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[silverseeker]

On 8/5/2021 at 1:02 AM, Larryw7 said:

Right now I'm finally working on completing my ASM run and also collecting GA Batman and Detective. Why does it have to be either or?

Totally agree...I have both DC and Marvel runs I'm trying to complete.

It's turning out to be a lot cheaper to work on my DC runs, especially in the past year! 

[Terry E. Gibbs]

People think it is Marvel vs DC but it is much more complicated than that. Within DC there are two groups. Batman and the rest. If you are in the rest you may read Batman  but look at the shelves over the last 30 years and Batman is around 1-3rd+ of all DC product and as such how he is handled with the talent given to it is obvious. Many DC fans do not buy very much outside Gotham based titles. You can see it here. Ask a Batman collector about DC and it is the 40s and then drek until Adams O'Neil came on board with a  darker grittier Batman in the 70s. Ask a DC fan and he will talk about how great the SA was, with Broome, Fox, Kane Infantino, Kubert, and Anderson, how good Johns take was on Flash, Aquaman the Sinestro Wars.  To many of us the Drek period is the 70's the opposite of Batman readers. That sort of fan base does not exist within Marvel to that extent.

[ninanina]

Wondering if Disney might have any interest in purchasing DC down the road if and when it becomes available. Could it happen? There's always something kick starting the hobby...maybe that's the next big one.

[tth2]

On 8/6/2021 at 11:25 AM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

People think it is Marvel vs DC but it is much more complicated than that. Within DC there are two groups. Batman and the rest. If you are in the rest you may read Batman  but look at the shelves over the last 30 years and Batman is around 1-3rd+ of all DC product and as such how he is handled with the talent given to it is obvious. Many DC fans do not buy very much outside Gotham based titles. You can see it here. Ask a Batman collector about DC and it is the 40s and then drek until Adams O'Neil came on board with a  darker grittier Batman in the 70s. Ask a DC fan and he will talk about how great the SA was, with Broome, Fox, Kane Infantino, Kubert, and Anderson, how good Johns take was on Flash, Aquaman the Sinestro Wars.  To many of us the Drek period is the 70's the opposite of Batman readers. That sort of fan base does not exist within Marvel to that extent.

Excellent post.

[southern cross]

DC are rubbish, recommend collectors avoid them 😂

[Sauce Dog]

I grew up basically 99% collecting Marvel books and being into their characters, with the exceptions being Spectre (1992 series) and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight due to it not having to connect with canon, and offering great variety in one-off stories (as well as just loving Swamp Thing based on pop culture, though I never actively collected his series but did read a few things here and there during the Alan Moore run that became nostalgic for me). However, over time I started loosing interest in modern comics and as a result begun to look backwards. 

When I began to explore things outside of the Bronze Age I found it was DC that really hooked me, especially with the legacy characters that I was introduced in some small way through those original series I read. It felt like unearthing buried treasure with these old books, and reading these characters over the course of the better part of the century was fascinating.

At this point I think my main collecting focus is all DC based (golden age stuff involving Doctor Fate, Hourman, and Sandman. Anything with Swamp Thing). I still have my main Marvel character keys that are important to me (Iron Man, Moon Knight, Mysterio, Blazing Skull) and the lone other 'indy' stuff I love (Hellboy, Ninja Turtles) but the rest from that company or others I've found pretty easy to let go and sell as funds to fuel my growing love of old DC stuff (I have gotten back into modern stuff though, and now read new Swamp Thing, Nightwing, most Batgirl stuff, IDW TMNT, and occasionally peek into what's going on with the X-Men - if only to be reminded that I don't enjoy the multitude ongoing crazier-than-the-last story arc events they keep pushing out).

[silverseeker]

On 8/5/2021 at 8:25 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

People think it is Marvel vs DC but it is much more complicated than that. Within DC there are two groups. Batman and the rest. If you are in the rest you may read Batman  but look at the shelves over the last 30 years and Batman is around 1-3rd+ of all DC product and as such how he is handled with the talent given to it is obvious. Many DC fans do not buy very much outside Gotham based titles. You can see it here. Ask a Batman collector about DC and it is the 40s and then drek until Adams O'Neil came on board with a  darker grittier Batman in the 70s. Ask a DC fan and he will talk about how great the SA was, with Broome, Fox, Kane Infantino, Kubert, and Anderson, how good Johns take was on Flash, Aquaman the Sinestro Wars.  To many of us the Drek period is the 70's the opposite of Batman readers. That sort of fan base does not exist within Marvel to that extent.

I definitely fall into the "and the rest" camp, as I was never interested in collecting Batman for some reason...

When I was a kid in the 70s I absolutely loved Murphy Anderson's work on Hawkman and Mike Sekowsky's work on Justice League of America (I found his funky poses and general style weirdly interesting ), and picked up low-grade copies of a lot of those books. I also loved Carmine Infantino's work on Flash and Gil Kane's work on the Atom (more the early issues for both), so when I got back into collecting in 2000 my goal was to put together the following runs:

• Atom #1-20
• Flash #105-151 (it's a weird stopping point, but I love the cover of #151)
• Hawkman #1-20 (for some reason I had no interest in getting those last seven issues)
• Justice League of America #1-38

I also had Green Lantern #1-30 as a goal, but gave up on that a few years ago because it was so tough to find nice copies of these books for some reason. 

In any case, as much as I love my Silver Age Marvels, my Silver Age DCs are right there with them...

[tth2]

On 8/7/2021 at 8:18 AM, silverseeker said:

I definitely fall into the "and the rest" camp, as I was never interested in collecting Batman for some reason...

Same here.

I'm pretty much a complete maroon when it comes to good comic collecting choices.  When it comes to DC, the character I never cared for was Batman.  Similarly, for Marvel, the character I never cared for at all was Spider-Man.

So somehow my tastes and instincts unerringly led me to dislike their two most popular (by far) characters.  

Edited August 7, 2021 by tth2

[Sauce Dog]

On 8/6/2021 at 8:18 PM, silverseeker said:

• Hawkman #1-20 (for some reason I had no interest in getting those last seven issues)

I recently fell down a GIANT Hawkman rabbit hole and basically consumed it all until I was delirious from feathered comics. The SA stuff was pretty decent but after having tried to read all the version of him, it was really the recent 2018 series (at least the first 12 issues of it) which I enjoyed the most since it basically wrapped up ALL the origins and versions of Hawkman into one series.

[Terry E. Gibbs]

On 8/7/2021 at 10:18 AM, silverseeker said:

I definitely fall into the "and the rest" camp, as I was never interested in collecting Batman for some reason...

When I was a kid in the 70s I absolutely loved Murphy Anderson's work on Hawkman and Mike Sekowsky's work on Justice League of America (I found his funky poses and general style weirdly interesting ), and picked up low-grade copies of a lot of those books. I also loved Carmine Infantino's work on Flash and Gil Kane's work on the Atom (more the early issues for both), so when I got back into collecting in 2000 my goal was to put together the following runs:

• Atom #1-20
• Flash #105-151 (it's a weird stopping point, but I love the cover of #151)
• Hawkman #1-20 (for some reason I had no interest in getting those last seven issues)
• Justice League of America #1-38

I also had Green Lantern #1-30 as a goal, but gave up on that a few years ago because it was so tough to find nice copies of these books for some reason. 

In any case, as much as I love my Silver Age Marvels, my Silver Age DCs are right there with them...

That mirrors me so much. Left comics when Neal Adams run finished and convinced myself at the age of 18 I had outgrown them (in Australia DC was very limited, any title pre 1960 was reprinted in B & W  and Marvel too patchy in distribution) Also Cinf had finished Flash by then. Came back in around 1981, my first one back was a GL 161, then wandered by chance into our first direct selling comic shop, saw Cinf drawing 308 on the shelf and never looked back. Those early GL under 5 are always low grade. Best I could find here (it was sold here, title started after 1960, one of very few DC books that was about a 3.0 if I am generous. Easier to find GL 1 in high grade than 3-5. I had kept my JLAs so just needs to go back and get the JSA cross overs, and my Flash books. Wow Flash in colour !! Was amazing.

[frozentundraguy]

When I got into collecting comics in the late 90's I was focusing on about 6 different DC titles. Soon I was picking up a few issues of Fantastic Four and branching out into some Marvel Bronze age books. This was long before I discovered these boards. Then around 2009 I discovered the pre-hero Marvel books, and picked up a few of those.   These days I primarily collect Flash, Detective Comics, pre-hero Marvel books, and a few odd Atlas books.

[jmg3637]

When I got into comics  I enjoyed DC much more than marvel  so those were the books I read  in the late 60's

When I got back into reading in the late 80's  those were the characters I was familar with and wanted to see where the stories were going.

 

As I began to "invest" in comics  I bought many collections  and started building my marvel collection  while also adding many more DC

 

Shifted my focus after a few less than pleasant internet  deals  and  shifted  to Four Colors via Trade  about 15 years ago

 

Still very happy  with my silver age DC's  even though the keys in that era are few and far between

 

I am so enjoying having access to  the images  that Photobucket  was holding hostage and then threatened to  delete if I did not pay something

[MusterMark]

On 8/5/2021 at 8:25 PM, Terry E. Gibbs said:

People think it is Marvel vs DC but it is much more complicated than that. 

I actually disagree.

It is much simpler than that.

Because:  There is no "vs."  To me, they are all just comics.  Gotta love 'em all.

Edited January 21, 2022 by MusterMark

[skypinkblu]

I like them both, but I started with DC because my Dad loved Superman and those were the ones he brought home for me to read. Green Lantern was my next discovery, he had Jewelry and he could fly...what else would I need?

But DCs were comics (fun) and Spidey was like reading a soap opera (sorry) and Thor...who I adored, had very different word balloons that just bothered me...they didn't jump out at me the way the DC ones did...so I didn't enjoy sitting down and reading them quite as much.. 

The one book I avoided (besides the War and Love comics) were the Wonder Womans, because she was a "girl" and I didn't want to be typecast...Until I met some great people on the eBay chatboard...and they taught me about the GA books...and how Batman was going to be over priced, but Wonder Woman was harder to find and much cheaper...so I concentrated on those. 

There are so many different comic book titles, there is no need to limit yourself, that's one of the great things about this hobby.

[Terry E. Gibbs]

On 1/21/2022 at 3:29 PM, skypinkblu said:

The one book I avoided (besides the War and Love comics) were the Wonder Womans, because she was a "girl" and I didn't want to be typecast...Until I met some great people on the eBay chatboard...and they taught me about the GA books...and how Batman was going to be over priced, but Wonder Woman was harder to find and much cheaper...so I concentrated on those. 

 

Yeah Kanigher was writing truly great war books but his other SA books were already dated by 1959

[Jaylam]

On 1/20/2022 at 12:08 PM, jmg3637 said:

When I got into comics  I enjoyed DC much more than marvel  so those were the books I read  in the late 60's

When I got back into reading in the late 80's  those were the characters I was familar with and wanted to see where the stories were going.

 

As I began to "invest" in comics  I bought many collections  and started building my marvel collection  while also adding many more DC

 

Shifted my focus after a few less than pleasant internet  deals  and  shifted  to Four Colors via Trade  about 15 years ago

 

Still very happy  with my silver age DC's  even though the keys in that era are few and far between

 

I am so enjoying having access to  the images  that Photobucket  was holding hostage and then threatened to  delete if I did not pay something

Nice copies of the Metal Men there. They are the comic that got me started in comics so they will always have a special place in collecting for me. 

[Math Teacher]

When you ask whether I like Marvel or DC better, it's the same as asking which of my children I like better or which of my grandchildren I like better (at least for me). I like them all equally well. Just for the sake of honesty, I will admit that Spider-Man is my favorite character.

PS - I like the Metal Men also!

[Straw-Man]

On 1/23/2022 at 8:28 PM, Math Teacher said:

When you ask whether I like Marvel or DC better, it's the same as asking which of my children I like better or which of my grandchildren I like better (at least for me). I like them all equally well. Just for the sake of honesty, I will admit that Spider-Man is my favorite character.

PS - I like the Metal Men also!

did not like metal men, but before i became a full-fledged marvelite i did very much like metamorpho, the doom patrol and the challengers.  in honor of those memories, i have dabbled in those d.c.'s, but not much else [first twenty 80 page giants excluded], in my silver age collecting.

[zosocane]

Marvel Studios is in the ongoing process of saving the American movie theater experience.  I really hope DC/Warner Bros. will get its act together and unveil a string of interconnected DCEU gems to get more audiences back in theaters.  If this happens, our old DC comic books will become more expensive.

Edited January 24, 2022 by zosocane

[BEAUMONTS]