There were a few exceptions. Roy’s color Conan and B&W Savage Sword. Master of Kung Fu by Moench and Gulacy. Wolfman’s Tomb of Dracula, with Gene Colan and Tom Palmer art. Those were good books. Len’s Fantastic Four, I think, was enjoyable, too. A couple of others, maybe.
A few books had parts that were great and things not so great about them that crippled them.
We can debate the above at length….
However, what can’t be debated is that sales were bad and falling. It was almost all newsstand sales then, by the way. This was before the Direct Market was a significant factor. The comics overall were breakeven at best. Upstairs, the cheesy non-comics magazine department was losing millions. It seemed like the company as a whole was in a death spiral.
