Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Comics of the 1970s

Since I've been teaching this course at Lehman on films of the 1970s, I've been thinking a lot about the american comics of the decade. while the 80s (justifiably) get the credit for revisionary works like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns, it seems to me that there was a lot of cool and weird stuff being published by Marvel and DC during the preceding decade. A brief list:

Tomb of Dracula; Omega the Unknown; Howard the Duck; Steve Englehart's Captain America run; The Defenders/Avengers war; Cary Bates and Elliot S Maggin's Superman runs; the Rhas Al Ghul Batman stories; Gwen Stacy's death; Green Lantern/Green Arrow; Chris Claremont's X-Men

Anyone want to post their favorite 70s era comics memories?