Did Marvel Release a Bronze Age Horror Comic?

[Zonker]

DC had begun true horror comics agian in 1968, which depending on your views is silver, post silver or beginning of bronze. These continued until 1983.

 

marvel briefly published 2 horror anthologies in the late 60's which do qualify as do the first issues of several other titles like chamber of chills.

 

The whole thing boils down to semantics i believe and your own definition of horror. It really has no bearing on anything real, just wondering aloud i suppose. Technicality stuff. The truth of the beast is horror elements crept into just about everything from 1968-1974 or so from romance to superhero.

 

Exactly! The problem (for those of us who like to classify everything) is what to do with the 1968-1969 period? Myself, I like to think of it as Late Silver Age, after the Middle Silver Age a.k.a. Marvel Age. During Late Silver, you have:

- House of Mystery, Secrets, Unexpected return to Mystery format

- Launch of Witching Hour

- Marvel's response in Tower of Shadows, Chamber of Darkness

- New artists Neal Adams & Steranko hit their strides (though they both did work on Deadman and Fury in '67 as well)

- New Marvel launches: Subby, Cap, Iron Man, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange

- Giordano, Skeates, O'Neil, Aparo move en mass from Charlton to DC

- Sekowsky's mod Wonder Woman begins

 

For me, the 1968-69 period is summed up by:

- Marvel expands beyond its previous publishing limit,

- DC (finally) understands Marvel is breathing down its neck,

- the windfall Batman TV show revenues are dropping off,

- DC promotes Carmine Infantino, who in turn promotes various artists to editorial positions (Orlando, Giordano, Sekowsky, Kubert)

- as a result you get a lot of experimentation that culminates in what I consider the Bronze Age beginning in 1970.

 

But that's just me...

[joe_collector]

Im not too invested in this discussion, but now Im really losing it. HOS amd HOM are "superhero books"?

 

Oooops, I think I quoted the wrong post or wrong part of a post.

 

DC did have real horror books, including HOS and HOM, and I was referring to the Marvel side, which was really just super-heroes based on popular horror characters.