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APE IN A CAPE: A Question For Female-Identifying Followers

Sandman is what did it for me.

gailsimone:

This question is to answer a discussion I am having with a fellow writer, there’s no right answer, and I’m not looking for a particular conclusion.

I once did an informal survey of the female readers I met online, what comic book got them hooked on comics. Not their first, not their favorite, but…

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  1. delaminatedpaperdealer-blog reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Tough question. People used to get me Spider-Man comics when I was a kid, and I read them, but I wasn’t really hooked. I...
  2. sleeponsleepon reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    A trifecta for me: x-men, manga titles that I can’t remember, and a high school theater themed webcomic created by my...
  3. himmelsbrief reblogged this from gailsimone
  4. hellobananas reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    The first comic I brought was X-Men, but that didn’t get me hooked. What hooked me was watching The Maxx on late night...
  5. duckwhatduck reblogged this from thedreadvampy and added:
    I love Sandman but all Sandman got me hooked on was Sandman (okay, and Gaiman books). I think possibly for...
  6. yantantether reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Sandman!
  7. thedreadvampy reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
  8. makaeru said: I was bit late to the party, but I think Red Robin was my gateway drug/comic. Marcus To’s art was superb, and Tim gave me all these feeeeeeeeelings.
  9. ayecaptain reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    What got me ‘truly’ hooked was Birds of Prey. I’d always loved Batman but it was an on-and-off sort of thing. Birds of...
  10. youcantrewind reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I’ve been a Batman fan as far back as I can remember, but the exposure generally came from easily accessible media...
  11. wednesdayweekend said: X-Men Animated Series came on with the rest of the Saturday morning cartoons and I was blown away by a show with multiple female heroes. The first battle is mostly Storm and Rogue rescuing Jubilee (there’s some Gambit).
  12. kaileighblue reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Let me weave a tale. The first comic I ever bought was Uncanny X-men 399. I saw it in a bookstore and thought the cover...
  13. pepperbots reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    The X-Men series got me into actually reading comic books and being more aware of other comic book series. I just...
  14. draconiarose reblogged this from dduane and added:
    Oh god. As embarrassing as this, Sonic #39. I’d enjoyed the Sonic comics before that issue, but this one was gripping to...
  15. geekhyena reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    It was the old collections of X-Men, the big black and white ones, that the local public library had. I got to see Jean...
  16. nerdystuffarchive reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    I’ve been a fan of manga for more than 10 years and was thinking about getting into western comics as well for a long...
  17. journeyers-scrapbook reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    It was X-Men for me as well. I was 16 (back in 1981) and I had no idea that comics could be well-written, interesting...
  18. flywithturtles reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    This is. huh. A question I cannot actually answer very well, but I’m going to anyway. There is no One True Beginning for...
  19. dduane reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Green Lantern, in Showcase #22. (sigh) Feels like yesterday. :)
  20. arsenicsweetheart said: My mom gave me comics when I was a kid, so I’ve always identified as a fan, but I wasn’t really a serious habitual reader till I was about 12 or 13 and I discovered Dawn. It was the Return of the Goddess run, and I fell in love with reading comics on a regular basis.
  21. megalosaur-blog reblogged this from tehriz and added:
    Oh! That’s an easy one: Runaways. I could also make strong arguments for Sandman (first comic series I read start to...
  22. etalice said: I had been asking my boyfriend to recommend me a good comic, he gave me “Alias” to read and I feel in love instantly.
  23. starphasings reblogged this from fourofthem and added:
    Volume 5 of Captain America - stayed up until 4 in the morning while I was in Germany reading that through a Marvel...
  24. agatharights reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    YOUNG JUSTICE YOUNG JUSTIIIIIIICE Hold on while I dig up the /slews/ of YJ fancharacters I used to make back in the days...
  25. fourofthem reblogged this from beaschalantasyoulike
  26. beaschalantasyoulike reblogged this from redtha and added:
    It was Young Justice, Spider-Girl [May Parker edition] and Generation X that pulled me in as a kid.
  27. burritosong-old reblogged this from snikette and added:
    For me it was the original Young Justice. I read the TPB right around the time I was 12/13ish. I loved the team dynamic,...
  28. crhodey said: Probably in the minority here, but it was a combination of Sgt Rock and Silver Surfer. I started getting into comics when I saw the first X-Men movie and my dad got me a whole bunch of issues of stuff that was his favorite as a kid.
  29. hellacre13 reblogged this from gailsimone
  30. redtha reblogged this from youngtitan213 and added:
    Teen Titans v3 because Teen Titans was the comic cartoon I was watching when I decided to finally start reading comics....
  31. whipstickisses said: ElfQuest! Wendy & Richard Pini all the way :)
  32. youngtitan213 reblogged this from angel-gidget and added:
    The first comic series my dad ever let me read would be the old Spider-Girl series. May Parker was my hero, and after...
  33. tansyrr reblogged this from gailsimone and added:
    Justice League International… and basically all Justice League titles through the first half of the nineties, until the...
  34. snikette reblogged this from wondergirled-old-blog and added:
    X-Force. Domino and Boom Boom. I wanted to be just like them.
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