Things Marvel Did in the 60s and 70s you wish they did now.

[JudicatorPrime]

My choice would definitely be those corner boxes with all the Marvel characters on the top of the covers...
https://www.cbr.com/thinking-outside...box-cover-art/

Love these as well. I still use them whenever I create a faux cover.

[The Cool Thatguy]

It’s why characters like Jane Foster and Flash Thompson becoming superheroes is so jarring. It arguably makes them more generic.

Depends how its done, though.

When Flash was Venom, it built on his time as a soldier, focused on his disability and his past and he actually kept a civilian job.

I agree that too many characters are 'professional heroes', but I think Flash had a nice balance

[davew128]

Those little boxes that told you what back issue something occurred in. I think they're now considered confusing and intimidating but I always loved them and felt inspired to track down old stories because of them

+1000 This stuff was so incredibly helpful when I was young and wanted to not only build my collection but read the stories and understand the history. Now continuity has become a joke.

[GenericUsername]

My choice would definitely be those corner boxes with all the Marvel characters on the top of the covers...
https://www.cbr.com/thinking-outside...box-cover-art/

This is the same for me. It always helped to know who was in the issue.

[TheCape]

Depends how its done, though.

When Flash was Venom, it built on his time as a soldier, focused on his disability and his past and he actually kept a civilian job.

I agree that too many characters are 'professional heroes', but I think Flash had a nice balance

I think that Flash Venom is one of the prime examples of "terrible idea, good execution", at least under Remender, Bunn made it weird.

[Tulku]

Longtime posters will anticipate me saying this but I would love the return of the Western heroes: Two-Gun Kid, Ringo Kid...all the Kids!

[Frontier]

I can see this. Does Sharon Carter fall into this category?

Well, yeah, there's nothing quite normal about being a SHIELD Agent. And nowadays she wears a white catsuit 90% of the time.

[Alan2099]

Depends how its done, though.

When Flash was Venom, it built on his time as a soldier, focused on his disability and his past and he actually kept a civilian job.

I agree that too many characters are 'professional heroes', but I think Flash had a nice balance

The character itself was nice. I just didn't like the fact that it was Spider-man's old supporting cast memeber Flash Thompson.

[DrNewGod]

I'd love to see some more stories set at The Rutland Vermont Halloween Parade

[Icefanatic]

The character itself was nice. I just didn't like the fact that it was Spider-man's old supporting cast memeber Flash Thompson.

I didn't like it initially for the same reason.

If they had done the symbiotic-suit-story back in the day, Flash would have made a likely Venom. They probably would have done it so Flash initially didn't have any knowledge or memories of what he'd done as Venom except some hazy memories he might have took for dreams. Waking up in weird places thinking he must have been sleepwalking...

[phonogram12]

Well, yeah, there's nothing quite normal about being a SHIELD Agent. And nowadays she wears a white catsuit 90% of the time.

Well, she's not technically a superhero. More like a supporting cast member and fits into his world perfectly. You can literally drop her in most any Cap story and she works. Which is why his love interest during those Byrne/Zeck issues never worked for me. Bernie just seemed out of place in every panel she appeared in.

[Gaastra]

For the 60s to the 80s i miss--

Comic covers were like movie trailers for that comic! How is iron man going to get out of this one?

Movie and cartoon comics like gijoe, transformers, scooby-doo and rom.

Comics cost 65 to 75 cents!

You could walk into a gas station and pick up some issues for $2!

You could pick up a book for 12 issues and not have to pick up 12 other titles every three months from event after event.

Fun comic ads like the fruit pie ads, fun order from marvel ads and ads for other titles and saturday morning previews!

Marvel had fun with some of those ads. They even did capt crunch ads!

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[Anthony W]

For the 60s to the 80s i miss--

Comic covers were like movie trailers for that comic! How is iron man going to get out of this one?

Movie and cartoon comics like gijoe, transformers, scooby-doo and rom.

Comics cost 65 to 75 cents!

You could walk into a gas station and pick up some issues for $2!

You could pick up a book for 12 issues and not have to pick up 12 other titles every three months from event after event.

Fun comic ads like the fruit pie ads, fun order from marvel ads and ads for other titles and saturday morning previews!

Marvel had fun with some of those ads. They even did capt crunch ads!

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Hey look, that advertisement is selling subscriptions for just.....THIRTY-ONE TITLES!? How awesome is that? I would like nothing more than to see Marvel Comics shrunk down to that.

[Dreaded Porcupine]

Love these as well. I still use them whenever I create a faux cover.

Absolutely this! This is what made a Marvel comic book stick out.

[Shadowcat]

Technically, Kitty was running from a N'astirh demon, but yeah, like the Brood, it was straight out of Alien, and unapologetically so.

The N’Astirh predated the Alien by 4 years.