Your Top 10 Favorite DC Comics of All Time

[caj]

No mini-series or crossovers or self-contained stories, but just a regular comic series that you bought every month and loved.

Mine (in somewhat of a chronological order):

Justice League of America - Satellite Years
New Teen Titans - Wolfman/Perez years
Legion of Super Heroes - Paul Levitz years
Justice League International/America/Europe - Giffen/DeMatteis years
L.E.G.I.O.N '89 - '92 - Giffen/Grant/Kitson years
Sandman - Neil Gaiman years
The Flash - Mark Waid years
Superman - Dan Jurgens years
Aquaman - Peter David years
JSA - Goyer/Robinson/Johns years

[jb681131]

No mini-series or crossovers or self-contained stories, but just a regular comic series that you bought every month and loved.

Mine (in somewhat of a chronological order):

Justice League of America - Satellite Years
New Teen Titans - Wolfman/Perez years
Legion of Super Heroes - Paul Levitz years
Justice League International/America/Europe - Giffen/DeMatteis years
L.E.G.I.O.N '89 - '92 - Giffen/Grant/Kitson years
Sandman - Neil Gaiman years
The Flash - Mark Waid years
Superman - Dan Jurgens years
Aquaman - Peter David years
JSA - Goyer/Robinson/Johns years

!? those are not comics, you named full runs !?

[Jekyll]

Assuming you mean full runs, mine are:

Starman- James Robinson
The Flash- Mark Waid/ Grant Morrison years
JSA- Robinson/Goyer/Johns
Green Lantern- Johns
Hawkman-Johns
Green Arrow- Grell
Green Arrow- Smith/ Winnick
The New Teen Titans- Jurgens
Impulse- Waid
Power of Shazam!- Ordway

[married guy]

Here's mine:

The Flash - Mark Waid
The Flash - Bill Messner-Loebs
The Flash - Geoff Johns
Impulse - Mark Waid
Manhunter - Marc Andreyko
Hitman - Garth Ennis
Starman - James Robinson
Aquaman - Peter David
Guy Gardner - Beau Smith
Green Arrow - Mike Grell

[LifeIsILL]

Superman/Batman is by far my favorite DC comic series. I hate how Jeph Loeb's run was so popular because the later stories were even more insane.

[K7P5V]

Power of SHAZAM! - Jerry Ordway
Nightwing - Chuck Dixon
Superman - Loeb/McGuinness
New Teen Titans - Perez/Wolfman
Doom Patrol - Arnold Drake
The Question - Dennis O'Neil
Planetary - Ellis/Cassaday
The Flash - Bates/Infantino
Starfire - Conner & Palmiotti
Titans - Devin Grayson

[failo.legendkiller]

Detective Comics - Chuck Dixon
Robin - Chuck Dixon
Nightwing - Chuck Dixon
Titans - Devin Grayson
Superman - Dan Jurgens (except Superman Red/Blue)
Green Lantern - Ron Marz
Green Lantern Corps - Peter J. Tomasi
Young Justice - Peter David
Teen Titans - Wolfman/Perez
Grayson - Tom King

I'm sorry but i have to mention too:
Red Lanterns - Charles Soule
Superboy - Karl Kesel
The Omega Men - Tom King
Impulse - Mark Waid
Teen Titans - Dan Jurgens
The New Titans - Marv Wolfman
Green Lantern - Geoff Johns
Green Arrow - Chuck Dixon
Batgirl - Bryan Q. Miller

[Sutekh]

Legion of Super-Heroes – Levitz/Giffen/LaRoque/Lightle era
Teen Titans – Wolfman/Perez years
Young Justice – PAD
Swamp Thing –Alan Moore
Power Company – Busiek?
Batman and the Outsiders – Alan Davis
Superboy – Kesel
Superboy – LeMire
Infinity, Inc. – ???
Not sure about the 10th position, right now, Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters and PADs Aquaman run seem more like minis than actual runs. Watchmen was definitely a mini, even if it’s one of the best things ever. Something wonky like Young All-Stars, maybe?

I’m not going to count pre-DC-ownership Wildstorm stuff, but if I did, I’d want to make room for the early runs of WildCATs, Stormwatch (pre-Authority, the team led by Battalion/Jackson King and including people like Diva and Winter), Gen 13, DV8 and Wildcore. Nothing post-DC-ownership from Wildstorm cracks my top 100, let alone my top 10.

[dr-brainwave]

In no particular order:

1- All Star Comics By Gardner Fox and others.
2- Satellite era JLA.
3- All Star Squadron by Roy Thomas.
4- Infinity Inc.
5- Firestorm by Gerry Conway.
6- Sandman Mystery Theater
7- Hawkman by Geoff Johns.
8- Green Lantern by Geoff Johns.
9- Starman by James Robinson.

All my other favorite comics are either mini-series or elseworlds.

[Lee Stone]

1. JLI/JLE by Giffen & DeMatteis
2. Legion of Super-Heroes ('80s) by Levitz
3. New Teen Titans ('80s) by Wolfman
4. Books of Magic (mini) by Gaiman
5. Death: The High Cost of Living by Gaiman
6. Swamp Thing by Moore
7. Seven Soldiers of Victory by Morrison
8. Promethea by Moore
9. Sandman Mystery Theatre by Wagner
10. Legends by Byrne

Edit: Somehow I missed the "No mini-series or crossovers or self-contained stories, but just a regular comic series that you bought every month and loved."

So...

1. JLI/JLE by Giffen & DeMatteis
2. Mister Miracle by DeMatteis
3. Dr. Fate by DeMatteis

The only ongoing DC comics that weren't 'mini-series or crossovers' AND that I 'bought every month and loved'.

Matter of fact, JLI, JLE and Mister Miracle are the few times where I bought a complete run of a DC title as they were coming out.
Since the original G&D JLI era ended, nothing has really compelled me stick with a title that long again.

[Jim Kelly]

No mini-series or crossovers or self-contained stories, but just a regular comic series that you bought every month and loved.

Well, when you put it that way, it's pretty easy. All I have to do is think of those titles I bought every month (in some cases every other month, if they were bi-monthly) and loved--as opposed to titles I later got as back issues or reprints. Ruling out comics from other publishers, sticking just with DC, and ruling out titles that ran for less than ten issues, those would be:

1. DETECTIVE COMICS (in 1966-68, but then again from around 1971 thru 1983).
2. SUPERMAN (mainly from 1971 thru 1978).
3. THE NEW TEEN TITANS (from 1980 thru 1983).
4. THE FLASH (1972 to 1979, but then again from 1981 to 1985).
5. HOURMAN (1999 to 2001).
6. SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1973 thru 1979).
7. THE WARLORD (1976 to 1983).
8. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (1972 thru 1979).
9. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (1971 to 1977).
10. SHAZAM! (1972 to 1978).

Actually, this was harder than I thought it would be--some tough choices.

[jb681131]

As for me in no order (and from what I've read):

Green Lantern / Green Arrow
Batman by Archie Goodwin
Batman: Dark Knight / Dark City
Batman & Robin New 52 by Peter Tomasi
The Forth World by Jack Kirby
Saga of Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Lobo: Portrait of a Bastich
Planetary by Warren Ellis
Deadshot: Beginnings
Arkham Asylum: Living Hell

[astro@work]

New Teen Titans - Wolfman/Perez
JSA- Robinson/Goyer/Johns
Legion- Levitz/Giffen
Sandman- Gaiman
Starman- Robinson
Young Justice-Nauck
JLofA- various 1971-1977
Teen Titans- (writer?)/Cardy/Adams
All Star Squadron- Thomas/Ordway/et al
Power of Shazam- Ordway

[etrumble]

In no order:

JSA - Johns
Legion of Super-Heroes - Waid
All Star Squadron - Thomas
Freedom Fighters - Conway
Animal Man - Lemire
JLI - Giffen/DeMatteis
Jonah Hex - Gray/Palmiotti
Batman - Starlin
Batman and the Outsiders - Barr
Loveless - Azzarello

[SixSpeedSamurai]

Nightwing - Dixon
Robin - Dixon
Flash - Waid
JLA - Morrison
Teen Titans - Johns
Detective/Batman - Alan Grant
Batman - Snyder
Secret Six - Simone
Aquaman - PAD
Detective Comics - Dixon