Digital Comic Museum
General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: srca1941 on November 29, 2016, 09:32:38 AM
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Sometimes a good anthology is stronger than its individual parts. For instance, I wouldn't consider The Boy King, or Nightmare and Sleepy, or Zippo to be even close to the top tier of Golden Age heroes, but put them all together and I think Clue Comics is one of the strongest all-around comics of its era. To me, there isn't a weak feature in the bunch. Meanwhile, I consider more popular books, like Action Comics, to be just the opposite. In Action Comics, Superman outshines everything else to the point that it's kind of downhill after reading his story. Yeah, Vigilante is good and a worthy back-up, but the rest when compared to Superman? The book is top-heavy with its star. The back-ups got stronger by the mid-late 40s and 50s, but the weak earlier material colors my opinion of the series in the Golden Age and a little beyond.
So what are your favorite Golden Age anthologies or runs in anthologies where the entirety of the book is greater than any one feature? I'll post more of mine a little later.
-Eric
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Being a "Centaur Comics" fan, any of their titles are fun to look at, but, in my opinion, Fox's "Fantastic Comics" was consistently a solid title. It didn't have anything that would stand-out on its own, but it had a good variety of artists & features.
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Probably WHIZ COMICS or AMERICA'S GREATEST.
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I second the vote for the Centaur comics. They aren't necessarily the best written or drawn, but they're full of enthusiasm and raw energy (not to mention occasionally odd imagination) and are just plain fun.
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Novelty's Target Comics is a favorite of mine, until World War Two ended. Then, like a lot of titles, it had some good stories, but nothing really great.
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CLUE COMICS and AIRBOY COMICS were also tops.
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AIR FIGHTERS/ AIRBOY for me as well.