Post by gothos on Sept 18, 2015 17:50:54 GMT -5
I don't know how many people today read adventure stories (superhero or otherwise) for the thrills, but I get the impression that this was pretty much the only reason anyone read such stories in comic books of the Golden Age.
Of course few if any of us lived during that period. When I interact with comics from this era, I find that I'm more aware of them as historical items than I am with stories that came out in my own life-time, whether I actually read them or not. So arguably there may for others, as for me, a little sense of being "removed" from the Golden Age milieu. Thus the "thrill factor" doesn't always come across right away.
Still, I pose the question: what if any adventure-stories from comic books gave you a thrill, even for a bit?
I don't have time to cite specific stories just now, but some of the features that I thought communicated thrilling-ness would include BATMAN, AIRBOY, BLACKHAWK, JUSTICE SOCIETY, and much of the Simon-Kirby stuff.
Anyone else got examples of "cheap thrills?"
Of course few if any of us lived during that period. When I interact with comics from this era, I find that I'm more aware of them as historical items than I am with stories that came out in my own life-time, whether I actually read them or not. So arguably there may for others, as for me, a little sense of being "removed" from the Golden Age milieu. Thus the "thrill factor" doesn't always come across right away.
Still, I pose the question: what if any adventure-stories from comic books gave you a thrill, even for a bit?
I don't have time to cite specific stories just now, but some of the features that I thought communicated thrilling-ness would include BATMAN, AIRBOY, BLACKHAWK, JUSTICE SOCIETY, and much of the Simon-Kirby stuff.
Anyone else got examples of "cheap thrills?"
