# Comic Book Archives

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-archives/782793>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-archives/782793 "2017-03-22T21:55:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-archives/782793/1 "2017-03-22T21:55:05Z")

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My Google-Fu is not strong.

Lately I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic. I’m keen to revisit the old comics I read when I was a kid. I’ve been doing a little research, just to really figure out when I was an avid reader. I remember a few story lines (I was mostly an Avengers/Thor guy, with a healthy dose of Spider-Man thrown in). Today I found a cover from an Avengers story line that I vividly remember being fascinated with – the Zodiac bad guys, or whatever the hell they were called (Avengers #120). That was circa 1974; I was 9. So that was pretty much my prime zone, I reckon.

Here’s what I’m getting at: I’d love to find an online resource where I could peruse comics (Marvel, DC, others (I remember a ton of war and western comics I used to like too)) that were out in my wheelhouse time-span, say about '72 through '79. Is that a thing? Or do I just have to lament that I never had a head for collecting and all those amazing little bouts of escapism are lost to me forever … unless I want to go all geek and start ponying up dough for actual physical copies?

Anyone tracking?  
TL;DR - who know of any online comics archives?

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-archives/782793/2 "2017-03-22T21:58:35Z")

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For a small subscription fee, Marvel Unlimited gives you access to a back catalog of ~20,000 comics, going back at least to the '60s.

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**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-archives/782793/3 "2017-03-22T22:10:30Z")

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There’s [Comixology](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComiXology)

And [Comicbookplus](http://comicbookplus.com/) for anything that’s fallen into to public domain