Favorite Underated 70s Books?

[johnnystorm]

STALKER: a great little four issue Sword & Sorcery book with art by Steve Ditko & Wally Wood...how this one never gets mentioned I dunno! They semi-revived the character as a villain in an elate 90S Justice Society mini-series.

DC SPECIAL & DC SUPERSTARS: Nice classic, fun reprints (especially the Superstars of space issues with Adam Strange). Later some pretty offbeat but cool new stuff such as Strange Sports Stories (with the JLA vs. The SSofSV in a baseball game!) or Dinosaurs At Large with Captain Comet & Tommy Tomorrow. And of course, the ever popular SUPERHEROES VS. SUPER-GORILLAS!!
Stuff like that you'll never , ever see tried again at DC (now standing for DEATH COMICS).

THE CAT from Marvel- again, great Wally Wood art, sexy heroine!

THE HUMAN FLY- because he's REAL!

[ThatBatmanGuy]

All great comics. I remember reading and owning most of them at one time or another.

I would have to say pick would be:

Luke Cage POWERMAN!

I don't know of a single book today that can refer to a black man with the N word or call him an Oreo, then have said black man refer to the white guys as Honkys or white gutter trash. Then our hero Luke Cage beat the living stew outta both of them while shouting "SWEET CHRISTMAS!" At the same time giving a pretty good look at the life of a black man. No PC crap involved, just writing great stories. Those were some good comics.

Bob

[The Toyroom]

STALKER: a great little four issue Sword & Sorcery book with art by Steve Ditko & Wally Wood...how this one never gets mentioned I dunno! They semi-revived the character as a villain in an elate 90S Justice Society mini-series.

Stalker was just revived again (as a villain) in "Wonder Woman", along with Claw and Beowulf.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Stalker was just revived again (as a villain) in "Wonder Woman", along with Claw and Beowulf.

Really? Gail Simone must have come across that "Line of DC Super-Stars" ad with all of those guys! Whose next, Tor and the Avenger from Justice, Inc?

Chris

[The Toyroom]

And Warlord too...wasn't he in the same ad?

It wasn't my favorite arc of Gail's on the book...it was OK but nothing great.

[Captain]

Ahhh yes, those great ads! I used to wish Mego would use those as inspiration for new characters...of course ....they never did.

I know return you to your regularily scheduled thread....

[johnnystorm]

Wouldn't a WARLORD mego be cool? I'm sure someone's customized him. I'll have to check out Wonder Woman- it's not on my buy list right now. DC just used CLAW in a mini-series crossed over with Red Sonja.
As for that ad, Mego should have done a couple of those mystery characters like Swamp Thing & Phantom Stranger- would have tied together the WGSH line & the Monsters line.

[jds1911a1]

Luke Cage Powerman / Powerman & Iron fist
All Star Comics (70's revival)
Green lantern green arrow post issues 90-125 (the HTH line from 76-89 from the end of the initial run is amazing but is hardly one that is not talked of or highly regarded)
Flash still have most of em too love those rogues but nothing deep in the story lines
Captain America - especialy the ones with Falcon

[goldenryan]

Green lantern green arrow post issues 90-125 (the HTH line from 76-89 from the end of the initial run is amazing but is hardly one that is not talked of or highly regarded)

yeah, i love when speedy was a junkie, and the old black man tells green lantern he hasn't done anything for the black people. profound stuff for it's day. my favorite comic team has always been lee and kirby but adams and o'neal made some great stuff.

[jds1911a1]

yeah, i love when speedy was a junkie, and the old black man tells green lantern he hasn't done anything for the black people. profound stuff for it's day. my favorite comic team has always been lee and kirby but adams and o'neal made some great stuff.

The best was in 88 I am in a comic shop and the famous cover of speedy with the needle is on the rare issues on the wall. I look at my Bro say the line and the kid next to me (probably 12) says "who's speedy" I looked at my buddy who owned the shop and said "man are we old" and i was only 18.

[Marvelmania]

Any Treasury Edition
Savage Tales
Marvel Tales
Any Giant-Size issue
Marvel Double Feature
Marvel Two-in-One
Man-Thing
Supervillain Team Up
Howard the Duck

[YoungOnce]

I was waiting to see Howard the Duck! It was so cool... before the movie.

Great thread... I really got into Weird War Tales, House of Mystery/Secrets, Ghost

Also loved Marvel's monster titles Where Monsters Dwell/Creatures Roam and all those.

Kamandi... The Spectre run in Adventure Comics... Loved all DC's 100 page Giants... Sgt. Rock, G.I. Combat and The Losers... all those were cool at the time.