EdwinNorth

My personal view from the very beginning when I was young was the "look" of the two books and the atmosphere. In the 70's when I was a young teen I was primarily a Marvel follower.  I had a chance to go to a cousin’s house where he had a few DC books. I felt the look for DC was more garish, old fashioned (it seemed to have not moved from it's 1930-1940 look) and seemingly juvenile in their approach. DC seemed to come into a different look during the 80's. Most notably with John Byrne doing a lot of the artwork. It seemed to modernize it and bring it's style closer to Marvel. Of course at that time he was doing so much work in both companies. As were a number of other writers and artists.