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I had thirteen of those orginally, which was pretty good considering I had no income, no transportation, no comic shop.

I do believe, somewhere in my apartment, I've got that issue of Rom.

I've got that Moon Knight (well, it is reprinted in Essential Moon Knight, so that's where my copy is)...

That Hulk cover looks awesome

I had 14 of those titles. At the time, I was trying to get signed up for either the US Navy or the USAF.

14 as well. I was certainly reading more Marvels by this point than just a couple of years before.

Still before my time by about 5 years, though only 20 issues or so before we get to Spider-man's I am familiar with

I have 9 of those. Looks like I was aboot 50-50 split between Marvel and DC back in the day.

Bill

I might have read *one* of them.

And it's not Dazzler, damn it.

Yeah, you just looked at the pictures in that one.



Bill

I had 18 of those.

Say what you want about Shooter's reign, but I believe the following occurred when he was in charge:

Some of teh best X-Men stories

FF by JB
DD by Miller
a too short run by JB and Stern on Cap
Stern on Spiderman (thebest writer on that book since Lee)
Simonson on Thor
Micheline and whats his name on Iron Man
Micheline/Shooter and Perez on Avengers


Must I continue?

The question is, would those things still have happened if someone other than Shooter was in charge? We do know that Stern/Byrne Captain America would've continued if not for Shooter, and that Jean Grey would've lived at the end of the Phoenix Saga.

I don't really care for the changes made by Miller on DD. Or rather, I don't see how those changes are any different than the changes people complain about today. I've argued this ad nauseum on the Byrne board, but in my opinion, Miller did some radical things with DD. People liked it. But I wonder if those same things were done today, and not by "Miller" whether they would?

Stern's Spider-man is quite good. I've enjoyed others besides him and Stan, but quite good nonetheless.

That is a good question to ponder. I don't know if Jean living would have been as good a story.

I think Roger Stern would be a GREAT editor in chief at Marvel.

Jean dying back when it meant something had to make it more memorable.

I think her resurrection and the joke of killing her and bringing her back and others so many times has made it lose some punch when you read it now-especially if reading it for the first time.

I think Shooter made the place better for a few years, and then self-destructed in the end.

She has sort of become the "Kenny of the X-Universe, hasn't she?

Her and Wonder Man.

One thing about Daredevil is that title was in the ditch in terms of popularity. Very little following, very little direction, bi-monthly and almost cancelled. Daredevil had never really penetrated into that iconic level of fan and non-fan awareness. He never really had a heyday.

My point being, if you're going to change direction, those are the kind of second tier characters to do it with, and in doing so Miller made Daredevil a first tier title.

I have/had 6 of those books back then(have to check the boxes to see what ones "disappeared").

I’m hardly a Daredevil expert. I maybe have a half-dozen issues Pre-FM.

Really, what did Miller change? He gave DD some attitude. Dirtied him up some. And wrote interesting stories. I don’t think DD was a character waiting to breakout. I’m thinking Miller could have grabbed any 2nd tier character and did the same thing to him, and had a hit.

He really didn't screw anything up until his year one stuff. By then his head was too huge.

A new origin-Stick, the extra training, the fact that the radioactive stuff brought out the senses that were already there in all of us, his old girlfriend became a heroin junkie and porn star whore, and besides the fact DD's personality changed from more fun loving to more of a sourpuss.

True, DD sold poorly, but that could be said about lots of characters who've been changed recently in an effort to make them more marketable.