Stir the Pot Saturday: Week 37

By Jeff Hill Features 09/21/2013

Welcome back, everyone! Just a quick reminder of what our goal for each and every Saturday is: Stirring the pot is the act of causing trouble for the sake of your own amusement. So we here at Comic Booked would like to formally invite you to discuss, debate, and start some shit talkin’ about the characters, the creators, and the storylines given to us from the industry we all know and love, hate, and love to hate. So let’s quit wasting time and start the mud (or web) slinging!

This Saturday’s question: What was your first comic?

So go forth and debate! But be sure to back up your responses. Don’t be scared. And don’t give up. After all, no one likes a quitter. And you’re not a quitter, are you?

Jeff Hill / About Author

Jeff Hill is a moderately reformed frat boy turned writer who left teaching after 10 years to split his time between Nebraska and New York and focus on his writing career. His work has appeared in dozens of publications and his mom has a binder full of copies for any doubters. He is the Chief Creative Officer of Comic Booked and is currently pitching the novels Dead Facebook Friends and Dead Week to agents in New York and Los Angeles. Jeff is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a regular participant of the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Seminar for Writers, and a past faculty member of the Writer’s Hotel. He can be found on both Twitter and Patreon as jeffhillwriter.

Comments (13)

Aaron

09/22/2013 at 2:10 pm

The first one I really remember, because I know that I read a bunch of House of Mystery and stuff from DC, was X-Men #181. A kid in my 5th grade class sold it to me for $0.75 because he said it was rare. That sparked my love for comics, but we lived in the middle of nowhere on a farm in Minnesota and had very little money to buy comics. My mom would go to town once in a while and she would buy me one when she could. I remember Aquaman, Who's Who in the DC Universe, and a ton of other books over the years, but that will always be one of my favorite stories when the X-Men come back from the first Secret Wars.

jeffhillwriter

09/22/2013 at 3:05 pm

Good stuff.

jeffhillwriter

09/22/2013 at 3:05 pm

I still own my very first comic. Or, more accurately, miniseries. Robin II: The Joker's Wild. Been a Batman (and Chuck Dixon) fan ever since!

Škorpijon Luna

09/22/2013 at 5:08 pm

You and have so totally talked about this before! > https://www.comicbooked.com/amazing-spider-man-mem…

Jim Hill

09/22/2013 at 11:55 pm

X-men vol 2, #3. A beautiful Jim Lee X-Men vs X-Men cover. I didn't know who half the people were since all I had seen was the cartoon up to that point, but I was hooked nonetheless.

Skott_Jimenez

09/23/2013 at 1:01 pm

When I was a kid I had various comics, mostly Harvey stuff like Hot Stuff, but the first comic I ever bought and can say I owned would be Ghost Rider, Vol. 2, No. 1. The Dan Ketch series.
I used to go to my LCS to buy horror movie magazines like Fangoria and GoreZone and one day I decided to look at those comic book things. I say the flaming skull, the motorcycle with the flaming tires and I picked it up. I had no clue what it would eventually lead to.
But I love it!

Julien_Loeper

09/23/2013 at 2:55 pm

Very first comic was the old run of sandman mystery theatre given to me by a friend. Kickstarted my love of golden age heroes/the JSA

jeffhillwriter

09/23/2013 at 9:26 pm

It's just too good of a question not to broaden!

jeffhillwriter

09/23/2013 at 9:27 pm

Also excellent. Jim Lee and Chris Claremont producing comic book magic. Too bad it didn't last longer!

jeffhillwriter

09/23/2013 at 9:28 pm

That Howard Mackie Ghost Rider series was (and still is) pretty underrated stuff. I still have almost all of his run somewhere in my collection.