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Aug 5 07 12:44 AM
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Aug 5 07 12:09 PM
Bronze Age
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Aug 5 07 1:02 PM
Quote:Any member of the JLA could have uttered any line of dialogue interchangably. Batman and Superman had the same personalities. They seemed to have very two-dimensional personal lives and no major personal problems. Few plotlines really spanned several issues.
Quote:Fortunately, DC largely managed to avoid angst-ridden, whiny key characters, and never got quite as uninteresting as Marvel comics, which are very overrated in my opinion...
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Aug 6 07 8:04 AM
Golden Age
Quote:It was about dialogue which could be associated with a specific character rather than being interchangeable. It was about long-lasting subplots that might actually get resolved in an unexpected way that would have a permanent impact on the way the heroes conducted their careers.
Aug 6 07 9:32 AM
Quote:I thought superhero comics were mainly to be read as action-centered escapism, not for interminable soap opera type sub-plots.
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Aug 6 07 1:11 PM
Modern Age
Quote:But the point of this thread was when DC began as a whole to resemble Marvel. And Lee, your aversion to Crisis, and post-Crisis DC, surely chalks up even more evidence for 1984 or so being the dividing line.
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Aug 6 07 1:33 PM
Aug 6 07 6:22 PM
Quote:It really isn't a very good question. The Weisinger DC's all had Marvel style angst before Marvel existed. Weisinger bascially invented "continuity". They also had Weisinger goofiness instead of Kirby goofiness. The Schwartz and Schiff titles were all plot with virtually interchangeable heroes. DC fans looked down on Marvel comics as plotless fight scenes.
Aug 7 07 7:43 AM
Quote:By the late seventies DC and Marvel comics were interchangeable (interchangeably bad)-
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