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Unpopular Golden Age Opinions Thread!
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rjpb

rjpb

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13 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Why is golden age Superman's body often so wide and bulky that it makes his head look disproportionately small? Not impressed by many of those. 

They are boring for sure.

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jimbo_7071

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6 hours ago, miraclemet said:

I love GA sci-fi

I hate the cover art on Contact 12

 

3 hours ago, rjpb said:

I love the cover for Contact #12, yet have little interest in GA sci-fi, so there may be a correlation.

You may be onto something. I like GA sci-fi, but Contact 12 doesn't do much for me. If we're talking similar covers, I much prefer Captain Aero 26.

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Dr. Love

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Shores > Schomburg

Colletta > Baker

Eisner is a god

Superheroes are childish

A restored book without a paper trail should be burned

The ratio of worth front cover/back cover should be 70/30 not 90/10

and the worst - pay the most you can afford for a book, not the least   :devil:

 

 

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Larryw7

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13 hours ago, batman_fan said:

Okay, GA Batman covers in general are a bit "silly". There I said it.

What? You don't like seeing Batman and Robin riding giant tricycles, or going for a ride on a snowmobile with Alfred?

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skypinkblu

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On 8/29/2016 at 9:59 PM, Dr. Love said:

You owe it all to romance.

 

The end of WW2 put a serious hurt on the comics industry. Like death spiral hurt. Superheros were down for the count. Simon & Kirby went for a hail Mary and wonders of wonders! created a whole new comic genre, romance, that stole the last gasp female market from the pulps and also brought in the other half of the teenage population for a tremendous bridge loan to keep the lights on and the workers paid. It also fixed young girls' minds on their new career path, marriage/homemaker/motherhood, which conveniently included creating the next important market of readers.

 

When these readers were ready, romance was there again to do the heavy lifting. Romita's tenure for seven years? at DC doing romance, romance and nothing but romance prepared him to take the nerdy character with a problem we could all identify with, add some reasonable not too over the top superhero type stuff, but most important, draw the outstanding soft porn stunning good girl/bad girl Gwen/MJ for horny teenage boys that really took Marvel to a new level.

 

You owe it all to romance.

 

 

LOL...and I HATE romance comics, always have, even as a kid. I would buy a war comic before I'd get a romance comic;)

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Tri-Color Brian

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23 hours ago, miraclemet said:

I love GA sci-fi

I hate the cover art on Contact 12

Them's fightin' words right there...here, stare at this until you LIKE it...:sumo:  It is beautiful in its simplicity...and i think you're just jealous because you don't own one... lol

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