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Post by coke & comics on Dec 20, 2014 2:41:08 GMT -5
Probably the '30s.
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Post by fanboystranger on Dec 20, 2014 2:52:12 GMT -5
I'm gonna put it there: Jack Cole's Plastic Man stories are not only the greatest superhero stories of their era, but also some of the greatest comics ever done. A lot of the Golden Age comics I don't really get, but there's some that are completely ahead of their time. Cole, certainly, but also Beck's Captain Marvel-- kinda surprised that it's Superman that won people over.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 4:19:56 GMT -5
My FAVORITE decade of comics is the 1980's, but the current era, as well as the 1960's/1970's magazines give it a run for it's money.
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Post by earl on Dec 21, 2014 4:36:04 GMT -5
I've been reading Avengers and X-Men from the beginning along with The Fantastic Four and Thor. Mostly Avengers. I'm about ten issues in or so and I have to admit that due to the time period it's been kind of a chore. Give it a few issues, they get better. Keep in mind Marvel kind of improvised this whole line, the early issues are often really them figuring out how these new comics would work. Really some of the early issues were still pretty much like the monster comics they were making, just every month a new "alien" to fight. I think Doom and Kang really start getting good after a few appearances. It takes a while for the characters and story lines to start to turn over and the mythology expand. |
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Dec 21, 2014 7:05:39 GMT -5
I can go back to the 30s but I find that the further I go back the harder it is to find material that appeals to me. The early Superman comics, however, have more energy and vigor than most of the modern Superman stories I've read.
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Post by Paradox on Dec 21, 2014 7:43:27 GMT -5
I don't understand the original question, because I will read anything from any era, comic or not.  I have two eyes, and I must read! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 9:19:04 GMT -5
As a comics historian, I've read comic books from every decade since Max Gaines invented the modern floppy in the early 1930s. I can read any of them and enjoy them but my preference is for material published between 1955 and 1986. And I have to say I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from my friend Icctrombone: I want a comic it takes me half an hour to read. Modern comics, as a rule, are way too quick a read to satisfy me. Cei-U! Wants some meat in that sammich! This is how I am, too, however, Stan Lee's writing of X-Men is just not something I can enjoy. He didn't set them apart as individuals, imo. He could do so with their powers, but not their personalities. His Captain America is pretty damn awful, too, imo. I know a lot of people here adore his writing, but it wasn't until his later Fantastic Four (not too late) and then his Silver Surfer, that I could actually start to enjoy his writing. His writing style, imo, was perfect for Silver Surfer. I LOVE Golden Age comics, for the most part. And if I stumble upon one that I dislike, then I'll stop reading it. I'm a tiny bit more particular in silver age stuff I'll read, and I LOVE most bronze age comics. But today's stuff? No. I tried for over a year to pull current titles, and I'm so behind on my current pulls because they just don't do it for me. Well, minus Rat Queens and a couple of others. But of today's stuff is too short. I take time reading my comics, I really do. But when I am breezing through a current comic in less than 5 minutes, then something is not right, imo. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 9:21:54 GMT -5
imoimoimoIMO.
In case I didn't state that enough in my last post.
*sigh*
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 9:24:39 GMT -5
I had the first volume of the Wonder Woman Archives out of the library earlier this year and I was really impressed with it. Writer William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter really hit the ground running right from the start in the first year of Sensation Comics and the first issues of Wonder Woman.There's lots of great stuff in the early years of the comics books. I love Fred Guardineer's art on Zatara in Action Comics #1, for example. (Not to mention Superman!) And there's Bill Everett's Sub-Mariner. Captain America was great right from the start. For some of us on this site, a better question might be "What's the youngest decade that you're okay reading?" I know I can find more "must read" comics from the first ten years (1938 to 1948) than from the last ten years. I want this stuff so badly. I want allllll the old Wonder Woman stuff. I just want all the Wonder Woman stuffs. And Everett's Sub-Mariner is a BLAST. And that man could draw. And my 14 year old son swears by golden age Captain America and Silver age, too (but mostly for Kirby's art). |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 21, 2014 11:04:22 GMT -5
I want this stuff so badly. I want allllll the old Wonder Woman stuff. I just want all the Wonder Woman stuffs. And Everett's Sub-Mariner is a BLAST. And that man could draw. And my 14 year old son swears by golden age Captain America and Silver age, too (but mostly for Kirby's art). Do you read digital comics? There's a bunch of old Wonder Woman issues available on Comixology. I'm not buying many comics right now but I did splurge and get Wonder Woman #6 digitally because it's the first Cheetah story and it has three amazing stories about Priscilla Rich, the original Cheetah! So great!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 19:36:40 GMT -5
I don't understand the original question, because I will read anything from any era, comic or not. I have two eyes, and I must read!I love crime thriller novels, but not sure I can go back to pre-1970 with them. People talked funny back then. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 21, 2014 20:15:51 GMT -5
I don't understand the original question, because I will read anything from any era, comic or not. I have two eyes, and I must read!I love crime thriller novels, but not sure I can go back to pre-1970 with them. People talked funny back then. Really!? I think almost all my favorite crime thrillers predate 1970 by a fair bit. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 20:25:52 GMT -5
I love crime thriller novels, but not sure I can go back to pre-1970 with them. People talked funny back then. Really!? I think almost all my favorite crime thrillers predate 1970 by a fair bit. I haven't read any real classics I don't think. My mom used to just buy whatever old books were at the thrift store, so she had a handful of 50's crime novels. I read a couple, or tried to, when I got into thriller novels. Wasn't my cup of tea. I'm a huge Erica Spindler and Tami Hoag fan. I think it's possible, besides the language, the pace at which the newer books are set is more amped up than an older one. Like watching an action cop movie from a few decades back and then watching anything with Jason Statham. In movies I tend to prefer less mindless adrenaline but I think I like it in my thriller novels. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 21, 2014 21:42:18 GMT -5
I love crime thriller novels, but not sure I can go back to pre-1970 with them. People talked funny back then. Really!? I think almost all my favorite crime thrillers predate 1970 by a fair bit. If I'm in the mood for a crime novel (which is pretty rare since I mostly read history non-fiction) I'll just re-read one of Raymond Chandler's novels. I read The Long Goodbye two years in a row.
I was thinking of reading a little more Agatha Christie. Or maybe some Mickey Spillane.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 21, 2014 23:54:15 GMT -5
As a comics historian, I've read comic books from every decade since Max Gaines invented the modern floppy in the early 1930s. I can read any of them and enjoy them but my preference is for material published between 1955 and 1986. And I have to say I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum from my friend Icctrombone: I want a comic it takes me half an hour to read. Modern comics, as a rule, are way too quick a read to satisfy me. Cei-U! Wants some meat in that sammich! This is how I am, too, however, Stan Lee's writing of X-Men is just not something I can enjoy. He didn't set them apart as individuals, imo. He could do so with their powers, but not their personalities. His Captain America is pretty damn awful, too, imo. I know a lot of people here adore his writing, but it wasn't until his later Fantastic Four (not too late) and then his Silver Surfer, that I could actually start to enjoy his writing. His writing style, imo, was perfect for Silver Surfer. I'm not saying it was a classic for the ages - and kind of an obvious Fantastic Four/Spider-man knock-off when ya think about it - but Stan's X-men did have distinct voices. Cyclops was the angsty stick-in the mud, Iceman the impusive young'n, Beast the garrolous intellectual with the voluminous vocabulary, Angel was just sort of "there" and Jean Grey was.... a girl who liked Girl things like Romance novels and boys and knitting and OK, ya got me, she was pretty much indistinguishable from any of the OTHER early Marvel female characters under Stan's pen. (But turned into one of the most interesting when Roy Thomas sent her away to college and gave her her own setting and supporting cast.) And Captain America DOES pick up, but it takes a year or two. After the first few "action" stories where the real STORY story was Cap vs. Zemo over in the Avengers and his own feature was just killin' time and some tepid, comics code ruined retelling of awesome Golden Age stories, you have the Sleeper and Cosmic Cube storylines which are legit classics. Fantastic Four and Spider-man were the best of the best, but Cap EVENTUALLY turns quite good. |
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