TOP 10 Worst Things To Happen In The History Of Comics

[Tomega]

Mile High Chuck

[UnrulyAppendage]

I think a man admiring a cartoon man in a colored uniform with a cape is harder to take seriously than a guy viewing a scantily clad babe. At least one makes sense to most adults. Either way, you are probably looked at as a guy that is hard up to get a date.

 

What would make sense to most adults is getting a Playboy. What makes most sense to kids is to use the internet for porn. What you are left with are adult fanboy males looking at drawn pictures of women, and, with the new Supergirl, fantasizing over a teenage fictional character. Not a pretty picture.

[Forbush-Man]

Kirby leaving Marvel to go to DC (even though I did like his DC titles). It felt like the end of an era to me at the time.

[Mister_Comics]

I'm gonna try and put this all in some kind of order that may make sense. BTW, great input for all on this. Just goes to show how blind the comic industry is.

 

The worst is first.

 

1. Availability. Comics not sold in the regular stores. Kids can't get into the hobby due to this.

 

2. Changing characters. Killing off and bringing um back with new origins. CRISIS, ONSLAUGHT, Heroes Reborn, Spidey clone would all fall into this catagory. Also kills off the loyal long time reader.

 

3. Re-numbering. Droping a long running comic series and then months later bringing it back under a new numbered series. Kills off the collecting aspect.

 

4. Crossovers. TOO MANY crossovers into titles that a person doesn't normally collect. Stories tend to become confusing due to this.

 

5. Inflated prices. Gimicks - foil/hologram/multiple varient covers that increase price.

 

6. Soft porn in comics and THE COMIC CODE. Here ya have too extremes. The CODE that put the kabosh on what could be shown in comics ruined some comic companies. And the soft porn that younger readers are kepted away from. Supposenly aimed at the adult reader.

 

7. Other visual entertainment. Cable/satellite/DVD television, internet, video games.

 

8. The 90's. Just an all around bad turning point in the history of comics.

 

9. Reprints. Archive, Masterworks, Essentials.May kill off back issue buying.

 

10. To grade or not to grade?

[delekkerste]

Warren bankruptcy.

 

Crossgen bankruptcy.

 

[Red Hook]

Mark Hamill's accident.

[october]

Mark Hamill's accident.

[blowout]

Mark Hamill's accident.

 

Who nose what kind of effect that had on the industry?

[Scheradon]

When comics stopped increasing in 5 cent increments and when they started ending in $X.99 prices. This in conjunction with the 90's and the cheesy gimmick varients, holofoils covers, alternate covers and manufactured restart #1s special collectors issues. Ahhggg!

[BassGMan]

Warren bankruptcy.

 

Crossgen bankruptcy.

 

 

Don't forget Chaos Comics! bankruptcy. That one let me down.

[gifflefunk]

In chronological order as importance/impact is a matter of opinion:

 

1) 1954 SOTI Hearings and the CCA.

 

2) 1956 Public backlash against comics that helped collapse Leader News -- ECs distributor. Several companies lose their distributor. After that there was no hope of EC continuing on (even though they went to B/W magazines by that time).

 

3) 1956 The Anti-trust case against ANC (American News)... which caused several more companies to lose their distributor... caused Quality to fold and Timely/Atlas to jump over to IND (Independent News) causing the Atlas implosion.

 

4) 1967-1968 DC Comics sold to Kinney National Services and Martin Goodman sells Marvel to Perfect Film and Chemical Corp. Things go corporate in a big way.

 

5) 1970s paper shortage which accelerated the price hikes.

 

6) 1972 DCs Shazam #1 (the whole project was mismanaged and the speculators started to cause grief).

 

7) 1982/1986 Harvey comics ceases publication. There goes a major chunk of the kiddie market! No kiddie comics, no young readers to continue the hobby.

 

8) 1989-1997 Ronald Perelman/Carl Icahn war over Marvel... screwed things up for many years (I blame them for that whole renumbering BS).

 

9) 1992 Jim Shooter ousted from Valiant. WTF were they thinking?

 

10) CGC of course.

[shadroch]

Ron Perlman buying Marvel....

Jim Shooter leaving Valiant...

Death of Superman....

Bill Gaines's attempt to testify before Congress without taking his meds...

The forced retirement of Captain Marvel and crew...

Ditko leaving Spiderman,Kirby leaving FF...

the direct market going rogue ....

the fairly recent influx of

carpetbaggers,scamsters and the like attracted by "certification"...

[blowout]

Ditko leaving Spiderman

 

 

A sad day indeed.

[joe_collector]

Mark Hamill's accident.

 

[tth2]

Mark Hamill's accident.

[tth2]

Mark Hamill's accident.

 

Who nose what kind of effect that had on the industry?

[tth2]

Mark Hamill's accident.

 

[ComicSupply]

UnrulyAppendage,

 

Could you maybe take one of those comics out of your sig line. Every thread that I read that you post on makes the screen scroll over to the right and I can't see who is posting what.

 

I think if you took off just one it would fix it right up

[Deathlok]

UnrulyAppendage,

 

Could you maybe take one of those comics out of your sig line. Every thread that I read that you post on makes the screen scroll over to the right and I can't see who is posting what.

 

I think if you took off just one it would fix it right up

Buy a bigger monitor or increase the screen resolution.

[blowout]

UnrulyAppendage,

 

Could you maybe take one of those comics out of your sig line. Every thread that I read that you post on makes the screen scroll over to the right and I can't see who is posting what.

 

I think if you took off just one it would fix it right up

 

Try turning signatures off in your profile.