When did you start reading X-Men comics?

[FUBAR007]

In what year did you start reading X-Men comics? How old were you at the time? Also, where did you first buy comics i.e. a direct market comics store, bookstore, newsstand, Wal-Mart, etc.?

I started reading X-Men in early 1991 when I was 10. My first issue was X-Factor vol. 1 #67. I bought it off a comics newsstand at a local convenience store.

Among other things, I'm curious about the Boomer vs. Gen X vs. Millennial ratio among posters here.

[donpricetag]

92' or 93' shortly after the first season of X-Men... gateway drug.

[Goggindowner]

1992. I was 8 years old.

[Jokerz79]

Late 80's first books I bought was a packet of Batman books at a Kay Bee Toys. Got into Original X-Factor, X-Men, New Mutants, Spidey, Superman, and West Coast Avengers.

[lancer]

1973. I was either 8 or 9, I don't recall the exact month that I started. I started reading my uncle's comics. He had the entire original X Men run. This was during the reprint period. Also had all the FF and Spider Man issues. I went from there. Until I dropped them, I read a bunch of titles from both companies(although almost always more Marvel than DC), but always read those 3 things. Obviously, with all the spinoffs, especially Spidey and X Men, it got to be a lot more. I dropped X Men under Morriaon, FF during CIVIL WAR and Spider Man with OMD. Haven't bought a new book since. But 73 is when I started.

[Likewater]

1 around 1995-96.

[mojotastic]

Believe or not, I started with Cable and Deadpool, it was also my first comic, i still remember wondering who the guy with googles was in one of the issues, it was Cannonball.

This was around 2010.

[Vegan Daddy]

Since the womb.

[gotunandan]

I feel like I am way younger than most posters here and also started reading X-Men comics within the last 3 years, that too 100% digitally.

I started reading comics in July 2014, I was 27 years old. This was very soon after watching X-Men Days of Future Past in theaters. I am one of those rare people who, by then, had watched all the X-Men movies (but not X-Men Origins Wolverine, or The Wolverine), watched the 90s X-Men TAS cartoon (but not X-Men Evolution, or Wolverine and the X-Men) but hadn't read a single super hero comic book ever (I had read Asterix and Tintin comics when I was younger). I had read random wikipedia articles about X-Men characters and I remember being thoroughly confused

After watching the DOFP movie, I came across this Wired article - https://www.wired.com/2013/09/x-men-...ntial-stories/ .
I suddenly felt like trying out the comics. I don't even remember the exact reason really, apart from reading that article.

I got a Marvel Unlimited account and started reading Ultimate X-Men 1-100 .This was before I started reading things in some sequential order and I remember reading Dark Phoenix saga, House of M, Age Apocalypse, basically just jumping around reading X-Men comics from all the eras.
I have ended up reading quite a lot of X-Men comics in these past 3 years. I also started buying digital comics on Comixology, but most of the reading was on Marvel Unlimited and still is.

[Ulfhammer]

The first comics I read were from my buddy's Savage Sword of Conan collection in early 1984. I was 8 at the time and I thought the Conan books were awesome. Crazy hot girls and rampaging violence. For an 8 year old boy this was the stuff of dreams. I'd cut my teeth on Narnia, The Hobbit and the Hardy's Boys so such a visually viseral comic left a real impression. My parents would never have let me read that stuff of course so I'd read them at my friends house.

I got my parents to take me to Warp Comics, the one comic shop I could find in the yellow pages (anyone remember the yellow pages?). I knew they wouldn't let me buy Conan so I look around for something else that I might like that they would be ok with. After looking around a bit this beauty caught my eye and I walked out with it.

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Once I read it I kept buying them. Once every couple of months I'd get a ride into town and pickup my x-men. Then I found out about the DPS and the Brood saga and I begged, borrowed or stole to read those books. There was no going back after that.

[ChildOfTheAtom]

Good times

[Moriarty]

i started reading month to month several months before X-Cutioner's Song began (#281 i think is where i began). i had read several random issues before though. most from the outback era.

[Agronac919]

Just a little bit before House of M. Ain't that a bizarre place to start, in retrospect.

[ChibaMariners]

This year started reading a bit. Of course watched the shows, movies and kept up with general storylines news and whatnot, but wasn't motivated to read till this year.

[Ambaryerno]

Late arrival, here. Loved the animated series back in the 90s, but didn't pick up any books until a couple years ago when I stumbled across X-23 on TV Tropes. Innocence Lost and NYX were the first I picked up in Trade.