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most interesting marvel title of the seventies? blaxploitation + kung-fu + monsters = pure comic bookian overstimulation.

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dear god, we have gone too far.

anyway, i'd probably agree = best marvel comic of the 70s.

runners up = master of kung fu and barry smiths run on conan.

― jess, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is this revisionist bullshit? Since when did the Fist & Luke Cage approach BWS? Nonsense and poo.

Forgetting the Defenders is criminal. (The 70s was the best period for pointless super-teams - cf. The Champions! Fighting SWARM!) And Gene Colan on Tomb of Dracula is quite nice.

― David Raposa, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ah, forgot about tomb of dracula. but nothing quite says "70s" like the cover to luke cage numero uno.

let's face it, 70s in comics = dead zone, with few exceptions. much like pop music for me, the 90s have been comics golden age. (aesthetics-wise, anyway.)

― jess, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i liked christopher priest's dealing with the race issue.

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wait, did someone just mention SWARM!?

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Conan = always shit, Barry Smith notwithstanding. Yes the 70s were ghastly.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bah! You young pups have forgotten McGregor's 'Killraven', 'Black Panther' and 'Power Man', Gerber's 'Omega' (one of the weirdest comics ever published), 'Howard the Duck' and 'Defenders', Gerry Conway and Ross Andru's run on 'Spiderman', most of Kirby's seventies DC work ('Kamandi' a million times more 'interesting' than bloody PM + IF), 'Manhunter' by Goodwin and Simonson, the 'Nomad' saga in Englehart's 'Captain America' or Englehart's run on 'Doctor Strange', Starlin's 'Warlock' and 'Captain Marvel', the early Cockrum and Claremont 'X-Men' etc etc. The seventies were a GREAT period for mainstream superhero comics - the influence of the undergrounds began to be felt at the 'Big Two' (cf 'Plop'), the writers were given far more creative freedom to write all sorts of far-out psych nonsense, and there were none of those tedious multi-title crossovers etc. Plus, the non-artwork of the Image era looks so goddamm UGLY when compared to the smooth professionalism of 'hacks' like Sal Buscema, Frank Robbins, John Buscema, Jim Mooney etc. etc.

― Andrew L, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Defenders #98-102 (Don Perlin) - CLASSIC and creeped me out and gave me nitemares! Valkyrie was hot.

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Omega'! Jeez, that was fucked up. Did they even know what they were trying to do with that? I remember the letters page in one of them, somebody wrote in saying "This is a SICK comic, and I will do all I can to prevent my kid buying another copy ever", and I think the guy signed himself as a practicing psychiatrist.

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i said MARVEL title, kamandi doesn't count. the rest just aren't as good as PM & IF.

― ethan, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

http://unclebear.com/images/uploads/81301.jpg

― gershy, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

WTF??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202406/

― gershy, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

they've been working on this for like 9 years

― kingfish, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

No Powerman? What's the point of choosing the less cool guy no one remembers as the protagonist?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

didn't know really where to put this so I'll put it here

http://4thletter.net/2012/11/me-and-my-people-got-history-why-how-i-write-about-race/

― 乒乓, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago)

much like pop music for me, the 90s have been comics golden age.

haha i hope to christ i meant to write "the 80s" there.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago)

I still have Iron Fist #14. First appearance of Sabretooth. Yay me.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago)

The early '90s was totally a comics golden age for me. Like the early early '90s.

― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago)

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