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Post by badwolf on Jan 22, 2020 8:57:44 GMT -5
I grew up in the 70s and 80s so I'm voting for the 60s. I also love the early 70s (I read my first comic in 1975.)
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 22, 2020 12:34:48 GMT -5
I grew up in the 70s and 80s so I'm voting for the 60s. I also love the early 70s (I read my first comic in 1975.) Hey, that's the same year I read my first comic! |
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Post by MDG on Jan 22, 2020 12:50:24 GMT -5
I put the 50s. There were a lot of great things breaking in the 80s, but comics in the Atom Age--and yes, I use that term--were an interesting reflection of the culture (and, yes, that's true of any decade). Also: the work of Kurtzman, Ingels, and Toth.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 22, 2020 17:07:24 GMT -5
I'm just going to vote '90s because I've been reading a lot of early '90s DC and late '90s Marvel and think they both had a number of real highlights. Not the most serious or considered vote though, every decade listed has some great stuff I know of.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 22, 2020 18:25:05 GMT -5
I grew up in the 70s and 80s so I'm voting for the 60s. I also love the early 70s (I read my first comic in 1975.) Hey, that's the same year I read my first comic! TWINS
What was your first?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 22, 2020 18:30:00 GMT -5
I grew up in the 70s and 80s so I'm voting for the 60s. I also love the early 70s (I read my first comic in 1975.) Hey, that's the same year I read my first comic! The year I bought my first comic. I'd read comics purchased by siblings before that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 19:41:22 GMT -5
I went with the 1970s as I really find myself more and more drawn to the Bronze Age Era of comics lately.
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Post by rberman on Jan 22, 2020 21:44:00 GMT -5
It's good to be scientific, right? So I made a list out of my head and my trade collections and briefly scanned a "best of" list to add a few obvious ones I had forgotten. I tried to assign each series to its best decade. Here's what I came up with:
40s:
Golden Age everything. The Spirit.
50s:
Weird everything. Crime stories. EC. Mad Magazine.
60s:
Original Spidey, Avengers, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, Thor, Ant-Man. Original JLA, Doom Patrol, and Legion. Tintin. Adam Strange. Steranko Fury. The War that Time Forgot.
70s:
O’Neil and Adams on Batman. Conan and Red Sonja. Byrne and Perez Avengers. Micronauts. Fourth World. Kamandi. Vampirella. Heavy Metal. Deadly Hands of Kung Fu. Warlord. Zap. Valerian. Wrightson Swamp Thing. Tomb of Dracula. Conway, Englehart, and O’Neil JLA. Englehart Avengers. Lone Wolf and Cub.
80s:
Claremont on X-Men and New Mutants. Byrne on FF and Alpha Flight. Levitz/Giffen/Lightle on Legion. Wolfman/Perez on Titans. Watchmen. Dark Knight Returns. The Killing Joke. Camelot 3000. Elfquest. Cerberus. ROM. Animal Man. Moore Swamp Thing. Amethyst. Secret Wars. Epic Illustrated. Miller Daredevil. Simonson Thor. Maus. Elektra: Assassin. Love and Rockets. Strikeforce: Morituri. Atari Force. GI Joe. Eisner graphic novels. Akira. The Longbow Hunters. Stern Captain America. V for Vendetta. PAD Hulk. Perez Wonder Woman.
90s:
Bone. Kingdom Come. Marvels. Doom Patrol. Flex Mentallo. Morrison JLA. Infinity Gauntlet. Kabuki. The Tick. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Usagi Yojimbo. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Top 10. Gaiman Sandman. Sandman Mystery Theatre. Ministry of Space. Understanding Comics. Transmetropolitan. The Invisibles. A Distant Soil. Age of Apocalypse. Rosa Scrooge. Tom Strong. Promethea. Batman: Year One. Hellboy. Sin City. From Hell. 300. The Golden Age. Ghost World.
00s:
Justice. Morrison and Whedon X-Men. Seven Soldiers. Walking Dead. Astro City. Superman: Secret Identity. All-Star Superman. Fun Home. Persepolis. Planetary. Alias. The New Frontier. The Ultimates. Y: The Last Man. Gaiman: Marvel 1602.
10s:
Saga. Squirrel Girl. Ms Marvel. Habibi. King Mister Miracle, Vision, and Sheriff of Babylon. Multiversity. The Kingstone Bible. Alex + Ada. Fraction/Aja Hawkeye. Waid Archie.
Now, there's probably a lot in the last 20 years (and the Golden Age) to which I am simply oblivious. So maybe this list is just a declaration of my own provincial ignorance. But based on it, the 80s were the peak when the Big Two were hitting on all cylinders, and the indies were roaring to life.
But I grew up in the 80s, so I must go with the 90s, which I only learned about from reading after the fact.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 23, 2020 10:46:31 GMT -5
Hey, that's the same year I read my first comic! TWINS
What was your first?
I think it was one of these:   How about you? |
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Post by badwolf on Jan 23, 2020 11:25:09 GMT -5
TWINS
What was your first?
I think it was one of these: How about you? Either one of these (they were the same month):
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jan 23, 2020 11:26:21 GMT -5
I grew up in the 90's. The 70s for me. The right mix of classic art and comics fun throughout Marvel and most publishers. 60's would be second, 80's third and then probably the 50's and 40's.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 28, 2020 14:12:06 GMT -5
Last day to vote!
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 28, 2020 15:36:32 GMT -5
The '50's era books. Since I was born in the early 60's, I cut my teeth on the Silver and Bronze age books. However, I have always had an affinity for the immediate post-war era.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 28, 2020 16:33:58 GMT -5
I like all the decades though.
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Post by samurai32 on Jan 28, 2020 19:27:17 GMT -5
This was an easy choice for me. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, but my favorite decade is the 80s, even though I wasn't reading comics during that decade and came to that material after the fact. So 80s it is.
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