It was life changing-and that isn’t hyperbole. DC Comics got us started reading and exploring literature and thinking about what could be. So, can you remember the first DC Comic you got? I recall the day my Mom relented and let me get a copy of Superboy and the Legion of Superheros–do you remember your first?
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I bought my first comic July 4th last year, while on a vacation with my Nana. I found Robin #5 at a thrift store and I bought it because I thought it was Dick Grayson, not Tim Drake. I was very wrong, and I’m thankful I was because Robin is the series I collect most from now
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The first dc comics I remember were bronze age comics bought by my older brother. 1 was an action comics about people discovering the fortress of solitude. 1 was a world’s finest team up of superman and green arrow who fought sorcerers. I have a pretty complete collection of bronze age dc hero comics. The comics are stored in white comic book boxes and I currently have very little time to look at them. I collected bronze age comics in the 1990s. Bronze age had some first appearances like Power girl, Helena Wayne, Black Lightning, Vixen, Firestorm, Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, Changeling, Jason Todd, Wildfire, Tyroc, Dawnstar, Blok, etc.
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Like the poster above me, my first comic was also a Tim Drake Robin
I quickly collected everything I could post-crisis Batman which lead me to Giffen’s Justice League back issues.
Which lead me to the greatest Green Lantern of all time.
I love comics
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I’ve mentioned this before so I’ll briefly touch on it, my parents raised us in a small Jesuit community where we still had a newsstand in town that sold printed comic books (generally very family friendly titles) along with international newspapers, foreign magazines and books, and the like. We were also a college town and in Northern California, so far more progressive, which meant the newsstand had a diverse consumer base.
The neighborhood mothers in my part of town shared boxes of, for example, pulp westerns, romances, sci fi, etc. for the parents, teens, etc., and a boxes of comics books that were passed along to those with kids. This had been done for at least one generation so some of the material was new, and some was already old when it was put in these share boxes.
My introduction to comics was this box, and it was primarily DC and primarily SA books, The Flash, Brave and the Bold (pre-Batman), Showcase, Strange Adventures and Mystery in Space - which I did not appreciate at the age this started, and House of Mystery, etc. (but the very parent approved issues so not many and I still avoided these), and of course, Superman and the Super Family collection of titles:
I can’t remember now which one it was, but the first new one bought for me was an 80 page giant, as I asked for something to keep for myself (the share box came with say 20 and had to leave your house with the same number, so you could keep something if you replaced it).
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I bought Hush, and it was awful. At least my dog liked it. It was an expensive chew toy.
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What a great question. I remember the first comic I ever bought as a kid (as you say, actually purchased by my dad), but that was published by the distinguished competition. I’ve been meaning to reorganize and maybe sell some of my collection of individual issues. While I’m going through them, I’ll see if I can remember what my first DC comic was.
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My first hardcopy comic I ever bought was Superman and the Authority #1
The first comic I ever read was Collapser
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It was Batman no. 245 (October 1972). I remember it was at a none-too-clean piled up bookstore that my then brother in law (keep in mind my sister is 17 years older than I am) took me to. I am not sure how long that bookstore was open, but I know it closed in the early Seventies. When I was much, much older I learned it had a back room where more, um, adult fare was sold.
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Once a friend of mine was browsing in the back of such a room when a kid wandered in and loudly said “Sure are a lot of people back here!” before he was dragged back out by his parents.
Soon thereafter a line of sheepish-faced men filed out of the back room. 
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Boss still does not let me go in the backroom, yet he lets me fight Clark.
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You’re really better off that way, and Boss knows it.
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The Untold Legend of The Batman.
My parents sent away for the mini when it was offered as a mail-in through the Batman cereal in 1990:
I got a lot of stuff through cereal-based promotions as a kid, with the above comics being, without question, the one promo that had the most impact.
Those books got me into comics in-general, making me a comics fan for life and they also made me a Jim Aparo fan for life.
I still have the series amongst my childhood comics and its one I go back to often. Not just because of nostalgia, but because its a pretty good read, too.
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I have a lot of those same comics upstairs.
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Well add me to the club.
I saw it on the magazine section of my local grocery store, where comics could sometimes be found then. I had a little bit of money, and in my young mind became convinced that this comic-
…the 1st time Tim appears as Robin, would be the perfect gift for my older brothers birthday. I don’t know what made me think that- my brother wasn’t a Batman fan then. I think it was the too cool image of Batman covered in spiders 
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Since you asked, here’s my life story:
I remember the first comic I owned but it was about an amazing arachnid character. That’s a story for another time.
I remember my parents would take me to these old bookstores and, while they browsed, I would find a comic and read it. They only had random single issues so I rarely saw the same character twice and began developing many of my odd comic reading habits from that. My parents bought some comics to decorate my room with but those were more decorative than for reading so I won’t count those.
Bottom line, I don’t know what my first DC reader copy was. I can’t remember what I did yesterday 
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The first DC comic I ever checked out of a library was a TPB of Grant Morrison’s JLA, the one where blue and pink go to war in the fifth dimension and Captain Marvel saves the day by inventing a word and writing it in clouds. And in the unlikely event that anyone here doesn’t know who Grant Morrison is, they’re what would happen if that sentence you just failed to understand were a person.
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It was an early one for me, too. I have an uncle who’s a bit of an old-fashioned comics fan, and I vividly remember reading Batman: Hush, All-Star Superman, Infinity Gauntlet, and Kingdom Come at his house.
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