2) Superman vs Spider-Man. The greatest super hero comic of all time....at least to me. ;)

3) The DC announcement that X-Men's own John Byrne would be drawing a three part Batman mini series. 

Your ideas were just fine. I would have thrown in Crisis... I forgot at the time what a wonder this was. Truly, up until then, the big crossovers were either the annual JLA/JSA team ups, or that FF/Avengers crossover I picked.

Even in comics, there are certain statements that we accept as the real thing. If the narrator says something, we assume it's true. (That was violated for me in the second part of the New Teen Titans / Batman and the Outsiders crossover - "Welcome to the death of the New Titans and the Outsiders" - and then later, "Well, looks like we were wrong! And are we glad!" That is just plain outright wrong.)

And Wolverine here... his comments directly imply that Colossus is dead. If he were in the best hospital, it still wouldn't do any good... how else can that be interpreted? Well, obviously Claremont figured he could get away with one.

Characters might get away with something wrong, but if Superman says something about Krypton or Captain America says something about World War II, finding that to be wrong is extremely disappointing. I think of it as bad writing.

But to be happier - wow! What a great collection of moments! I shared a lot of these, and others are just exciting to think about people experiencing for the first time!

To properly answer the question:

Spider-Man's alien uniform.

She-Hulk in the FF.

Hulk and Banner being separated.

I liked Thor, so I picked up an issue of Avengers since he was a member. That was Avengers 148. And the Vision dropped Hyperion. Sold!

So many moments. The finale to Micronauts #12.

Wolverine coming out of the sewer.

When I first realized I could distinguish a specific artist (his initials are JB).

It is a long list...

#2 fantastic four 239, the ff come to my hometown of benson az. i lived by the b water tower.

#3 post crisis dc. i screamed and cried when byrne was leaving marvel i vowed to quit comics forever, but there was this new guy named superman twice a month that rocked butts. and justice league bwahaha!!!

2.) I liked the suggestion that one's first time in a comic store could be a moment of wonder. I know for certain that mine was. Hokey smokes... absolutely gobsmacked, I was. Of course, I thought they pretty much had to sell the merchandise at the price marked on the cover, so I did wind up putting a lot of stuff back. As I recall, I bought Marvel Collector's Item Classics #21 that day, however. I still love that comic. A great many comics I picked up at that store (Top Notch Comics at 301 S. Broadway) are still favorites of mine, in part because of where I got them.

3.) Saga of the Swamp Thing #22- My introduction to Alan Moore. It took a long while before I found a copy of #21, "The Anatomy Lesson" and even longer to find Moore's actual debut in #20 in which he played fair and wrapped up Pasko's storyline before moving on with his own. That one never gets reprinted unfortunately, and it should as it sets up the story that takes place immediately after Swamp Thing's "death" in #53. I know Moore is deeply unpopular with many on this forum, but that comic, a comic one could actually READ, blew me away and gave me a lot of hope for the future of the industry.