I was thinking about this tonight and honestly, I can’t pinpoint just one. I think my first real hook was an Iron Man comic where his suit was powered down and he had to fight a huge robot (I haven't located the exact issue), but it was probably the X-Men books that really pulled me into the hobby. I was really into Wolverine and Gambit back then.

Curious what it was for everyone here, what comic got you hooked on all this?

X-Men #1 (1991)

It was the first grown comic my parents let me buy, after years only letting me get TMNT TV series spinoff comics

For me it was Amazing Spider-Man and Superman, as those were the two characters that I first followed in monthly comics. My love of X-Men would happen later, but those were the two characters that really captured my attention and kept me returning to the comic stand each and every month.

I've read comics off and on my whole life but I think the one that got me hooked as teen/not a kid was probably Marvels.

12 hours ago, KOutlaw said:

X-Men #1 (1991)

It was the first grown comic my parents let me buy, after years only letting me get TMNT TV series spinoff comics

Yep! That's the one! Such a great series! That and the animated series was the best.

11 hours ago, MattAguilarCB said:

For me it was Amazing Spider-Man and Superman, as those were the two characters that I first followed in monthly comics. My love of X-Men would happen later, but those were the two characters that really captured my attention and kept me returning to the comic stand each and every month.

I loved those two as well. I really got into Spider-Man a little later after my older cousin showed me some comics. I got into the Spider-Man 90s series pretty big.

Although Spider-man is my favorite character, think the one that got me hooked was SuperBoy issue #188. There was something about the cover alone that was drawing me. Later, I drew that cover so many times I had it down to muscle memory.

10 hours ago, Nicole Drum said:

I've read comics off and on my whole life but I think the one that got me hooked as teen/not a kid was probably Marvels.

16 minutes ago, ComicBob said:

Although Spider-man is my favorite character, think the one that got me hooked was SuperBoy issue #188. There was something about the cover alone that was drawing me. Later, I drew that cover so many times I had it down to muscle memory.

That's awesome! I wish comics were still 20 cents lol

Agreed! So many comic books shaped my life as a kid, but the one comic I have the earliest memory of owning, the one I always remember having a good time reading, and the one I still love to read today is: What if #3 (What if the Avengers had never been?)

11 hours ago, MAG said:

Agreed! So many comic books shaped my life as a kid, but the one comic I have the earliest memory of owning, the one I always remember having a good time reading, and the one I still love to read today is: What if #3 (What if the Avengers had never been?)

Some of those What If books were fantastic!

One that I always remember is the What If...#65, which was the What If Archangel Fell From Grace?. Some of the Spider-Man-based stories were memorable too.

I am coming back to this because I talked to my dad today and he told me that the first comic he remembers seeing me with was an old Snow White comic that he has no idea where I got it from but when he did see me with it, he then procured some of his old ones for me. I have no memory of this but it clearly started something and I know those roads eventually led to Batman.

22 hours ago, Nicole Drum said:

I am coming back to this because I talked to my dad today and he told me that the first comic he remembers seeing me with was an old Snow White comic that he has no idea where I got it from but when he did see me with it, he then procured some of his old ones for me. I have no memory of this but it clearly started something and I know those roads eventually led to Batman.

Snow White to Batman, what a journey haha

7 hours ago, MattAguilarCB said:

Snow White to Batman, what a journey haha

I contain multitudes, Matt.