1985 In Comics: An AMAZING HEROES Time Capsule

[jlroberson]

From, Jesus Christ, 26 years ago, a selection of AMAZING HEROES' previews(and ads) for upcoming 1985 comics. Note how many game-changing comics were packed into that year. Also a very different alternative scene, and books which were hotly promoted and then disappeared. And a LOT of Alan Moore, Los Bros Hernandez, and Frank Miller. Comics was about to change, hard.




Add this Fantagraphics Alan Moore project, never realized(although I'm sure it fed eventually into bits of LOST GIRLS), to the pile of Stuff That Would Have Been Way Cool But Never Happened, like his own FASHION BEAST and TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES, or Grant Morrison's SICK BUILDINGS(which Morrison just made up).

Tags-- publisher: eclipse, publisher: fantagraphics books, title: amazing heroes, year: 1985, creator: alan moore, creator: bill sienkiewicz, creator: marv wolfman, creator: george perez, creator: william messner-loebs, creator: dave sim, creator: keith giffen, creator: chris claremont, creator: howard chaykin, creator: jaime hernandez, creator: gilbert hernandez

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[jlroberson]

There was also the fact that DC, a lot of it, was getting really good in pockets when the Crisis happened and some felt that was derailed. The Legion, I think, would be the most outstanding example of that. Levitz and Giffen had finally turned it into something really popular and coherent, and you may not believe it but back then it was thought of as one of the more "mature" superhero titles, along with Teen Titans.