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quote:Originally posted by Biologic K-9:
After all, if Marvel comics were stopped at the high-water mark Stan and Jack would have wrapped up all of the stories themselves... oh, wait, that would have been a good thing... but I would have missed out on the Marvel Universe completely just because of my date of birth.
Well, not the Marvel Universe..just certain characters who have run their course, like Spider-Man and Fantastic Four (has a single new idea graced the pages of FF since 1972?)
X-Men has always been successful because it has always been able to change and mutate...it may have been horribly dense and difficult to jump into, but it changed many times over the course of the past 30 years.
Now, what you're saying, about missing out on the Marvel characters if their series had stopped at logical points....that's mostly to do with the inadequecies of the way the industry has always worked, isn't it? Let's say they ended the story of Spider-Man with grace somewhere in the late 60s/early 70s, and then reissued all the old issues in a series of trades, a la Preacher, and kept them in print. People wouldn't really have missed out, right? It would have been like how in the record industry, just because a Rolling Stones album came out 67, you can still go get it today along with any new release.
Forgive me my utopian fantasies, but that's the way it SHOULD have been, I say. |
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