What were the first Batman comics you read?

[greenish lantern]

Batman Year One and Son of Batman. Didn't like either of them at first.

[new_onslaught]

The 2006 reprint of Batman: Son of the Demon.

[Mantis Girl 94]

I started reading comics about 5-6 years by going through my dads huge collection.

My first Batman comic box I grabbed to read from his stack was from 1973 so the first Batman comic I read was this:





The next comic I read was a Batman team up with The Demon:




And finally, the first Batman back issue I bought was last year from Mycomicsshop auction:






Ahhhhh good times!

[Jim Kelly]

First comic bought new



First back issue (I think)



First collected edition (that wasn't a Giant)

[Don C]

First comic bought new

I want Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle to come back and do an Eraser story.

[geomon]

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7 years old and I was hooked, baby!

[Powerboy]

My introduction to Batman was the 1960s television show and I started reading the comics as a result. I vaguely remember a comic with the Penguin as my first one but I have no idea now what issue it was or what the story was. As it was the Silver Age, it probably wouldn't hold up well now though I enjoy some of the SA silliness.

Probably Batman versus Man-bat in the Bronze Age was one of my first memorable Batman stories though Batman's greatest impact for me was Batman Year One.

[Batmil]

Ah Batman #500! Have a signed copy somewhere around! Anyways I first read the trade of Arkham Asylum about 6/7 years ago. Then I stopped reading comics for a year or two and started over with TDKR and Year One.

[the winter soldier]

Batman and son

[Jim Kelly]

My introduction to Batman was the 1960s television show and I started reading the comics as a result. I vaguely remember a comic with the Penguin as my first one but I have no idea now what issue it was or what the story was. As it was the Silver Age, it probably wouldn't hold up well now though I enjoy some of the SA silliness.

Probably Batman versus Man-bat in the Bronze Age was one of my first memorable Batman stories though Batman's greatest impact for me was Batman Year One.

Shut yo' mouth! I eventually collected all these comics and read them and they remain my favourite comics. If I ever sell off my collection, these will be the last to go. You can bury me with them.

Before or around the time I started buying my first Batman comics, I was loaned a stack of others. So one of the first Batman stories I remember reading was "Death Knocks Three Times" in BATMAN 180 (featuring Death-Man)--gave me nightmares. Also the first two Poison Ivy stories (in BATMAN 181 and 183). Plus a few other BATMAN and DETECTIVE issues. But as I only borrowed these, it took me years to track down the back issues and add them to my collection.

I would guess your issue with the Penguin was BATMAN 190 (March '67).

[Mace Dolex]

I remember it clearly, it was in 1987 and living in South America the comics there were behind by a few years so the first one I read was a reprint of 'Tec 516 and Batman 349 in which Batman infiltrates a crime academy while Robin is in dire clutches by a vampire chick, to me the stories were so serious and mature unlike the silly Adam West show that I was hooked.

My first trade was The Dark Knight Returns, it took me a while to get used to Frank Miller's but since then its become my favorite Batman story.

[oasis1313]

Back in the 50's, when I was about 5, don't remember the exact issue, but it's probably in a box somewhere around here.

[failo.legendkiller]

I can't remember the very first time but I can clearly remember when I started reading comic books regularly.
I'm italian and i was spending my holidays travelling across the Europe, I was walking without a goal in Bonn, Germany when i found a comic book shop.
I couldn't read german and, at that moment, the only words i knew of english was "good morning" or "the cat is on the table".
So I opted for an english/italian dictionary accompanied by this one:
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And that's the way i've learned to read english

[America / Bucky / Russia]

The Dark Knight Returns
Year One

[Kingcrimsonprog]

Somewhere in about 2003-2005 I bought a British reprint of Hush (I had a thread about this before). I also rented a trade of part 3 of the Batman Vampire elseworlds story on TP from a library once around this time. Then, ten years later in 2013, I got lent DKR, Killing Joke, Year One and Man Who Laughs by a friend. Can't remember in which order. Then my very first Batman purchase as an informed adult was Court, City and Night of the Owls, in TP/HC.
Been collecting trades slowy ever since; of which I currently I have 79.
Haven't gotten into buying monthlies yet, but am sometimes given them by my friend. First monthly given was the entire New 52 Batman Incorporated run.