User blog comment:Nausiated/The Golden Age of Comics? It wasn't that golden../@comment-122657-20110407043807/@comment-61022-20110407070835

I think the difference with comics back then was there was that variety (romance, comedy, western etc) Which, I agree with you doesn't totally interest me either (although admittedly, I can't wait to get into the old horror and sci-fi stuff) In that regard though, I think that comic books for the longest time lost it's way in how diverse a medium it could be, and over saturated itself with super-heroes because that was (and still) sells very well.

Marvel appears to be retesting the waters these days with other things, doing their most recent comic book adaptations of classic tales (Last of the Mohekans etc) which I think is great. At the end of the day, it shouldn't matter what the genre is, as long as it tells a compelling story that interests the reader.

Golden Age super-hero books... Wow... They are a bit of an oddity. If they aren't complete rip-offs of other popular characters of the time, they were incredibly patriotic to the point of ridiculousness. But there were some diamonds in the rough.

I would say though that Marvel really got things going in the 80's. Which is not to say the previous decades were a complete miss... Claremonts original run of the X-Men started in the 70's... And I'd say that anything written by Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, or Len Wein was always gold.... Once you got back all the thought bubbles explaining characters powers and recaps of the previous issue stuff that was (Which really was an editorial thing as opposed to the writers skill)