What's the FIRST DC COMIC you rember buying?

[Dr. Crane]

This should be fun, what's the first DC comic you remember buying? (oops thread title should read "remember" not "rember" doh!)

This is the first Batman comic I remember buying. From this point on I was hooked. A kid...was new to a neighborhood, I remember walking out of a corner store (which was my soon-to-be comic buying outlet) a school mate of mine asked me: "hey, what comic did you buy?". I sheepishly said "er... Batman". He said "Cool!!", "I think so too!" I replied! B)

The rest is history. :)

BATMAN #318
Title: My City Burns at Both Ends -- It Will Not Last the Night!
(December 1979 cover date)

Character Appearances: V: Firebug (intro); GS: Selina Kyle (Catwoman); C: Gentlemen Ghost; Batman; James Gordon; Lucius Fox; Gregorian Falstaff; Karlyle Kruggerrand

Credits: Len Wein (Script), Irv Novick (Pencils), Frank McLaughlin (Inks), Ben Oda (Colors), Glynis Wein (Letters). Cover by Jose Garcia Lopez.

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/07206180254.318.GIF

[Grievous]

is it wrong to say hush?

yes i bought hush by jim lee and jeph loeb and loved it!!!

[scottmdavis]

don't quite remember, but I do remember buying an issue of Hitman (#4 i think) and resurrection man #1.

theres gotta be a batman issue before those though.

[chap22]

This should be fun, what's the first DC comic you rember buying?

This is the first Batman comic I remember buying. From this point on I was hooked. A kid...was new to a neighborhood, I remember walking out of a corner store (which was my soon-to-be comic buying outlet) a school mate of mine asked me: "hey, what comic did you buy?". Iun sheepishly said "er... Batman". He said "Cool!!", "I think so too!" I replied! B)

The rest is history. :)

BATMAN #318

ha! got you beat by three months.;)

BATMAN #315

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/07206180254.315.WHITMAN.GIF

[JonahsWhale]

First one I remember is JLA 1. I liked the idea of the big 7 together. Before that, I was pretty much a Marvel guy.

[JonahsWhale]

OK so I remembered another ... The 1st Ray mini series. LOVED IT.

[KoozyK]

Kingdom Come #1

i read Marvels and became a big Alex Ross fan. before then, i was pretty much a marvel zombie. now, 90% of my stuff is dc

[Chesscub]

ha! got you beat by three months.;)

BATMAN #315

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/07206180254.315.WHITMAN.GIF

HA! Your first DC comic villain is KITE-MAN. Loser. ;-)

My first villain was BATMAN

http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/perez/cv/jla202z.jpg

[bob_at_york]

I don't remember buying it but I am pretty sure it is one of the first comics I ever read:

All Star Squadron #36

http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/All-Star%20Squadron%2036.jpg

[chap22]

HA! Your first DC comic villain is KITE-MAN. Loser. ;-)

dude, Kite-Man rocks. shut yo mouth.;) :D

[Gladiator X]

Justice League of America #122 with "The Death of Aquaman" is the first one that I can remember actually purchasing myself.

I read some Superman,Batman,Flash and other comics before that but that was definitely the first one that I paid for.

[Kelson]

Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew #19 (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=37732) (1983) featuring Frogzilla. (Now that I think of it, I have a history of picking up series right before they get cancelled.)

I subsequently discovered The New Teen Titans (oddly enough, not through the crossover in the following issue, but through one of the drug awareness freebies that they handed out at a county fair), which got me into the DC Universe.

[Pezmack]

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u240/pezmack/c79e6d44-ab46-4eb9-b6bd-a8b4fa3d019.jpg

I already had some comics, but this was the first I bought with my own money. It was very exciting, and I was so proud. I thought the cover was pretty cool too.

[Uchiha_Prodigy]

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/32490582748.152.GIF

[Alexander Knox]

DC Comics Presents Superman and the Metal Men.

[victor lanza]

I was a huge Marvel guy for years, but this was the first DC Comic I remember buying:

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/32488651314.201.gif

[JAGII]

I think I may have Chap beat on the "First Batman Villain was a Loser" front. Here's my earliest comic memory:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/141/400/141_4_000000401.jpg

This one stands out for me because the lettercol has an angry rant about about the Crisis. The fan is outraged that DC expects him/her to forget about those earlier stories and can't believe they killed off Batman and Robin. As an 8-year-old, I found this really confusing, as I just finished reading about Batman!

A close second earliest book was an issue of the "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", also from 86. My Dad bought it for me to read on a family trip. I remember it being a real head trip and depressing, and I must have thrown it out shortly after reading it because I hated it.

I also though the Knight's Inn we stayed at was the pinnacle of class, which proves that I was a really dumb kid :(

[Pcm979]

I can't remember the issue number, but the first DC title I distinctly remember buying was a Batman title where Catwoman had brainwashed him into thinking he was Catman.

[DKnobius]

Batman 426-429 The Death in the Family storyline.
Had the concept of fans voting on if Robin (Jason Todd) should die.
Fans voted and Joker beat him to death with a crowbar.
Then Superboy Prime punched the time wall, a recount was done, and JT wasn't supposed to dit after all.

[Impulse2k1]

Impulse #13......from then all everything changed for me. (Note this not the first comic I read but the first I purchased with my money)

[D-Mac]

First one I remember is Joker #4. The cover had Joker about to throw Black Canary off a bridge and Green Arrow standing on a cable about to shoot him down.

[Dr. Crane]

First one I remember is Joker #4. The cover had Joker about to throw Black Canary off a bridge and Green Arrow standing on a cable about to shoot him down.

nice!

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/44309027394.4.GIF

[pfunk70]

Green Lantern 110 with a great Mike Grell cover. August of 1978
http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=37137612952%20110

[pfunk70]

Green Lantern 110 with a great Mike Grell cover. August of 1978
http://www.emeralddawn.com/news/images/gl110.jpg

[cyke85]

It was JLA 43? I don't exactly remember. It was Tower of Babel's first issue.
God I loved that arc.

[JonahsWhale]

It was JLA 43? I don't exactly remember. It was Tower of Babel's first issue.
God I loved that arc.

Me too! Would love to see Waid on JLA for a bit longer.

[JSA2814]

http://ralf-h-comics.de/comics-bat/434.jpg


I was young and I guess didn't notice that it was part 2 of 3...
I have since tracked down the other two parts.

[unytis]

I forgot what number, but it was Superman with the Cyborg Superman holding the American flag on the cover.

[nietoperz]

I remember being given a stack of DC comics by my grandfather when I was about 4 or 5 - I know I remember some Shazam, Batman, Aquaman and Superboy stuff (this was the early seventies). The first book I remember actually buying was probably Arak #1...

[Kidgalatea]

I was given piles and piles of early '80's X-Men and Teen titans comics to read by my older cousins when I was a wee girl, but I didn't actually start buying until about 2 years ago, when I bought the first trade paperback of Geoff Johns run on Teen Titans.

My first single issue buy was Gotham Central 33: the beginning of the Dead Robin arc. I just loved that series to bits. So disappointed when it got cancelled 7 issues later!

[JoeK32880]

The Superman comic that Hank Henshaw first appeared in, where he was the Reed Richards in an FF riff.

I remember the cover said "STill 75 cents!"

Good times.

[Floyd Lawton]

I really dont remember which was the first...Maybe COIE? Thats about when I started reading comics...

[Drunken Fist]

I don't remember the exact issue, but the first one I bought myself was the issue of Detective in 1990 or '91 that was the debut of Renee Montoya. I didn't realize the signifigance of that at the time, obviously...

[trapper32]

if memory serves me correctly... Action Comics #590

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/6779/ac590lo1.jpg

[Arion]

I'm not sure. Probably THE OMEGA MEN or ARION LORD OF ATLANTIS.

[Arion]

if memory serves me correctly... Action Comics #590



Byrne did much better issues than Action Comics # 590.

[Fazhoul]

I don't think this was the first but it was definitely one of the earliest. And I think I win for the oldest cover so far. Cover dated September 1973 so it was probably on sale around June or July 1973.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5623/6144197132a354dt0.jpg

[DBHughes]

Bought this one at the ripe old age of 6. :D

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/84623849276.6.GIF

[pseudonym?]

If I remember right, it was this one:



http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1449/400/1449_4_123.jpg

I was very little (I must have been in Kindergarten, judging by the cover date), and was at a 5&10 store at the Jersey Shore looking futilely for a Batman comic. Some kid pointed out that Batman was in that one, and I was sold!

BTW, the story was trippy as hell, involving Multiple Earths and the characters interacting with the creators of the book, years before Grant Morrison, Infinite Crisis and Countdown. In my day, we didn't bitch about the multiverse, we just kept our mouths shut and got really confused.

[Plastic Soul]

first owned:
http://i18.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/a2/0f/e040_1_b.JPG lamest.teamup.ever.

First bought (with my own cash):
http://www.thecomicshop.com.au/covers/comics/a/action-690-dc-nm.jpg

[Nathan Scott]

V #5. April of 1985, just as the TV show was being cancelled.

http://www.dcindexes.com/gallery/_implosion/v/v5.jpg

[Evil Twin]

I'm not 100% positive it was my first, but I do remember buying this one.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y178/eviltwin120/87_4_0456.jpg

[pseudonym?]

ha! got you beat by three months.;)

BATMAN #315

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/07206180254.315.WHITMAN.GIF

Did it really have that Whitman logo in place of DC? I remember those! Three random comics stuck in a plastic bag, at a bargain price! You couldn't tell what the one in the middle was unless you sort of pulled back the pages of the top one through the plastic. What could be more fun?

[Tobias]

I can't really remember but it was a Superman comic from the mid 90s maybe. I can't remember the details of the issue but I do remember the last page was Supes opening his shower curtain to see Mr. Mxtyplk (I can't remember how that's spelled) showering there. Does anyone know what issue and title this is because I'd be interested in tracking it down someday. Beyond that I can't remember buying any other issues until I really got sucked into Batman and DC with this:

http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/images/batman610.jpg

[Regulator]

First one I remember reading:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/141/200/141_2_000000351.jpg

First one I bought myself:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/141/200/141_2_000000450.jpg

[Carter101]

Batman Annual 16 with Joker with the help of Ecolipso
Yeah Buddy!!!! First one i bought ever, with all my pennies...LOL

[otclefer]

This is the first one I remember actually buying...

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/action-comics/429-1.jpg

[deeunlm1t3d]

Would you believe me if i say Kingdom Come? I just bought the trade in Barnes and Nobles, on pure simple impulse. I remember of having no intention to buy a book in the first place, but for some strange reason, i bought that darn book. And the best part about it is, I have never regretted my purchase.

[ZAXILLA2]

my first issue was actually three, I bought a 3 pack of reprints containing Batman 397, 398, and 399. after a lapse in reading I bought Batman 491 and finally a few years ago after yet another lapse I bought Batman 608 and haven't looked back since.

[Forbush Man]

This was probably the 1st. I remember my dad buying it for me when I was 10. It was at a book store on a comic rack. I think it was at a Borders. Cover date is January 03, actually came out November 27, 02. This is all I could find, the black and white cover.

http://comics.toonzone.net/solicitations/2002-11/batman/bga56.gif

[SouthtownKid]

My earliest DC comics were random issues of Superman and Detective or Batman from the early '70s. My memories of them are vague (like that Riddler was in one of the Batman stories, and either Batman or Robin was put in a tomb) and I've never been able to track down the specific issues since.

The earliest DC comics I have very specific memories of (and for the most part, either still own or have re-aquired), are some of the giant Treasury Editions. Origins of Super-Villains, a couple Batman Treasury Editions, Superman vs. Spider-Man, and Superman vs. the Flash.

[JMarsh642]

Knightfall: the issue where Batman got his back broken or the trade of the Death of Superman, whichever came first

[superspidey]

The first DC comic I actually bought was, I think, All Star Batman #1 but I've been reading old silver age DC stuff since I learned to read.

[Gamma Duck]

Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew # 2.

[Lasagna Bomb]

Detective Comics #782 by Ed Brubraker

[Solidius]

Bionicle #4.

Yeah.. shut the hell up. >_>

[poc]

Bought this one at the ripe old age of 6. :D

http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/84623849276.6.GIF

Hey, you must be around the same age as me! I actually bought my own subscription to that series using birthday money, and the issues would show up each month in my mailbox in those thin brown paper covers that they used to use for all subscription books. I subscribed to other books (Amazing Spiderman, Hulk), but none for as long as ST (I kept getting them up until issue 68, I think).

There was something about the way that Tom Yeates drew Swamp Thing--and later Bisetter and Totleben--that fasinated my little kid brain. I used to sit around and try and copy pictures of him from the comics onto pieces of paper, and I'd listen to my parent's Thriller record at the same time.

Man, I haven't thought about that in a WHILE. :)

[campy]

Crises on Infinite Earths

[drastic_q]

All roughly at the same time. Man, I love these covers and stories. Library of Souls is the most <u>detective</u> issue of Detective I've ever read.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/3056/24038627564643jq6.gif

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/8427/077643646801newsjs4.gif

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4189/077643646802newsgo6.gif

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4238/077643646803newslw3.gif

[Brokenbottle]

First DC title I remember buying was Action #654. Something about Superman entering Batman's Batcave caught my eye. I was mostly a Marvel buyer (since I got them at a grocery store and that's all they carried) before then.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/action-comics/654-6.jpg

[KraziJoe]

http://i18.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/78/24/249f_1.JPG

It wasn't really bought but more of a five finger discount...I was 10 and stupid...But I LOVED the JLA After receiving this comic...

[carl kolchak]

Tarzan #207 by Joe Kubert. Well actually, it was one of those Magazine size spectaculars that they did in the 70s. It was 207-212 I think. The Origin of Tarzan. Still one of my all time favorite runs on any character.

[nietoperz]

http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/arak1.jpg

[Impulse2k1]

Man I really do miss those summer afternoons riding my bike up to my LCS and buying my three comics with my allowence and spending the rest on either a Jolt Cola or some candy....man if I could go back and just do that one more time

[nadir]

weird war tales #78

[Skyrider]

First DC story I remember being bought for me:

http://marcos.kirsch.com.mx/blogimages/superman.gif

First Green Lantern story I ever read:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Study/4273/grlan.jpg

This trade paperback is the reason Green Lantern has been my favorite Super-hero. (Aside from Superman/Spider-man)
I must've read it at least 2 dozen times. Hell I just read it again a few days ago. I really need to buy a new copy of it.

I can't remember the first comic I bought myself.

[palefire]

It was a very long time ago, I had actually started with Marvel and my older brother had been buying DC issues for a while before I ever picked up a comic - so it's hard to remember what the actual first DC title I shelled out 12 cents of my own for was, but I think it was Brave and the Bold #53 with the Flash and the Atom. If it wasn't that it was an issue of Adventure Comics from that same time period - my brother was buying Superman, Batman and JLoA at the time, so there was no need for me to. Plus 12 cents was a big deal to me at the time.

[CC103]

Easy enough to remember for me. Batman #465.

http://www.midtowncomics.com/images/PRODUCT/FUL/106419_ful.jpg

I remember going through the bottom rack of the comics at Perry drugs (now rite aid) one day and found this book. I was a big fan of the reruns of the old 60's batman show that was on the family channel and probably picked this up because of it. I was already reading comics, but just ninja turtles. This issue HOOKED me, especially on Tim Drake as Robin. My money was spent hunting down issues with him after this. Batman done by breyfogle will always be my favorite as well

[JAGII]

Easy enough to remember for me. Batman #465.

http://www.midtowncomics.com/images/PRODUCT/FUL/106419_ful.jpg

I remember going through the bottom rack of the comics at Perry drugs (now rite aid) one day and found this book. I was a big fan of the reruns of the old 60's batman show that was on the family channel and probably picked this up because of it. I was already reading comics, but just ninja turtles. This issue HOOKED me, especially on Tim Drake as Robin. My money was spent hunting down issues with him after this. Batman done by breyfogle will always be my favorite as well

That was one of the first comics I bought when I started seriously collecting. I feel the same way about Robin and Breyfogle, probably because of that same issue.

Good choice!

[Kebab Gud]

Green Arrow #1 ... thats right .. Kevin Smith got me into Comics..
Thank god i have a friend who was a super DC fanboy and who has the entire Green Arrow run (of borrow alot of his Grell books :P)

ive been a huge Smith fan.. but i didnt buy any comics (or read mutch..) before he started dooing Green arrow..then i got trapped.... he owes me alot of money by now :P

[catman]

I want to say JLA: Year One was my first DC book. I really started getting into DC with Identity Crisis though, and I have been hooked since.

[mikediehl]

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/justice-league-of-america/200-1.jpg

Definitely received & read comics published earlier than this one, but this is the first I remember ponying up my own cash for - part of the winnings from my Dad's office football pool (all lucky guesses at the time, of course :) )

I remember think how expensive it was at $1.25, but too great to pass up.

[BarryJordan]

I cant remember the exact issue number, but it was an 80 page giant "Dollar Comics" featuring the Flash fighting Gorilla Grodd.next After that was a late 70s Superman issue in which they explained he used hypnotism to maintain his secret identity

[mangachen]

http://supermandatabase.com/images/4ndvddb/images/wm_dcpresannual0001.jpghttp://supermandatabase.com/images/4ndvddb/images/wm_sf0222.jpg

I had a number of comics that my parents bought for me earlier - more notably some of the Whitman variants, however these are the first two issues I ever bought myself - back when they had the old rotating comic racks at the 7-11 corner store. 2 Comics and a Slurpee!

[Moonbeam]

With my own money?

JSA All-Stars #4
by Geoff Johns, David Goyer, Mike McKone & Wayne Faucher/James Robinson & Tony Harris

http://www.thefourthrail.com/images/reviews/080403/jsaallstars4.jpg

I was a total newbie to DC -- I had only bought Marvel stuff before that -- and this girl on the cover looked cool to me. I took a chance and bought it.

After reading it, I went back the next Wednesday and bought all the other All-Stars issues from this mini-series that were out, as well as Teen Titans #1 and #2, Outsiders #1, and Superman/Batman #1.

[Zabardast]

Some Batman issue I can't even remember what I was, I think it was an Aliens crossover.

This was well over 8 years before I bought another comic.

[zak7khan]

Got into comics pretty late ah 16/17. But I remembered my dad getting me hard cover animated series Batman book featuring Catwoman. Loved it and fell in love with the Batman mythos forever. Most original character ever. (Tony Stark was a parralel until WTF he now has a healinf factor, hated him after drink problems Civil War). But the first proper comic I read was No Mans Land (all as trade paperback), but I had borrowed it from I library. I bought Superman: Birthright. Ah first comic was a whole bunch. 100% sure it had Batman in the pile

[Metall-x]

probably..Batman #436..first Tim Drake

[DBHughes]

Hey, you must be around the same age as me!

Hehehe Those were magic times back then. My exposure was literally the corner drug store, and I loved going in to look at the comics rack. There was always something surprising and full of wonder - Contest of Champions, Captain Carrot, Fury of Firestorm, etc. I remember agonizing over the decision of what to buy that first time; and though I can't recall the other choices, I remember that Swamp Thing won out because of the cover. I never regretted the decision. :D

[tns21]

Here's mine........Action Comics #594



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[bg.]

Batman #440.

That was it, I was hooked. I moved away from Marvel within a year and have been about 90% DC ever since