What are your thoughts about it? Which Silver Age Marvel titles are a good read?
What are your thoughts about it? Which Silver Age Marvel titles are a good read?
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Read it and reviewed it on my blog!
Silver Age X-Men isn't great. There are a handful of good issues here and there, but mostly, it's bland and forgettable, and sometimes downright bad. The exception is the Thomas/Adams run. That was phenomenal stuff.
I'm not a fan of Silver Age stuff in general. But Silver Age X-Men was especially weak.
Also, Silver Age Angel was the worst X-Man ever. He had one job - don't get grabbed - and he was always getting grabbed. Guy got captured by a handful of trained crows. That's how useless he was.
There is a great trade that collects the Neil Adams run that is worth getting. It collects the end of the original X-men issues (issues 53-65 I think). It is out of print, but you might find it used. It is called X-Men Visionaries: Neil Adams.
I have read pretty much all of the silver age of X-Men now.
It had it's good parts and interesting ideas. Titles like "X-Men The Hidden Years" does a better job of telling those stories while adding more to them. But I was never sure if they where cannon or not. Either way that era of X-Men is for sure not for everybody. It wasn't bad but it is more of a required taste.
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I've read all the original 66 X-Men issues and like everything there are good, bad and strange things (Xavier's mechanical crutches for example). If you are a fan of the X-Men they are worth checking out, if you aren't it isn't going to change your mind
At least the art gets better as the run continues.
60s Silver age fare has to be read with some historical context. It was still a time when comics were "funny books" and the target audience was 8-16yr old kids.
While some underlying message was within it wasn't dominant and silly resolutions to silly situations could be found.
I've read 1/2 of my Silver Age X-Men and will read the rest eventually.
However, if you want "funny" in your superhero funny book check out Golden Age fare if you dare.
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Great input! It's a bit challenging to read these issues consecutively, I must take a break to go on because it's a chore. I once read the Batman Golden Age omni, I couldn't go on after 1/4th of the book. Although I love how the characters progressed and experienced a dash of history.
Last edited by theboychild; 08-08-2018 at 04:40 PM.