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Post by foxley on Aug 26, 2021 8:11:38 GMT -5
This is off the top of my head. I'm sure I could expand the list with a little more thought. 1960s Bat Lash Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery The Twilight Zone 1970s Doorway to Nightmare Jonah Hex Monster of Frankenstein
The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor The Shadow (DC) Tarzan (DC) Tomb of Dracula
1980s Baker Street G.I. Joe Special Missions Jon Sable, Freelance The Maze Agency Ms. Tree 1990s Sandman The Shadow Strikes Tarzan (Dark Horse) Tellos Whiteout XXXenophile Zorro (Topps) 2000s Fables Jonah Hex Queen & Country Red Sonja (Dynamite) Ruse Le Scorpion Sojourn 2010s Barracuda Black Magick Penny for Your Soul Rivers of London Warlord of Mars |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 26, 2021 10:03:41 GMT -5
1940s/1950s: Eisner's Spirit, Disney ducks by Barks, Pogo, any number of individual stories published by EC
1960s: Nothing I've read really stands out to me here
1970s: Contract with God, Logan's Run (Marvel), Battlestar Galactica (Marvel), lots of other stuff
1980s: Love & Rockets, Groo the Wanderer
1990s: Grendel Tales: Devils & Deaths/Devil's Choices
2000s: Safe Area Gorazde, Rabbi's Cat
2010s: Joe Kubert Presents.
Postscript 1: I think if I'm asked this question in about five years, when I've (hopefully) had some time to catch up with a lot of the books from my 'lost decade' (most of the 1990s and early '00s), my answers will probably be quite different for several of these decades.
Postscript 2: For the 1970s, I was tempted to put Goodwin and Simonson's Manhunter in first place - yeah, he wears that outlandish outfit that puts him in the superhero camp, but it's more pulpy, noirish action/adventure than superhero.
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Post by berkley on Aug 26, 2021 20:45:57 GMT -5
I'm trying to come up with a decade in which my favorite comic would be a superhero comic. And I don't think I can come up with one.
For me, the 60s would be the most likely candidate... I'll have to think about it. But no, for the most part, leaving out superhero comics doesn't really narrow it down much in my case either.
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 26, 2021 21:54:24 GMT -5
1940's: Frankenstein
1950's: MAD; Roy Raymond, TV Detective; EC Horror
1960's: Man, I can't actually think of anything - do those Rocky and Bullwinkle 'Cheerio' ads count?
1970's: Jonah Hex; Harvey Pekar
1980's: Harvey Pekar; Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman
1990's: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2000's: The Walking Dead
2010's: The New Dedwardians
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 27, 2021 15:18:00 GMT -5
1960s:
Tomahawk
Blackhawk
Challengers of the Unknown
Anthro
Bat Lash
Sgt. Rock
Sgt. Fury
Enemy Ace
War That Time Forgot
Rip Hunter
Johnny Cloud
Adam Strange
MARS Patrol Total War
Bob Hope
1970s
Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser
Conan
Demon
Kamandi
Swamp Thing
Sgt. Rock
Tarzan (DC)
Killraven
Kull
Red Sonja
The Shadow (DC)
Tomb of Dracula
Doc Savage
Hercules (DC)
Jonah Hex
Scalphunter
Master of Kung Fu
Ragman (Is he a superhero?)
1980s
Swamp Thing
The Question
Blackhawk
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Post by foxley on Aug 28, 2021 4:13:27 GMT -5
I was tempted to throw The Phantom Stranger on my 70s list, and Sandman Mystery Theatre on my 90s, as they can only peripherally be considered superhero books.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 28, 2021 11:40:52 GMT -5
Can't even think in terms of decades other than mentioning a few series I adore but not yet mentioned.
Where Monsters Dwell
Where Creatures Roam
Nexus
Grimjack
GI Joe
Killraven/War of the Worlds
Deathlok
Kid Colt
Two Gun Kid
Outlaw Kid
Ringo Kid
Mighty Marvel Western
Scalped
Barks/Rosa Ducks
Jughead
John Carter, Warlord of Mars
Doc Savage Marvel magazine
Shadow DC comics
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 28, 2021 11:46:27 GMT -5
Oh, thought of another good one from the 70s: War is Hell (Marvel).
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 28, 2021 12:03:13 GMT -5
I left the 1960s out in my post above, but I got to thinking: to the extent that Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD stories from Strange Tales and then the solo series count as non-superhero, I'd put that down for the '60s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2021 12:45:59 GMT -5
I left the 1960s out in my post above, but I got to thinking: to the extent that Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD stories from Strange Tales and then the solo series count as non-superhero, I'd put that down for the '60s. the general rule of thumb I used whether to include something or not (and there were exceptions) was that if the stories took place in a shared universe where super-heroes existed, they were super-hero stories by association and I didn't include them. Of course, by that token, I should have left off Marvel's Conan which had ties to the MU, and a few others I did include. I left Phantom Stranger off even though most of the stories in his book were horror because he was a member of the JLA, so a super-hero by association, Falk's Phantom stories are jungle stories, but Phantom himself is a costumed hero so as much a super-hero as Batman or Shang Chi, who both wear costumes (of a sort) and co-exist and operate in a super-hero universe. Gaiman's Sandman could also be excluded by this standard, but I chose to include it, so my own standards are arbitrary. but since Captain America, Tony Stark and a passel of super-villains populated the Nick Fury stories, they got the super-hero story label and left off. It really is difficult to have a hard and fast dividing line as to what is and isn't super-hero stories when the stories are set in a super-hero universe. Much easier if super-heroes aren't part of the equation for the story at all. -M |
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Post by The Cheat on Aug 28, 2021 13:21:12 GMT -5
No super-heroes in Ennis' Punisher MAX, so I'd stick that in my list somewhere.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 29, 2021 12:38:23 GMT -5
1970sFafhrd and the Grey Mouser Conan Demon Kamandi Swamp Thing Sgt. Rock Tarzan (DC) Killraven Kull Red Sonja The Shadow (DC) Tomb of Dracula Doc Savage Hercules (DC) Jonah Hex Scalphunter Master of Kung Fu Ragman (Is he a superhero?) Personally, I'd consider Ragman a superhero. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 29, 2021 13:31:16 GMT -5
1970sFafhrd and the Grey Mouser Conan Demon Kamandi Swamp Thing Sgt. Rock Tarzan (DC) Killraven Kull Red Sonja The Shadow (DC) Tomb of Dracula Doc Savage Hercules (DC) Jonah Hex Scalphunter Master of Kung Fu Ragman (Is he a superhero?) Personally, I'd consider Ragman a superhero. Objection sustained. 😊 |
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Post by commond on Aug 30, 2021 17:25:15 GMT -5
I forgot a few:
90s
Stray Bullets
Bacchus
From Hell
Usagi Yojimbo
Preacher
Transmetropolitan
Hellblazer
00s
Fullmetal Alchemist
Vagabond
Claymore
10s
Vinland Saga
Attack on Titan
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 30, 2021 18:29:04 GMT -5
90's - Hitman
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