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Capekiller wrote:loganzak wrote:there asn't been a post here since oct of 2007 That is because this is JRAUP's forum. Dude is suspect, I'm telling ya!!! Suspected, but never convicted!  The biggest problem here is all the Marvel fan-boys whose intellect is rivaled by that of a bag of frozen peas! So getting a meaningful discussion going is often fruitless...
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Hey as a large marvel fan myself... I challenge you to a mental duel!!! (...as long as it is something I know)
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JRaup wrote:..we're expecting you....OK, apologies for the Love Boat reference. So, my suggestion for a history forum has been accepted. Woo-hoo!  Now, what my goal is, is to have a place where we can discuss not only the history of comics, but how they relate to the events of history. I got the idea between epcomic's fact of the day thread, and while poking around on superdickery.com, particularly the propaganda section. I'll be starting up a few threads to get things rolling. Actually, JR, you were supposed to start "up a few threads to get things rolling". We have all been waiting for you to layout a framework for these discussions, and how you would like your thread run. So you're Marvel fan-boy excuse has no merit.
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History of comics  All I can say is "Obadia Oldbuck" Discuss amongst yourselves 
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fenix1977 wrote:Not sure if any one is interested but I read a great book about comics in the 40's 50's and 60's and the struggles they faced. It is called "The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America" by David Hadju. It was a real eye opener to read about the crap that went on and struggles of the comic book industry. It also made me angry to know that they had organized comic book burnings.  All that money up in smoke........
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i have a LOT ofmoney go "up in smoke"
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I think that it would be a good idea to focus on a particular era in comics and go from there. I have been doing some research on comics, particularly the Bronze Age comics and found that the bronze age had a lot of shift in themes, particularly recent issues of the times, including drug use, feminism, and even racism.I have a website that describes the bronze age at Bronze Age Comics to see more info. Please visit and feel free to blog. I also have a free comic book giveaway you can sign up for, if you visit and blog.
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If you are talking the political history of comics, it begins with Fredric Wertham. Hendrikson and Kevaur really wanted these indictments of the comic industry to be on a par with the communist hearings of the time.
My own personal belief is that the new comic code resulted in un-intellectual comics for quite a while, however they ended up creating a wave of creativity we have not seen in quite a while.
Eventually, in the late 60's and early 70's, in order to tell better stories, both Marvel and DC bucked the CCA for a while.
There is so much more....
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For me, the early 70s, say about 71ish-75ish is my favorite era of comic books.
Storywise; there was just so much influence going on in them. Vietnam(post-vietnam), Watergate, Cold War, post-hippyism, ealry phase disco, cheesey TV shows, sexual revolution, rise of advaenture fantasy (Conan (though originally from the 30s), Gor, type books and sci-fi were really taking hold in a big way), it allowed for some pretty nifty story-telling.
I liked the art, in that it was still somewhat simplistic, it was still narrative. It was art that told a sequence of events. Today's comic art is awesome art.....but in my humble old guy opinion, it doesn't have the same narrative quality as the old panels.
So all in all those early 70s stories showed some of breaking of the prior naivete (probably spelled wrong), but still had narrative art.
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