What was the thing that got you into comic books?

[cable guy]

The X-Men cartoon from the early 90's. I was actually in my early 20's at the time, but I got hooked.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Pretty much this, except a few years, errr decades later.

Didn't they have a robot in place of the Human Torch?

[MRP]

Didn't they have a robot in place of the Human Torch?

Not in the 60s cartoon. They did in the 70s cartoon because the torch was already licensed out (for a live action show at CBS that never went into production) and couldn't use him.

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[mortari]

The thing was the thing that got me into comics. FF 55 a sick ben grimm v the silver surfer. I really identified with Ben and my parents are pretty sure I'll be over my phaze any time now.

[Jely4me]

The Superfriends cartoon. The Legion of Doom was my favorite. But I was given a box of comics that was a gift for my 3rd birthday. Old Superboy, Spider-Man, Batman and Batman Family, Steranko Nick Fury, I read those books until they disentegrated but by then I had added Thor, Green Lantern, The Hulk, FF, Brave and the Bold and Captain America.

[The Gold Stream]

playing video games in the 90s like comix zone or spawn SNES, just eventually started looking into comic stores

[Jim Kelly]

As I've said before the 1966 BATMAN T.V. show got me into buying Batman comics (and via Batman, Superman comics). TARZAN (the 1966 T.V. series, starring Ron Ely), GREEN HORNET (1966 series, with Van Williams and Bruce Lee) and ZORRO in syndication (repeats of the Disney 1957 series, starring the immortal Guy Williams) all got me into buying their comics from Gold Key.

But Marvel never caught me. I think I did see the animated Fantastic Four--and I did indeed watch the Spider-Man cartoon series. But before I tried any Marvel comics, I got a wax pack of Marvel bubble gum cards, which used panel art with word balloons--however, I think the word balloons were rewritten to make them real knee-slappers but were real head-scratchers for me. And that put me off any of the characters. So when I tried the comics, it didn't take.

[caj]

As I've said before the 1966 BATMAN T.V. show got me into buying Batman comics (and via Batman, Superman comics). TARZAN (the 1966 T.V. series, starring Ron Ely), GREEN HORNET (1966 series, with Van Williams and Bruce Lee) and ZORRO in syndication (repeats of the Disney 1957 series, starring the immortal Guy Williams) all got me into buying their comics from Gold Key.

But Marvel never caught me. I think I did see the animated Fantastic Four--and I did indeed watch the Spider-Man cartoon series. But before I tried any Marvel comics, I got a wax pack of Marvel bubble gum cards, which used panel art with word balloons--however, I think the word balloons were rewritten to make them real knee-slappers but were real head-scratchers for me. And that put me off any of the characters. So when I tried the comics, it didn't take.

Similar for me. I was more familiar with DC heroes because of television. Also, I was never into Marvel. Even today, I find DC heroes so much more interesting than Marvel.

[BeastieRunner]

My sister gave me her X-Men comics.

Then my neighbor gave me a bunch of TMNT comics.

Then I bought some Transformers, Alf, and Real Ghostbusters comics.

Content aside, I think the sense of community fellow comic book nerds have roped me in.

[chongjasmine]

My father is a comics' fan and it is him who introduces me to comics.

[CaptainEurope]

My older brother reading them to me in bed.

[Zelena]

The “thing” was my brother: he bought them and read them. And then I read them too.

[chongjasmine]

My father has a stack of comics when I was a child. That got me into comics.