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brevoortformspring:

This goes not just for comics but for all entertainment media: everything is a product of the time in which it is made.

So I don’t know that a comic of today would have done as well thirty years ago. The marketplace was different, and the audience was different, and the expectations were different. To say nothing of the cultural bias that believed that comic books were solely meant for very young children or the mentally and emotionally stunted. Readers who knew better were desperate for the world at large to embrace the possibilities of the medium that they saw.

And by that same token, if you first published the classic runs from long ago today, they also would likely crash and burn. because the medium has grown from them and built on what they accomplished. What was revolutionary at one point has become commonplace over time, because of the effect it had on what came later.

The great thing about comics today is the vast spread of material that is readily available, there are comics that appeal to just about every conceivable taste. to say nothing of the amount of classic material that is now readily available and in print in deluxe collections. So if you long for more stuff like the stories of a particular era, it’s likely that more is available to you somewhere, in some form.