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Mainly I'm asking this because I want to know if there are people here who started as adults, or if you've all been fans since childhood (like me). If you did get into Disney comics as an adult, how did you first become interested in reading them?
In my case, my dad was reading Donald and Scrooge comics to me before I could read myself. I pretty much had no choice but to become a fan. : )

Like you, my parents started reading Disney Comics to me when I was 2 years old. By 3 years old, I was reading them to my parents, and they helped me with the difficult Barks long words. We lived in a family compound, in which I lived with my parents, paternal grandparents and my father's 3 sisters and their husbands and children. We had 14 children. I had 6 cousins older than I. 4 of them were boys, and had hundreds of comic books. I inherited their "funny animal' and cartoony human comedy comics, while my cousin, that shared my bedroom with me (we had bunkbeds like in the army), inherited the superhero, western and military comics (realistic humans). By 6 years old, I was buying my own Disney Comics (both US/Canadian and Dutch comics (as I spent time in all 3 countries each year (as I have continued to do virtually all my life). I also inherited Dutch comics from older cousins, and kept most of my Dutch comics in The Netherlands. When I was young, television was just starting to come into only some people's homes. Even there, it was only watched for an hour or two or less per home. Comic books were the big evening pastime for kids back then (in addition to book reading and board games and card games).
I know hundreds of Disney Comics collectors (mostly in The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy and France (and a few in USA, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Brasil, Indonesia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan and a few other countries)). But I don't recall ANY of them that became fans of Disney Comics as adults. Perhaps a few were teenagers, because Disney Comics were not sold in their countries when they were young children.

I became a Disney fan at around 5 years old (1960) if not earlier when my mother read them for me.
My 9 years older brother had recevied a subscriptiption of the Swedish Donald Duck comic book (Kalle Anka) since many years and when I was seven in 1962 my grandma&grandpa transferred the subscription to me and I received my brothers read comic books from 1960 and 1961.
The older ones from 1952-1959 were borrowed by cousins whose mother had thrown them away before I new about it.
From that on and more actively from when I was 11 years old I tried to get all swedish back issues since their publication began in 1948 which I succeeded in in 1970 15 years old.
A few years later I started buying american first editions of Barks comics not published in Sweden at that time and then all american Barks first editions and then several other Disney comic books by my preferred artists like Murry/Fallberg, Strobl, Bill Wright, Dick Moores, Gil Turner, Carl Buettner etc.

The collection is big enough to read over and over again with most Barks One-shots as my main favorites.

This is an interesting topic.
As most of us I started reading Disney comics as a kid. I was 5 years old (1984). Actually my first issues were read to me by my parents. With my first days at school, I tried reading Disney comics. It was a good motivation to learn reading fast.
With about 14 I shifted away from comics - perhaps girls distracted me from the Ducks ;-) In my mid 20s I came back to Comics with the Peanuts and later to Disney. At that time I started my US collection. Before that I had only German comic books. Thanks to the internet it was quite easy to buy US comics.

I read Disney comics since I was fifteen. And I still read them today. I wish I could read some more of the Disney comics over seas I manages to read some of the french ones but that all.

Well, the first Disney comic book I have (nice cover, Rob K :) ) is from the time when I should have been about 5. As far as I know, I started reading on my own at age 6 (sometime in 1993), and infact that's the first year from which I have more than one book.
In the 90's I collected mostly 32-page "Mickey Mouse" magazines (Egmont had some really good stories back then), but my earliest one is a digest-sized book, and I liked the Italian stories a lot, so I felt very sad when they stopped publishing them in 1995. Right now I'm making up for the 15 years without digest-sized books with long stories, and have collected all 18 "Macrocomics" issues that Egmont have issued since 2010.
By the way, Egmont also issued Bamse and the Flintstones in Bulgarian (again, until 1995). In the 90's there was also a Pif magazine for a few years by another publisher, and I once bought a translated issue of "Archie" (found only one issue). Other stuff I got during these years are the 1993 Garfield books and comic book adaptations of the old Batman movies.

I do only remember that I was very young when I started to "read" the weekly "Kalle Anka & Co." comic book for the first time and later on help me improve my reading skills. And it's still as fun as before - actually even more so :).

Quote from user: Dutch Duckfan Down UnderIn Uncle Scrooge fashion, I still have the first Disney comic I ever read (as far as my memory goes back).
I have my first comic book even framed at the wall - a Micky Maus from 1984.