Landmark Comic Book Storylines Part 3: The 80s
The 1970s began the Bronze Age of comics, and the 1980s ended it, essentially with the issue seen above. Characters got darker in the 80s, and entire continuities were rebooted. Plus, with the advent of mini-series, spin-offs, and major crossovers, it became a lot more expensive to read full stories. It used to be an event to see the Fantastic Four and Avengers together, and it happened for maybe one or two issues. Suddenly a crossover was multiple issues across multiple titles, with some chapters typically being better done than others, but you wanted to read them all.