How old were you when you started reading 2000AD?

[Tiplodocus]

As Jim requested.

I'm just going upstairs to shun that hot redhead from CSI.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Damn, I'll never get that grant now

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Here's how I started (quickly)
Born 67, worked as a paper boy in my local paper shop and when the first issue came in I bought it out of my wages. 8p for a prog full of Thrills, you couldn't go wrong.

[Roger Godpleton]

17. I started in 2003. Whilst others were getting high and/or laid I was discovering the joys of Dead Men Walking, Synnamon and Judge Dredd: Meatmonger. I think I made the right decision.

[Roger Godpleton]

Goddamnit I pushed the wrong button. This is all your fault you racist racist.

[flip-r mk2]

Prog 1 waaaaaaay back in 77 I remember seeing the ad on the telly and MACH 1 attracting my attention because of the similarity to the six million dollar man .





filip

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Goddamnit I pushed the wrong button.

I thought it seemed strange as there was no vote in that age group. You've just ruined the whole poll, why don't you go sit in a corner and stop messing about. All the results will mean nothing now and it's just wasted Tiplodocus's efforts

[maryanddavid]

I was officially 10 when I bought my first Prog, because my brother was too embarresed to get it from the local newsagents, I think he fancied the girl in the shop or something like that.
I had been reading it since I can remember, but cant put a year on it, but my earliest memories are of Zog and Ursa(sp?) drinking Mac Mac on a poster, my older brother possibly had it on the wall.

David

[Peter Wolf]

 Aged 10 or thereabouts in 1977 when i bought either prog 1 or 3 in a newsagents in Reigate in Surrey when i was the given the sum of 1 pound to spend on whatever in the newsagents.I picked up the comic quite by chance and it caught my eye and i instantly had to buy it after i saw the colored Dan Dare/Belardinelli centrespreads.Love at first sight it was.

I wasnt really into comics otherwise.

[Emperor]

I was 6. My local newsagent was the distributor for the area (I think) and always had discounted comics for 1p (rather then return them I assume). I picked up those early Star Wars reprints for example. I also stumbled across 2000AD prog 1 and that damn Space Spinner sucked me in, unfortunately my folks thought it was too violent so binned the actual issue. When I lost the Space Spinner I got a new prog 1, which got binned again. I think I must have gone through half a dozen of them in the end. I started reading full-time around prog 100 and never looked back, although it turns out if I'd looked under the washing machine I'd have found a Space Spinner.

[SuperSurfer]

Eleven years old with prog 1. My brother and cousin also bought it. Was a real buzz of excitement. We were at my cousin's in Tottenham and my uncle asked what the comic is about and I answered "it's about the future." He flicked through it and looking at Flesh he said "but how can it be about the future, dinosaurs are in the past?" I hadn't read any of it yet so had no answer. I'm still trying to work it out. 

[Colin YNWA]

5 with what I'm pretty certian was my brothers copy of issue 1. I do wish I could remember what I made of it back then as knowing the stories that were in it at the time as I do now I think it must have been pretty mind blowing for a 5 year old kid. It would seem I've never fully recovered!

[WoD]

Bought #1, missed #2 (damn newsagent) got #3 and then stopped until around #320...

[TordelBack]

First actual bought was Prog 291, age 11, started buying full-time from Prog 309 a few months later.

[Richmond Clements]

Eight years old. Prog 1.