Poll: What decade did you start reading the X-Men?

[DanMad1977]

'99-'00

back when you had to dig through long boxes for incomplete story arcs. None of this "TPB" easiness.

You went to a comic store with your $15 bought what you could find regardless of the order of the story and then pieced them together. I actually enjoyed the hunt.

Ended up donating my collection to a children's charity when things when digital.

I did the same, and paid ridiciulous prices at the time. For Uncanny 268 i paid around 40 $.

I still do hunt today...not X-Men anymore but old comics in general.

[Herowatcher]

The late 70s with Uncanny X-Men #119.

[Master of Sound]

1984. God I'm OLD!

[Nick Miller]

Milligan Xstatix
Morrison
Whedon

I had a bunch of Hama era Wolverine before that, probably the only one here that started with the wolverine solo before xmen

I didnt chase the claremont issues in bins, i read the bw essentials, and they held up real good!

Ive never seen more than snippets of the animated series.

[The Whovian]

70's, during the Calremont/Byrne era

[rui no onna]

Last year. Alas, DoX and IvX were pretty crappy as far as jumping on points go.

However, my first exposure to the franchise was with the 90s animated series. I'm quite enjoying Astonishing but not really feeling the rest of the current line up. I'm probably just gonna go for MMW Claremont's run.

[Uncanny X-Man]

I started reading the X-Men regularly with the start of the Claremont/Lee era, which was 1993/1994 in Italy. I agree that back-issue hunting was sooo much fun, you would just get whatever you could find or afford and not read stories in the correct order, but the hunt itself was a lot of fun.

[Ulfhammer]

Last year. Alas, DoX and IvX were pretty crappy as far as jumping on points go.

However, my first exposure to the franchise was with the 90s animated series. I'm quite enjoying Astonishing but not really feeling the rest of the current line up. I'm probably just gonna go for MMW Claremont's run.

Just want to say... 2300+ posts in 8 months. That's the definition of prodigious. You may have come late to the party but damn.. your making up for it.

[victor borkowski]

image.jpg. 1970s. 126 was my first issue.

[RLAAMJR.]

Late 90s through prolly 5 xmen comics that my frend owns

[Confuzzled]

image.jpg. 1970s. 126 was my first issue.

Interesting that you are one of the older fans and still have an NXM as your avi and username. Actually it's incredibly refreshing. The generation wars on this forum used to be dumb, even dumber than the Fox vs. MCU debates.

[Confuzzled]

I think I perused through some collections in the late 90's when I was watching syndicated XTAS. But I actually started with Morrison in early 00's. Though the first X-comic I ever bought was the Evo one:

[Indigo_Lady]

I started in the late 80's, but I started with earlier issues of Uncanny and Excalibur. My big brother had a huge comic collection that he let me read, and the X-Men were my favorites. I was probably influenced by TAS. I lost interest for about a decade but the X-Men movies revitalized my interest. The first comics that I ever owned myself was a partial set of the first Excalibur that I purchased off of Ebay.

[Magik]

90's because I born in 1992

[MYCMTSC]

90's, although my first comics were hand-me-downs from the 70's/80's.