What are some the best Silver Age Marvel runs? I’m currently reading Lee’s ASM run and I want to read more from this era.
 Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
 |
Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
Silver Age Marvel
What are some the best Silver Age Marvel runs? I’m currently reading Lee’s ASM run and I want to read more from this era.
Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
|
Ape Out Shirt $21.68 |
I like Captain America and Thor. I have fond memories of Iron Man, but haven't read it since I was a kid and it's apparently not that popular. Fantastic Four is highly praised, but I haven't read much myself since I'm an omni guy and buying the entire Lee/Kirby run is a big commitment. SHIELD looks cool, but I've just started on it.
I mostly like the Kirby, Ditko, and Steranko comics for the art. Kirby is great on Fantastic Four especially when inked by Joe Sinnott, Ditko is great on Dr. Strange, and Steranko's S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America issues are all-timers.
>Steranko's S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America issues are all-timers.
Yes, these. Still great and still hold up visually.
Silver age marvel sucks
Spider-Man is the only exception but it’s really cheesy
The human torch had a solo run in the strange tales comics but most of the issues aren’t very good
Fantastic Four is one of my favorite books of all time. So much of what would come to build the marvel universe began there.
Most of 60s Marvel superhero stuff is worth reading. The weakest are Iron Man and X-Men and at times Daredevil. Almost everything else is good to great.
X-men is a bit weird to recommenced because the first few issues aren't great but still entertaining then it's kind of crap, then Steranko and Neal Adams jump on and it's actually fricking cool as hell and you should totally read it because it rules but then it got cancelled and then it was like 30 issues of reprints before we got Giant Size.
The art on those Adams and Steranko issues is amazing, but the stories weren't any better.
>Almost everything else is good to great.
Not really.
-At least read all the Ditko/Lee ASM run (Amazing Spider-Man #1–38, Annual #1–2)
-Steve Ditko / Stan Lee Doctor Strange (Strange Tales #110–111, 114–146)
-Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four #1–102
A word of warning: most of that isn't very good.
A ward of warning: Bite a side walk.
but enough about your life
i love the artwork in the old Doctor Strange comics
I'm not even joking that I'm surprised that Sider-Man still holds up
It's pretty crazy how fully-formed Spider-Man was from the beginning. Everything that makes him work today was already there when Steve Ditko and Stan Lee did those first 38 issues. All the major rogues gallery is pretty much the same save for the symbiotes.
True. The only thing that seems a little janky today is that Peter is dating Betty.
Its actually one of the better romance imo.
What I find most shocking is how little time Peter spent in highschool. With how much modern media wants to push him as a nerdy school kid Stan and Steve couldn't get him graduated fast enough. And I know they're pulling from Ultimate but frick Ultimate.
Yeah I really hate this very modern push to keep Peter a teenager, he's been college-age and older like 99.9% of his entire publication history. early-mid-20's Peter is still the supreme Spider-Man era, imo.
>early-mid-20's Peter is still the supreme Spider-Man era, imo.
A lot of spider-man more popular stories happen there. Which is probably why they want him to keep him as 20~25 year old man.
>Having him be a bugel photographer sort of lets him get around more and get into trouble.
It really feels like that him a photographer was more important than his scientist cursus.
>Which is probably why they want him to keep him as 20~25 year old man.
If Marvel editorial had their way, Peter would be 16 forever. They hate that Spider-Man's most popular years are the character firmly rooted in adulthood since they think it makes him harder to merchandise to kids (of course they're wrong and moronic)
I think its more USM ver.1's fault. It got so popular they tried to make it the standard.
My entire time reading spider-man was almost completely him being married
You just reminded me that Kraven Last Hunt, one of the most shilled storyline, was not only at the time of the marriage, but it was also important because Peter dig himself out of the grave out of his desire to be with MJ.
Now, I am fully appreciating the paradox of Marvel trying to milk KLH while also wanting Peter and MJ to remain separated.
That was, without question, my favorite moment in the entire history of comics.
Yeah, it felt like they were focused on the daily bugle aspect more than the high school one.
Probably because they weren't familiar with the high school as it were in their time.
Having him high school is just boring. Having him be a bugel photographer sort of lets him get around more and get into trouble. He's taking photos of some gala or science expo and BAMMO badguy! It's like the journalist parts of Lois always getting in a fix but also being hte hero.
Seriously. It's astounding how far you have to go back to reach a mainline highschool story that's not some hidden years situation
It almost feels weird to call Spider-man Silver Age at all. It kind of feels like he's what really kicked off the modern era.
I liked the Cap's Kooky Quartet era of Avengers