What Comic Made You Fall In Love With Comics?

What Comic Made You Fall In Love With Comics?

Most every Fanboy and Girl have a single book that pulled them in. Here I share what mine was and ask that you share yours.

Editorial Opinion
By ROMACK - Jun 29, 2010 09:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Other

For Me It was THE UNCANNY X-MEN #168



I had read hundreds of comics in my life, but this is the one that sealed it for me. I was twelve years old and picked it up at a convenience store in town. It is pretty much a Kitty Pryde centered story of little importance to the Marvel U, but something about it hooked me and I have been a die-hard X-Men and Kitty Pryde fan ever since. It was the art and the relationships between the characters that had sewn everything together. Of course it was Chris Claremont writing the X-Men then and to this day his runs on the X-books are my favorites. I still have it. It is beat to Hell and not worth a nickel.....but I wouldn't sell for a thousand dollars!



Now a million on the other hand......... lets be realistic.
Thanks for stopping into ROMACKS COMIC BOOK CAFE!

Now what book pulled you in?
About The Author:
ROMACK
Member Since 2/1/2010
Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Approve Paramount Merger - But Reject David Zaslav's Massive Payday
Related:

Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders Approve Paramount Merger - But Reject David Zaslav's Massive Payday
COSMERE Author Brandon Sanderson Gives His Thoughts Why Book Adaptations Often Fail And How They Can Do Better
Recommended For You:

COSMERE Author Brandon Sanderson Gives His Thoughts Why Book Adaptations Often Fail And How They Can Do Better

DISCLAIMER: As a user generated site and platform, ComicBookMovie.com is protected under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and "Safe Harbor" provisions.

This post was submitted by a user who has agreed to our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. ComicBookMovie.com will disable users who knowingly commit plagiarism, piracy, trademark or copyright infringement. Please CONTACT US for expeditious removal of copyrighted/trademarked content. CLICK HERE to learn more about our copyright and trademark policies.

Note that ComicBookMovie.com, and/or the user who contributed this post, may earn commissions or revenue through clicks or purchases made through any third-party links contained within the content above.

Do you have what it takes to write for us?
Want to contribute?
Stumblin
Stumblin - 6/29/2010, 9:54 AM
My first comic was what brought me into comics...
Photobucket
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/29/2010, 9:57 AM
Stumblin@ dude that is awesome! Peter Porker! So cool!
Stumblin
Stumblin - 6/29/2010, 10:02 AM
Then I went into a spiral of Punisher, Spider-Man, and Batman for about 20 years haha!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 6/29/2010, 10:10 AM
These =



Oh and ZECK's epic PUNISHER series!



All three sealed the deal for me! ; P

ROMACK @ EPIC article dude, big thumbs up!
TheUnknown
TheUnknown - 6/29/2010, 10:25 AM
Green Lantern Emerald Twilight!!!!!!

DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 6/29/2010, 10:47 AM
The first comic I ever read was Green Lantern: Emerald dawn
Betty
Betty - 6/29/2010, 10:59 AM


It was two for me.
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/29/2010, 11:24 AM
LEEE@ Thanks man. Secret Wars ruled!
Betty@ Mutant Massacre just as important to comics as Secret Wars!
Star@ & Unkinown@ Green Lantern was always a fav for me but when the Emerald Dawn & twilight stuff came out I was collecting like 30 different X-titles so I missed out and eventually caught with TPBs

Thanks for sharing guys
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/29/2010, 12:06 PM
Hamm3r@ Exactly dude! Well said.
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 6/29/2010, 12:23 PM
my first comic was when i was 9 i got some very awesome age of apocalypse back issues and the west coast avengers mini series. but it was the ultimate spiderman issues that grabbed me man i have been a fan ever sense. Nice work dude i enjoyed this editorial
Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 6/29/2010, 12:24 PM
I found this in a 99 cents store a couple of years ago.



I've been a comic book collector ever since.
mk
mk - 6/29/2010, 12:39 PM
my first comic was spawn :( and then last year my friend just got me hooked on marvel comics after reading the civil war
AshleyWilliams
AshleyWilliams - 6/29/2010, 1:41 PM
I got this book when i was 5 years old!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 6/29/2010, 2:52 PM
This one did it for me, I was hooked.

OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 6/29/2010, 2:53 PM
haha Im actually relatively new to the comics scene. The comic that got me fully hooked was Teen Titans v3 #20

Hamm3rtym3@ Exacly!
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/29/2010, 3:31 PM
Hawks@ Sweet dude. That is one hell of a book!
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/29/2010, 4:29 PM
Dellamorte@ Hey that guy is pretty SINISTER looking! =)
ANIL@ Elfquest was an incredible series that is still good today.
CRITIC17
CRITIC17 - 6/29/2010, 6:00 PM
For me I think it was Amazing Fantasy #15 or some random Batman comic.

@LEE: Dude I love that Punisher series!!! One of my favorites!!!!
peterparker420
peterparker420 - 6/29/2010, 8:27 PM
For ME..It was..Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's X-MEN!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
By peterparker23 at 2010-06-29

The artwork and story telling were top notch!..I had seen and read comics before this one..but never UNDERSTOOD..the stories or characters..This comic
change all that, I was old enough to understand everthing..I lost my nerd virginaty to this single
issue..Not untill later I relized that THIS issue was just the FIRST peice to the "cover poster"..and now I
have them ALL..Every issue #1 I mean..

Image Hosted by ImageShack.us
By peterparker23 at 2010-06-29

..I am still trying to get EVERY SINGLE issue..of the "X-Men" title from the 90's.

rooster2169
rooster2169 - 6/29/2010, 8:52 PM
I started with this because I wanted to know everything about the Star Wars universe. Little did I know, I would fall in love with the whole genre.

InstigatorGIRL
InstigatorGIRL - 6/29/2010, 9:45 PM
I honestly don't remember because my dad read them to me when I was little and as I got older I kept reading them. lol. There was a time where I didn't keep up with comics and kinda stopped reading and the series that got me pulled back into collecting and reading regularly was the Red Hood/Jason Todd storyline in Batman.
Nemesys
Nemesys - 6/29/2010, 10:05 PM
Can't tell you the specific issue, but it was X-Men comics of this era:


But honestly, I loved the old late 60's cartoons for the JLA, Teen Titans, Thor, Hercules, and Spiderman that they reran when I was a kid (i'm in my late thirty's) that made me fall in love with the genre. I'm such a grown-up kid, it's not even funny (with the stuff I like to watch, to this day!)
Nemesys
Nemesys - 6/29/2010, 10:13 PM
@ LEEE - I had all 3 of those in my collection

@ Betty - Had both

@ Hawks - Had it

@ PP23 - Had 'em. Jim Lee rocks!!

We won't speak about why the past tense is used here. I ran out of blood pressure meds!!

ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/30/2010, 3:42 AM
IGirl@ Yeah I stopped for a while in the '90s because they were just flooding the market with gimmic covers and it seemed like for a while it was all flash and no substance! I kept up with Wizard magazine though.

Nem@ I know how you feel. I had to sell all of my best stuff several years back after suffering a back injury that put me out of work for a while. Now I am trying to get them in HC. Like X-Men and Wolverine Omnibus'.
Nemesys
Nemesys - 6/30/2010, 3:20 PM
@ ROMACK - At least you got paid for yours dude. I lost mine in 2 basement floods after I moved to FL and left them in my grandma's basement. The ones that were salvaged were moved to my mother's basement...WHICH ALSO FLOODED!!! Over 3000 comics down the drain...literally!
ROMACK
ROMACK - 6/30/2010, 3:31 PM
Nems@ Dude that sucks. I mean ...yeah that is way worse.
TheMyth
TheMyth - 7/1/2010, 10:23 AM
For me, the Inferno and Mutant Massacre story arcs from the X-Men. To this day I hold the standard for a good comic story based on these 2 arcs.
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/1/2010, 3:52 PM
Myth@ the mutant massacre was epic dude!
BubbaDude
BubbaDude - 7/2/2010, 8:04 PM
I was a wee tyke when in 1976 I bought a Captain America book with my allowance money. I think it's #217. It's a Lee/Kirby Cap/Skull story. Still have that one, even though it's in pretty rough shape now. By the 80's I was keeping pretty good care of my books. By then I had gotten into the X-Men. Loved the whole Sh'iar/Brood storyline. Imagine THAT as the next X-Men movie! Around that same time we had Ragnarok happening in Thor. Spidey fighting his usual rogues, and the Hulk getting pardoned(that must have been earlier, IIRC the President who pardoned him looked a LOT like Jimmy Carter).

Anyway, those old Cap books really got me hooked. My really fondest next ones were the JLA/JSA crossovers we would get every summer. Man, I miss Earth 2.....
Related Headlines
Latest Headlines

Hot Headlines Hot Headlines

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Anime & Manga

Gaming

Horror

Cartoons & Animated Features

Auto Racing

Action Movies & TV

Pro Wrestling & MMA News
View Recorder