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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 4, 2021 15:38:18 GMT -5
Two years ago (has it really been two years?!) in honor of March Madness here in the States, I did a Top Superhero Team Tournament (which the Avengers won easily). This year, with March Madness back, though I’m getting a late start, I decided to do a tournament to decide the top decade between the Big Two, i.e. Marvel and DC.
The first round matchups are just Marvel vs. DC for each decade of the 1940’s through the 2010’s. I’m not quite sure yet how to determine the matchups for the subsequent rounds, though it’s my goal to have the two “best” decades not meet until the finals.
I'll leave each round's polls open for about a week.
This one closes March 11, 6 AM EST.
So which company's output do you like better - 90's Marvel or 90's DC?
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 4, 2021 15:53:55 GMT -5
Another easy choice. 90's Marvel might be the worst output for any decade by either Big Two company. Lots of garbage. Just about the only things I can think of from 90's Marvel that I might not want to use as toilet paper were some Silver Surfer and some Starlin cosmic stuff. Meanwhile, though DC had their share of 90's garbage, they also had a lot of excellent output, such as the Giffen/DeMatties JLA stuff in the early 90's, the Wally West Flash title was excellent throughout most of the decade, the JLA reboot in 1997 was great, plus there were plenty of good Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern comics. Plus, two flavors of Legion, depending on your taste, a dark one in the early 90's (which I hated) with Giffen and the Bierbaums, and a light, exuberant Legion (which I loved) in the mid-90's with the "Archie" Legion.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 16:00:09 GMT -5
DC tried some different things. So did Marvel. But DC was more interesting. I also loved early 90s Valiant.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 4, 2021 16:19:22 GMT -5
DC. By a lot. And if you include Vertigo they aren't even in the same ballpark.
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Post by kirby101 on Mar 4, 2021 16:32:29 GMT -5
DC, Marvel was sinking at this point.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Mar 4, 2021 16:33:46 GMT -5
DC in the 90s. I'd pick DC anywhere from 1987 onwards.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 4, 2021 16:41:25 GMT -5
DC became the favored company with various "adult" or serious takes on concepts.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 5, 2021 0:31:07 GMT -5
Another no-contest; DC by a light year, though my DC consumption dropped pretty steadily across the decade. Marvel barely registered, apart from Classic X-Men and the odd mini-series, one-shot, or short-lived title or run. I tried the new SHIELD series, following Nick Fury vs SHIELD; but, hated the characters, aside from Fury and much preferred Howard Chaykin's Fury of SHIELD.
DC started the decade well, then got too deep in stunts and crossovers and it killed my interests in a lot of titles. Waid's Flash was a good one, Starman was the best thing out there. A lot of titles I started in the late 80s, during the DC Renaissance, wound down then, switched directions in ways I didn't like, got cancelled or I just got bored with the status quo. The 90s were when I really started shifting to the indie world and more idiosyncratic titles: Lethargic Lad, Strangers in Paradise, Hepcats, Bone, Bacchus, Negative Burn, Hellboy, Monkey Man and O'Brien, Patty Cake, lot of Dark Horse stuff, Innovation, Caliber, Valiant, Kitchen Sink, Tundra, some Malibu......a few others.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 5, 2021 3:02:53 GMT -5
DC because of Vertigo.
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Post by MDG on Mar 5, 2021 8:56:28 GMT -5
I'll vote for DC to join the dogpile on Marvel, but TBH, I wasn't buying much of either at this time (though I was buying comics).
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 5, 2021 9:03:53 GMT -5
DC.
Marvel was crippled by Bankruptcy and the exodus of the Image 7.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 5, 2021 11:08:24 GMT -5
Vertigo alone wins this for DC, and the titles that later moved to Vertigo like Animal Man, Sandman, Hellblazer, Doom Patrol... Starman was also very good.
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Post by shaxper on Mar 6, 2021 9:42:57 GMT -5
It may defy all taste and logic, but, growing up in the early '90s, Marvel was more FUN. There was so much wrong with what they were putting out, and Im fully ready to blame Marvel for the near death of the industry as a result of so many ill-considered cash grab moves they made in this decade (Heroes World being just one of them) but, speaking from the perspective of a kid at the time, it was at least exciting. A mature reader almost has to prefer DC in this era, but a kid looking for exciting covers and big crossovers inevitably found Marvel more inviting. And I did.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 6, 2021 10:00:22 GMT -5
It may defy all taste and logic, but, growing up in the early '90s, Marvel was more FUN. There was so much wrong with what they were putting out, and Im fully ready to blame Marvel for the near death of the industry as a result of so many ill-considered cash grab moves they made in this decade (Heroes World being just one of them) but, speaking from the perspective of a kid at the time, it was at least exciting. A mature reader almost has to prefer DC in this era, but a kid looking for exciting covers and big crossovers inevitably found Marvel more inviting. And I did. This. I forgot that Heroes return brought Busiek, Perez, Jurgens into the Marvel universe in the late 90's. I bought many Marvel titles in the 90's and bought the Liefeld and Lee books from the Heroes Reborn phase. DC was still better , but by default.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2021 14:45:31 GMT -5
I have to admit I felt at the time the 90s were horrible except for a few titles at DC & Marvel & Valiant. Now I started going back and reading some stuff I overlooked at the time and realize the 90s were pretty good. It's just the over reliance on events that "ruined" my enjoyment of my usual titles.
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