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fresh crescent moon The last two nights at work have been pleasantly quiet and I took advantage of that calm to do some casual reading during the periods of down time. My choice for reading was a couple of issues of Action Comics from 1977 that had arrived in the mail while I was away last week. I was happy to see them on my front step when I returned home, because the online auction had ended in June and I was beginning to wonder what had happened to them. I have to admit that the books are from a year slightly before I became a serious reader of comic books. Doing a quick query of my database I see that even today I have less than seventy books from that year, but that doesn't mean that I can't appreciate the charm of something that is nearly thirty years old. Quite often I prefer them to some of what is being marketed today and I don't think that all of it has to do with sentimental reasons either. DC was often cited as being the more naive of the two big publishers in comics at that time. While Marvel had characters struggling with powers that they didn't want or know how to use, DC had a roster of characters who thought nothing of fighting strange aliens from space. Somehow I sensed that different back then and considered myself a true follower of Stan and his crew. Oh, I would look at Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman books on the spinner rack, but it was The Avengers and the Fantastic Four that came home with me. Now the tide has changed and I can't tolerate most of what Marvel has to offer and I am surprised at how much I missed from DC those many years ago. |