All Time Favorite Comic Book Story Arcs

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Poll ended at Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:13 am

Batman: Year One
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Dark Knight Returns
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17%
Watchmen
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17%
Marvels
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Kingdom Come
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Sandman
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33%
V for Vendetta
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17%
Other
1
17%
 
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All Time Favorite Comic Book Story Arcs

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Here are my top 5

5) Avengers: The Korvac War. (issues 169-178 or so) The only problem was that George Perez was not the artist for the last battle. Why Marvel...WHY?!!

4) X-Men: Proteus arc. (issues 125-128). Proteus was a great villian. A serial/psychic vampire who controlled reality. Well-drawn and set up the Dark Phoenix saga

3) Superman Death and Rebirth. Early 1990's. Lots of books, lots of characters, and lots of great story telling.

2) Spiderman: Issues 192-200. Chronicled perhaps the worst week of Parker's life, leading up to issue 200 which pitted him against the Burglar...the man who killed Uncle Ben. Great stories about relationships.

1) Batman: Dark Knight Returns.


There are more of course ....these are the ones I can think of right now.

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I'm going to define Story Arc as a greater-than-two run of a regular series. So I won't include: several single- and two-issue stories in various titles; Dark Knight Returns; The Watchmen; Grendel's Devil by the Deed; etc.

Miller's DD. Both the first, longer run, and the superb Born Again.

Batman: Year One

The Legion's Great Darkness Saga.

Simonson's Thor, through the death of Odin. The first four issues, which introduced Beta Ray Bill, are extraordinary.

Moore's Swamp Thing, through issue #50.

The Hands of Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu 115-118.

The beginning of Dreadstar. Through #14, at the very least.

Addition: The Maelstrom arc in Quasar.

Well, that's a start. :)
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Starman: The Grand Guignol

Doom Patrol : Crwling Through the Wreckage

Steve Ditko's Shade the Changing Man

Shade the Changing Man : the American Scream

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Incredible Hulk 370-381.
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dANdeLION wrote:Incredible Hulk 370-381.
What happens during that run?
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Well, the Grey Hulk had been back since #324, but in this run, the Green Hulk returns, Bruce gets back with Betty, Doc Samson realizes the different Hulks are a result of banner suffering from MPD, so he treats him and the result is a 'merged' Hulk, who is green, with the intelligence of Banner, mean streak of the Grey Hulk, and the compassion of the Green Hulk.
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written by peter david drawn by dale mckeown?
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Green Lantern Emerald Twilight.
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A Gunslinger wrote:written by peter david drawn by dale mckeown?
Dale Keown....but yes, you got it.
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As already mentioned by Fist: "Simonson's Thor, through the death of Odin. The first four issues, which introduced Beta Ray Bill, are extraordinary"

I'll never forget reading that first issue with Simonson.
I was just blown away and it just never stopped.

The Silver Surfer arc with the Elders up to his saving Galactus was excelent.

the whole Adam Warlock/Thanos/Magus arc was great too.

As was the Infinity Gauntlet.

I guess I like the cosmic stuff the best!
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High Lord Tolkien wrote:The Silver Surfer arc with the Elders up to his saving Galactus was excelent.
Doh! I was looking online for issue numbers for that, but didn't find it, and forgot to mention it. EXCELLENT stuff!
High Lord Tolkien wrote:I guess I like the cosmic stuff the best!
I think the Dreadstar stuff is reprinted. The Metamorphosis Odyssey, The Price, and the original Epic issues. Damn!! :D
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I never picked up the Dreadstar stuff, I will next time I see it.
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I don't think anyone else here has ever mentioned liking it, but I think it's as good as anything else Starlin ever did. The power levels are way off the charts. The scope of time is... well, I don't know how many millions of years. The emotions in some of the issues are downright chilling. And if you're a fan of Starlin's art! :D
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Marvel-Two-In-One
Project Pegasus
the Serpent Crown Affair.

two very solid, entertaining runs. a surprise as the Thing does not seem to be a natural costar. but these issues work very well.
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Yeah, I loved that stuff too. It was toward the very beginning of my comic collecting. I still think Stingray is great! :)
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oh yeah, I loved Project Pegasus too.

I think it might have been when I started to expand my collection beyond the basics.

Something about not really knowing (just kinda knowing) all those characters made it so much more interesting for me.
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Project Pegasus was indeed a good run; I still have those books in my collection.
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it's a shame marvel doesn't have more quietly good books. though I have enjoyed what I have read of Civil War. too much convoluted X-Men.
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Fist wrote:

The Legion's Great Darkness Saga.
After searching on eBay for several months, I finally found and purchased LOSH #290, the first issue of this story arc - I've been missing this issue since publication.
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