Another good move by Marvel...

"Marvel Comics already has a successful high-end Masterworks program and an affordable phonebook Essentials program for fans of their classic early stories. But now readers on a real tight budget can get in on the action too.

In July Marvel is offering six new dollar digests to the direct market with a suggesting retail price of $1.00. These b&w, newsprint 4-7/8 x 6-9/16 are not Marvel’s standard digest format. Each volume is 64 pages and according to the publisher contains approximately three classic Marvel Comics stories, some perhaps abridged to fit the format."

Check it out... http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthr ... tid=812625

Thats cool...Id like to check out some old Lee/Kirby Hulk issues for cheap.

Those Hulk issues are... not so good....

Those Spider-Man issues are freakin' great, though!

Six months from now, when Marvel announces that this noble experiment was a dismal failure, you can point to what I've highlighted above as the reason why, regardless of what they may say...

In other words, why aren't they getting THESE into the 7-11's and supermarkets?

Frank, in my pleasure at reading about the initiative, I missed that very important fact. Absolutely, these should be in 7-11s, Wal-Marts, grocery stores at the checkout aisle beside the Archie's.

And here I figured this strategy could nab a few new readers.

What Trev said -- the good Marvel comics from the 60s era are Spider-Man, FF, and the X-Men, with very few missteps. The bad -- well, Hulk and the Avengers would top that list. Not to get greedy, but the Dr. Strange, Nick Fury, and Thor stuff was excellent too.

Nah, Hulk got good in Tales to Astonish. Thor started slow, but got fantastic after a while. Even FF was kinda clunky for me for the first couple dozen issues (minus a few classics).

The ones I liked best right out of the gate were Amazing Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (which plummetted after Ditko left). Marvel from about mid 65 to late 68 was as good as super-hero comics got, IMO.

And I'm saying this as a guy born in 1970.

I was born in '70 too. The era you cite was tremendous but I'd argue that Marvel from 1980 to 1983 was even better. DC was actually pretty good during the same period.

I was born in '70 too. The era you cite was tremendous but I'd argue that Marvel from 1980 to 1983 was even better. DC was actually pretty good during the same period.[/quote]

Nah.... there were some great individual titles in that era (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, New Teen Titans), but pretty much everything Marvel did between mid-65 and late 68 was awesome...

My favorite DC eras were early 70s, about 83-86, and honestly, the last two or three years.

(Still talkin' super-heroes of course)