Do you like Golden Age comics?

[oakman29]

I'll be in Amsterdam on Wednesday

 

 

Carry on ....

 

[Gotham Kid]

That's the one I was looking for

[Sqeggs]

 

C'mon now Stu. I remember you holding forth at great length on the eBay chat board about your love for Carl Barks.

 

Seriously, what about the St. John Baker romance books? Particularly the stories with scripts by Dana Dutch have everything you like: Well-written stories addressing serious, mature themes in a way that has seldom been seen before or since, along with Matt Baker's art -- which I would take over that of most current artists.

 

 

[Ogami]

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Kav, you are very talented.

[kav]

: )

 

[oakman29]

: )

 

Don't get all big headed now.

[kav]

Nope-I'm just an amateur folks

[Paddy_McShillihan]

Whether ya hate em or love em no one can deny the sucked in breath awe feeling when a stack of GA books is set down

 

[Paddy_McShillihan]

For xx 00 xx:

 

Kav, you are very talented.

 

+1 nice work

[dupont2005]

Yup

EC focused on short stories while the other companies focused on continuing characters

The kids preferred the short stories

It's much more than just that.

Read "Came The Dawn" and compare it to old Whitewash Jones comics. EC was on the right side of history, and invalidates the "Everybody did it" excuse we create for all the racist caricatures in other comics. Not to mention, their illustrators were absolutely leaps and bounds better than anything at the other publishers of the time.

[Cat-Man_America]

Love EC comics. The art & storytelling was the pinnacle of pre-code greatness, IMO.

Bill Gaines fought a losing battle to keep censorship from turning his comics mediocre.

 

Here's the last pre-code science fiction title ...

 

 

While I'm thinking about GA, here's a straight flush of S&K goodness...

 

[ComicConnoisseur]

Yup

EC focused on short stories while the other companies focused on continuing characters

The kids preferred the short stories

It's much more than just that.

Read "Came The Dawn" and compare it to old Whitewash Jones comics. EC was on the right side of history, and invalidates the "Everybody did it" excuse we create for all the racist caricatures in other comics. Not to mention, their illustrators were absolutely leaps and bounds better than anything at the other publishers of the time.

A very good point. William Maxwell Gaines was much more ahead of the curve, then some of the artists of that era who came up with those racial caricatures. IMHO.

 

[techvoodoo]

I don't care for GA comics from a readers perspective. I haven't read many, but I have no interest in reading more after reading the few reprints of the major books that I have read. I feel basically the same way about Silver Age comics as well though, and I'm sure that is blasphemous to most people.

 

Pre-Bronze comics hold almost no appeal to me from a readers standpoint (there's probably a few exceptions). From a collectors/investors standpoint I can get behind them. From a comic appreciator I like them for what they represent and some of their iconic artwork and covers. But the writing is so bad I can't get into them.

[MusterMark]

I don't care for GA comics from a readers perspective. I haven't read many, but I have no interest in reading more after reading the few reprints of the major books that I have read. I feel basically the same way about Silver Age comics as well though, and I'm sure that is blasphemous to most people.

 

Pre-Bronze comics hold almost no appeal to me from a readers standpoint (there's probably a few exceptions). From a collectors/investors standpoint I can get behind them. From a comic appreciator I like them for what they represent and some of their iconic artwork and covers. But the writing is so bad I can't get into them.

 

 

To me, GA books are so WAY superior to anything that came after them, that it is ridiculous (to me) to even compare them with anything else.

First of all, it isn't even that we value them and appreciate them because without them, we wouldn't have Superman, Batman, other characters etc. Even without regards to history, they are, in and of themselves, sublime.

 

But, if we must compare, my opinion is that the art of the average GA book is way superior to the art of the average SA book, which is way superior to the art of the average BA and later books.

And in terms of story, I LOVE the GA stories. I actually much prefer them to anything that came after them.

 

[jimjum12]

I'll be in Amsterdam on Wednesday

 

 

Carry on ....

 

..... I have a couple of Aunts and a pack of cousins there.... I'd thought of visiting, but might not remember how to get back home GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

[Ken Aldred]

Bill Gaines fought a losing battle to keep censorship from turning his comics mediocre.

 

Definitely. The New Direction, Code-approved books still had great art, but the stories had lost their edge.

[Senormac]

Bill Gaines fought a losing battle to keep censorship from turning his comics mediocre.

 

Definitely. The New Direction, Code-approved books still had great art, but the stories had lost their edge.

 

Don't forget that all those great artists ( well, a lot of em) did work for MAD after that. Wally Wood has some fantastic stuff in the pre #100 MAD books

[Cat-Man_America]

Bill Gaines fought a losing battle to keep censorship from turning his comics mediocre.

 

Definitely. The New Direction, Code-approved books still had great art, but the stories had lost their edge.

 

Don't forget that all those great artists ( well, a lot of em) did work for MAD after that. Wally Wood has some fantastic stuff in the pre #100 MAD books

 

 

[Senormac]

Bill Gaines fought a losing battle to keep censorship from turning his comics mediocre.

 

Definitely. The New Direction, Code-approved books still had great art, but the stories had lost their edge.

 

Don't forget that all those great artists ( well, a lot of em) did work for MAD after that. Wally Wood has some fantastic stuff in the pre #100 MAD books

 

 

 

He's just the best

[F For Fake]

My brother gave me that book last year for Christmas, great book. Along with photos of covers and art, I also enjoy the photos of kids reading comics in the era and of the books being printed and distributed.

 

Are these the books that are as big as a house? I must get them one day.

 

There was a book by Taschen called '75 Years of DC Comics' which was indeed as big as a house. The book that I posted is just the Golden Age section of said book, albeit a little more fleshed out and smaller in size (13x10).

 

We had a party this weekend, and a couple of my friends were discussing the absurd size of some of the Omnibuses I owned. I then pulled out the Taschen 75 Years book, complete with it's own cardboard suitcase and handle, and that pretty much shut them up.