I don't know why I didn't think of this the other day, but one of the reasons (among several, not the least of which was that I was outgrowing comics at that time) that I became decidedly uninterested in DC comics in the early 70's was their switch to story topics that had - shudder - 'RELEVANCE'!

I recall an Aquaman where pollution caused the seas to die; a JLA all about pollution; Speedy on drugs; big business/corporate greed with Morgan Edge; plights of the oppressed; urban unrest; Superman less super, and more man; Wonder Woman in street clothes for women's lib; and there are probably others that I can't recall right now.

I'm not saying that these topics are unworthy of publication; rather, my enjoyment of comics came from the escapist sci-fi and fantasy elements that my myopic perspective has always focused on. I always loved the cheesy (and the not-so-cheesy) sci-fi and horror films of the 50's and early 60's. If you were able to detect the strings holding a space ship in flight, or see the rocket exhaust smoke trail upward while the rocket travelled horizontally, so much the better!

I enjoyed ridiculous stories about roving space villians happening upon Earth, and deciding to attack and destroy, only to be thwarted by Supes, the JLA, GL or whomever.

Stories that seemed to be 'ripped from today's headlines!' had no appeal to me. Give me hordes of gigantic, robotic, alien insects decimating the galaxy, and my interest would have been sustained a bit longer.