Ongoing comic series from the 1980s and 1990s.

I was a little kid in the early mid 1980s. I grew up with mostly Spider Ham, Groo, Elfquest, Power Pack, Power Pack and a little bit of Uncanny X Men issues 170 to 180something.

These days Im 35 and its hard to jump back into the newer comic books. I know the old original comic books have "ended" but the old comics from the 1980s and 1990s are still the best.

Recently since last two weeks ive bought the black and white Essential trade paperback collectiosn of Wolverine and the original Uncanny Xmen series. and an Essential Classic X Men #2 paperback collection.

the black and white Essential X Men #4 is my personal favorite since it has issue 170something where Rogue and Wolverine team up and Rogue gets shot so Wolverine helps her heal. I had that one issue back then when I was a little kid but I was rough on Star Wars figures at the time too.

I have to disagree, comics now are much better in terms of art and story. Companies like Image, Boom!, IDW are putting out great material that is rich and varied and still new and fresh.

I'm actually glad that I'm an adult reading comics because if I was a kid I wouldn't be able to afford to read all the good stuff out there right now.

It's hot... but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married...

Today the newer stuff is crap. Storylines are the same crap since Civil War.

That just shows how little you know about modern comics, Mr "I haven't bought comic books since 1995".

I'll happily recommend some titles.

It's hot... but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married...

All the good comic books from the 80s and 90s are still the best.

Today's New stuff are crap.


So why don't you "recommend" me some stuff besides the civil war crap

. The thing I wonder is how back in those days, were a lot of these issues connected to each other.
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Why were there so many comic issues during those days?


Been reading and collecting since 86.

In the 90s comic books went through a resurgence. Their popularity was at their peak. Clarmont/Lee's X-Men #1 sold 8 million freaking copies. A record that I doubt will ever be broken. (Spawn #1 and Death of Superman sold around 2 million I believe. These days books sell around 50k-100k an issue).

DC, Marvel, and Image were all about over-saturation. Holographic covers, tin covers, bagged covers with cards inside (X-Tinction Agenda I'm looking at you).

Books like XMen, Spiderman, Superman, and Batman had 4, 5 or even 6 different titles. (Amazing, Spectacular, Web of Spiderman - Action Comics, Superman, Adventures of, Man of Steel, Man of Tomorrow; for example) DC had the idea to make stories run through each titles, forcing the reader to buy each and every issue, 1 a week, to follow a story. This occurred mostly to Superman - esp the "Death of" and helped bring on the implosion.

Basically people were buying comics because they thought it'd be an investment. Like the 40s, 50s, 60s.

What they didn't realize is those books were worth money because they were rare. With DC and Marvel printing out hundreds of thousands of issues a week, what's so rare? Wizard would mark up books that just came out. $50 for a holographic Avengers? Why? My comic store still has them on the shelf.

Investors stopped buying, but Dc and Marvel already spent the money, leading to dozens of cancellations and many stores closing the doors.

My town, population of say, 40,000 at the time, had 5 comic book stores. 5! It has 1 now.

As we danced, we bled across the floor.

Invincible
Astro City
Huck
Jupiter's Circle
Chew
Saga
Outcast
Wolf
Nailbiter
Postal
Rat Queens
The Wicked and The Divine
Lumberjanes
Bitch Planet
Sex Criminals
Injection

Depends what you like, really. That's a bunch of current, on-going titles.


It's hot... but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married...

The population of my town is over 100,000 and currently has no comic store. The last one closed down around ten years ago. But i now focus on buying back issues online for cheap anyway, since the cover prices of new comics are a joke. $3.99 for 20 pages, pathetic.

The 90's may have a been a resurgence but it ended up being the worst thing that could of happened to the industry. It caused readers to quit comics in droves, due to escalating cover prices and (most) being terrible in general. Especially Marvel, which is what happens when you have Terry Kavanagh and Howard Mackie writing seemingly half your entire comic line.