Which Marvel era are you a fan from?

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Which Marvel era are you a fan from? 63 votes

2020's Stan Who?
1%
CASSIDYFROST 1 vote
2010's Young Avenger
0%
00's Ultimate Universe
1%
Domitronas 1 vote
90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!
47%
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80's grim n gritty
31%
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70's Giant Sized Man Things
11%
GrimSkaldKGBDAZ0273RhipfMegaBeeChuck42grrJoeHandle 7 votes
60's Merry Marvel Marchin' Society
0%
Other? I mean I guess you could be from the Golden Age or something?
6%
PtahhotepEd_DragonriderVenomousWilliamK1983 4 votes
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  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,287 Chairperson of the Boards
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    The 90's era of bright, colorful costumes with 200 pouches. Spider-Man is my favorite super hero so I remember Maximum Carnage as the biggest comic event. The Maximum Carnage SNES game was one of my favorites, and it's still one of the best openings and theme songs in video game history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuEJq4gPoqg

  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 597 Critical Contributor
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    The mid-90s is when I started buying comic books, but I watched plenty of the superhero cartoons, movies, and TV shows prior to that.

  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker
    80's grim n gritty

    So i never got into the comics until recently over the past 3 years+ but the 80’s definitely have some of my favorite storylines of all time. Secret Wars, Born Again, Kravens Last Hunt, Dark Phoenix, John Walker/Steve Rogers rivalry. Some of my favorite stuff right there.

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 521 Critical Contributor

    @BriMan2222 said:
    The 90's era of bright, colorful costumes with 200 pouches. Spider-Man is my favorite super hero so I remember Maximum Carnage as the biggest comic event. The Maximum Carnage SNES game was one of my favorites, and it's still one of the best openings and theme songs in video game history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuEJq4gPoqg

    Shout out to Green Jelly doing the soundtrack 🤘

  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 597 Critical Contributor
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    @Pantera236 said:

    @BriMan2222 said:
    The 90's era of bright, colorful costumes with 200 pouches. Spider-Man is my favorite super hero so I remember Maximum Carnage as the biggest comic event. The Maximum Carnage SNES game was one of my favorites, and it's still one of the best openings and theme songs in video game history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuEJq4gPoqg

    Shout out to Green Jelly doing the soundtrack 🤘

    Back in my day they were Green Jello, and we liked it!

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 521 Critical Contributor

    Holy sh!t went down a Green Jelly rabbit hole. On the song Three Little Pigs Maynard James Keenan Les Claypool and Pauly Shore are the 3 pigs, Danny Carey (Tools drummer) is on drums and Adam Jones (Tools guitarist) did the video. Small world.

  • Farii
    Farii Posts: 7 Just Dropped In
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    X-Men only and forever, but I got mine from second hand shops so only bits and pieces of story arcs in whatever order.

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,367 Chairperson of the Boards
    80's grim n gritty

    Started reading comics in the 80s with 2000AD but watching various TV series' (loved the music on the Hulk!). My father had saved comics from when he was a kid too so had the joy of reading Hulk #1 (very tatty edition), the first 12 or so Fantastic Four, the Atom and a few others too.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 526 Critical Contributor
    70's Giant Sized Man Things

    Regularly bought and read comics from the late '70s to the early '90s ... from "racks" in stores that sold other things besides comic books. They were everywhere so easy to find. Didn't know how good we had it :-/

    (ofc, being able to read anything and everything on demand is also pretty spiffy ... but not the same. Now that I "have" everything ... I read very little, and very rarely).

  • Venomous
    Venomous Posts: 235 Tile Toppler
    Other? I mean I guess you could be from the Golden Age or something?

    Seems I am one of the few Others so far.

    I actually started with Marvel in the 2000s. However my obsession and love for Marvel stemmed from a massive encyclopedia on the characters and various video games, movies and tv shows I watched growing up. It wasn't until about last year that I started to get serious with the comics. But the comic I've read have ranged so wildly that a single decade isn't more prevalent than another.

    On this note. The comics I've read now range from Noir Punisher, Born Again, Ultimate Spider-Man (Before Miles), Extremis Iron Man, No Normal, Superior Iron Man, and Chip Zdarsky's Daredevil. Just to name a handful.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    I am specifically from the years 1990-93 with paper comics. I was big into the MCU for awhile, but now, much like with Star Wars, I like the idea of it more than I actually engage with it.

  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker
    edited 23 May 2024, 13:17
    80's grim n gritty

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    I am specifically from the years 1990-93 with paper comics. I was big into the MCU for awhile, but now, much like with Star Wars, I like the idea of it more than I actually engage with it.

    The most recent Star Wars trilogy may be absolute garbage, but the TV shows are all fantastic. The Acolyte being the next one and it starts in 2 weeks.

  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,640 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 23 May 2024, 14:14
    70's Giant Sized Man Things

    I'd argue the "Grim and Gritty" era didn't start until the late 80s, I started in the late 70s early 80s but went backward a fair bit so that's why I chose that particular era. I remember reading an Alan Moore Swamp Thing on the rack as a child.

    Regardless, great idea for a poll!

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 526 Critical Contributor
    70's Giant Sized Man Things

    @GrimSkald said:
    I'd argue the "Grim and Gritty" era didn't start until the late 80s....

    Yes. After 1987. After Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen took darker approaches into the mainstream.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

    @bigjojo04 said:

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    I am specifically from the years 1990-93 with paper comics. I was big into the MCU for awhile, but now, much like with Star Wars, I like the idea of it more than I actually engage with it.

    The most recent Star Wars trilogy may be absolute garbage, but the TV shows are all fantastic. The Acolyte being the next one and it starts in 2 weeks.

    I'm glad people are enjoying it, and I don't really want to like argue quality of this or that if people like it. I don't know that the new stuff is for me and that's ok. It's not that I don't like it anymore, I just don't love it and I'm not that interested in keeping up. They're spending a lot of time making content that I feel is unneeded and not adding to the overall value of the franchise. I fell off after Kenobi, and Andor was the character I was most excited about in the entire post-disney era.

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 978 Critical Contributor
    Other? I mean I guess you could be from the Golden Age or something?

    Honestly don't think I've ever read a marvel comic book. Was just never really my thing. Was big into collecting sports cards, baseball mostly, and some of my friends collected comic book character cards so that was my initial introduction. This was 5th-6th grade so early 90s.

    When the first Thor movie was released I went and saw it at the drive-in. Had no clue it was a comic movie until the opening credits and Marvel is flashed on the screen. Only went to see it because I thought it was some sort of fantasy tale a la lotr. Anyways, I was hooked after that. Saw every movie, show, whatever so many times I've lost official count. Watched up until Far From Home, essentially the end of the Infinity Saga. Everything after that has been str8 trash.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    70's Giant Sized Man Things

    @GrimSkald said:
    I'd argue the "Grim and Gritty" era didn't start until the late 80s, I started in the late 70s early 80s but went backward a fair bit so that's why I chose that particular era. I remember reading an Alan Moore Swamp Thing on the rack as a child.

    Regardless, great idea for a poll!

    Yeah, I would pin it to circa 1986 - Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Mutant Massacre were all debuted in that year. The Punisher also got his first limited series which lead to his ongoing. It is definitely fair to say that the 80s wasn't just about Grim n Gritty - there was a wide variety of stuff from Power Pack to Captain Carrot & The Zoo Crew but I think Grim n Gritty set the tone for quite a few years with the rise of the Anti Hero especially at Marvel (Ghost Rider, Deathlok, Punisher, Wolverine all becoming prominent) so that is why I chose that.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    70's Giant Sized Man Things

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    Honestly don't think I've ever read a marvel comic book. Was just never really my thing. Was big into collecting sports cards, baseball mostly, and some of my friends collected comic book character cards so that was my initial introduction. This was 5th-6th grade so early 90s.

    When the first Thor movie was released I went and saw it at the drive-in. Had no clue it was a comic movie until the opening credits and Marvel is flashed on the screen. Only went to see it because I thought it was some sort of fantasy tale a la lotr. Anyways, I was hooked after that. Saw every movie, show, whatever so many times I've lost official count. Watched up until Far From Home, essentially the end of the Infinity Saga. Everything after that has been str8 trash.

    I was going to put an MCU option on but as it has kinda stretched over two decades and is still going it was hard to fit it in the frame of the other options. No question at all that MCU fans are a big part of everything too!

  • Ed_Dragonrider
    Ed_Dragonrider Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    Other? I mean I guess you could be from the Golden Age or something?

    MCU for me! 🥰

  • Alfje17
    Alfje17 Posts: 3,814 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 24 May 2024, 12:00
    80's grim n gritty

    80s kid, grew up with Spider-Man and Avengers comics.
    ... still waiting for Boomerang in this game

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