I read X-Men a little bit and watched the Animated Series a lot. But I think the comic book series that really got me into buying comics was X, it was gorey as hell (by my young standards) and my friend and I loved them.

"I was a very casual comic guy until 6th grade.  That's when I met another kid who was VERY into comics and would spend free time drawing his own.  I thought that was pretty cool and we started talking comics and drawing our own (someone had "Red Ray" and someone had "Blue Beam").  That kid always knew he wanted to have a career in the comic world and to heck with the people who said "yeah, sure".  By the way, that classmate of mine from Tecumseh Elementary (NY) was Tom Brevoort.  To this day I still enjoy comics - and my son is a huge comic fan and my daughter is deep into the Anime scene.  Tom infected my whole family :) "

"I really don't know what got me into comics. I guess I was just a lonely kid that just wanted to escape from reality and comic books was my outlet. I think my first book was Amazing Spider-Man (go figure) issue 333 with Venom, Mr. Styx and Mr. Stone an automatically fell in love. "

My first Comics was a translated issue of Captain America, I was Six, maybe Seven year old, but it impressed me enough to make me remember this until now. (Twenty year later !) 
 
But I didn't know really about comics, and my next true contact with comics was an Issue of the Flash (Barry Allen), against the master of mirror. 
 

Batman TAS plain and simple. And then I discovered my mom, of all people, had this box filled with old comics that I would read through on a regular basis.  
 
Then my parents in their religious fervor outlawed superheroes for a long time, kind of inexplicably, so I had to sneak reading a comic at the bookstore from time to time. Then I got thrown out of the house over a girl and a couple rock and roll CDs and now I buy all the comics I want. Well, most of them anyway.  
 
I'm pretty sure if my mom saw my comic shelf she'd crap her pants. 

My father had comics all over the house, so as a youngling I was able to pick up a John Byrne Superman or She-Hulk, or maybe the big ol' X-Men book where they're about to go to Asgard (what is the name of that story?), or maybe some Lynch Mob or Big Guy and Rusty would do it for me.
 
 
Comics have been in my life, almost as soon as I got out of the womb.
Heck, even as a baby I've been to a convention or too.

But the comic that got me hooked and started my life as a collector:   

I was given a friends dad old Star War comics from the 70s. For the longest time I would only read that. Then I got into Batman, Xmen, Spiderman, Spawn, Avengers, Ironman and various indie and DarkHorse Comics graphic novels. I don't read as much anymore, but it is nice.

I pretty much inherited it. My dad's been collecting avidly since he was 13, so I've always been around them. He wouldn't let me read them myself until I was 10, but before that I sometimes browsed his collection and watched all the 90s animated series. Once I was about 14 I started going with dad to the comic book store, mostly buying anything Spider-Man related or anything with a cover that interested me. Then Civil War started in 2006 and I became more interested in the continuity and then later also got hooked on New Avengers. I can't remember what the first comic I ever read was, but the first ones I ever owned were several Nightwing, Flash, and Batman comics my dad gave me when I was littler. But I still managed to grow up pretty Marvel-biased and avidly read most of my dad's Amazing Spider-Man run when I was around 12. (Thanks to the Clone Saga I now frequently guess "clone" for every mystery. Sometimes I'm even right. ^_^)

Back in the 80's my older brother got me started on X-Men, Iron Man and a few Avengers comics. It was a good escape from reality. Lol. 

My first comic was a Detective Comics issue... idontremember, and all those cartoons, Batman TAS, evens superfriends, all the Marvel Cartoons like Spider-Man, X-Men, Daredevil, etc, really caught me. But it wasn't until 2 years ago that I sarted reading them on a regular basis, the first storyline that caught me was "Batman: The Long Halloween", since that time I became a DC fan and I'm reading some Marvel comics to, starting with Civil War

my brother owned tons of Disney Adventures magazines, which published Bone for a long time, as well as Duck Tales and Tale Spin, and pretty much every other Disney Afternoon cartoon. 
 He Also had tons of Calivn And Hobbies. But my first real comics i read where the Batman: Dark Knight Returns comics he had. Those where followed swiftly by the Else Worlds where Batman was GL, and the one where Superman was found by the waynes (Speeding Bullets i think it was called). And then he also owned a handful of the Legends of The Dark Knight series, which i fell in love with.
 After that i went out and started looking for comics. My Aunt gave me Spidermans wedding. My cusin gave me a bunch of X-Force stuff, and my grandparents got me The Death of Superman.
 And the first comic i ever bought with my own money was a Robin III at a gas station on a vacation to Mexico. 
 the rest, as we say, is Evan.

I was kind of brought into comic book from my grandfather (RIP) who was nicknamed Batman.  I remember i use to go to his house everyday when i was little and in his room he'd have all this Batman memrobelia in his room that i use to just sit and look at for hours. After he passed away, my dad was lucky enough to keep all of the Batman stuff. When we moved, there just happened to be a comic book store in town.  Before then, i just use to watch the movies and fall in love with the TEEN TITANS TV show (i was little okay, i know it's a bad show now haha). I fell in love with the comic book store after the first step inside, which lead me to play the superhero game Heroclix. it would be years before i got a comic book subscription but i still picked up single issues from winning fellowship in the game. I finally got a comic book subscription right before Blackest Night happened, and i gotta say i've had a great first year in subscribing into comic books. Now, i work there which is any nerds dream job. I'm a nerd at heart, just look at over 90% of my wardrobe being Batman and Green Lantern T-Shirts, and will never give it up.  I have my grandfather to thank.  He was my Batman and will live on in my heart :)

I started reading comics when Daredevil came out. I knew NOTHING about super heroes then cause i was only like about maybe 5 i guess and i knew nothing about Elektra and i could see the love between Matt and Elektra and when she died i felt so bad but then when Elektra's solo movie came out i was so happy to find out she had lived and that movie had made me want to start reading comics so I went to my local comic store and looked for Elektra comic books and i found one!!! It was Elektra: Everything Old Is New Again and that made me want to keep reading more comics so i did. That's how i started reading comics. The End.

Wow!   
 
Going through this thread, it's kind of interesting to see that most of everyone's origin into getting hooked into comics was predominantly X-Men!   
 
I was expecting more Spider-Man or Batman mostly, but X-Men?   
 
Now that's something...

"I think the mini-comics that came with the original He-Man toys started me off...  My first X-men comic was #271 (part of the X-Tinction Agenda crossover) and I was hooked!  I collected until '95 when I left home to join the Army... I did not collect again until last year...  I've since purchased back issues like crazy to try and (at least for Marvel) rebuild my collection as if I had never stopped collecting. "

One of my older brothers collected comics and because I wanted to be like him, I began collecting them as well.  I remember comic books like the Invaders, Archie and Jugghead, Capt. America fighting the Red Skull...   
I still remember the day when my mom made me leave my new collection of comics (what my brother had given to me) back at the old house as we packed up to move into the new.   
Black Panther with the first appearances of Solomon's Frogs 
First apperances of the Abomination and of the Leader with his big ole head...  
 I'm laughing even as I type. 
 
Silkmane

I used to watch superhero movies and tv shows when I was a kid, and recently saw movies such as The Dark Knight (in '08), and kinda stumbled on the DC website while googling batman.

I started reading comics when I was ten. I recently moved Seattle to Tucson and I was very awkward around other kids. I was taller and bigger than everyone else, I was the only African-American student in the enitre school, and I didn't have a single friend. My teacher at the time gave a this comic. It featured two best friends. I didn't care if they were black and white, I just saw two guys who were friends to the end. I was inspired  by their heroics,  awesome costumes, great powers,  and more importantly their friendship. Since then I have always read comics not only for awesome battles and cool art, but also to understand the importance of people working together.

I saw Spider-Man (2002) and wanted to learn more about him, and then on to X-men, Hulk, and I moved on to DC later on and now I like comics.

I was given a long box, full of Batman/Detective comics, in 1993. (I was Six)
 
that spawned my love of comics.

it began many moons ago i watch a tv show called the hulk and was a fan ever since that was in the 80's when i got older i found the fox run of the X-Men the Stan Lee's Iron man Fantastic four,i soon start buying comics i think my first comic was What if Hulk Killed Wolverine an then the games began....Peace

My first Comic Book was a long time ago, bearing the title "Venom".... don't remember the details, i just bought it and from then on I was hooked.

My first comic was Uncanny X-Men 299 and 300. 

My grandfather collected comics and as a child I would be allowed to thumb around in his collection..(always the common ones, never the valuable ones). This was when I was 3 or 4 (1982-83). I bought my first Batman off the shelf in 1985 and have been collecting ever since...I also was given my grandfather's collection after he passed. I am now 32 years old and still collect comics....more than ever because of more disposable income than I have ever had before. I am an avid DC collector (almost every mainstream title) and in Marvel I collect Avengers titles, X-Men Titles, and Spider-man titles.

my grandfather took me to an old book store that had a books and comics which got my interest then movies. he bought a collection of  the savage she hulk back in the late 1980s. then later i used my allowance to buy spiderwoman series, then supergirl series before she died in the crisis. then in the mid 90s i collected the uncanny xmen. and hawk and dove. i had a variety of comics when i was in my mid teens then i gave them to my brothers figured they keep them in good shape but all was destroyed. i have bought old issues from comics stores that had the issues that i wanted but mostly missing alot of issues to again complete a series. if only i could change back time.

a neighbor of mine gave me some comics when I was young.

I started reading comics when i was real little but really started probably early teens with xmen

My first comic book that I have read was Ultimate X-Men #1. Marvel.com at the time, they let their members read their comics on their site for free, before they started charging. I immediately liked the fact that I was able to read Origins #1 as well, and surely enough, I was hooked. I stopped reading Marvel due to being in high school, but a little bit over 2 years ago, Batman RIP started, and I read it in single issue format. Because of that storyline, I've become an avid DC reader. I tried getting back into Marvel, but I dunno, the stories they offered were linear at best. The only one I really liked reading was when Daken killed Punisher. Other than that, I'm reading Mighty Crusaders Special right now.

I had fond memories of the Batman animated series when I was at primary, and later on, to a lesser extent, Teen Titans, Static Shock and Superman. I already had a good deal of knowledge about the DCU (not so much Marvel) and I picked up on everything pretty quick, especially the differences between comics and TV. 
I'm from New Zealand, where comic stores are near non-existent, and I thought I wouldn't be able to get any comics at all, but I finally found a store in Onehunga. My first issue was Faces of Evil: Deathstroke in February last year, and I thought it was okayish. But I only really got on board with Blackest Night and I've been following Green Lantern ever since.

I was into comics since the mid 80's as a kid and my first issue I bought was an Avengers title at a 7-11 store during a visit to the Bay area. When my family moved to San Diego, I discovered a LCS within biking distance and spent my allowance there. I collected mostly Marvel but I got caught up in the whole Image scene in the 90's. I stopped collecting for awhile during the mid 90's and started going comic crazy again about 4-5 years ago. 

My dad was just getting back into comics after a +10 year hiatus and had the TBP of Civil War, CIvil War: Spider-Man, Civil War: Frontlines and Civil War: X-Men with him. I read them, fell in love and found a new medium of interest.

My comic book life started when as a child with the Masters of the Universe action figures(early 80s) came with mini-comics(which I still have today). Still, not really aware of comic books in general(and primarily a toy kid) my next encounter was the magazine sized adaptation of the Muppets Take Manhattan. My next foray with comic books came when my dad purchased a house, and left by the previous owners left a handful of beat-up Sgt. Rock comics and a copy of Captain America #237. The final thing that cemented my comic book future was during the summer of '89 when I trade the Pro Wrestling game of the original Nintendo Entertainment System for about 30 comics that included most of the 'Mutant Massacre' story, the takeover of Avengers Mansion by the fourth Masters of Evil, the West coast Avengers battle with Master Pandemonium, the introduction of Super-Patriot(later known as U.S.Agent) in Captain America and most of the x-titles 'Inferno' storyline. I was officially hooked.    

Comics sort of helped me to learn to read.

I have Batman: The Animated Series to thank for me starting to read comic books. I use to watch the show when I was a kid but when I was 16, I brought the 1st volume of the series on DVD & I was hooked! I just got really interested in the story of Batman & that's when I started to buy graphic novels.  

my first comics were my older brothers 
he had DOZENS and dozens of old Justice League and Fantastic Four comics from the 80's

once he was "too old" for comics, I tore into them like it was going out of style 
I remember an issue of the JL in particular, where they all teamed up to battle Dr. Destiny in his dream world 
it was EPIC  
and I was hooked from there on out 
 
ps, thank you comic vine for finding this for me.....

i always wanted to get into comics when i was younger and a year ago i got my first one,
prologue darkest night:green lantern #43, thats  preety much the jumping off point for me,now i buy a new issue every month of dead pool,dead pool corps,what is now brightest day, seige,and for some reason batgirl??

Back when I was in elementary school my friend's mother had bought him a comic he already had so he gave it to me. The comic was a Marvel Team-Up with Spiderman and the Beast.. A few years later when I hit puberty, after playing a baseball game at a near-by field I stopped at a store selling comics. I always wanted to buy more comics after the first one my friend gave me, but I never knew where to buy them. Once I knew where to buy them I was hooked.