Hmm. I forgot Howard the Duck. That’d be my first Marvel movie.
Blade and Batman 66.
I saw the 1944 serial “Captain America” in the late 1970s or early 1980s, when I was friends with a “serials enthusiast” who owned some old reels.
As for DC – that would be the 1966 Batman movie. Saw it when I was a kid! (1960s)
And to show how out of touch I am, with the DC list I’ve seen 13 out of 32, the most recent 2005 and with the Marvel list I’ve seen 12 out of 57, the most recent 2017.
Blade and Superman.
Depends on what you want to count… I saw the Spiderman and Hulk made-for-TV movies as a kid in 1977, and the Captain America one in 1979. First Marvel cinematic movie was probably 1998’s “Blade”. (saw 1989’s “The Punisher” as a video rental, but I"m pretty sure I saw it after “Blade”).
DC universe- the 1978 “Superman” in the theater, no less.
Just the ones that were originally theatrical releases only, please.
For DC, it’s almost certainly the Christopher Reeves Superman, though I’m not sure how old I would have been when I first saw it all the way through.
For Marvel, I saw parts of Howard the Duck, but not very much. For a live-action theatrical movie seen all the way through, it’d be X-Men, but there might have been something made-for-TV or animated in between (it seems to me I saw a movie where Hulk meets Thor, which I’m sure was made-for-TV).
Conan has definitely part of Marvel continuity when his comic publishing rights have been owned by Marvel. There have been a few cross-overs, mostly in What If… stories, but he’s shown up (usually very briefly, like “one-panel cameo” briefly) in some main continuity stories. Some of his villains have gotten a lot of play in the modern Marvel universe, though, probably most prominently with Kulan Gath, a wizard in Hyperborea who stuck his soul in an amulet that eventually got picked up by some schmuck in NYC, which allowed Kulan Gath to resurrect himself and turn the Avengers into D&D cosplayers for a couple issues. The clear implication of this story, and some of the other crossovers, is that Hyperborea is 100% the prehistory of the Marvel universe.
Then Marvel lost the license, and that stuff didn’t get talked about a lot.
Looks like they’ve got the license back, though, because they’re currently (or maybe just finished) a Scarlet Witch/Conan crossover.
That said, probably best to exclude this sort of cross over from the OP. Because this is also something that happened in main Marvel continuity.
Adam West’s Batman movie for DC, no doubt.
Marvel is a bit more uncertain. Either the first X-Men or Spider-Man, probably.
Batman (1966) and Captain America (1979).
Howard the Duck (1986) and Superman (1978), respectively.
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen any of the Blade or pre-Civil War Spiderman movies - some of those are supposed to be pretty good. Should get around to that.
On TV: Howard the Duck and either Superman or Batman '66 (unsure – I was young)
On the big screen: X-Men and Superman II
1966 Batman for DC, Blade for Marvel.
Never saw Howard the Duck, word-of-mouth was not exactly good.
If you go that route, Godzilla was for a time a canon character in Marvel.
…the Nicholas Hammond Spider-man movie got a theatrical release in New Zealand which was where I saw it, so that was my first Marvel movie. And Richard Donner’s Superman was my first DC movie.
Darn it, now I’ve got the John Williams Superman theme stuck in my head.
Bum ba BAAAA, ba DAH bada baaaaaaa!
DC–Superman the movie. On television. In the theater, first was Batman 1989.
Marvel–X-Men.
The 1989 Batman was the first superhero movie I owned, on VHS!
It was a gift from my dad. I don’t think I ever actually watched it - I hadn’t been that impressed with the movie in theater. And now the tape is long gone to some charity bin.
DC: on tv, Superman (1978); in theaters, Superman III(1983) ----my dad took my see it when I was 8; we were going to the theater to see Return of The Jedi but it was sold out.
Marvel: on TV, Howard the Duck (1986); in theaters, X-Men (2000) unless you count Men in Black (1997) which was based on comic published by Malibu Comics which Marvel bought in 1994