Majestic wrote on Apr 3
rd, 2010 at 6:10pm:
I ended up going with 80's as well, as that was the time I really got into comics. I had a few in the 70's (and loved them), but the books I really came to love: X-Men, Fantastic Four, Sin City, Alpha Flight, Excalibur, Watchmen, Dark Knight, etc, all came out or were really strong in this era. Moreso the early 80's, as I didn't like alot of this same stuff in the mid to late 80's.
I generally see the 1960s as fun, creative, but as children's literature, by and large.
I see the 1970s as a decade of steady maturity and depth in comics. Overall it was a strong decade. X-Men is one book that I think was at its best in the 1970s during the Phoenix saga. By 1983, the X-Men were downhill for me.
The Avengers, on the other hand, were really great during the Roger Stern era of the early 1980s, when Eros and Captain Marvel joined the team and Vision dealt with his own ego. Countless other series at both Marvel and DC really peaked in the early 1980s.
The only problem for me is that I see that late 1980s for mainline comics as so horribly bad, with revamping and reconning spinning out of control. Marvel Girl's return was the first of many missteps. Because of that, I see the 1970s winning out over the 1980s when quality levels are averaged out.