Favorite Titles in the 70s?

[Jason73]

Marvel Star Wars

[johnnystorm]

Ah, in the Seventies I could (and did) ACTUALLY buy almost everything that came out. The only things I skipped were the romance books still hanging around & the Charlton versions of the Hanna-Barbera stuff. But stuff I remember fondly were:


The Brave & The Bold (Aparo!)
Kamandi (Kirby!)
Secret Society of Super-Villains (Captain Comet!)
DC Specials & One -Shot Specials (Super-Heroes vs. Super-Gorillas!)
Justice League of America (Dick Dillin!)
Marvel Two-In-One (The Thing & Tigra!)
The Flash (Irv Novick!)
Warren b/w titles (Vampi!)
Hercules Unbound (Garcia-Lopez!)
Space Family Robinson (Lost in Space on Space Station One!)
Gold Key & Whitman comics (3 pack plastic bags!)
Hot Wheels (Toth!)

How long can I go on...?

[johnmiic]

Batman
Brave & the Bold
Detective
Kamandi
Captain America and The Falcon
Fantastic Four
Marvel Two-in-One
Space:1999
Star Trek Gold Key & Marvel
Micronauts
ROM
Star Wars
Battlestar Galactica

[Drzsmith]

JLA,Flash,Freedom Fighters,Secret Society of Super Villains,Superboy and the Legion,Brave and Bold,Xmen,Micronauts ,Star Wars,Dc comics presents,Batman,Superman,Tomb of Dracula,Howard the Duck,Swamp Thing
.... Really all dc books they were only 4 for a dollar back then.Some Marvel like Sgt Fury also.

[emeraldknight47]

Loved Treasury Editions. I sold off all my back issues in the early 1990s, but I could not part with my treasuries. They were too beat up to get a decent price. Glad I kept them. Still love thumbing through them from time to time.

I don't think the paper they printed those on at the time was standard issue newsprint, but only a step or two higher. Don't you love the smell of those treasury editions when you open them up? Patticularly when I go through the MTE with Thor fighting Hercules, the smell reminds me of the Christmas night I spend devouring the whole thing whilst eating little ham sandwiches and Christmas cookies since I got it as a Christmas present. Good, good memories...!

[torgospizza]

The Hands of Shang Chi Master of Kung **
Adventure Comics
Godzilla King of Monsters
Shogun Warriors
World's Finest
The Invaders
Werewolf by Night
Tarzan Family
Weird Worlds

[Bionic Joe]

Oh boy... Now I LOVE this subject. Those years when I actively collected each month. They were:

Marvel team Up: Captain America & Iron Man

I think you are thinking about Marvel Double feature which reprinted cap and Iron Man stories from TOS

[madmarva]

Superman
Action
DC Comics Presents
Superboy and the Legion
Justice League
Batman
Detective
Brave and Bold
Green Lantern/Green Arrow
Flash
Secret Society of Super Villains
All-Star Comics
Adventure
World's Finest
Hulk
Marvel Super-heroes (Hulk reprints)
Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel Tales (Spidey reprints)
Fantastic Four
Marvel's Greatest Comics (FF reprints)
Avengers
Defenders
Captain America
X-Men (around 1978)
Amazing Adventures (X-Men Reprints for a short time will cool Byrne covers)
Rampaging Hulk
Savage Sword of Conan

I read a lot of stray issues of other stuff. I began picking up other titles in the 80s.

It's weird, my pull list is very similar today.

Loved Treasury Editions. I sold off all my back issues in the early 1990s, but I could not part with my treasuries. They were too beat up to get a decent price. Glad I kept them. Still love thumbing through them from time to time.

[MIB41]

Oh boy... Now I LOVE this subject. Those years when I actively collected each month. They were:

The Amazing Spider-man
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-man (starting with issue # 1)
Fantastic Four
The Thing Two in One
Marvel team Up: Captain America & Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
The Man called Nova
Werewolf by Night
The Human Fly
Iron Man
The Flash
Brave and the Bold
Batman
Dracula's Tomb
The Mummy
Conan

[Werewolf]

Gold Key- Star Trek, Flash Gordon and Looney Tunes.
DC- Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman.
Archie- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Marvel- Spiderman

[Bionic Joe]

the 70s was a great time for comics and is my favorite era of comics
but back in the day these were my always read titles
GOLD KEY/WHITMAN
Star Trek

DC
BATMAN
SUPERMAN

Marvel
Amazing Spiderman
Marvel Tales
Marvel Team Up
Invaders
Capt America and the Falcon
Capt Marvel
Tomb of Dracula
Fantastic Four
Nova
Planet of the Apes [both comic book and magazine]
Iron Man
Charton
Six Million Dollar Man

[emeraldknight47]

I had an eclectic mix of stuff and was maybe reading at a higher level than I needed to. I remember devouring war comics like Haunted Tank and Sgt. Rock and also Green lanter/Green Arrow. It had some adult themes I probably shouldn't have been reading. I balanced that out with Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, Godzilla and Devil Dinosaur. I think I was into Brave and the Bold too.

::smacks self in head::

Duh! How could I have forgotten about DEVIL DINOSAUR! AND all the cool MARVEL TREASURY EDITIONS I bought (and their DC counterparts)! I remember seeing the very FIRST Spider-Man Marvel Treasury Edition at Eight Mile and having to beg and plead to borrow a buck from my Mom to pay for it. She give it to me---after I cleaned out the gutters on the garage and helped her rake up some yard debris!!! Still have it, too!

[VintageMike]

Whatever my dad would bring me home since I too young to buy on my own! Since I liked Spider-Man it would usually be Amazing, Spectacular Marvel Tales or Team-Up. A few Hulks made it in as I remember. Things picked up a but in the 80's when I got older. 70's books have since become my favorite with full runs of ASM from that time, Spectacular, Team-Up, Marvel Two-One, Spider-Woman, and Defenders in my collections. Almost done with my Avengers and Brave & Bold runs run from that period and am enjoying them quite a bit. Also have a surprising fun Wonder Woman run from the 70's as well. Batman, Detective and Justice League will probably be next.

[Random Axe]

I had an eclectic mix of stuff and was maybe reading at a higher level than I needed to. I remember devouring war comics like Haunted Tank and Sgt. Rock and also Green lanter/Green Arrow. It had some adult themes I probably shouldn't have been reading. I balanced that out with Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, Godzilla and Devil Dinosaur. I think I was into Brave and the Bold too.

[emeraldknight47]

From the seventies....

Hmmmm....

Lessee, I was just ten in '74 and I was IN LOVE with SUPERMAN and THE AVENGERS.

From my love of Superman, came fondness for World's Finest, Batman, Green Lantern and The Justice League. Also got my first taste of "scary" with Swamp Thing and House of Mystery.

After my love affair THE AVENGERS, I became addicted to Iron Man, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Hulk and, of course, eventually, Spider-Man. I always looked forward to either walking or riding my bike up to the nearby Convenient Food Mart or Eight Mile Pharmacy (both of which are now long defunct), taking the dollar my Mom gave me out of my pocket and plunking it down for several new issues of the above mentioned comics as well as a Charms Sweet n' Sour pop and a box of rock candy.

When I got older, I developed an interest in war comics and Marvel's version of Dracula.

In '76, Marvel came out with a book called THE MAN CALLED NOVA and it put me over the top. I loved that book (as did another, more minty board member). After that, it was like someone turned on a faucet of geeky goodness with Micronauts, Godzilla (Marvel's is still my favorite comics interpretation---Doug Moench just had away with the Big G no one else has had since!), Shogun Warriors, ROM, etc.

Overall, I'd say the seventies were a good time to be reading comics....