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Originally posted by lando005
The thing is until spider-man comics never really touched the issues of drugs and the hero's love intreset would not have been killed. Those kinds of events moved us away from the silver age of comics and set the stage for more daring things like the anti hero and so forth. Until the whole north star thing comics never really touched the issue of gays and bis in comics. Thus that change helped further comics again. Again with storm a black female hero is in contrast to the majority of characters in comics. Those are the types of changes i'm looking at. The anti hero changed the tone of comics and because of this they are much more vicious than they once were but the spectrum appeal of comics was not progress that much it was mostly a style change not a concept change

Originally posted by Big Sexy
And 19 out of twenty people don't know who northstar is, if that.

I would throw in Green Arrow since DC used Green Arrow to deal with political and social injustice (drug use, prostitution, HIV). At the time Green Arrow was dealing with these issues, no other comice book/character was addressing these issues.

I want to also add Gaiman's Sandman and Moore's Swamp Thing, but they may be more personal than universal influence.