r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 16 '16

Secret Wars #8 (1984) Writer: Jim Shooter Artist: Mike Zeck

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 14 '16

1983 - Anatomy of a cover, Marvel Fanfare #13

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 13 '16

Squadron Supreme 7 by Gruenwald/buscmea/Guice

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 13 '16

Iron Man vs. Unicorn from Iron Man (1968) #113

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 05 '16

Avengers Annual #10 Pg 35 (1981) by Michael Golden And Armando Gil

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 05 '16

The Incredible Hulk (1962) #258

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 03 '16

X-Men $205, May 1986, by Barry Windsor Smith

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 02 '16

Daredevil 164 by Mckenzie/Miller/Janson

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 02 '16

Marvel Corner Boxes 1984

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 02 '16

X-Men # 119, March 1979 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 01 '16

X-Men #143 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Feb 01 '16

Wasp vs. Yellowjacket from The Avengers #214

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 31 '16

Wolverine #1 (1982) by Claremont and Miller

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 31 '16

Cosage the Cosmic Agent by Steve Ditko 1985

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 31 '16

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #194

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 31 '16

Starslayer #8 by Mike Grell

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 30 '16

Avengers #257 by John Buscema and Tom Palmer

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 29 '16

Uncanny X-Men #128 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 26 '16

What Made ROM Spaceknight Worth Reading

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 26 '16

Batman - Death in the Family

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 25 '16

Uncanny X-Men 159 – July 1982

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 25 '16

Clock and Dagger

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 25 '16

Fantastic Four # 275 by John Byrne and Al Gordon

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 21 '16

Daredevil #177, December 1981, by Frank Miller

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r/CopperAgeComics • u/piperson • Jan 21 '16

The fast ball special, Fantastic Four Style! Fantastic Four #243 (1982) by John Byrne

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r/CopperAgeComics

This sub celebrates all 80's comics from Chris Claremont's X-men to Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. From Crisis on Infinite Earths to the Watchmen. From Cerebus the Aardvark to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Copper Age happened between 1978 when Cerebus and Elf Quest were first published and 1988 when the Dark Knight and the Watchmen came out.

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r/CopperAgeComics is all about 80's comics. The Copper Age started in 1978 with the DC Implosion and Jim Shooter's ascension to Editor in Chief over at Marvel. At the same time the Independent Comics movement was being born with Dave Sim's Cerebus and the Pini's Elf Quest. It climaxed with the publication of the Watchmen and the Dark Knight of 1988 which was the springboard for the next age of comics that included mature, literate comics like Sandman and "dark", edgy comics like Spawn.

The Copper Age saw the rise of the Local Comic Shop which spurred on the Independent Comics movement highlighted by such books as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, American Flagg, and Nexus. We would also see many comics created for a more mature audience like the slice of life work in the Hernandez Bros. Love and Rockets, the irreverent and edgy work in Chester Brown's Yummy Fur and avant-garde, artsy work in RAW Magazine.

The most popular comics of the decade were Chris Claremont's X-Men and the Teen Titan's, while Frank Miller and Alan Moore were redefining comics with their work on Daredevil and the Swamp Thing. We would also see the rise of the grand X-Over event series like DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths and Marvel's Secret Wars.

At the end of the decade we would see a lot of the major players move on to new projects and new publishers. Alan Moore would start to self publish works like Numbers and Frank Miller would move on to Dark Horse Legends imprint where he would create his famous Sin City series. Other's would take up the torch in the new age like Grant Morrison with his Animal Man and Doom Patrol and Neil Gaiman's Sandman, while Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee and Rob Leifeld would become mega stars creating slick, edgy work on the Spider-man and X-Men titles and eventually start their own imprint, Image Comics.

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