What decade did you first start reading comics?

[tib2d2]

I love hearing when people starting reading comics, and I love the age range of comic book readers.

So when did you first start reading comics?

[hedgehogvampire]

For me it was 2003 with Sonic the Hedgehog #124. I was either 12 or 13 depending on which month I got the issue.

[RikerDonegal]

Early 1979 for me. I was 8. Hulk TV show had started, I loved it, so when I saw a Hulk comic in a newsagents I asked my mum to get it for me. She did. And that was the start of my lifelong love of these things

[The Whovian]

It was mid 70's. I've been reading and collecting a very long time.

[GreenLanternRanger]

I started reading comics in the late 90's.

[The Darknight Detective]

1972: First comic book (Gold Key's The Pink Panther for first-grade reading).
1973: First superhero and DC comics
1974: First Marvel, western, and horror/SF comics.
1975: First Atlas comics.
1976: First comics actually bought by me - first war comics.
1977: First comic purchased at a LCS.

Many other firsts I could post, but that's enough for now.

[Ru5152]

1974. I was 3. Given a box of comics as a gift. Batman #203 and Amazing Spiderman #68 along with a smattering of Superboy and the Legion, Justice League, FF, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, Worlds Finest, and my all time favorite series, Brave and the Bold. Comics taught me to read for context, and vocabulary, along with my Charlie Brown digests.

[Surf]

I fell into Jim Shooter's trap from the 80's. His plan was hook them with the familiar G.I. Joe and the Transformers Hasbro licenced books and then they'd pick up whatever else. He was right, Transformers #5 was my first comic around age 9 or 10 and from there another I bought an Iron Man and it's been downhill from there.

[Paradox]

Late (Thanksgiving or Christmas) 1964 was when I was first exposed to grandma's "sit down and shut up" box of comics, and it was love at first sight. I was four.

[Ghost Rider TheHellfireDemon]

The 90s and I recall getting the spider man clones saga as a birthday present.
I was innocent its a awful story arc as this was back in the day no Internet, and asked for 0 opinions or reviews when deciding on getting comic books.

Same era as Ghost Rider(danketch), Hal Jordan becoming Parallax, death of Superman killed by Doomsday, etc.

[codystarbuck]

1970. Can't recall which I had first. I know I read Super Goof, Uncle Scrooge and Fox and the Crow early on; and, possibly, the Three Mouseketeers. Comics were a rare treat; so, I mostly read via friends and relatives, until I started earning my own money, by the mid-70s. Shazam #10 was one of the first superhero comics, of my own, that I ever received and read. Space Family Robinson and Turok, Son of Stone were also favorites, from Gold Key. I still recall reading things like the Gerber Defenders, with the Guardians of the Galaxy, Romita on Captain America, Daredevil's annual with Electro's Emmisaries of Evil, the early Treasury Editions, Adam Strange's wedding, in JLA, the Super Sons in World's Finest, the 4th World revival and more.

If it was a comic, I read it: DC, Marvel, Archie, Harvey, Gold Key, Charlton, Atlas/Seaboard and a single issue of Creepy (while in a hospital, which my roommate had, while I brought a Teen Titans). I even read those Christian Spire comics, that Archie distributed (talk about preachy comics...).

[Riv86672]

I love hearing when people starting reading comics, and I love the age range of comic book readers.

So when did you first start reading comics?

1974, when I was 6. It was an issue of SPIDER-MAN, and I was hooked.

[Nine Crocodile]

I started reading comics when I stated reading, so the '60s.

[stargazer01]

I love hearing when people starting reading comics, and I love the age range of comic book readers.

So when did you first start reading comics?

in the early 80s I think. But not about superheros. I read about drama, crime, romance and comedy and westerns. My mom hated it and forbade me from reading those 'adult' graphic novels, but I still did it in secret lol.

I stopped reading them by my late teens because I was very busy with school and other things. I started reading again in 2007 because I wanted to know more about Superman.