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What's the oldest comic book you've ever owned?
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I have a well worn copy of X-Men #10 - Introducing K-Zar and the Savage Land.
I honestly can't remember how I acquired it, because my father was in the service at the time. It might be one of his younger brothers.
I honestly can't remember how I acquired it, because my father was in the service at the time. It might be one of his younger brothers.
X-Men 22. I got a box of comics in 2007 at auction and it also has 28, 68 and 98 too.
We had heaps of comics when I was a kid in the 80s but and I don't remember many of them but one that's stuck with me was like the X-Babies version of the Justice League trying to save Santa Claus or something.
One of the oldest I remember getting myself was Fantastic Four #389 when I was twelve. Comics cost $2.50 in Sydney and I got $1.25 pocket money a week so I could buy two comics a month.
We had heaps of comics when I was a kid in the 80s but and I don't remember many of them but one that's stuck with me was like the X-Babies version of the Justice League trying to save Santa Claus or something.
One of the oldest I remember getting myself was Fantastic Four #389 when I was twelve. Comics cost $2.50 in Sydney and I got $1.25 pocket money a week so I could buy two comics a month.
I had an issue of "Space Family Robinson' growing up - I liked the look of the spaceship, that weird 'H' shape.
Gold Key Star Trek comics--although I also remember owning a comics adaptation of Planet of the Apes at the same time too. Both eventually ended up in a box in the basement of my childhood home and later to a dumpster when I moved.
My oldest are probably some of the original Marvel SW run.
I've also got some old 'Commando' comics produced in Australia (or maybe they made them in the UK), but those aren't 'standard' comic books the way most people think of comics- they were a lot smaller and thicker, and printed in black and white.
I've also got some old 'Commando' comics produced in Australia (or maybe they made them in the UK), but those aren't 'standard' comic books the way most people think of comics- they were a lot smaller and thicker, and printed in black and white.
I have a few from the late 60s.
Not counting reprints of course.
Not counting reprints of course.
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The Superman one? Yeah. It's from 1978, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of it's original 1938 release and the release of Superman The Movie in theaters. I remember my Grandma telling me at the time she remembered the original release of Superman No. 1 from when she was 12. Funny, it just occurred to me that Grandma's age in 1978 is the same age I am now....
Wow, me too.
For the poster who asked, the Sad Sack comic book was first published in 1949. The issues I had were from, I think, the late 1950's or early sixties.
I say "I think" because, obviously, I don't have them anymore. I was never a comic collector. I read 'em as soon as I got 'em and reread even the mediocre ones over and over. I had boxes full, yet the entirety of my stash would earn a buck fitty in the collector's market.
Years back I traded batches of comics with a friend, which included some odd late-1950s issues of the Superman titles that had originally belonged to one of his parents. I think one of them from 1958 became my oldest comic. I wanna say it's an issue of Lois Lane.
The oldest one that I bought deliberately would be a "reader's copy" of Adventure Comics #267 from 1959, the second appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
The oldest one that I bought deliberately would be a "reader's copy" of Adventure Comics #267 from 1959, the second appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
If I had one of those, you'd have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
I can’t recall which issue specifically, it was just too long ago, but I’m pretty sure it was Superman. He was my favorite character and this was probably 4-5 years before the Stan Lee era starred at Marvel. I remember that often, when Superman was shown flying, he’d sometimes be upright and appearing to be “running” through the sky, as opposed to being in the prone position. 
Sometime in the early 60’s, I got ahold of my first Marvel book and never read another DC comic. It was an early Fantastic Four, though, I can’t remember the issue number. I do remember either my brother or I had an FF No. 4, or something like that.
But my brother and I weren’t really “collectors” back then. I don’t think many were bin those days. Comics just didn’t’ have value like they do today. We bought comics strictly for the stories, characters, etc. Besides, they were only 10 cents.
My brother threw out all of our comics sometime the late 70’s, early 80’s. They would have been worth a fortune today.
Sometime in the early 60’s, I got ahold of my first Marvel book and never read another DC comic. It was an early Fantastic Four, though, I can’t remember the issue number. I do remember either my brother or I had an FF No. 4, or something like that.
But my brother and I weren’t really “collectors” back then. I don’t think many were bin those days. Comics just didn’t’ have value like they do today. We bought comics strictly for the stories, characters, etc. Besides, they were only 10 cents.
My brother threw out all of our comics sometime the late 70’s, early 80’s. They would have been worth a fortune today.
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