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

Comments

[wizardru]

Right. It's not like when they change the JLA's history every year and then they have to adjust a ton of storylines. And it's not just that there are a lot of characters...it's that a lot of characters have long, involved and intertwined histories. Have Superman show up after the JLA has formed (as the change happened) and lots of things spin wildly out of that.

And DC insisted on poking the rough patches (which led us to 'needing' Zero Hour and so many other events to continually keep trying to 'fix' continuity).

[nezchan]

Kinda funny too, I just recalled that the 80's were the period where fans who wanted continuity went to Marvel, rather than DC. One of the big changes that came with Crisis was DC actually trying to get a consistent continuity between titles the way Marvel already more or less had.

Of course, it was also about the same time as Secret Wars, which I hated.

[jlroberson]

Compare that. DC had Wolfman, Miller, Moore, and all the rest you see here.

Marvel had X-Men and Secret Wars. And DC wanted to be more like them.

[nezchan]

Why anyone would want to be like Secret Wars is beyond me. It wasn't so much an event as just a big team-up book, and other than Venom eventually showing up, I don't recall it had any lasting effect on continuity.

X-Men was pretty hot at the time though, so I can see that.