I'll say this right away, I'm not as good with the Marvel Universe as I am with the DC Universe. DC is my neighborhood, it's where I live--up until the reboot, it still managed to keep that comfortable feeling and I always felt properly oriented. But that doesn't mean I hate Marvel. Quite the contrary, when I was a kid and just starting reading comics, most of the comics I read were Marvel stuff. While that was because my dad was buying the comics, and I was kinda beholden to his tastes . . . Marvel Comics were at what I still believe to be their creative zenith. At this period, just about every single Marvel Comic on the stands were incredible in one way or another. Heck, people who have been reading comic books as long as I have--or longer--still point to various stories from Marvel in the mid-to-late 70s to the mid-to-late 80s as being some of if not the
best superhero comics ever told. It's not that good comics didn't come out before or after, or that there aren't any better comics. Don't be ridiculous. It's just that there was such a concentration of really freakin' good superhero comics at the time, it's remembered really fondly by a lot of people. In my opinion, Marvel Comics as a whole has never been better. Sure, individual series may have reached higher points at other times, but as a whole? Mid-70s to late 80s Marvel. Which brings us to one of those comics from around that time period.
Secret Wars by Jim Shooter and various artists.
