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Let's build the essential bronze reading list

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Jeffro.

Jeffro.

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I need your help. I'd like to build a great bronze age comic reading list and am looking for any and all suggestions.

 

I will manage the list.

 

What would you choose? Starlin Warlock? Byrne X-Men? Early Defenders? Grell Legion of Superheroes?

 

Please be specific with issue numbers and have some fun with it.

 

 

The Essential Bronze Reading List

 

A Contract With God, and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner

 

Adventure 431-439(?) Fleisher/Aparo Spectre run

 

Amazing Spider-Man #121, 122

 

Avengers 93-100

 

Avengers #164-177

 

Batman 232-252

 

Captain America 247-255 (Roger Stern/John Byrne run)

 

Conan 1-24

 

Creepy 64-80 (Corben, Wrightson, Heath, Toth, Severin)

 

Daredevil #158-191, 227-233 (227-233, too far into Copper age I think)

 

Defenders - Gerber run 20 thru 41 (Bill Mantlo issue 30), Giant Size Defenders 3, 4,

Defenders Annual 1

 

Detective 395-410 (Adams)

 

Detective Comics 437 to 443 - Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson's Manhunter

 

Detective Comics 469 to 476 - Batman by Steve Englehart

 

Dr. Strange 1,2,4,5

 

GL/GA 76-89 (O'Neill, Adams)

 

House of Mystery 175-194 (Adams, Wrightson, etc)

 

House of Secrets 92 (1st Swamp Thing, Wrightson)

 

Howard the Duck 1-31

 

Iron Man 128 (Classic Demon in a Bottle alcoholism story)

 

Jonah Hex - All-Star Western 10, 11, Weird Western Tales 12 to 14, 16 to 38, Jonah Hex 1 up (until when? NEED NUMBERS), Jonah Hex Spectacular (DC Special Series 16)

 

Justice League #100-#114 by Len Wein & Dillin/Giordano

 

Marvel Premiere 9,10,12,13,14 (Dr Strange)

 

New Teen Titans # 1-20 Wolfman & Perez)

 

Phantom Stranger #14-26 by Len Wein & Jim Aparo

 

Shadow #1-4 & #6 by Denny O'Neil & Mike Kaluta

 

Starlin Greatness - Iron Man #55, Captain Marvel 25-34, Death of Captain Marvel Graphic Novel, Strange Tales #178-181, Warlock #9-15, Marvel Team-Up #55, Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2

 

Star Spangled War Stories 183-204

 

Superboy 184, 188, 190, 191, 193, 195, 197 to 202

 

Superman 233-238 (was that the end of the "sand superman" arc?)

 

Superman from about 300-340

 

Swamp Thing 1-10 (Wrightson)

 

Tarzan 207-235 (Kubert's BA masterpiece)

 

Tomb of Dracula 1-70 (all--it was like Magnum PI, and never jumped the shark)

 

Warlord #1-#15 by Mike Grell (pre-Vinnie Colletta)

 

Werewolf by Night 1-43

 

Wolverine 1-4

 

X-Men #94-143, GS X-Men 1 (The classic Cockrum, Claremont, and Byrne run)

 

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Ghost Town

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No big surprises here, but:

 

Avengers #164-177

Daredevil #158-191, 227-233

Iron Man #55, Captain Marvel 25-34, Death of Captain Marvel Graphic Novel

Strange Tales #178-181, Warlock #9-15, Marvel Team-Up #55, Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2

Amazing Spider-Man #121, 122

GS X-Men #1, X-Men #94-143

 

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Ken Aldred

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I would like to nominate the Howard the Duck run. A series that is pretty well

ignored today but it really was something different and the villians were

something else. Beware the Turnip Lady.

+1

 

Bizarre, satirical, inventive - this run of Steve Gerber comics easily deserves to be on the list. (thumbs u

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Comicopolis

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I would like to nominate the Howard the Duck run. A series that is pretty well

ignored today but it really was something different and the villians were

something else. Beware the Turnip Lady.

 

Don't forget the vampire cow.

 

And Dr Bong.

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Jeffro.

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Jeffro -- for the sake of your list, please mandate when the Bronze Age ends.

 

For the purposes of this discussion, let's say 1982. (and not set in stone. A little copper crossover is a-ok :grin: )

 

Oh, and are all genres welcome?

 

Any and all.

I'm certainly not into all genres but I hope that this list will be helpful and informative to anyone who reads it, not just me.

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Gatsby77

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Conan 1-24

Avengers 93-100

Batman 232-252

Detective 395-410

Superman 233-238 (was that the end of the "sand superman" arc?)

Tomb of Dracula 1-70 (all--it was like Magnum PI, and never jumped the shark)

 

And, if going by Overstreet's definition (1970-1984), New Teen Titans # 1-20.

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This is strictly BA and not Copper, right? I would argue that the Spidey arc from #121 actually extends to issue #149 and not just #122. You also have the O'Neil/Adams run in Bats, particularly the Ras Al Ghul saga thats bee reprinted a few times. Aparo's Spectre run in Adventure Comics. Simonson's Manhunter in Detective.

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Ken Aldred

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John Albano and Michael Fleisher's Jonah Hex...

 

- All-Star Western 10, 11

- Weird Western Tales 12 to 14, 16 to 38

- Jonah Hex 1 up

- Jonah Hex Spectacular (DC Special Series 16)

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