman jumps out the window.  They were the best most realistic flying scenes some genius editor cut them for some numbskull reason.

[csaag]

6 minutes ago, Poekaymon said:

Cinnamon or Original?

original of course.

While I don't remember what  I actually bought first, I do remember what prob got me started.  My father came home one day and tossed this to me (which prob sent it from a 9.4 down to an 8.5...)

 

[kav]

Wut a ripoff.  2 kids won, only one is even visible, for like 1/2 sec:

[Poekaymon]

3 minutes ago, kav said:

Wut a ripoff.  2 kids won, only one is even visible, for like 1/2 sec:

Nice.  Reminds me of an old purchase I made that turned out to be somewhat less thrilling than advertised.