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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jul 3, 2016 20:13:04 GMT -5
In baseball, there are certain pitches that a batter is best at hitting. Those pitches are said to be in his wheelhouse.
What comic books are in your wheelhouse?
With me it would be 1A and 1B.
The DC Go-Go Check Era would be my 1A. Perhaps because they were my first comic books. And I think the Go-Go Checks were cool. Those Checks bring back a flood of great childhood memories.
1B would be the early 70s. Then, I was buying comics to collect them. It just happened to also be the beginning of the Bronze Age with a lot of new artists and writers entering the field.
So, what time period in comic books are in your wheelhouse?
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Post by shaxper on Jul 3, 2016 20:20:51 GMT -5
My 1A is around 1980 thru 1985, when Wolfan/Perez's New Teen Titans and Claremont's X-Men franchise ruled supreme with soap opera-like story arcs and intense character development.
My 1B is the mid 1970s, with Marvel's b/w magazines, Kirby at his freelance finest, and an era of increasingly eloquent and prosaic writing and intense characterization for comic books.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 3, 2016 21:01:16 GMT -5
Mine is the transition period between Silver and Bronze Ages up until about 1985 or so.
Most of the Silver Age is too simplistic in terms of storytelling for my liking, and a good deal of what has come after the mid-80s has been content produced with the sole intent of selling comics.
With that said, there were many quality comics produced in the Silver Age that I can enjoy, and there have been a good number of post-1985 books that I like, but for me, it doesn't get any better than Miller-era Daredevil, Englehart Captain America, Wolfman and Colan's amazing Tomb of Dracula work, the first 115 issues of Conan, Claremont/Byrne X-Men, Moench/Sienkiewicz on Moon Knight, and the like.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 3, 2016 21:14:45 GMT -5
Tough one....
1A)Silver Age Marvel, it's like they exploded out of absolutely no where and just hit the ground running with no brakes in sight. It was like Marvel was a near unstopable titan of creativity and storytelling back then (name me one other era in comic books that is paid homage to as often as Silver Age Marvel, and I'll...do something I'll later regret betting on?) As much as I adore Bronze and Copper Age DC, I really don't think we could have possibly gotten two great eras of DC without Marvel's guiding light to show them the way
1B)Valiant Era (1991-1996), rising from the ashes of Shooter's tenure at Marvel and his failed experiment, New Universe, Valiant is one of the two reasons why I champion the cause of 90's comics not being as inherently terrible as people often say it is. It was a senoric breath of fresh air during a time when "extreme" was the monitary word of the day
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 21:40:30 GMT -5
Excellent Question
1A) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Fantastic Four Run - it's set the stage for how writers and artists should work and strive for. Two living legends and may their writings and artwork lives on forever.
1B) (tie) Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky Justice League of America Run - for the first 8 years they ruled supreme and their storytelling and artwork set the stage for all future super-teams & JLA - Grant Morrison and Howard Porter (co creator) - made Justice League of America fun again and one of thing that made me happy is that they made Plastic Man a member of that team. I also like Zauriel, Tomorrow Woman, and Orion and Big Barda in the mix of things.
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Post by Warmonger on Jul 3, 2016 22:10:19 GMT -5
70's Marvel is at the top of the list for me, no question.
After that, it's probably DC from the early 80's (starting with Moore's Swamp Thing) through the Vertigo titles of the mid 90's.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 4, 2016 4:38:33 GMT -5
Maybe it's because I'm English and don't follow baseball, but...  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 4, 2016 5:26:01 GMT -5
Maybe it's because I'm English and don't follow baseball, but... It's a sport in which two competing gangs of men armed with clubs do not hit each other and in which the world series are open to only one country (plus one team from its northern neighbour). It's played on a diamond and is sort of like cricket with a masked man playing the role of the wickets. Also, a tobacco-chewing guy wearing a leather glove tries not to get his balls hit with a stick by a man standing over a plate. Hot-dogs are eaten. I'm not explaining it well, am I? |
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jul 4, 2016 7:17:30 GMT -5
Maybe it's because I'm English and don't follow baseball, but... Another way to put it would be what comics are you most knowledgeable about? I would feel comfortable discussing DC comics from the mid 60s but I couldn't tell you anything about Valiant Comics or Image Comics. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 4, 2016 7:37:00 GMT -5
My 1A would be the Silver Age, and not just Marvel and DC. Gold Key, Charlton, Tower, King, Warren: they ALL float my boat.
My 1B would be Marvel in the period between Stan Lee's tenure as EIC and Jim Shooter's, a period of relative spontaneity and extraordinary creativity. Even the out-and-out failures are interesting.
Cei-U!
And, no, despite my current immersion in Golden Age comics, I wasn't tempted to choose that era!
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Post by shaxper on Jul 4, 2016 7:40:33 GMT -5
Maybe it's because I'm English and don't follow baseball, but... It's a sport in which two competing gangs of men armed with clubs do not hit each other and in which the world series are open to only one country (plus one team from its northern neighbour). It's played on a diamond and is sort of like cricket with a masked man playing the role of the wickets. Also, a tobacco-chewing guy wearing a leather glove tries not to get his balls hit with a stick by a man standing over a plate. Hot-dogs are eaten. I'm not explaining it well, am I? If we ever make a Jamie Award for best individual post, I'm choosing this. |
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Post by DubipR on Jul 4, 2016 7:57:55 GMT -5
Comics in my wheelhouse:
1A. DC Comics (1989-2001)- From the Triangle era of Superman to the multiple Bat titles (Dixon was GOD on the on counter-Bat books) to even the random stuff like Xenobrood and Primal Force, I lived and breathed DC at that era. You had the industry's best writers, some of the best new talent and seasoned veterans on the art and the best editorial house. Also DC wasn't afraid not to try something and give it legs. Hell, for Karen Berger alone creating Vertigo and making it what it was, it sealed the time for a high schooler and college reader I was to enjoy every single title. I was picking up at least 35/40 books a month from that era and absorbed every book.
1B. Los Bros Hernandez comics- From Love & Rockets to Mister X and beyond.
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 4, 2016 8:16:37 GMT -5
Maybe it's because I'm English and don't follow baseball, but... Don't worry, I was baffled, too... |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 4, 2016 8:22:33 GMT -5
Mine is the transition period between Silver and Bronze Ages up until about 1985 or so. Most of the Silver Age is too simplistic in terms of storytelling for my liking, and a good deal of what has come after the mid-80s has been content produced with the sole intent of selling comics. With that said, there were many quality comics produced in the Silver Age that I can enjoy, and there have been a good number of post-1985 books that I like, but for me, it doesn't get any better than Miller-era Daredevil, Englehart Captain America, Wolfman and Colan's amazing Tomb of Dracula work, the first 115 issues of Conan, Claremont/Byrne X-Men, Moench/Sienkiewicz on Moon Knight, and the like. I would say I'm the same. I would add Moench's first run on Batman, Bill Mantlo's Micronauts and Rom, early 2000 AD, pretty much all Alan Moore's early British work (plus Swamp Thing and Watchmen) and anything Steve Gerber ever went near to that list, too, as well as JM DeMatteis on Defenders and a lot of early eighties independents like DNAgents. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 4, 2016 8:30:02 GMT -5
My 1B would be Marvel in the period between Stan Lee's tenure as EIC and Jim Shooter's, a period of relative spontaneity and extraordinary creativity. Even the out-and-out failures are interesting. I agree wholeheartedly. When Jim Shooter talks of the books Marvel published when he became EiC, he always states that they were almost all unreadable dreck... something I completely disagree with. There was a variety then that's disproportionate to the relatively small number of books being published, and creators really tried all sorts of things. Conan! Shang-Chi! Gulliver Jones! Warlock! Man-Thing! Ka-Zar! Killraven! Morbius! Dracula! The Invaders! The black and white mags! Yes, many books were late and there were too many reprints... but creatively speaking, that was a great era. |
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