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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 14:27:21 GMT -5
I remember this thread on the old forums. In order here are mine:
1970's - Silver Age concepts first updated & DC & Marvel tried new things (like Ghost Rider). 1960's - When I started reading comics. 1940's - When it all started. 1980's - Great stuff like First Comics. Also worked PT in a comic store. 1950's - Not great for super heroes but some great stuff in other genres. 2000's - Liked the quality of independent publishers titles. 1990's - Least favorite decade. A few gems but overall a decade I could skip. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 7, 2014 15:37:08 GMT -5
Leaving nostalgia out of it,I would say the 80s.Mainly due to the independent comic company explosion allowing creators to freely produce great comics in large quantities.Also DC became re-vitalized mid decade.
After that,its a very mixed bag
1940s-nothing matches the energy of the early years
1950s-EC and many other great books-but after the code it became the worst time in comics
1960s-the decade I grew up in.Early marvel,Warren,Tower,Julie Schwartz comics
1970s-funky-the 1960s books got stale but lots of new, and interesting books from Marvel and DC.Unfortunately new companies couldn't last long
1990s-huge,huge amount of product so lots of good but a tremendous amount of bad
2000-comics now written for "adults" which was both a good and bad thing.New concepts were only being attempted in the independents,prices went thru the roof
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 7, 2014 15:38:59 GMT -5
1980's for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 16:00:34 GMT -5
1980's and the current decade
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Post by fanboystranger on Jun 7, 2014 17:10:26 GMT -5
'80s for me. So many of the books that I return to re-read are from that decade: Grendel, American Flagg!, Love and Rockets, Grimjack, Nexus, Mr X, Moore and Veitch's respective runs on Swamp Thing, Simonson's Thor, Born Again, Stern's Avengers, Jon Sable, Legion of Superheroes, the early Delano years of Hellblazer, Animal Man, the start of Sandman, the Davis years of Captain Britain and Excalibur, Suicide Squad, the Chaykin and Helfer Shadow series, O'Neil and Cowan on The Question, the first Marshall Law series, Charley's War, Nemesis the Warlock, Journey, The Adventures of Luther Awkwright, pre-crazytown Cerebus and so many more.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 7, 2014 17:58:16 GMT -5
Definitely the 80s for me.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 7, 2014 18:02:54 GMT -5
The '30s/'40s, followed by the '60s, the '80s, the '70s and the '50s. I've read too few books from the '90s on to offer an informed opinion.
Cei-U!
I summon the Golden Age giddiness!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 18:16:17 GMT -5
1. 1970s
2. 1980s
3. 2001-2010
4. 2011-current
5. 1960s
6. 1990s
Can't include the 40s and 50s although I'd rank Archies quite highly.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 7, 2014 18:52:25 GMT -5
The 1960s are the best.
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 7, 2014 20:12:10 GMT -5
1. 1960s: DC in its prime and my two favorite Marvel series ever
2. 1970s: it's home
3. 1930s/ 1940s: I need more Captain Marvel reprints
4. 1990s: very feast or famine
5. 2000s: wildly inconsistent as well
6. 1950s: if I make a concerted effort to buy more, this ranking will rise
7. 1980s: many points of light, but an ocean of mediocrity or worse for me
8. 2010s: I'm always hard on the rookies
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Post by tolworthy on Jun 8, 2014 2:07:39 GMT -5
Agreed. I'm genuinely surprised that other eras are getting more votes. Variety is the spice of life I suppose. In addition to the obvious (Marvel's most creative period) the 1960s were the golden age for British comics: the Beano was inspired in this era, and we had everything from TV21 to Look and Learn to satisfy our full colour needs. Ah, the Trigan Empire...  |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 8, 2014 2:21:59 GMT -5
This is very hard. I'm going to quantify and come back with my results.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 8, 2014 2:26:29 GMT -5
- 1980's: When I started reading. The first half of the decade saw the apex/swan song of the traditional superhero concept at Marvel and DC IMHO (Spider-Man, X-Men, FF, Thor, Daredevil, Teen Titans etc.) while the second half gave us Post-Crisis DC, Watchmen, DKR's and the move toward adult themes (Peter Parker gets married!) and deconstruction; the seeds of destruction were being planted for the 90's, but it can be argued that superhero comics were never better at Marvel and DC than in the first half of the 80's. (And a bit later at DC, of course)
- 1960's: The most creatively fertile decade by far; DC was at its creative apex in the early 60's with its Silver Age reboots of the Flash, Green Lantern, the Justice League's introduction and the explosion of creativity in the all powerful Superman line. The Marvel Age changed everything of course and Marvel clearly took the lead, at least creatively, by the mid-60's. DC made a bit of a comeback in the late 60's, most notably with the revitalization of Batman and an infusion of new creative talent.
- 1970's: Coming between the 60's and the 80's, the 70's is probably a tad underrated, but what I like about it most of all is the diversity. Marvel and DC were now able to bring back in horror concepts (Tomb of Dracula, Ghost Rider, Swamp Thing, etc.) and fantasy and science fiction made a big comeback as well, most notably with Conan and Star Wars comics. (The latter, according to Jim Shooter, "saved" Marvel at the time.)
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 8, 2014 5:20:30 GMT -5
Equally tho one could argue the 80s were the golden era of british comics - mills, wagner, grant, milligan, morrison, moore, gaiman, campbell, delano, bolton, bolland, mckean, don lawrence's storm, etc etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2014 5:31:33 GMT -5
Is it cheating if I say now because I can pick and choose the best of the 30s/40s/50s/60s/70s/80s etc. I want to read usually very accessible and affordable in collected formats?
If not, then I will go 70s, it was my entry point, there was a lot of diversity of genre and style still in the big 2 plus interesting and fun indys, and I still had access to 60s and earlier material via reprint books like Marvel Triple Action, 80 page giants, etc.
The 80s with it explosion of publishers would be a distant second for me.
I like earlier and later material too, but I am too young to have experienced comics before the 70s (only snuck a few months in in '69) and by the 90s and later I had lost a bit of the sense of wonder comics had provided in the 70s and 80s as I had more purchasing power and could more easily get stuff, it held less awe when I did get stuff. It took me a long time to get that sense of wonder back about things and it really only happened recently when so much material became available that I never thought I would have access to.
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