The Silver Age of comics brought us so many of the candy-colored pop icons like The Fantastic Four, the Justice League, The Incredible Hulk, the longest enduring and most infamous of the DC and Marvel universes. The modern age has given us a bevy of things to enjoy -The Goon, Madman, The more better X-Men run (as opposed to them being a different version of the Fantastic Four as they were originally) , and other things. There was however a period running from the start of teh 1970's through the early-to-mid eighties titled the Bronze Period.
This period was dominated with weird characters, strange plot lines and at times, exceedingly creative ventures. It also brought about the popularization of licensed trademarks like Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja. But the 70's gave us horror, kung-fu and trippy sci-fi like nothing we've seen before. It's personally one of my favorite periods in comics history. I enjoy Power Man and Iron Fist, the original Bernie Wrightson creation of Swamp Thing, Master of Kung Fu Shang-Chi and etc.
Above I've compiled a collage of some of my favorite characters (all Marvel in this instance) from that era. See if you can name them all!
(Answer in the comments).
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For some reason the true-color version only shows when you click the image to enlarge it. Here is the answer key. Dig around for some of these in the back issues at your local comics shop and happy reading!
1. Iron Fist
2. Simon Garth/The Zombie from "Tales of the Zombie"
3. Machine Man
4. Howard The Duck
5. Man-Thing
6. Power Man (Luke Cage-Hero For Hire)
7. Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu
8. Ghost Rider
9. Son Of Satan from "Marvel Spotlight on The Son of Satan"
10. Dracula from "The Tomb of Dracula"
11. Marc Spector/Werewolf from "Werewolf By Night"
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