One for comic fans

[pedro]

DC or Marvel? which was/is best? Growing up I thought Marvel Spidey,X-men, F4 etc had the coolest super heros however their stories lasted over 3/4 mags. The chances of you buying the next issue in your local newsagent in the 60/70's were less than zero, so DC comics Batman, Superman,Flash etc ususally won out for me where their mags contained a whole story

Although our choice is now greater with the ever increasing comic business(from specialist shops or the interweb) I very rarely buy comics these days for the same reason. The storys last several issues you can read one issue in about 2 mins( great graphics but one frame takes up a whole or even double page!!!) so I generally stick to the graphic novels or occasionally buy a batch of issues on the web.

Any thought from you web-heads out there?

[nogden]

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has to be marvel for me im afraid...... was never much into batman (not a real super hero in my opinion) or superman

[Wil]

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Always Marvel for me too. Started when my Mum brought me back a US copy of The Amazing Spider-Man when I was ill from school (probably with a bottle of orange sellophane wrapped Lucozade). Must have been sometime around '70-'71. Then I progressed onto the UK weekly reprints when The Mighty World of Marvel came out in '72 and jumped around all those different titles. I distinctly remember running around in the paper bag Spidey mask that came free with issue one of Spider-Man Comics Weekly.

I've tried keeping up with superhero comics nowadays but they're just not the same so I stick to '60s - '70s (with a tiny bit of early '80s where the X-Men are concerned).

Try the big Marvel 'Essential' digests. Great value

[sixtyten]

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Marvel forever. With the exception of Watchmen,and some other minor titles (Metal Men)I never read DC.I too grew up with the Mighty World of Marvel UK reprints.I lived and breathed comics throughout my childhood.
Favorires were Spidey,Fantantic Four.Never liked Xmen (early ones were ok),Thor or Silver Surfer though.I even joined F.O.O.M!!

[pedro]

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good post Wil as my exposure to US comics probably shared a similar birth. As stated I still have a slight swaying towards DC with the exception of Superman( just to many powers) My fav will always be the Dark Knight and others with "normal powers" mainly because as a kid I to wanted to "sling my shield" without the pain of being bitten by a spider or falling into some nuclear goo!

Have to check my collection for the publishers name but I also like the series Uncanny and Strange Tales a sort of paper version of the Twilight Zone.... nuff said!!

[sixtyten]

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oh Yes,I loved those pulp comics..strange tales,astonising tales,etc..class

[Wil]

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Reading this thread again it really has hit me how much my childhood from the early 70s onwards was dominated by comics. My Dad made me a big wooden comic box and some of my fondest summer hols moments are sitting out in the garden with friends reading, swapping and drawing our own comics (especially between '75-'78'). Although I eventually went on to collecting the US Marvel editions, the UK reprints really do hold an awful lot of happy memories and a new one coming out was a big event (I got told off for missing tea because I was down the newsagents as they were unpacking the new weekend's comics to grab #1 of The Super Heroes!).

After discovering, and subsequently spending many a happy lunchtime browsing, this site http://www.samcci.comics.org/ I've started buying up the odd issue of each of the Marvel UK titles (#1s where possible) with the 'back of my mind' intention to do a a similar sort of thing. Not as comprehensive - just 1 or 2 issue covers and sample insides of each title from MWOM up to the end of the 70s with a brief description of what strips were running in each one. The UK Marvels merged and altered titles so much during the 70s I'm sure it'd be an interesting walk down nostalgia lane for many 30-40 somethings. There is a site sort of attempting to do the same thing but it's painfully slow to update and I don't think it'll ever get anywhere.

[sixtyten]

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Did anyone used to read DC's PLOP! comic?

[Heather74]

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Did anyone used to read DC's PLOP! comic?

No!

[sixtyten]

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I can still remember the issue with that Batman joke in!

[pedro]

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sorry to disappoint Watson but Superman is a DC character

[sixtyten]

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As is Batman

[nottrikk]

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DC all the way for me I'm afraid and then sl;ightly later when my palette matured, I went on to Vertigo (which while still DC), catered for the darker subject matter like the Sandman etc.

[Jamo]

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Loved my superhero comics as a kid. Still have the whole tatty dog-eared bunch. It's right what Pedro said, about Marvel comics being ongoing series, so you'd just accept these cliffhangers as a kid and know you'd no chance of getting the follow-on.

How UK newsagents ordered them, I don't know.

But loved them all the same. DC and Marvel both. Especially (as a 6-10 year old) the ones that were all fight with little talk.

When 16 in 1986, I returned to superhero comics and then. for me, it was 95% Marvel. Collected them till 1992, when I could not financially keep up with all the crossovers, multiple covers, annuals and expanding title range.

But yeah, I still pull out the childhood ones now and then. I must have read them thirty times each!!! Master of Kung Fu, Power Man, Ghost Rider, Super-Friends, X-men, Human Fly, Moon Knight, etc.


...Jamo

[themaskofangel]

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Have to go with Marvel marvel does have Iron man, Daredevil, Wolverine and Gambit and of course Emma Frost, although I do like Batman and V For vendetta which is under vertigo comics but still DC.