Those 1st stories that grabbed you and made you a comic fan.

always wish i could answer this. i was five years old, i cant really remember anything other than
my beloved Dr.Doom Secret Wars figure, his Doom Tower, and my Optimus Prime Fruit Of The Looms that i pooped.

The Secret Wars I inherited of sorts , then I started collecting Marvel Team ups (and still do) along with the occational Amazing Spider-man (normaly 80's) along with now aquiring the 90's Ghost Rider series when i come across them. The first time i started collecting a current comic line began with Thor 600 which was then joined by Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter and Utopia. I hope to keep getting more now and not just collecting ones from the past

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My father's book... "

No, he DID the book.
issues one through four.

First I was browsing at a bookstore and found a book called The Sandman's Book of Dreams, not realizing it was based on a comic book. I really liked it. The next time I was near a comic store, I bought the first book in the Sandman series. Having also only recently seen Batman Begins, I was pleased to see how the normal DC characters were integrated into the Vertigo title (in this case the Scarecrow). Within the next few weeks I bought the rest of the series. After that, I bought some Batman trades. Eventually I branched out and got the Villains United trade. I decided I liked the villains in that (not the Secret Six, I've always disliked them), and bought some of the ongoing series which had them, as well as more trades over a period of a few months. Now I am a regular at my comic book store (a new one now, the old one closed), and have around 600 comics, if you include the trades.

Actually, story's didn't get me into comics.  I used to collect cards of all kinds, particularly baseball cards.  Eventually, they started carrying the 1991 Marvel cards at the dollar store down the street, and they were 25 cents a pack).  I'm only missing two of the cards, and I knew who the X-Men and Spider-Man were from Saturday morning cartoons.  However, I was all of a sudden seeing characters I never heard of, like Thanos and Mephisto and Carnage and Warlock...and I was in awe of all the coolness they exuded.  I still have the cards (only missing one card, which is the Ghost Rider hologram card).  This led me over to Wal-Mart, since I didn't know about Bankston's and Golden's at the time (our local comic shops, Bankston's is focused heavily around comics and Magic, while Golden's is more about books in general and also some back issue comics).  They had this Spawn/Batman crossover comic there by a couple of doods named Frank Miller and Todd MacFarlane.  I thought it was pretty cool looking, and I knew who Batman was from the movies.  They also had these 3-comic packs.  One of them was a 3 pack featuring a character called Boof.  They also had a pack that had some Marvel ones in them, including a Warlock and the Infinity Watch #1 comic.  I thought I was hot $h!t for having a #1 comic.  LOL  The following week, I went back to Wal-Mart, and they had a new 3-pack.  It was called "Fatal Attractions".  At the time, I had no clue how big of a deal this was.  It came packaged with X-Men #25, Wolverine #75, and Excalibur #71 for $5.00.  The cashier told me I was buying some good comics for a good price, had no clue what that meant at the time.  Later, I would learn that a friend of mine had bought the other three books in the Fatal Attractions story arc at Wal-Mart for the same price because they weren't reprints like most comics were at Wal-Mart...they were originals that were just bundled together.  I went and checked out the three I had afterwards and found out that I had originals for those three! 
 
Nonetheless, it was really great when I got into comics.  It was all about discovery.  I would head down to Bankston's and was just in awe over all the artwork and stories.  I was so overwhelmed, and eventually, when Image got big and so many other comic companies started coming out, I really did feel overwhelmed and it was about the point where I stopped reading comics as hardcore as I did.  I ended up thinning my collection down quite a bit a few years back, but I've got a good number of essentials to my collection.  I also got on a really big graphic novel/trade paperback kick about a year ago and updated my library a little.  I feel a little lost when it comes to comics at this point, but I'm sure I'll find my way around soon enough.

My first comic book was the thing that would later make me a huge comic book fan, but the stories that got me reading comics was The Ultimates, I was just walking through a Books A Million and found out that they sell comics there, I went through all of their TPB and saw The Ultimates Vol.1, I read it and was hooked, seeing the first part with Captain America back in World War II made me like Ultimate Cap probably more them 616 Cap, then seeing how realistic Iron Man looked in the second issue was just amazing, but seeing Hank beat up Jan was the thing that made the book one of my all time favorite, not seeing a man beat up his wife, but seeing how real the story felt (This is probably why I have such a huge love for the Ultimate U)