Digital Comics Museum

[filkertom]

Now this is really cool.

What older comics do you like? I mean, 1960s vintage or older. I will never get enough of those Lee-Kirby Fantastic Four and Thor, and I love tracking down reprints of old Captain Marvel. I used to have one of the big EC hardcover collections -- can't even remember, it's been twenty years -- and those wonderful Dick Sprang Batman and Robin stories, especially with the Joker -- ahhh, comics bliss.

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[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Now THIS is one of the reasons the Internet was invented! :-D (okay, I have the historical background to know that in fact, it wasn't, but by golly, it should have been).

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Challengers of the Unknown. Even my parents don't have the faintest clue this comic existed though.

[ericcoleman]

I LOVED the Challengers ...

[ericcoleman]

The original Flash Gordon. Gorgeous art, great stories.

[gazerwolf.livejournal.com]

Curse you Tom. Now I have to cut into Sleep time!

[shaharazad.livejournal.com]

Phantom Lady from the 1940s! And the various Fiction House adventure titles.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

Green Lantern, as written by John Broome and Gardner Fox, and drawn by Gil Kane.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

The Fawcett Marvel Family, early silver age Marvel stories do it for me.

[sdelmonte]

The Spirit. Those wonderful eight-page masterworks by Eisner (and occasionally others) that were often very different from week to week.

The original Lee-Ditko Spider-Man run. I like a lot of the Lee-Kirby stuff, but there is something about Spider-Man that never fails to impress me anew.

The bulk of the Atom comics from the 60s. A good mix of SF, spy story and historical fiction for kids, they are a little less predictable and generic than the typical DC comic of the day.

Waiting eagerly but patiently for the promised Monster Society of Evil collection DC has promised but not delivered. This is said to be the pinnacle of the adventures of Captain Marvel.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Plastic Man, or most of anything by Jack Cole. And The Spirit or most anything by Eisner.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

When I was young, in 1971, I had to stay over at my aunt's house one night. To say I was bored was an understatement. My aunt broke out some of her (grown) son's old Superman comics. So I got to read the original Superman 3-D issue. I had not known at the time that I was reading a comic worth several thousand dollars (good thing my aunt didn't know either or she would never had let me read it :) My cousin had collected Superman comics when he was growing up in the 50's since my uncle's name was Joe Shuster (unfortunately, not *that* Joe Shuster). I have the recent reprint of it, but knowing I had read the original still holds a place in my heart.

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

The site you really want to check out is Golden Age Comics (http://goldenagecomics.co.uk/). They have have a bigger archive.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

First the one I admit to with more than a modicum of shame: Sugar and Spike. It just tickled me.

Now the one that probably tells you way too much about me: Dell's Ghost Stories. In fact, this summer I went on one of those proverbial missions in search of a story I remembered from my youth. The result of this search - a comic that many experts say was one of the scariest ever: http://www.besthorrorcomics.com/pdf/Dread_End.pdf

Geez, what was my thinking of to let a 13 year old read this stuff. It probably contributed to my desire to grow up to be Morticia Addams.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No need for any shame regarding Sugar & Spike. It's a classic, and still great.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as it's a classic.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I loved reading the Fantastic Four, with Kirby. Even older, I loved reading the old Buck Rogers newspaper comics. Our library had a collection of the strips in a book, and I'd love to have it and Prince Valiant again.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

In The Flame's origin story, there was an amazing sequence of his powers being bestowed by his master.

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

Anything by Winsor McCay.

[old-fortissimo.livejournal.com]

Will Eisner's Spirit, of course.

Wayne Boring's Superman. This is what I grew up on and no other artist's interpretation seems quite right to me.

Crockett Johnson's Barnaby and his Fairy Godfather, Mr. O'Malley. Cushlamochree!!!

Walt Kelly's Pogo.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Dial "H" For Hero. The original series with Robby Reed (although the 1980s version wasn't too bad).

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

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