Weekly Question – Best Pre-1989 06/09/16
This suggestion comes from our listeners and it’s a doozy. At first, I thought this would be tough, to throw some suggestions in the post, however, to paraphrase myself from this week’s show, pick any year, any decade, any era, and there, you will find a Batman story.
Over at Marvel, they had two big guns that were changing the way comics would be, possible forever. First, before he redefined Batman (see above), Frank Miller was changing Daredevil in ways still seen today, up to the current Netflix series.
Also, Chris Claremont and John Byrne were turning the, at the time, forgotten and cancelled X-Men into the world wide phenomenon we know them as today.
And not to be outdone, the indies took Daredevil and the X-Men, mashed them together and came up with another long lasting franchise in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
So our question to you, dear listener, what is the best comic book prior to 1989? Character? Single issue? Full run? Whatever!
Just tweet us with your answer using the hash tag #LBHQuery. Don’t like or have Twitter? Need more room to explain your choice? Just leave a comment on this post!
We’ll compile up all the answers and talk about them on next week’s show!
Does Batman: Death in the family count. I know it came out around 88-89 but I absolutely loved it and was one of the first comics I read and it really hit me hard.
I don’t really know since I wasn’t even alive in 1989. I’ve dabbled in New Mutants and Justice League International but still haven’t gone back and read a lot of Gold/Silver, heck even Bronze Age books.
New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga
Siege of Avengers Mansion by the Masters of Evil. Runners up: Sand Superman (later redone post crisis). Starts with Kryptonite becoming inert. Later features the “emma peel” wonder woman, judas contract in teen titans, the jla/jsa/secret society team-up referenced years later in Identity Crisis, the first year of American Flagg, all of Zot!,
Gotta second Zot, that’s a fantastic read. Also I’m a big fan of the original run of Badger, and I would be lying if I didn’t mention the original run of Batman and the Outsiders, that comic made me a fan.