Favorite decade of DC Comics?

[LastSonOfShaolin]

I'm sure this question has been asked quite a few times throughout the years on this forum but I'm new so please post below your favorite decade.

[DrNewGod]

I'm sure this question has been asked quite a few times throughout the years on this forum but I'm new so please post below your favorite decade.

Yes, it has. But some conversations never get old. If they did, old farts would be far less chatty.

Hm. For DC, I can't pick one. The leading candidate, however has to be the 1980s.

That's when DC seemed to wake up, figure how who was reading comics, and course-correct accordingly. It was imperfect, to be sure (especially Crisis-on), but there was a wild, experimental energy in that era.

Great stuff was done too in the 1970s and 1990s. There are individual answers too (i.e. Batman's greatest moments probably span the Late 60s-Mid 70s). However, the 1980s are (so far) DC's greatest hour.

[K7P5V]

For me, it's definitely the '90s

[MRP]

Mine wouldn't be from x0-x9 decade, but the decade between 1985 and 1995, referred to by some as the DC Renaissance. So much of what made DC great in the 80s congealed in the middle part of the decade spurred by Khan and Giordano's efforts and carried through into the early 90s before losing some steam.

Just some highlights off the top of my head, I am sure I am forgetting some other favorites form this 10 year span-
DKR
Batman Year One
Watchmen
Moore's Swamp Thing
Perez's Wonder Woman
Superman revamp
Gaiman's Sandman
birth of Vertigo
Morrison's Doom Patrol
Morrison's Animal Man
tail end of Kubert's editorial reign on Sgt. Rock with covers by hm and work by his sons and lots of Kubert school grads like Veitch
Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League
Ostrander/Mandrake Spectre
Ostrander's Suicide Squad
Darwyn Cooke's 1st DC work in New Talent Showcase #19
Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Perez on History of the DC Universe
Elvira's House of Mystery
O'Neil/Cowan/Sienkewicz on the Question
Chaykin's Shadow
Grell on Green Arrow
Truman's Hawkworld
Books of Magic
Chaykin and ********Lopez on Twilight
The Batman Adventures
Milestone launches
Robinson's Starman
Morrison's Invisibles
David's Aquaman
Ordway's Power of Shazam

-M

[Captain Nostalgia]

The 1980's is when I started reading comics, and it was good however....

I think the 2000's was DC's best decade. (Despite killing off the Question & Blue Beetle)

The Bronze Age (1970 -1984) that brought us the Satellite JLA/Superfriends is obviously classic as well.

[SJNeal]

Mine wouldn't be from x0-x9 decade, but the decade between 1985 and 1995, referred to by some as the DC Renaissance. So much of what made DC great in the 80s congealed in the middle part of the decade spurred by Khan and Giordano's efforts and carried through into the early 90s before losing some steam.

-M

As the decade in which my fandom really took off, I was just going to default to the 90's, but instead I think I'll steal MRP's idea.

Gotta go with 1986-1996, because it encompasses the immediate post-COIE time period. Though I'd say DC avoided the worst of the 90's tropes a bit longer than Marvel did.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Technically, I would say 1986 to 2005 or thereabouts (maybe a bit earlier) but for a single decade, easily the '90s. DC had some real classic runs on books like Starman, Flash, Hitman, Supergirl and JLA, but the real clincher is that it was also the creation and the golden age of Vertigo.

[a moment closer]

I would like to say the last decade, 2010 - 2020, but it's more like 2006 - 2016 for me.

[Captain Nostalgia]

I can't roll with 1986 - 1995 even though it was my comic heyday.....too much carnage.

Satellite JLA is dismantled, Hal goes insane, Ollie gets blown up in a helicopter, Batman gets replaced by Azreal, The Legion of Super Heroes gets rebooted....too many painful memories.

[K7P5V]

Technically, I would say 1986 to 2005 or thereabouts (maybe a bit earlier) but for a single decade, easily the '90s.

Agreed. I'll always love the '90s, but the early part of the new millennium (2000-2005) is something I'll always be rather partial towards...

[Jekyll]

So easy, the 90s!

Starman
Wally West Flash
The beginning of the JSA run by Robinson, Goyer, and Johns
The Power of Shazam
Impulse

So many amazing comics that made me fall in love with the DC universe........until the most recent wretched decade we won’t speak of....

[Babylon23]

The 80's for me, with some spill over into the early 90's. Even before the post-Crisis DC renaissance the company was producing some fantastic titles:

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans
Levitz/Giffen/Lightle Legion of Super-Heroes
Barr/Aparo Batman and the Outsiders
Moench/Colan/Mandrake Batman
All-Star Squadron
Infinity Inc.
Ronan
Tales of the Green Lantern Corps
Camelot 3000
Night Force
Sword of the Atom
Ambush Bug
America vs the Justice Society

Then things really took off after Crisis.

[The Cheat]

Even discounting Vertigo, definitely the 90s.