RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books what comic got you addicted?

mebbe you saw a few that were neat. mebbe you browsed thru a few at a friends' house. mebbe you even bothered buying one or two at a store.

but what was the book that absolutely got you hooked on comics? the book that you were able to to shed your pride, join the ranks of the nerdly, and know you were going to buy the next issue?

Star Trek #61.

From there, it was but a hop, skip, and/or jump to Superman, Robin, Green Lantern, Flash, and an addiction rivaling that of a crackhead's.

TMNT - Books 1-4. It's the original run of the violent, kickass Turtles... not that kiddie shit. I remember reading this around 7 or 8 thinking, "Damn, this stuff's cool".

After that, I read Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil #191; quite possibly the best single issue story ever.

I'm pretty sure it was either some early Micronauts issues or Spiderman #238, Hobgoblin's first appearance.

The same one Old Dude first read: All-Star Comics #46 (?). JSA vs Injustice Society. I was about 5 or 6.

Power Pack #1 was what got me. Befor that it was just rando comics I dont really remember.

For Star Wars comics, it was probably an issue of the ongoing from a couple years ago. That was when I went crazy and started buying every back-issue I could find, and some I couldn't.

But to be honest, I only started reading "mainstream" comics last June with Justice League Adventures #7. After that, it only took me a few clicks to reach dccomics.com, and I started on the Bat-books.

Fantastic Four #232...I didn't know it at the time but it was Byrne's first issue(I didn't even know who Byrne was)Anyways,it had Diablo & his elementals fighting the FF.The art was so good & it was a one issue story that had everything you could want from a comic.After that....it was one giant snowball as far as comics went.

I don't know the numbers....but they were 2 Superman comics I had when I was little. One had Ammazo in it....the other had a weakened Superman going through a maze full of mirrors....against a villain I think was called the keymaster. Not sure about that though.

Adventures of Superman #500

Legion of Super-Heroes (first series) # 1, Feb. 1973. There was something about seeing Superboy swinging a beleaguered Mon-El into a futuristic lamppost that caught my eye. Mon, I was to later learn, was Superboy's unofficial big brother. The scene sort of described my relationship with my own "little" brother.

I've been a Mon and Legion fan, ever since.

tho i had seen and enjoyed and even collected comics prior to this one... i think dark knight returns is the book that just absolutely had me hooked on comics.

i loved every minute of it and couldn't wait to read the next page.

once i really got into the book, i wanted to find out all the back story of everything. all the great match ups between batman and the joker. the story behind the robin that died. why batman and superman didn't get along.

great drama.

it was a batman comic in 1973, i am going to have to look it up....damn old age, it makes you forget

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #245, the end of the Earthwar saga, where Superboy, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl had to go head to toe against Mordru (he was a giant at the time...)

Been a devoted "commie" ever since. But of all the series' I collect (and there are a lot of them!) the Legion is my only obsession.

Amazing Spiderman #300 and the The few pre-knightfall batman comics.

Superboy #210 (first series), Aug. 1975, "Soljer's Private War"

The cover with Garth's lightning hitting the ground and awakening a soldier who was in suspended animation since World War VI (hundreds of years prior). My first Legion story. This story hit the stands the month after my father passed away. And something about the soldier determined to fulfill his mission and then led to believe he succeeded so he could go peacefully to his death just hit a chord in my nine year old head.

Flash 74 and Adventures of Superman 484. I read them both when I was 11 and they got me hooked on comics. The great thing is, I can reread them now and still enjoy them.

The original Wolverine Mini, by Claremont and Miller. After that, I started in with the X-Men, and worked my way around the entire comic industry.

It just occurs to me.

Comics: A lot like Porn and Drugs

When I was 4 years old, I saw SUPERBOY STARRING THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #213 at the local drug store. I begged my grandpa to buy it for me. He did reluctantly saying it would give me nightmares. (The cover has a number of Legionnaires trapped as a space monster chomps down on their space cruiser with Superboy coming to the rescue).
I guess it must have kept me busy, because my grandparents and later my parents would buy me comics whenever I wanted after that.

At 31, I still can't shake the habit.

I started collecting 2 comics about the same time....The Flash (Barry Allen) and Godzilla (Marvel). A friend of mine had an issue of Flash I read it and got hooked.

I think the old Super Friends show had a hand in me liking Flash.

I started back in 73,so prolly some early Hulk or Fantastic 4 book. I really started getting into comics with the JLA and Flash.

Mine was a german version of Batman 318 (w. Firebug) and one were Batman squared off against Solomon Grundy in an iron foundry. Even 20 years after I've last seen the story (I was just starting to read at that time) I still see the pictures clearly in my mind. That book was so awesome!!

I remember having read Spideys origin story and some F4 while waiting in the barber shop. Now that was a cool barber shop, not like todays with those stupid fashion-mags!

I'd been a pretty avid DC reader since my childhood but the first book that really made an impact on me was the Green Lantern/Green Arrow run by Denny O'Neil and Neil Adams. (I still have my original copies)

It just totally turned my head around on what a comic could be/say & do.

The stories are somewhat dated by today's standard's but they're still great books and Neil Adams was fucking decades ahead of his time.

I'd love to see him pencil a year long Batman story :)

I'd pretty much given up on Superman by that time (early seventies) but I was blown away again by O'Neil on the Sandman Saga from Superman 233-241.

One of the BEST ever Superman stories.

I'll go along with that, Mr Trout. In fact, I don't think Superman No. 233 leading to The Ultimate Battle has ever been surpassed in the Superman realm.

And while the Sand-Superman Saga did wonders for the Man of Steel, I'm not sure what GL/GA did for Green Lantern. I can't get my head around the one-panel complete-change-in-personality of Hal Jordan. They were great comics, sure, with superb art and interesting themes, but where were they hiding Green Lantern?

"The Night of the Walking Bomb," a two-part story in Superman from 1979.

I was already enamored of Superman due to the first movie, but that comic cemented it for me. I've been a comics guy ever since.

I discovered comics back in 1964. I was 6 or 7. I was nervous as hell cause I had to have TWO cavaties filled. Not just ONE.

My Mom found Adventure comics Starring Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes issue # 312. It was the one that featured the Return of Lightning Lad.

She handed it to me and said, " why don't you read something? "

I read that issue, and LOVED it!!!

After that appointment, instead of selectiong a Toy from the toy box as all kids at my dentist's office were given after an appointment, I asked if I could have that Legion Issue. They said,
" Yes. "

That was the comic book that started me on Comics.

Long Live The Legion!

The comic that got me hooked was an issue of Byrne's Fantastic Four. The cover was half Galactus face/half Death face, with Nova flying, and the heads of the FF looking on in shock and awe. It was part of the story where Galactus is dying of hunger and tries to devour the earth. Awesome.

The Death of Superman Trade paperback and Vengence of Bane #1 are what got me hooked.

Don't remember how the original addiction was triggered some 40 years ago, but it was re-ignited with Legion Lost.

I was always a big Legion fan, but faded away with the Zero Hour confusion - and circumstances kept me out of comics for several years.

Long Live the Legion! Are we getting our own category here?

Well, while I remember a lot of comics, my early memories are kinda out of order as to when I actually did read them, but the pivotal stories for me were in Justice League of America #100-102. That story gave me an excellent introduction to the DC Universe, had too many heroes to shake a stick at, and introduced me to two of my favorite comic book creations: The Vigilante and the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

Other comics that I read early on that made a mark on me were The Brave and the Bold #85 (Batman and Green Arrow by Neal Adams), the final issue of Doom Patrol that had the whole team dying, and the Avengers Annual that reprinted their first battles with Kang.

--Rich

I was 19. My brother's friend Nick borrowed two graphic novels from Southend library. He lent them to my brother and my brother passed them on to me.

They were 'The Doll's House' & 'Season of Mists' - the 2nd and 3rd Sandman trades (excuse me if i've got the titles wrong.)

I read 'The Doll's House' and I was absolutely gob-smacked because when you go into a bookshop or a library you always have an idea of the kind of book you want to read but you know you're never going to get exactly what you want.

'The Doll's house' was pretty much everything I wanted from a book at that time. I had never read anything even remotely like it.

I picked up the final two issues of 'The Sandman' from the comic shop in Victoria Circus, bought the first trade there in hardback, read the other trades, mostly in the wrong order. It was a fantastic period of discovery.

Nick borrowed the first (Gaiman penned) 'Books Of Magic' Trade, which we all really liked. It was teeming with ideas. There was one character who I thought was really cool, called John Constantine. I later found out that he had his own series called 'Hellblazer'.

At this point I came across an old 'Dragonlance' comic that I had bought years ago. There was a synopsis for an early issue of 'Hellblazer' in the listings at the back. All that time had passed by and it was still going, albeit through the slightly dodgy Paul Jenkins years.

Now I find it quite difficult to read parts of the Sandman. I dip into the stories I like, which are mostly incidental and don't really have much to do with the plot. A lot of the characters, I find hard to warm to and a lot of the female characters are unbearably twee. Gaiman seemed to have this idea of femininity that was based around the affected kookiness of Tori Amos and i found that hard to swallow.
There's some dialogue between Foxglove and her girlfirend in 'A Game of You' that makes me cringe whenever I read it.

The thing I loved and continue to love about 'The Sandman' was the ideas and the storytelling. It opened a lot of new doors for me and I would have been a poorer person if I hadn't read it.

Now I read mostly Vertigo And Wildstorm stuff. I enjoyed reading Dame Darcy's 'Meatcake', although you can't seem to find that for love nor money these days. Then there's Daniel Clowes - his 'Ghostworld' and 'Velvet Glove' graphic novels.

I even dabbled with Batman recently - I read 'Arkham Asylum' and loved the bit at the end where Two face flips a coin to decide Batman's fate.

This is a lifelong thing now. As long as someone's publishing, I'll still be reading comics in my 90s.

It was Superman comics that got me started and it was early VALIANT that got me to stick around...

Damn, now Superman sucks and VALIANT doesn't exist, what am I still doing here?...

Uncanny X-Men #274

It's an older thread but I found it relative.