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i used to hit up the Comic shops every weekend when i was in middle school. I love comics, i love everything about them! The visual aspect the way they are written, its just fun to read.


I own tons and tons of comics, i dont even remember my first comics, i used to collect monster and horror comics, and once and a while some super hero ones. I dont have any particular favorite stories (except for Watchmen which is #1 in every category) But i do have some favorite series.


Watchmen #1 - 12 (separate issues)
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1-5 (Frank Millers original run)
Ronin # 1- 6 (Frank Miller)
Judge Dread Cursed Earth Asylum
Jeffery(misspelled) Dahmer: The Unauthorized Biography of a Serial Killer
The Killing Joke 1st Edition (Alan Moore)
The Dark Knight Returns #1 - 4
Chamber of Chills (Various issues)
From Hell (GN)
V for Vendetta (GN)


Those are probably my top 10

that wasn't miller's original run... that was about '93 if memory serves...

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Oops, you're right

sorry! didn't mean to be picky! i'm just a comics and daredevil obsesso...

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Nekronicle's flub aside, I think that anyone vaguely conversant with modern comics would tell you that Miller's first Daredevil as Writer/Artist was #158. Fucking Death-Stalker, man. What a douche.

First one I read that would've been called a "graphic novel" -- The Dark Knight Returns when I was 15. I picked it up for about 5 bucks at a bookstore at an outlet mall near Columbus, OH, and read the entire thing on the way back home to Cincinnati. It was roughly five years later that I would read Watchmen and become a comics fan-for-life.

Earlier than that, maybe when I was five or six, I remember quite fondly having a Superman paperback (mass market size, not TPB!) from around the time of the 1978 movie that had reprints of all sorts of cool Silver Age Supes stories -- like when he dated a girl in a wheelchair who turned out to be a mermaid, or when he first met the Legion of Superheroes.

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"The light is taking me to pieces, and I'm afraid I just blue myself."

I was a huge fan of The Adventures of Tintin when I was a youngster, so I guess those would be my first graphic novels. I read most of them, except for the very earliest books, but Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon were always my favorites. I should find some copies and re-read 'em. I used to listen to re-broadcasts of The Shadow on the radio, which was my first real pulpy superhero-type experience.

I didn't have a comic shop in town when I was growing up, so I ended up reading whatever superhero comics were at the newsstand. I didn't follow anything in particular. When I was 13 or so, they started carrying graphic novels and "alternative" comics - that's when I first read Watchmen and got into stuff like Love & Rockets and Tank Girl. I was also reading Nietzsche around the same time (yeah, I was one of those kids), so adult comics didn't seem too unusual. I loved Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run as well, but Watchmen is the one that I keep re-reading year after year.

Years later I read all of the The Invisibles (Grant Morrison) trade paperbacks, which I enjoyed but am never sure about recommending. I have such a list of things I'd read if I wasn't so cheap. I think I'm going to start in on Punisher next (someone I know has a collection).

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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."

The first comic book I ever owned was Wolverine #51: Part 1 of "The Crunch Conundrum." It's a weird fucking story — Wolverine has sex with Mystique while she's pretending to be some blonde biker chick, but he knows its her all along — but to a seven-year-old it was pretty cool (even the parts that went over my head). Anybody remember this one?

I honestly can't remember what the first graphic novel I read was. I know I had the Death and Return of Superman trades as a kid, but I know I picked up Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Kingdom Come and Marvels (when I discovered Alex Ross), and Watchmen within a short period after that (I was a DC-kid, I guess). Once I started working at a mall bookstore in my teens I was able to feed my library with some really choice stuff and got hooked on indie publishers and artists.

But I'll never forget Wolverine #51.

I'm 90% sure it was Detective Comics #600 in May 1989 (a quick visit to the DCU guide tells me).

It was Part 3 of the Blind Justice Arc. I was seven years old, had very little idea what was going on and became totally obsessed. Actually that whole run of Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle issues still define Batman for me.

Okay there would have been a few Beanos and Dandys floating about too...

Watchmen, I'm sure you'll understand, came much later.

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Crazier than a snake's armpit.

When I was a little kid I think the first comic book I read was either a Woody Woodpecker or Tom & Jerry comic. They were being published by Harvey at the time. I bought those for as long as they were published, and I read Sonic the Hedgehog from the time it came out until I was about 12 (I think?).

First graphic novel? Well, that's a little harder to pin down. I got the TPB of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac when I was 14. I think that might count (embarrassingly).

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"Under no circumstances should anyone encourage the ordinary person to be funny."
--Bob Mackey

Aw hell yeah! Sonic the Hedgehog!

I used to read that from Issue 8 up until just after issue 50 (with the snazzy gold foil cover). I think the same series is still going as well. I still have 'Issue 0' of the comic at home somewhere too.

Yeah I stopped around issue 50, too. I remember being kind of let down by it at that point.

It is still going, though! It's one of the comics that's still sold at the supermarket.

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"Under no circumstances should anyone encourage the ordinary person to be funny."
--Bob Mackey

ah... must remember... Archie comics, Sonic, Ducktales, manga, old stuff... first GN would be V For Vendetta, read before seeing the film, also read Watchmen after hearing about it.

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Actually mentioned my first comics but my first trade would have been Estman & Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 1

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Crazier than a snake's armpit.

Started reading Ultimate Spiderman two years ago. Got the first 7 volumes and then wanted to branch out to more mature comics. Looked a several greatest GN of all time lists and Watchmen was #1 on every list. Picked it up, it's now my favorite book. Since then i now have a full bookshelf of Graphic novels, least favorite being Batman: Hush.

This Forum/Site is about my first GN.

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"Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain "

My first comic and graphic novel was probably the graphic novel for Batman 89. I remember buying it at the theater the day I went to see the movie. I have been a reader off and on ever since.

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"It's all crap. Who needs all this hardware to catch hookers and purse-snatchers?"

i grew up with comics like the beano, had a couple of classic topper annuals, had a couple of transformers and the real ghostbusters annuals that had short Comic book stories in. i was always interested in american comic characters though, even if it was almost impossible to get imported comics until a couple of years ago, and even then i can only get anthologies in book shops or if i could actually be bothered, which i can't, i could go all the way to Brighton as they have an import comic book store there, but i've always been put off by continuing comic books by the fact they aren't self contained. but i didn't really start buying GN's until about a year ago, when i bought the Heroes/9th Wonders GN Anthology. then soon after that i got watchmen, then i started wanting more, i got Marvel Zombies, MZ: Dead Days and MZ2. and now i have started buying the HellBoy Library Editions, (volume 2 is out next month)

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

My first Graphic Novel was 300...I bought it because I saw Snyders preview.
And now i'm addicted to graphic novels!!!

Everything from SWAMP THING to SANDMAN to V FOR VENDETTA

I have only purchased a few comics recently(i'vd got a butt load from childhood) and they were WELCOME TO HOXFORD, which are very fun.

i was looking at my book case last night and realised i did have a graphic novel before any of them were mentioned, it was Saga of Seven Suns: Veiled Alliances, a short spin off graphic novel from the novel series.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.