My Top Ten Bronze Age Comics! Okay, more like Top 14...

[@studogable]

I'd argue that "The Night Gwen Stacey Died" is probably the milestone that marked the beginning of the Bronze Age. Superhero comics had never gone THERE before.

[@SwarmofComics]

I think that's a key to what makes the era so different from the Silver Age, but it feels a bit late to me. I honestly feel like the Bronze age started in the very late '60s. But what the hell do I know? 😅

[@cwwheelz]

Great books! Jumping the shark comes from Happy Days from an episode where Fonzie jumps his motorcycle over a shark tank and it was kinda remembered as the decline of the show.

[@SwarmofComics]

OH yeah, I definitely knew that and watched it when i was a kid! But I might have found the SECRET VILLAIN ORIGIN of it! 🤣

[@antonio23azevedo]

Great video! Amazing books! 👌🤙👍 Congrats!!

[@SwarmofComics]

Thank you! I appreciate you watching! 🖖

[@pbales8951]

A very nice Bronze Age collection. I purchased my first comic (Fantastic Four 149 -- the orange cover caught my eye) at my local 7-11 in the summer of 1974 at the age of 9 and was immediately hooked. I was lucky enough to find a local comic shop not too far from my house a few months later. While hanging out in the shop as my Mom shopped at the local K-mart, the owner of the shop recommended that I pick up a Hulk 181 because of a new character in that book. I was collecting Fantastic Four, Spider-man, and Captain America almost exclusively at that time, and my yard-mowing money only went so far--but I took his advice (even though I didn't really care for Hulk). I had that copy of Hulk 181 graded a year ago, and it came back CGC 8.5 white pages.

[@SwarmofComics]

Holy crap! AN 8.5?!?! That's insane! Congrats on that! Have a video where I got a bunch of books from when I was a teen in the '80s graded, and a ton of them came back 9.8s....but the fact that a Hulk from the '70s came back so high is unbelievable.

[@epb7284]

I also got into Comics during the bronze age. I like hearing the history of comics. The first comic that I bought new was Conan The Barbarian #125, but the very first comic that I had was an issue of Fantastic 4 (without the cover), which my Dad gave me when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Anyway, I love seeing all those covers. Have a pleasant weekend Randy! ~Eric

[@SwarmofComics]

I love it! You are one of the Bronze Age Boys! Have a great weekend, man!

[@bronzevillecomics2581]

Some very cool books. I am trying to get all the DC keys from the bronze age. I need to get that Wrightson pumpkin cover!

[@SwarmofComics]

That pumpkin cover is AMAZING, wait until you see the shirt I made of it! Any other big bronze keys I might be missing and not thinking of? I am loving your hunt for all the 1972 DC books, btw! And I'm mad at you for almost making me like DC books!

[@jh18283]

Where did you get that Indiana Jones comic book cover t-shirt from?

[@SwarmofComics]

From this convenient storefront! www.teepublic.com/user/swarm-of-eyes

[@rodnicker]

A good book to note is Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 which is considered the book that kicked off the bronze age.

[@SwarmofComics]

I think I mention that story arc in my video, and I could see that being considered as a book that kicked it off, but I'd go with Superman #233 (a book I do want!). I would say that the comics code relaxing for that storyline in GL/GA is more key than the books themselves.

[@SwarmofComics]

And I love these conversations!!

[@txmoney]

I thoroughly enjoyed viewing your collection. Those are some truly seminal issues of the period. As a child of the Bronze Age, those books bring the nostalgia. Some of the books you talk about triggers so many memories. I am the original owner of a few of those books but I sold or donated most of my collection…over ten thousand. Please keep up your videos. They bring me joy like when I was a kid.

[@SwarmofComics]

A HUGE part of doing this channel and my race to collect some of these books is the nostalgia and triggering of memories. That's why I included those ASM 252 and 238. They were so important to me as a kid that every time I see them I'm flooded with memories of going to the comic shop, reading the books over and over, and hunting for books I was missing. I sold about 30k books about 5 years ago, but thankfully kept most of my keys....if only I knew that Ultimate Fallout #4 was going to be worth a mint someday... I'm glad I can bring you some joy, and I'm glad you are a part of the channel now. That's why I do it. And sorry for babbling!

[@stevenblack6049]

You have an extremely good eye for comics and that is very impressive to me myself -"True To Form."😊

[@SwarmofComics]

I appreciate that very much, and I appreciate you watching. It's still weird for me that people watch my videos!

[@josephbarbera9220]

Great collection of comics! Yes you can obtain this iconic books for an affordable price if you don’t mind low grades. That has been Allen, the Comic Geek method and believe me he has many grails!

[@SwarmofComics]

Thank you! I definitely look towards lower grades when looking at grails. it's just not worth the price bump on, say, ASM 129, on a 9.0 when a 7.0 looks fantastic. I'm looking at building up more golden age keys by going for 1.5 or 2.0's.

[@WhatIsOntheComicRack]

Very cool collection of Bronze Age books!

[@SwarmofComics]

Thank you very much! Appreciate you checking it out. I'll be hitting some of your vids this week, my friend!

[@BrianLCS]

Great top ten, ahh fourteen. lol Love the Spidey books!

[@SwarmofComics]

😅 I'm not even sure how many books it was, I don't like math! Those Spidey books are my childhood in a plastic case, I love them!

[@stevenblack6049]

Love The Indiana Jones Comic Shirt as that is one of my favorites And my first Son was actually born in 1982 just as I myself was born in 1962 about the same time as the very first Issue of The Amazing Spiderman Comic was published and the oddities of that particular fact never leaves me to this day.

[@SwarmofComics]

Ha! That's very cool!! I hope your son is into comics as well! If you did the shirt you can find it here: www.teepublic.com/user/swarm-of-eyes

[@gregparker7163]

You’re killing it with the thumbnail!

[@SwarmofComics]

That's what I love to hear! It makes it all worth it! 😅 Thank you, means a lot to me.

[@RafaustComics]

Awesome collection and great vid Swarm!

[@SwarmofComics]

Many thank you's for watching!

[@Moncomics]

Just found your channel, great stuff! Loved all the books you showed but especially, the information you provided along the way. Subbed and looking forward to checking out more of your content!

[@SwarmofComics]

Hell yeah! Thank you so much! Don't always trust my information, I'm terrible at research and just go on memory, and that's getting shaky! 😅

[@Moncomics]

@@SwarmofComics you sounded great dude. Also, the t shirt and Star Wars tat spoke to me big time. Nice to meet another man of culture within the KZbin’s!

[@SwarmofComics]

@@Moncomics well thank you, and glad you were digging the duds and tats! I think I had already subbed your channel. I plan on running through some of your vids this weekend. They better be good! Ha!

[@Moncomics]

@@SwarmofComics lol. Well if you don’t like any of my videos please keep in mind I have all the OG bounty hunters tattooed on my entire lower leg and a Wampa on my right hand so that’s gotta count for something haha. Just out here chasing that fortune and glory, kid

[@SwarmofComics]

@@Moncomics Excellent, I'd love to see them someday! My whole sleeve in progress is Star Wars stuff. When it's warmer here and I do videos in tank tops, you'll see it. Next appt to continue it is this month!

[@RLDesrochers]

Amazing stuff! Maybe I’ll own one someday day 😂

[@ajguez]

Nice intro .. thanks for sharing. Bronze books are a lot better than silver but the high survivability of issues from them make them highly speculative from a $$ perspective. Nice keys!!!

[@SwarmofComics]

Thank you for checking out the video! I'm psyched to share my books with people!

[@finster72]

Some heavy hitters there! So, what signified the end of the Bronze Age? What happened in '85?

[@SwarmofComics]

Crisis on Infinite Earth, Secret Wars (started in '84, but ended in '85), the resurgence of DC after being left in the dust by Marvel, and some others. But I think it was less of an event in '85 and more of the change in comics in '86 with Watchmen and The Dark Knight, if that makes sense.

[@finster72]

@@SwarmofComics makes total sense, and very obvious in retrospect! 🙃

[@SwarmofComics]

@@finster72 Thanks for checking out the video, bro!

[@finster72]

@@SwarmofComics of course!

[@DavidClark-vu3dw]

I remember seeing that beautiful Bat book at the grocery with my mom. I was around six and that's the day I first heard the word "budget", "we're on a budget!" 😂

[@SwarmofComics]

Thoughts and prayers, man!

[@Rambo_Lips]

Great books, as always!

[@SwarmofComics]

Thank you!

[@SKIP-yj3xp]

Giant-Size X-men #2 is just reprints of great Sentinel stories, with art by Neal Adams. It's a good book to have , because the individual books are very expensive.

[@SwarmofComics]

Good to know! I love learning stuff here! I think it has a red cover too, and I love the red covers!

[@rodnicker]

A lot of people say the Silver Age started in 56 with the first Flash. I would say the Silver Age started in 1955 with Detective Comics 225, which was the first Martian Manhunter.

[@SwarmofComics]

Jim from Bronzeville Comics actually made that point in his video from yesterday! I think it's a valid alternative.

[@spaceferretcollectibles]

Great books! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@SwarmofComics]

Hey, it's Space Ferret! My Insta pal! 🤘

[@nandoworld]

Swarm of Comics for President 2024 😎!

[@SwarmofComics]

I don't think anyone wants THAT job 😅

[@stephenritucci7468]

Nice hearing your thoughts on books shown. The way you talked about amazing 129, you're a punisher fan. Only comic book character who image is more popular/known to normies than character. Also, to me, It's shameful how modern Marvel, especially Jason's arron, did to him in my opinion.

[@SwarmofComics]

My prize books of the '80s were the Punisher limited series. Those Zeck covers and the awesome story made me absolutely love the character even more than when I just read him in Spidey. I have to say that I stopped reading his books regularly after the Dillon/Ennis run, and sporadically picked them up. Probably the last thing I read was the 2014 series. That was different and brutal. I liked that. I never read the series where he was an angel, or a frankenstein monster, or whatever is happening now. Seemed embarrassing.

[@The_Doom_Abides]

Have any Fantastic 4 keys stabbed by chance? Also I finally pulled the trigger on Xmen 130, first appearance of Taylor Swift, er, I mean Dazzler. I've always wanted all the xmen 1st appearances and right before this Taylor swift hype happened I was torn between 1st Gambit and 1st Dazzler and I unfortunately went with Gambit. I love the book but the hype on 130 put it out of my meager reach in high grade so I had to settle on a 6.0. But I finally have it no thanks to Miss Swift. I feel like she can afford to toss me a 9.8. Maybe I'll hit her up on Twitter and make a complaint

[@SwarmofComics]

True story, I'm wearing my Taylor Swift shirt RIGHT NOW as I reply to you. This is the shirt: www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/57247118-twisted-swifster?store_id=781240

[@SwarmofComics]

I have a few FF slabbed, including FF #3, first time the team is in costume and the first Fantasticar. It's lower grade, but awesome to have. I also have FF #49....now I just need #48. I have a few others too, including #50 and the first appearance of Black Bolt. And spoiler, I'm getting the first appearance of the Inhumans slabbed VERY soon!

[@The_Doom_Abides]

I'm waiting for a shirt that has her riding on the back of a T Rex symbolizing her completion of world domination.

[@jonathanloera6830]

Dc is the one the kicked off all the mayor comic eras. And bronze age is no different. Many consider green lantern #76 to be the start of the bronze age

[@SwarmofComics]

Absolutely. Even when Marvel was king in the '80s it was still DC that ushered in the modern age (copper?) with the most important books of the decade. I may not be a huge fan, but I certainly appreciate them!