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Post by electricmastro on Aug 24, 2019 1:27:48 GMT -5
My personal favorites include:
Archie Comics: Life with Archie (1958), She's Josie (1963), Betty and Me (1965)
Charlton Comics: Captain Atom (1965), Judomaster (1966), Thunderbolt (1966), Blue Beetle (1967), The Peacemaker (1967)
Gold Key: Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom (1962), The Phantom (1962), Magnus, Robot Fighter (1963)
Harvey Comics: Casper's Ghostland (1958), Wendy the Good Little Witch (1960), Spooky Spooktown (1961), Wendy Witch World (1961), Casper and Nightmare (1964)
Marvel Comics: Fantastic Four (1961), The Amazing Spider-Man (1963), The Avengers (1963), The X-Men (1963), Daredevil (1964), Captain America (1968), Doctor Strange (1968), Iron Man (1968), The Silver Surfer (1968), Sub-Mariner (1968)
National Comics Publications, Inc./National Periodical Publications, Inc./DC Comics: The Flash (1959), Green Lantern (1960), Justice League of America (1960), Aquaman (1962), Doom Patrol (1964), Hawkman (1964), Plastic Man (1966), Teen Titans (1966), The Spectre (1967), The Phantom Stranger (1969)
Tower Comics: T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (1965), Tippy Teen (1965), Undersea Agent (1966)
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 24, 2019 5:57:55 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum electrimastro. Nice list of books, although I never read the Gold key superheroes nor any Tower comics as a kid.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 24, 2019 9:27:58 GMT -5
As far as American comic books go, my favourites from this era would almost exclusively be Marvel titles. Way out ahead would be Amazing Spider-Man, which is far and away the best of Marvel's Silver Age output, as far as I'm concerned.
I also really like Silver Age Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four and Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.E.I.L.D.. Slightly below those last three titles I'd put Daredevil, which is wildly uneven, but brilliant at some points, while being mind-numbingly bad at others (the whole Mike Murdoch twin brother thing comes to mind as an example of the worst of Daredevil). Then there's stuff like Captain America, Avengers and Iron Man which I can enjoy, but not in large doses.
As for non-Marvel stuff, I really like ACG's Herbie comics a lot. Tower's U.N.D.E.R.S.E.A. Agent is a bit of a guilty pleasure too. I also really love '60s era MAD magazine.
DC's Silver Age superhero stuff leaves me pretty cold, but I do like groovy comedy stuff like Angel and the Ape.
Terms like the Golden Age or Silver Age aren't really applicable to British and European Comics, but from this era I'm a big, big fan of Dan Dare, who appeared in Eagle comic. From Europe, Edgar P. Jacobs' Blake & Mortimer stories are great, and Hérge's Tintin adventures from this period, such as The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin in Tibet, The Castafiore Emerald, and Flight 714 are huge favourites of mine.
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 24, 2019 10:29:49 GMT -5
DC: Batman (post 1964), Detective Comics (same, and yes, they are Golden Age titles, but I must add their Silver Age era, as they are among my DC favorites), DC Special, Unexpected, Green Lantern, The Spectre, The Doom Patrol, The Witching Hour, Showcase, House of Secrets, The Phantom Stranger, Adventure Comics (for the Legion of Superheores stories) and The Brave and the Bold.
Honorable mention: Sea Devils, Aquaman, The Teen Titans, and although Our Army at War predated the Silver Age by four years, some of its greatest stories were published in that period. Same with House of Mystery and My Greatest Adventure--the latter title launching one year earlier than the Silver Age's calendar date.
Marvel: The Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, The Avengers, Tales of Suspense, The Fantastic Four, Tales to Astonish, Fantasy Masterpieces, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.E.I.L.D., The Spectacular Spider-Man (1968 magazines), Invincible Iron Man and Strange Tales.
Honorable mention: The original X-Men, Captain Marvel, and Marvel Collector's Item Classics.
Warren: Eerie, Creepy, Blazing Combat, and on occasion, Vampirella.
EC: MAD - THE most creatively daring and explosive period for the magazine.
Gold Key: Star Trek, Ripley's Believe it or Not / True Ghost Stories, The Green Hornet, Boris Karloff/Thriller and Doctor Solar.
Honorable mention: a number of one shots, with their adaptation of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) easily topping that chart.
Dell: Lobo.
Archie: Life with Archie, Archie, Everything's Archie and Jughead.
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Post by electricmastro on Aug 24, 2019 11:14:56 GMT -5
As far as American comic books go, my favourites from this era would almost exclusively be Marvel titles. Way out ahead would be Amazing Spider-Man, which is far and away the best of Marvel's Silver Age output, as far as I'm concerned. I also really like Silver Age Dr. Strange, Fantastic Four and Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.E.I.L.D.. Slightly below those last three titles I'd put Daredevil, which is wildly uneven, but brilliant at some points, while being mind-numbingly bad at others (the whole Mike Murdoch twin brother thing comes to mind as an example of the worst of Daredevil). Then there's stuff like Captain America, Avengers and Iron Man which I can enjoy, but not in large doses. I'd agree that while Spider-Man had the most, and even best, arcs of any Marvel series at this time, I'd also say that a definite highlight would be the 1966 Galactus Trilogy:   |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 24, 2019 11:17:58 GMT -5
Too many...
Superman & Action-often good, usually entertaining
Batman-infantino issues, then when O'Neil and Adams start up
Dynamo-my favorite of the THUNDER Agents books
Peter Cannon-really good stories, Morisi art.
Blue Beetle-lots of Ditko excitement, not as much Randian nonsense. Question back-ups are good, though that other thing is a big deal there.
Magnus Robot Fighter-gorgeous book
Tarzan-Russ Manning stuff.
Life with Archie-lot of fun stuff
Richie Rich-very inventive in this era, hadn't been overloaded with a dozen titles with the same stories, yet.
Blazing Combat-best book out there.
DC War books-excellent stories, terrific art
Sgt Fury-bit too over the top; but like watching a 60s war movie, on paper
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD-spy-fi fun
Fantastic Four-lived up to the name.
Captain America-dynamic action, great adventures
Bat Lash-excellent western
Rawhide Kid-Kirby issues, especially
Adam Strange-a hero with brains, Infantino art
Flash-fun and inventive
Secret Six-great concept, plenty of intrigue, too short a life
Charlton Hercules-Sam Glanzman experimenting with his art
Fightin' Army-Lonely War of Willy Schultz, from Will Franz and Sam Glanzman
Looney Tunes-still damn funny
Junior Woodchucks
Three Mousketeers
Fox and the Crow
Super Goof
Uncle Scrooge
Maverick-Dan Spiegle art
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 24, 2019 15:20:07 GMT -5
'60s highlights for me would be about the artists...
Ideally I'd want all of these:
Joe Kubert: Hawkman and Enemy Ace
Gil Kane: Green Lantern, The Atom and Undersea Agents
Steve Ditko: Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Hawk & Dove and Captain Atom
Wally Wood: on The THUNDER Agents and briefly Daredevil
Jack Kirby: The Fantastic Four, Thor and those first few Avengers and The X-Men
Murphy Anderson: Hawkman and The Spectre
Nick Cardy: Aquaman
John Rosenberg: The Fly and The Jaguar
Russ Manning: Magnus Robot-Fighter
Jack Sparling: The Secret Six plus that one issue of X-Men and Gold Key Tiger Girl
Marie Severin: Doctor Strange, The Sub-Mariner and Not Brand Ecch
Jim Aparo: Aquaman (and one Brave & Bold Batman & Green Arrow) and The Phantom Stranger
John Buscema: The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, The Sub-Mariner and Silver Surfer
Neal Adams: Deadman, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Batman (Detective Comics), The X-Men, The Avengers
and a few other mini-mini runs...
Bob Powell on Giant-Man in Tales To Astonish
Alex Toth's one Brave & Bold (The Flash and The Atom)
Kurt Schaffenberger on Supergirl in Adventure Comics
Al Williamson and Reed Crandall on Flash Gordon
Steve Ditko inked by Wally Wood on Jungle Jim
^ as above on The THUNDER Agents
Jim Steranko's two X-Mens (plus a cover)
John Severin on Nick Fury in Strange Tales
Betty & Veronica Summer Funs by Dan DeCarlo
Howie Post's Anthro
that one Dolphin by J. Scott Pike
I don't think Disney comics were at a high point like the '40s and '50s, Gold Key was using a lot of reprints of the earlier Dells, they were great but not '60s to me.
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Post by electricmastro on Aug 24, 2019 16:35:01 GMT -5
'60s highlights for me would be about the artists... Steve Ditko: Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Hawk & Dove and Captain Atom Jack Kirby: The Fantastic Four, Thor and those first few Avengers and The X-Men Speaking of Jack Kirby, his illustration of Spider-Man in The Avengers #3 is quite... different from how Steve Ditko illustrated him.  |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 24, 2019 20:09:04 GMT -5
'60s highlights for me would be about the artists... Steve Ditko: Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Hawk & Dove and Captain Atom Jack Kirby: The Fantastic Four, Thor and those first few Avengers and The X-Men Speaking of Jack Kirby, his illustration of Spider-Man in The Avengers #3 is quite... different from how Steve Ditko illustrated him. I don't know why, but Kirby seemed to have a tough time of drawing Spidey. He never looks quite right somehow when Kirby drew him (unless Ditko was inking him of course, as he did on the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15 and the back-up story from Amazing Spider-Man #8). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2019 21:18:24 GMT -5
My personal favorites include: Archie Comics - Every Issue Charlton Comics - Captain Atom (1965), Thunderbolt (1966), Blue Beetle (1967) Gold Key The Phantom (1962) Marvel Comics: Fantastic Four (1961), The Amazing Spider-Man (1963), The Avengers (1963), The X-Men (1963), Daredevil (1964), Captain America (1968), Doctor Strange (1968), Iron Man (1968), The Silver Surfer (1968), Sub-Mariner (1968) National Comics Publications, Inc./National Periodical Publications, Inc./DC Comics: The Flash (1959), Green Lantern (1960), Justice League of America (1960), Aquaman (1962), Doom Patrol (1964), Hawkman (1964), Plastic Man (1966), Teen Titans (1966), The Spectre (1967), The Phantom Stranger (1969) Tower Comics - T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (1965) Undersea Agent (1966)I took your list and modify it and with shaxper inspirations through this forum ... the one in bold became a dear favorite of mine and Wally Wood became an instant favorite. |
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Post by electricmastro on Aug 24, 2019 22:21:19 GMT -5
Also, Alex Ross art of the Silver Age Justice League of America and Silver Age Marvel heroes:   |
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Post by berkley on Aug 24, 2019 23:59:16 GMT -5
I know I'm in the minority on this but I can't stand Alec Ross's smug superheroes looking down on the viewer with a superior smile on their faces and puffing their chests out.
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Post by electricmastro on Aug 25, 2019 1:52:54 GMT -5
I know I'm in the minority on this but I can't stand Alec Ross's smug superheroes looking down on the viewer with a superior smile on their faces and puffing their chests out. I get that, though honestly, I think it's an effective way of getting them to look dignified and triumphant.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 25, 2019 3:40:15 GMT -5
I know I'm in the minority on this but I can't stand Alec Ross's smug superheroes looking down on the viewer with a superior smile on their faces and puffing their chests out. Well, I'm with you in that minority; I generally don't like any of the painted work by Alex Ross - it's o.k. for an occasional cover, but I really don't like the look of comics in which he also does the interior art, they look too much like Fumetti comics. The thing is, I've seen his pencil and ink work - basically preliminary sketches for his later paintings - which looks absolutely awesome, like the best art from the b&w magazines. |
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 25, 2019 5:04:25 GMT -5
Also, Alex Ross art of the Silver Age Justice League of America and Silver Age Marvel heroes: This Marvel piece was a stronger, more realistic representation than the often bloated MCU films of the past decade. Ross knew what best Silver Age qualities to highlight in his version, Spider-Man in particular. |
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