For me it was 2000AD 690. Picked it up on a whim as a 15 year old on begrudging holiday with my family. It was bang in the middle of the Necropolis story, and everything about it seemed fascinating to me…
It caused me to collect both forwards and backwards, desperate to know what had happened before (which was a lot, since this storyline had been brewing for years) and what happened after.
It was also a gateway drug into US comics, primarily Marvel, but pretty much anything that looked cool at the time. I still have all my physical books, stored in a bunch of long boxes up in the attic that I swear I’ll get down and look at one day, but never do…
Which issue was your gateway drug?
I started collecting comics from the spin rack at the grocery store in the 90s. I was mostly reading Spider-Man and X-Men. I got back into comics in college since I lived close to a comic store. The Bendis/Maleev Daredevil run and the Loeb/Lee Hish run got me back into comics for a few years. I got back into comics years later with Saga and I am still collecting.