Lets go back to the 80s. What 80s comics based on cartoons did you guys read as kids or teens? I read everything from transformers to thundercats. I'll post covers to classic comics as a bonus starting with these. Anyone have any of these?
GI Joe was by far the best of the 1980s toy tie-in comics. In fact, it's one of the most solidly-written and consistently good comics of the entire decade. A decade which included Miller's Daredevil, Claremont's Uncanny X-Men, and Simonson's Thor. I have complete runs of both the US and UK comic series. The second-best toy tie-in comic series of the 1980s? No contest -- it's Micronauts. Some of Mantlo's best work, and featuring the stellar art of people like Michael Golden, Butch Guice, and Kelley Jones (in the cases of Guice and Jones, this book launched their careers), not to mention Pat Broderick and Gil Kane. Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko even drew some. Third place would be Transformers. Fourth would probably be Rom. Limiting to comics that had cartoons, I don't think GI Joe and Transformers had any real competition at all in the 1980s. Maybe Robotech when Malibu got the franchise later in the decade. Although, technically speaking, TF and GI Joe were not comics based on cartoons. They were cartoons based on comics.
Actually they were cartoons and comics based on toys Not sure the based on comics thing is entirely true. They were developed at Marvel, but the way I understood it, the treatments were mostly developed at the same time, since Hasbro went to Marvel and asked them to develop an overall concept for the toys for mixed media before being passed to diff creative teams as it were for TV and the comics.
I loved Sectaurs as a kid loved it so much I tracked em all down when I was older. I remember reading C.O.P.S and Crystar, also I had a Jello Man comic that I use to prize.
I wasn't born in the 80s but I did grow up reading the Marvel Transformers they were the first comics I read
