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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 23, 2014 23:10:26 GMT -5
Famous Funnies Series 1 (1933) - Hang on. What time is it now? 
Tough question, but if I'm reading the OP correctly, the bulk of my collection (or "hoard," as my family shamefully refers to it) hails from 1972 - 1982. I call it ballast because I've accumulated an enormous amount of it over the years, and if I were to die tomorrow, the perception would be that this is the period I was most interested in, but it doesn't reflect my current tastes in any appreciable way.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 23:13:40 GMT -5
I'm mostly a Silver Age guy, of course, but yeah -- lots of great stuff from 2000-2010 ... or I should say 2005-2010, since that's when I started reading comics again. (Not to say 2000-2004 didn't produce lots of quality stuff as well; I'm simply not nearly as well acquainted with it.)
And that's pretty much ignoring (as I did, & do, & very likely will continue to) Marvel's & DC's tentpole characters, not to mention the sickeningly idolized, hideously overrated likes of Grant "At Least Dan Would Get Around to Putting Me Out Eventually If I Were Lying on Fire in Front of Him ... I Think" Morrison.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 23:33:02 GMT -5
Otherwise, just as "the Golden Age of science fiction is 12," for me the Golden Age of comics was 8, so obviously my favorite range of years would be roughly 1967-1969 (taking me up to age 10, actually).
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 23, 2014 23:34:59 GMT -5
1980-1985
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Post by shaxper on Aug 23, 2014 23:41:38 GMT -5
I think I see shaxper's problem for the 2000-2010 decade, he just hasn't read enough of them. He probably has the same problem for several other decades. The solution?  I actually read more new comics between 2005 and 2008 than I did at any other time. I had an extensive pull full of comics that were pretty good, but, at the end of the day, very little of it was truly memorable/worthwhile. Still, I will take that clone anytime! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 23, 2014 23:46:16 GMT -5
Since I began reading comics circa 1961, then the Silver Age will always be my favorite through roughly 1974. DC with Weisinger Superman and the Julie Schwartz edited books, Marvel Comics, Warren magazines,Tower Comics, Herbie...
The worst period? Hands down the years immediately following the implementation of the Comics Code in 1955. EC comics destroyed and dozens of publishers going out of business as sales fell. The heavy handed censorship drove most adults away from comics and the remaining publishers geared all their books to children under the age of 14 only. Sure,there were some notable quality exceptions such as Carl Barks, Ditko, Sugar n Spike,Little Lulu, the beginnings of DC Silver Age Heroes.But the evolution of comics was set back for decades
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Post by shaxper on Aug 24, 2014 0:02:01 GMT -5
The worst period? Hands down the years immediately following the implementation of the Comics Code in 1955. EC comics destroyed and dozens of publishers going out of business as sales fell. The heavy handed censorship drove most adults away from comics and the remaining publishers geared all their books to children under the age of 14 only. Sure,there were some notable quality exceptions such as Carl Barks, Ditko, Sugar n Spike,Little Lulu, the beginnings of DC Silver Age Heroes.But the evolution of comics was set back for decades I'd take the funny animal explosion (wait, that sounded wrong) over the stale nature of the post-WWII comics. I'd call 1942 thru 1944 the driest years in comicdom. Thankfully, we had EC to get us through after that. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 0:13:03 GMT -5
Depends on the genre and publisher.
I love 80's oddball black and white independents. I love 70's mags. I love current mainstream independents. I'm just getting into Golden Age stuff, so can't really say I'm a Golden Age fanatic, but I'm enjoying what I'm reading in EC reprints and Yoe books.
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Post by nicksoapdish on Aug 24, 2014 0:36:06 GMT -5
For me, the "Golden Age" is simply when I started reading comics. I started late (18) and somehow managed to start collecting and even enjoying comics during one of their most reviled times - the Collector Era. I started in 1990 and tracked back a few years, especially with the Giffen/Maguire Justice League America/International/Europe, the Breyfogle Batman and Amazing Spider-Man back to (and yes, including Todd McFarlane). I guess that it lasted through the mid-to-late 90s since that's when my pull list first started contracting.
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Post by ironchimp on Aug 24, 2014 4:47:48 GMT -5
1984-1994
US black and white boom, vertigo and the british invasion.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 24, 2014 6:07:46 GMT -5
I found The Ultimates ( 2002)from Millar and Hitch to be Brilliant. And Hitman ( 1996) is something I reread just about every year. Every few years or so Someone comes out with a book that " you can't live without".
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Post by shaxper on Aug 24, 2014 6:49:08 GMT -5
For me, the "Golden Age" is simply when I started reading comics. I started late (18) and somehow managed to start collecting and even enjoying comics during one of their most reviled times - the Collector Era. I started in 1990 and tracked back a few years, especially with the Giffen/Maguire Justice League America/International/Europe, the Breyfogle Batman and Amazing Spider-Man back to (and yes, including Todd McFarlane). I guess that it lasted through the mid-to-late 90s since that's when my pull list first started contracting. Giffen Justice League is awesome, as is Breyfogle on Batman. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Aug 24, 2014 8:01:01 GMT -5
I'm sure I could come up with at least a hundred things I liked that came out in that period. Liked? or couldn't live without? I can think of a few true greats: Planetary, Usagi Yojimbo, Walking Dead (though I haven't read it), Paul Dini on Detective Comics, JH Williams III's art in general. But what else was truly AMAZING in that time frame? Fables! (though that started a bit before 2000).. I think some of the good Dick Grayson as Batman stuff, too. For me, I think I'm with Shax, late 70s/early 80s are my favorite... I'd probably say 77 - 87. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 24, 2014 12:12:09 GMT -5
If I'm going with a decade then it would probably be 1986-95. Watchmen through the growth of Vertigo with a ton of good independent stuff thrown in.
There have been a lot of good books in every era. Just as there have been far more crap books in every era.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 0:36:26 GMT -5
The span of years with the most of my favorite books is 1996-2008 (Long Halloween to the end of Planetary). But, I didn't start reading comics until around 2000 and until very recently didn't read much non-contemporary stuff and I'm starting to realize that most of the stuff I felt was good was only good relative to the other stuff out at that time. The small amount of Silver and Bronze Age stuff I've read has been much more enjoyable overall, so I'd rather only be allowed to read stuff from 1963-73 or 1977-87. Gun to my head, I'd pick the former since Doom Patrol was the book that really got me into classics.
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