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Bob Harvey
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X-Men #13, I believe. My father had fairy nice runs of many Silver Age Marvel titles, but I feel like X-Men would have been the one I wanted to start with. Issue 13 is the earliest cover I can definitely remember.
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Jack Bohn
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"Beware of Googam, Son of Goom!"
In a reprint at my cousin's house.
https://www.comics.org/issue/25293/#172150
(It's the second story, "He Who Laughs Last Gets the Horselaugh" that provided me with a searchable word. The third story seems to have faded from my brain, which would have been 8 if I read it close to when he bought it.)
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Eric Sofer
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Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #27 - The Fantastic Four in "The Search for Sub-Mariner!" featuring Dr. Strange's first* crossover appearance; Iron Man in "The Death of Tony Stark!", featuring the vile villainy of the Mandarin; and Dr. Strange in "The Demon's Disciple!"
Boy, do I miss those giant size reprint books! THAT was a bargain - three or four full sized stories of various Marvel mainliners, a couple of short-short tales, and all for one thin quarter!
*Okay, since it's a reprint, it's not technically his first crossover. So sue me.
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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My memory says it was MARVEL'S GREATEST COMICS #51, which reprinted FANTASTIC FOUR #68.
I find it fascinating that it is the same issue Paul Issar & Robert Bradley say was their first Kirby work.
I had started buying the Fantastic Four earlier that year, FF 149, after my older sister came home from college with FF 141 & 142 -- which I loved. I didn't understand why the FF looked a little different (the Kirby "squiggles"). And I'm not sure I liked it. I was 8 at the time.
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Brandon Carter
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Most likely "Spider-Man Tackles the Torch!" from (a reprint of) Amazing Spider-Man #8.
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Peter Martin
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I had a Marvel UK 'Pocket Book' reprint of FF 49. May not have been the first Kirby comic I ever read, but it's the first one I have a firm memory of reading.
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Eric Smearman
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My first Kirby comic was SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #146
which had a "Cro-Magnon Jimmy" splash page that gave me bad
dreams (I was four.)!
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Jeffrey Rice
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Various Avengers covers in the 150 range. Immediately followed by his covers for the Avengers Treasury and Avengers #2 reprinted in Giant-Sized Avengers #2. Why does the Hulk have three toes???
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Ronald Joseph
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Most likely "Spider-Man Tackles the Torch!" from (a reprint of) Amazing Spider-Man #8.
This was mine, too. Sort of.
I read the parody of this, called "Spider-Man Tickles the Torch!" in CRAZY MAGAZINE, before I'd ever seen the original.
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Michael Arndt
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MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION #3: Reprints Fantastic Four #59
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David Miller
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First story: FANTASTIC FOUR #1, in ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS First actual comic book: SUPER POWERS Vol. 2 #1
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Koroush Ghazi
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My first Kirby comic was Fantastic Four #4 - "The Coming of the Sub-Mariner" - which I bought as part of a black and white Australian reprint of FF #4-6 in 1981 I believe (I was 10 years old).
Even with the poor quality of these reprints, the shrunken size (around 3/4 of a full-size comic) and being in B&W, I loved the atmosphere created by Stan and Jack. It seemed like anything was possible, and Kirby captured it in such an off-beat stylised manner that it was like nothing I'd seen at that point, having consumed (mainly Spider-Man) comics with the somewhat "house" style of the likes of Buscema and Romita in the late 1970s.
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