Mattel DC Figures

[AceofKnaves]

The comics were great. Only the 70's could give us Howard The Duck. There were a LOT of great comics in the Bronze Age, especially from Marvel.

70s Marvel horror/offbeat stuff is by far and away my favorite Marvel of any era.

And DC was firmly steering Batman back to his dark noir roots, which I very much appreciate.

And I’ve still got some Megos around somehere. I’m a 1978 baby so I barely got a taste of the actual decade.

 

[Atomic Knight]

The comics were great. Only the 70's could give us Howard The Duck. There were a LOT of great comics in the Bronze Age, especially from Marvel.

Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Tomb of Dracula, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Black Panther, X-Men, Conan, Rom, Micronauts…

(I feel old).

 

[Fletch]

MUSIC?!?
Whoa, now.
I’ll give you fashion, but MUSIC?!?
Bruh.

"Hell yeah!" I thought. Then saw it was Ace and spit out my Brisk.

Unexpected common ground. Love it.


But I think with DC figures, "close enough" is probably going to have to be good enough. By the time I started collecting, Marvel Legends had been going for a decade. I could cherry pick old figures and be selective about new ones.

But if I want any kind of DC collection, I'll probably have to accept, say, a Flash with a chinstrap.

 

[secondwhiteline]

"I Hate Myself and Want To Die" Comics reminds me of the name of my (sorta) local comic book shop from when I was a kid. It was called Zombie Planet. First time we went I was like 9, and my parents were like "We're gonna go to Zombie Planet!" I was so terrified by the name that I cried in the car for hours.

Regardless, I absolutely loathe the entire system American comics function under, crafted to be massively marketable material but first sold for exorbitant prices in what may as well be a secret club of weirdos. Comic shops will always have a place, but I really want the core of the system to change. One of my biggest dreams.

...Zombie Planet in Albany?!

 

[secondwhiteline]

Well someone needs to sit down and watch The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Disco is fun as all hell.

The critical reevaluation of disco over the past couple of decades has been fantastic. I mean, I get that part of the problem was that everyone did a disco track or album at some point in the 70s, which meant that you had a ton of bad music by people who had no business in the genre. If someone lived through it, it was probably exhausting, even for those who weren't just using anti-disco sentiment as a deniable outlet to express racism and homophobia. But I'm glad most people have come around and now it's regarded as a timeless wellspring, because great disco is truly great.

 

[SDcomics]

I'm terrified that my girlfriend's nieces and nephews will find my old high school yearbooks (I graduated in 77).

I encased them in a block of cement and buried them in an old deserted outpost in the Antarctic.

But god help me if those little monsters found out they were there. They'd have them dug up in a heartbeat.

Leisure suits. Ewwwwww ....

 

[SDcomics]

I mean, I get that part of the problem was that everyone did a disco track or album at some point in the 70s, which meant that you had a ton of bad music by people who had no business in the genre.

Ethel Merman. I'm serious. She made a disco album.

The suicide rate was through the roof that year.

 

[Atomic Knight]

Ghost Rider, Man-Thing, Tomb of Dracula, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi, Eternals, Black Panther, X-Men, Conan, Rom, Micronauts…

(I feel old).

Loathe as I am to quote myself, the wild part about 70’s Marvel that I have to point out is that 70’s DC was a whole other level of crazy.

 

[secondwhiteline]

Ethel Merman. I'm serious. She made a disco album.

The suicide rate was through the roof that year.

Truly our comedians had better luck covering the singer-songwriter boom.

 

[SDcomics]

So ... Disco Demolition Night.

Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot.

At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation. The playing field was so damaged by the explosion and by the rioters that the White Sox were required to forfeit the second game to the Tigers.

Listen, I hated disco as much, if not more, then anyone else I knew, and even I thought tearing up a stadium was taking things too far.

 

[Spongyblue]

OMG, I hate the costume. Todd put it in like 3 different lines in 2025, I think. I understand why it's historically important but I may hate that more than any other "popular" costume.

I lived through the 70's and that era was the worst for fashion and music.

I guess some people just don't have class.

Come on now: music was amazing in the 70s.

Frankly I think it's not Disco enough. Don't even talk to me until you've got fish in your shoes.

These people are classy

Disco Forever

 

[secondwhiteline]

That wasn't the only event like that, and we have some anecdotal accounts that a lot of people were just bringing albums by Black artists, regardless of disco status or not. Benefit of hindsight and all, but it's hard to see the anti-disco backlash as being anything but a moral panic about Black and gay music.

 

[SDcomics]

Loathe as I am to quote myself, the wild part about 70’s Marvel that I have to point out is that 70’s DC was a whole other level of crazy.

Yep. The Fourth World, Dollar Comics, Swamp Thing, O'Neil/Adams Batman and Green Lantern, Warlord, Jonah Hex, Creature Commandos ... wonderful, fun stuff.

 

[SDcomics]

but it's hard to see the anti-disco backlash as being anything but a moral panic about Black and gay music.

Well, maybe for YOU. Some of us just hated the crap. Whether it was the Bee Gees, Ethel Merman or whoever. It was shit.

I mean ... where do you get this stuff?

 

[SDcomics]

I guess some people just don't have class

Right.

Or taste.