DC Comics 1938-1986 Appreciation Thread (2019)

[Shadowcat]

Better known as the Pre-Crisis era, this gave us the invention of the superhero, the multiverse, the first female superhero, and the first universe wide mega event. So from Action Comics #1 to Action Comics #583, and everything in between, join us.

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[caj]

Definitely the Bronze Age for me. It's 75% of the comics I collected and read. Justice League of America (satellite years), Legion of Super Heroes, New Teen Titans, etc...

I do believe some great books came after COIE, but nothing was better than the Bronze Age IMO.

[kjn]

For those who are interested in really diving into Golden Age stuff, we are currently doing a re-read of Wonder Woman from the start over in the Wonder Woman forum. We are only up to Sensation Comics #7 yet, so plenty of opportunity to join!

[Shadowcat]

Definitely the Bronze Age for me. It's 75% of the comics I collected and read. Justice League of America (satellite years), Legion of Super Heroes, New Teen Titans, etc...

I do believe some great books came after COIE, but nothing was better than the Bronze Age IMO.

Totally my opinion too. Especially the 80’s DC books.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Didnt Dr. Occult first appeared in 1935?

[Shadowcat]

Didnt Dr. Occult first appeared in 1935?

I have no idea. I’m just going by Wikipedia, and DC’s timeline from Superman’s first appearance, which was in 1938. Anything that came before has been coined the Platinum Age of comics.

[married guy]

Bronze Age for me.

It was when I first discovered comics and was HOOKED

[Shadowcat]

Bronze Age for me.

It was when I first discovered comics and was HOOKED

Pre-Crisis 80’s DC was amazing. We had Wolfman killing it on Action Comics, Green Lantern, and NTT with Perez, Levitz/Giffen Legion, Levitz’s Huntress backups, DCCP, Roy Thomas’ All-Star Squadron, Conway’s, and then Moench’s Batman/Tec runs, and so on. it was a great time to be a DC fan.

[married guy]

Didnt Dr. Occult first appeared in 1935?

Yup!
New Fun Comics #6 - 1935

[BatmanJones]

Voted Bronze Age because I started reading comics around 1974 at age 5--a good age to start then since comics then were still for kids--with the more mature stuff (Vertigo/DKR/Watchmen) first hitting when I was in high school. I might have aged out had comics not grown up at really the same time that I was growing up. I think that's probably unique to being just about precisely the age that I am. I can't imagine that quite as many comic fans that read Golden Age comics as children would necessary continue to follow into the Silver Age as adults, because Silver Age comics were still very much for kids.

[Shadowcat]

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Before he was overexposed, diluted, and made incredibly boring. I’m so glad DC finally was able to give Bill Finger his fair credit.

[Air Wave]

Is it possible the Bronze Age is so far ahead because there are still enough of us alive to have read them when they came out?

[DrNewGod]

Is it possible the Bronze Age is so far ahead because there are still enough of us alive to have read them when they came out?

Given the ages being expressed on the Middle Age thread, I think that likely.

[Lee Stone]

I chose the Bronze Age because it was the best era, IMO, for a wider audience. Since then, comics have increasingly abandoned younger readers, while the Silver Age catered primarily to them.
The Bronze Age had a nice balance where you could find something for everybody.

You could have serious stories without dragging the book or characters down.
And you could have fun stories without a fear of being looked at cross-ways.

[Shadowcat]

I chose the Bronze Age because it was the best era, IMO, for a wider audience. Since then, comics have increasingly abandoned younger readers, while the Silver Age catered primarily to them.
The Bronze Age had a nice balance where you could find something for everybody.

You could have serious stories without dragging the book or characters down.
And you could have fun stories without a fear of being looked at cross-ways.

This. I consider this to be DC’s best era, especially with their work on titles like O’Neil’s Batman, GL/GA, Kirby’s Fourth World, the Kupperberg Supergirl, Wolfman’s NTT, AC, and GL run, etc. were some genre defining runs.