What was your first comic book?

Well, I suppose if you want to get technical, my first comic book was a comic book version of the Bible that my aunt and uncle got me for my First Communion. Since nobody was wearing spandex in it, however, I’m not counting it as a valid answer to this question. I also don’t have a single answer for it because the next time I bought comics after that, during my high school years, I bought two of them. What happened in them? I honestly don’t remember. I do remember that the only reason I bought them was because I thought the covers were cool, and the covers are the only reason I found them again.

The first one is Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance.

Guys with flaming skulls shooting each other with fire? Pretty cool when you’re a teenage boy.

The second one is Punisher 2099.

Cyborg guy with a werewolf arm? Also cool when you’re a teenage boy.

I never followed up on either of these series after buying these issues way back when. Mostly because I was a teenage boy who rarely had money, but also because I bought them at a flea market, as we had no comic book store where I was living at the time. At least, I don’t think we did. I’d actually forgotten about them until a guy at work asked me this question. I looked both series up on Marvel Unlimited, but it only has the first six issues of the Ghost Rider series and just one of the Punisher 2099, a crossover tie-in, so I can’t go back and try to read them again.

Oh, well. It’s just one of those things.

What about you? What was your first comic book?