The Walter Simmonson Thor run is some of the best books to read from that Era. I still have my original collection from when I was a teenager.

i have been collecting DC war books since the 70's. i have damn near a complete collection of the DC BIG 5!!! (Our Army at War, Our Fighting Forces, GI Combat, All American Men of WAR, Star Spangled War Stories), of course with the title changes, like Sgt Rock, Unknown Soldier. I also have a complete run of WWT, with many extra copies!!!! I have anything DC war in my collection, full runs, and many duplicates!!!!!. I love the 26 issue series Men of War, short runs or one hit wonders, Blitzkrieg, 4 Star Battle Tales, GI War Tales, Army at War, as well as many others!!! Great video guys. Should do one on nothing but DC WAR!!!

People need to read Elementals 1 thru 12. The story was very different than any comic I had ever read at that time. Publishing delays and lack of a good follow-up to those original 12 issues are the only reasons this book is not loved today.

There's no real debate necessary for Comico. Michael Eury, who got his start as an editor at Comico Comics back in 1988, says somewhere in the opening pages of Back Issue magazine #2 that the way to pronounce Comico is "Co-MEEK-co". That's good enough for me. I also read a ton of those books back in the day and I could swear in some of the letters columns they had people ask how to pronounce it and the editors who responded always said that it was pronounced as "Co-MEEK-co". That's how I've always prononounced it. Po-tay-to, Po-tah-to, I suppose. I just wish people would realize that Mark Millar's last name is just Miller spelled differently and stop saying "Mil-LAARRRR" like it's some exotic name. Anyway, keep up the good work gentlemen. The podcast is always entertaining and inspiring. Lot of stuff I need to go back and re-read after many years away or stuff that is new and interesting sounding to me.

I’ll always advocate Detective 395 as the start of the Bronze Age vice GL/GA 76. It’s also an O’Neil/Adams issue, but it’s their first Batman collaboration…AND it’s dated January 1970! Discuss😊 Paul Smith’s first X-Men was 165, March 1983. That month (Dec 82), Paul Smith appeared at a local Toledo comic show and got mine signed. (Also bought ASM 238, first Hobgoblin, new at that show.) The subject of Blackhawk is near to my heart, as it was my dad’s favorite comic in the 50s; he told me he bought it religiously. I now have a complete run of the DC Blackhawk (#108-273), as it was published by Quality in the 40s/50s. Back in 1984, at a Toledo convention, I paid $1 for a ROM 1 from one dealer, and traded it to another one for its guide value of $4…and proceeded to clear out his quarter bin of the Evanier/Spiegle Blackhawks! Sixteen comics for a one dollar investment. And I still have them, and will always treasure them. John, yes, I too loved Ginger Fox, but only the graphic novel by Mike Baron and Mitch O’Conell (which I was lucky to get autographed by both). The subsequent monthly series was drawn in a visually unappealing style by the Pander Bros, which in no way resembled the original story.

The best bronze Batman read is NOT a Neal Adams book, it is the Marshall Rogers run from Detective #469 to #479, the art was fantastic, but the writing was also great, peaking at #475 and #476 with the infamous Joker "laughing fish" two-parter

The creator parings of the Bronze Age are flat out amazing. And something I don't think we'll ever see again. Ya'll already referenced Claremont and Byrne. But O'Neil and Neal Adams as well as Marv Wolfman and George Perez were among my favorites. Nice picks fellas.

@EvanNave

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Amen

I love the Evanier-Spiegle Blackhawk series...then and now. It really deserves some appreciation, so I'm glad you pointed it out.

@BronzeAndModernGods

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Totally agree!

@Wildcat-ih9zi

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@@BronzeAndModernGods I was so certain you were going to pick Jemm Son of Saturn so as to increase demand for that #12. :)

@timothymarkin4481

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When John was talking about 80s indy comics following the discussion of Blackhawk, I’d hoped he’d mention Crossfire, another great Evanier/Spiegle series that is grossly underrated, about a non-powered costumed hero who is a bail-bondsman in seedy LA. Also check out Hollywood Superstars, yet another Evanier/Spiegle title set in seedy LA. (Mark Evanier grew up in the Hollywood area and was destined to work in television, so his stories accurately portray the locale.)

@BronzeAndModernGods

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Oh yes! I've featured CROSSFIRE as an Underrated Book of the Week prior - love that series. Still missing a couple issues of HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTARS.

@Wildcat-ih9zi

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@@timothymarkin4481 Crossfire was/is sooooo good! And issue #12 features one of the all-time great Dave Stevens covers as well.

Definitely with you about bronze horror! What surprises me is the $$$ commanded by Marvel reprints "dead of night" and a few others

bronze horror mags are sooo under the radar... eerie, creepy-those fazettas... so good. and htf in high grade.

Long time 40k player, Blood Angels. Comic folks are sleeping hard on 40k. Richard you are one of the few content creators grasping the significance of this property. Warhammer monthly is a good run to pick up in general as it will feature many character firsts. The recent Marvel runs are nice too. Especially the tough to find gw store only variants..

@jedimasterham2

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Do you know any first appearances in Warhammer Monthly?

@3riverscomics571

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@@jedimasterham2 This is the first Warhammer in comics and the run features recurring characters like Cal Jericho, Captain Leonatas, darkblade plus the first appearances of space marines, chaos marine, eldar etc etc in comics

Happy New Year Richard and John. Oh, the money I spent buying Warhammer miniatures for my son when he was young! Probably enough to buy an ASM #15 now (low grade, but still.....). Walt Simonson rejuvenates all the titles and concepts he works on, from "Manhunter" in the back of Detective Comics to his alternative Norse Gods series Ragnarok at IDW. Thanks for pointing out Blackhawk John, I'll look for this title on your recommendation; the character has had a difficult time at DC, they never really seemed to know what to do with him after the regular series was cancelled, apart from the Chaykin miniseries. My pick for Independents: Eclipse Comics and Miracleman; I hope Marvel doesn't stuff up their continuation of the title. Thanks John, another fan of Bronze horror comics here. And Marvel's b/w magazines too, which get so little recognition from fans and KZreadrs, yet that's where you find the first stories starring Man-Thing and Star-Lord, the first Satanna story and Blade's first solo story. Tick one Quasar figure John, now you need to get a Marvel Boy figure MIB. Another great show guys, thanks.

As folks with their ears to the ground - when is Deadman gonna become the next thing.

@EvanNave

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He's been important to some stories recently. JLDark stuff comes to mind.

Great topic for Bromze age I am looking for good reading booms. I have been picking up Charlton 70s books, especially EMan, which is amazing. Their later romance books are also pretty wild. And their horror books have great art by Steve Ditko, Wayne Howard and others. If you want another, there are a lot of groo books in the bins

My top three favorite/ long term spec. Bronze Age runs would be: Uncanny X-Men, The Dark Knight Returns, and Miller's Daredevil run.

@nerdyoldwoman9651

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Oh, and Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest as a key Bronze independent comic book.

love those bronze age horror books, I always pick up copies of Ghosts, Witching Hour and House of Mystery when I can, and yes even Weird War 😅

Happy new year John, Richard . I recently watched a new documentary ‘Dave Stevens - Drawn to perfection’ ( which I really enjoyed ) and wanted to ask are there any great comic book related documentaries you can suggest ? One other I can recommend is ‘In search of Steve Ditko’ by a UK TV show host (and huge comic book fan) Jonathan Ross . Many thanks :)

Great picks! Almost done with my pence/ Mark Jewelers run of X-men (there are a number of issues without pence price variants) in 9.0 or better. I'm going to have to look into the multi pack variants, they might be easier than the Mark Jewelers to have in the meantime.

The fact that anything 80s is considered Bronze is insane

I thought that was John I heard in the Whakoom ads

OMG - I can't believe Marvel Knights is 25 years old already!?! Now I feel old.

Oooh, that app looks awesome!

GRIMJACK! :)

Have any recommendations for any bronze Age Marvel comics to collect for someone who doesn't read Marvel much

Welcome to a new year

those who called it a day collecting, in mid 1970, missed out on a lot of great reading.!

For the folks in the back what's a key party 🤐🤣

It's cold there. Why else you gonna do

grrrr why does the bell notification not notify?????

So which dc bronze age horror series are really great reads?

No New Teen Titans???

Take it from someone who has tried to sell Swamp Thing comics. If it is not a key, don't bother. NO ONE CARES ABOUT SWAMP THING!

@wesleydodds

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Au contraire! I'm still slowly building my 80s run - just don't want to pay an outrageous price for those Constantine appearances. There's a reason DC keeps him around.

For my money (chuckle) the Bronze Age started with the first 20 cent books.

I was very reluctant to buy into the new X-Men. There was a copy of #100 sitting on the stand at my newsagent for well over a month before I finally had nothing else to read, so I forked over my 25 cents. Was hooked after that. Interesting that nobody else in the area cared about it either, all that time it was languishing on the self.