When I hear comics, I think of Marvel & stop there.
I relate to what a friend a mine once stated : what makes the price of those stories is that they are poorly drawn. And I would add that it can't be read, as it is stuffed with gross adds.
I base my views on very old comics. I stopped buying that stuff when I was 15.
I got to re-read some X-Men issues (in French, with less adds), and got puzzled by the Banshee talking about James Joyce! I wouldn't have expected that.
I tend to appreciate junk at times. And, looking for EC Comics covers on the net, I found a site loaded with comics covers from a loooong time ago.
And it made me laugh quite a lot, to see good guys who never made it, to see how rigidly drawn some heroes were in their youth (Wonder Woman in the 40ies).
And I chuckle at the lack of imagination of the authors (look at the covers of Jungle Comics and you'll see what I mean) - my brother used to like Comics and heroic fantasy and I never understood that, as he seemed to pick the ones where the only blatant input of the author was in the name of the characters, planets, spaceships and so on. Well, naming someone Oo-nag'arh doesn't bring much.
I think that what I like the most in these Comics is the thought that the artists would be ashamed of their work today. Noone in their right mind would buy without feeling bad comics like those portraying Japanese soldiers as ugly greenish-yellowish midgets beaten to a pulp by strong allies of the free world.
Racism shows also in Jungle Comics. This is amazing.
So here's the link :
http://bcotd.com/crypt.html