To each their own, but the stuff that resonates the most for me was published between about 1970-1985.
Particularly the work of Adams, Wrightson, Kaluta, Windsor-Smith, Suydam, Russell, Simonson, Chaykin, Golden, Rogers, Starlin, Grell, Bolton, Macklin, Brunner, Byrne, Perez, Day, early Sienkiewicz, pre-1984 Giffen, Nino, Redondo, Alcala, (the latter 3 especially in DC's mystery titles and Marvel's Conan books), Jodloman, Corben, Williamson, Conrad, Kubert, Kirby, Ditko, Gil Kane, Infantino, Steranko, Gulacy, Hampton, early Morrow, Glanzman, McCann, Raboy, Fine, EC-era Wood, Golden-Age Moldoff, and many other lesser-known talents.
Neal Adams in particular, as my last few posts demonstrate, has work that holds up decades later, even to modern standards. I wish I'd had the good sense to buy 50 or 100 of their original pages 30 years ago. I could sell them and buy several houses with them now.
