"I love DC Comics. It's just that Marvel generally blows them away when it comes to writers, inkers, pencillers, and even characters."

Count-

That's an awfully definitive statement, for such a long-lived & varied medium. For one thing, if we go by the old Civil War general's advice, "get there the fustest, with the mostest," we have to face The Man of Steel and the Darknight Detective.

Have you read much Golden Age stuff? To a large degree, excepting mainly Simon & Kirby, Marvel's looks terrible, and is near unreadable, script-wise.

In the 50's, both houses put out pretty much the same quality of forgettable fluff for kids.

In the Silver Age, yes; to a large degree, DC had gotten fat & complacent, & Marvel - largely, Lee & Kirby & Ditko - ran rings around them, & reinvigorated the medium.

But when the Second Wave - former fans like Denny O' Neill & Wrightson - came in, the other team again took the lead. The best of the Bronze Age, which pretty much created the more adult comics most of us love best, came from DC: the "back to basics" Batman; GL/GA; Swamp Thing; Maggin's reinvigorated Supes; The Shadow; Tarzan; Kirby's stuff there (much better than his "return to Marvel" material); etc.

Nowdays, to me at least, both (former) Majors mainly stumble around; one or the other occasionally hits the ball...

Best,
-Craig W.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era
Last Edited By: Wich2 Jan 24 08 2:58 PM. Edited 2 times.