What are your favorite stories, arcs, etc., from this period?
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What are your favorite stories, arcs, etc., from this period?
Superman
Justice League
The Flash
Suicide Squad
Animal Man
Doom Patrol
Swamp Thing
Booster Gold #1 from 1986. Booster Gold's first appearance.
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JLI/A (1987)
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JLE (1989)
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Superman Exile.
Messner Loeb Flash
Batman: Year One
What a great era. Especially for Batman.
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth
The Killing Joke
Batman: A Death in the Family
Man of Steel
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
JLI
Animal Man
Watchmen
Haven't read Suicide Squad or Swamp Thing but I'm sure I'd love them.
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Watchmen #1 from 1986.
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Detective Comics #546 from 1985
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Wonder Woman #329 from 1986
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Green Lantern Corps #208 from 1987
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Superman #423 from 1986
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Ridiculously rich era:
Swamp Thing
The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Justice League International
The Question
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Animal Man
Doom Patrol
The Shadow
V for Vendetta
Sandman
Shade the Changing Man
Skreemer
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This was the era in which I originally shed my Marvel Zombie proclivities and basically discovered DC.
[QUOTE=Hatut Zeraze;3054520]This was the era in which I originally shed my Marvel Zombie proclivities and basically discovered DC.[/QUOTE]
What did it for you?
[QUOTE=Air Wave;3054611]What did it for you?[/QUOTE]
I had the same reaction as Hatut Zeraze. Most of the reasons are that DC post Crisis changed their "look" to more resemble what I liked in Marvel
DC's revamp of Superman got rid of many of the Silver Age additions that felt silly to me. The revamp got rid of the silliness and made it more like the Marvel titles I enjoyed. And I saw that writers and artists that I liked at Marvel were now doing DC work, which led me to read them. As I read these, I branched out to other characters and titles that looked interesting. Justice League no longer reminded me of the god awful Superfriends cartoon, but seemed like a genuinely funny book that made me care about the characters. The Flash had Wally West as a sympathetic character who was trying to live up to the memory of his uncle. Suicide Squad had a killer story hook and each issue was filled with amazing moments that kept me hooked. Books like Swamp Thing and Doom Patrol showed me that comics could contain horror, wild sci fi, or mind bending fantasy.
I also have to say that post Crisis, DC made an effort to make their titles accessible with easy jumping on points.
Overall, my impression of DC changed from being full of safe, boring heroes to that of an interesting, exciting world that was now fresh in a way that pre Crisis never felt.
The Flash #350 from 1985
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The death of Superboy.
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The start of the [B]5 Years Latter ...[/B] Legion series.
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IMHO, THIS was DC's true Golden Age of Comics.
Peace
Suicide Squad #1 from 1987
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Animal Man #1 from 1988
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Doom Patrol #1 from 1987
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For a brief period, between March and September 1986, the following four titles all graced comic shelves at the same time:
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Blue Beetle and Booster Gold both launched in early/mid 1986, and Blue Devil ended near the end of the year. Meanwhile, Gerry Conway left Firestorm around the end of the year and the tone of the series shifted a bit.
And a few more...
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Note: This run of Hawkman apparently wasn't very popular, but I really liked it.
Meanwhile, with the rise of the Direct Market, DC focused on more adult comics specifically for the new outlets.
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DC Comics Presents #80, #81 & #83 from 1985
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DC Comics Presents #84-86 from 1985
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DC Comics Presents ended with its 97th issue in 1986. (They couldn't squeeze out 3 more?)
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Action Comics #600 from 1988
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Detective Comics #600 from 1989
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Aquaman #1 from 1986
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Power of the Atom #1 from 1988
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Martian Manhunter #1 from 1988
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[QUOTE=Air Wave;3151245]Power of the Atom #1 from 1988
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Really loved this series, especially after Graham Nolan took over the art duties. Never cared much for the unimaginative redesign of the Atom's costume it sported, though.
Peace
Action Comics #563 from 1985
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Detective Comics #558 from 1986, featuring Batman & Green Arrow.
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One of your favorite logos:
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If you could revive one title from this era that no longer exists, what would it be and why?