What were your favorite Bronze age runs?

[Drzsmith]

Englehart/Dillon JLA

[YoungOnce]

Jim Aparo's Spectre run in Adventure comics...
DC's 100 page books... Really, I was all about the DC titles black then...
House of Mystery/ Secrets, Witching Hour, Weird War Tales...
Sgt. Rock, GI Combat...
Kamandi...
All the Batman books...
I picked up the occasional Marvel title, especially the team-up books because they were pretty self-contained.

I would have no idea where to go to get back into comicbooks today. Every comicbook looks like it's in the middle of some LOST TV show-like continuity... And is it just me, or do modern comicbooks look like there is about 12 pages of story and 12 pages of in-House ads? And all for 3.99

No thanks...

[madmarva]

So much good stuff mentioned so far.

Engleheart's Avengers deserves a mention. I liked Buscema's Conan. Grell on GL/GA. Swan/Anderson on Superman, deadman in Strange Adventures, Grell's Jon Sable, Ostrander and Truman's Grim Jack, Simonson on Manhunter,

[samurainoir]

what are we counting as the start/end dates of the bronze age?

[thunderbolt]

1985 is supposed to be the end, guessing Crisis on Infinite Earths is the marker, or Dark Knight Returns. So, Byrne's Superman run, Ordway's Captain Marvel and Superman are all in the modern age. The start is probably marked by the GL-GA drug issues in 70 and Jack Kirby leaving Marvel for DC. Interesting that DC seems to be the company that demarks a lot of these era dates.

[Blue Meanie]

Few mentions of Aparo's Spectre run in Adventure...Although I love the character and Aparo's art was great, I still think that the Ostrander/Mandrake series defines the character. Again, just my opinion. I also see some love for independents like Sable and Grimjack. The ones in the indy line that got me into indy books was Warp by Frank Brunner and Starslayer by Grell. Not really an indy, because it was done by Marvel's epic line, is Starlin's Dreadstar.

[Mr.Marion]

Any recommendations for TPB's of marvel's bronze era?

[knight errant00]

Barr & Davis on Detective Comics
Wolfman & Perez on New Teen Titans
Moench & Sienkiewicz on Moon Knight
Grell on The Warlord

[warlock664]

My faves:

-Tomb of Dracula #1-70 (Wolfman/Colan from#7-70)
-Warlock by Jim Starlin (Strange Tales 178-181, Warlock 9-15, Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel 2-In-1 Annual #2)
-Frankenstein #1-6 (Ploog!)
-Avengers 115-118/Defenders 8-11 (Avengers/Defenders War)
-Captain America by Englehart/Sal Buscema
-Swamp Thing #1-10 (Wein/Wrightson)
-Avengers 129-143, Giant-Size Avengers 2-4 (Celesstial Madonna/Kang Wars)

[ubermanx]

Micronauts !!!

[Apositive]

Claremont's X-Men
Byrne's FF
Master of Kung Fu
Iron Fist
Moon Knight
New Teen Titans

[Mr.Marion]

Is there a good tpb of the Adam's Batman run? Also interested in what other late 60's and 70's books are out there. I just found out Nick Fury's Shied was released a few years back.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Beware the "Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams" series of hard and softcovers. In the first volume they reprinted some tales from previous reprints, especially "The Best of the Brave and the Bold" mini-series from the late 80s, covering the Adams/Bob Haney stories from the end of the Silver Age. They replaced the original comic logos with more modern versions...well, modern for the 80s!

But the really clincher is that Adams selectively redrew some of the artwork throughout these volumes...and his new stuff sticks out like a sore thumb. Having owned many of these original comics, the new art is in no way an improvement.

Unfortunately, I believe some of the "remastered" or "Lucased" versions of the the stories have cropped up in other reprint volumes. So buyer beware.

Chris

[pmwasson]

Micronauts !!!

Yes!!!

This is a great thread. I'm definitely going to follow these comments for my read list.

[madmarva]

DC is publishing a Neal Adams Batman Omnibus soon, but I'm pretty sure it's going to have the re-worked material. Adams also adjusted the coloring, which really didn't do his work any favors, imo. It'd would be nice if the material would be allowed to stand as it was originally printed, but if you've never read the stories, it's good stuff.