Which comics can you read over and aver again?

[stevezodiac]

I read the Essentials Collection volume of them last year. Great stuff. I also liked the Gene Colan/Tom Palmer version but to me Doctor Strange will always be Ditko's version.

[tony ingram]

Alan Moore's Captain Britain, Steve Englehart's Avengers, Roy Thomas's All-Star Squadron and Infinity, Inc and pretty much anything by Steve Gerber. Oh, and Romero's Axa.

[stevezodiac]

Didn't Marvel do a WW2 heroes comic? The Invaders? I think I have a nice run of All Star Squadron in storage plus the few All Star when it was resurrected - I remember Wally Wood's inks. Trying to remember the All Star Artist - was it Rick Hoberg?

[paw broon]

Yes they did. The Invaders featured Cap. America; Human Torch; Submariner; Bucky; Toro and later Union Jack and The Crusaders, and there was a crossover with The Liberty Legion. Good fun.
I think Hoberg is right, in part but there was a lot of Jerry Ordway in there.

[tony ingram]

Yes they did. The Invaders featured Cap. America; Human Torch; Submariner; Bucky; Toro and later Union Jack and The Crusaders, and there was a crossover with The Liberty Legion. Good fun.
I think Hoberg is right, in part but there was a lot of Jerry Ordway in there.

And like All-Star Squadron, The Invaders was also written by Roy Thomas throughout its run.

[philcom55]

I think Keith Giffen and Rick Estrada both helped Wood on the revived All-Star Comics, but Wally did far more than just ink them. I'm pretty sure Rich Buckler was the first All Star Squadron artist.

[stevezodiac]

Jerry Ordway was the name I was thinking of. A great artist.

[starscape]

Two teams I really enjoyed were the Invaders and the Freedom Fighters, so loved the unofficial crossover of Americommando & Rusty, Barracuda, Fireball and Sparky (aka the Crusaders)

[stevezodiac]

looks like Don Heck artwork. i know he did some stuff for the DC Mystery comics in the late 70s or early 80s.

[paw broon]

Actually, I think it might be Rik Estrada - not that I recognise the art, more that I seem to remember him doing it. I can dig out an issue if no-one can confirm. For Colin's info., I have a complete run of the series
More to the point, this run (15 issues) saw the re-appearance of the first and best Batwoman and Batgirl - Kathy Kane and her niece Betty Kane. That original Batwoman costume was a bit of a turn on to a young lad like me at the time. Detective 233 then Batman 105, way back in 1956. As I'm terrible with numbers and dates, I confess to looking this up.
As for Americommando and co., the more obscure heroes the better, imo.

[philcom55]

The Grand Comics Database credit Dick Ayers and Jack Abel, which sounds reasonable. The covers were definitely by Rich Buckler, which is interesting as a few years later Buckler masterminded what might have been the best-ever version of Archie's 'Mighty Crusaders' title.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have a soft spot for the old red, yellow and black Batwoman. I was really pleased when DC brought her back for a time in the 1970s - and hated the way they killed her off once and for all (even if that story WAS sugar-coated by excellent Don Newton artwork).

[Bethanys grandad]

What I noticed is that the majority of comics at the moment seem to be american comics from the silver age.classic fun

[geoff42]

it has to be Captain Britain ala Alan Moore/Alan Davis...Marvel Uk had it never so good back then.. even the yanks appreciate such a vivid, off-the-wall-strip. Claremount/Davis came close with their run on Excalibur... but not close enough. Of course, this is a period where, essentially, Cap's sis - Elizabeth - drew Claremount's attention... which is why her first appearance in Captain Britain Weekly commands such an incredible price!

[tony ingram]

Two teams I really enjoyed were the Invaders and the Freedom Fighters, so loved the unofficial crossover of Americommando & Rusty, Barracuda, Fireball and Sparky (aka the Crusaders)

And in the exact same month that those Crusaders appeared in Freedom Fighters, another group of Crusaders (The Spirit of '76, Ghost Girl, Captain Wings, Thunderfist, Tommy Lightning and Dyna-Mite) who had suspicious similarities to the Freedom Fighters appeared in the pages of Invaders. The plots were curiously similar, too (probably because the writers and editors of the two books cooked them up between them over a weekend). In both cases, the Crusaders turned out to have been unwitting dupes created by a villain in order to discredit the heroes and further an evil plan.

[DavidKW]

I'd often when a teenager, like to re-read my collecting of early 80s Look-Ins. I'd particulary like to read its well drawn Story Of The Beatles strip (mind you where I grew up there was very little to do; comcis were an escape from the very negative world I lived in).

Used to like re-reading my collection of Beezers when I had them (before a forced burning from the parents. Could re-read again if they were there, back from the dead.