Marvel or DC? Wondering what you’d choose

What’s your preference?

I was always a Marvel kid once I encountered them. Sure, I'd read some DC comics, but this was back in the late '60s, early '70s, and they just never appealed to me that much. Marvel grabbed me by the collar and never let go. By the late '70s, I was less a Marvel guy broadly and more of an X-Men guy specifically. I had a mostly continuous run of Uncanny from around the time the book was relaunched until Marvel ended that volume so it could come out the very next month with a new number 1 issue. That was when I gave up collecting comics.

I did get into DC for a while in the aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths, but that was mostly because I was a big John Byrne fan and he was brought in to do Man of Steel, the miniseries that relaunched Superman. It didn't stick.

I got into more than a few independent comics as an alternative to either Marvel or DC. My favorites were Cerebus the Aardvark (in spite of the fact that Dave Sim degenerated into a misogynistic lunatic as the series progressed) and American Flagg.

Ironically, it was around the time that some friends and I opened up a comic book store that I sort of lost my interest in comics. This was right about the time of the early '90s comics boom. Valiant and Image had just launched and were rocking the industry. The Death of Superman came soon after. All those specialty variant covers. It was kind of fun to be involved, but I had only a modest interest even in my beloved X-Men books after Marvel forced Chris Claremont off the series.

I still bought a number of series for a long time after I got out of the store. Eventually, I continued to buy them, but seldom actually read them — the X-books became all but unreadable for a while. And Marvel cancelling Uncanny just to immediately relaunch the title was it for me. I gave up comics.

A few months ago, after having my long boxes sitting in the closet for a decade, I hauled them to my local comic book store —not the one we started, which is long gone now — but the one I discovered when I came here to go to college. I got a good price for them. I have not regretted my decision since.

And that was, no doubt, far more that you wanted to know.

room101 · 51-55, M

I've been a full on comic geek since forever. Loved both DC and Marvel (and a few independents) but the MCU has smashed it out of the park while DC movies are floundering big time. Albeit with some very notable exceptions.