Favorite DC comics from the 1980s.

[Electricmastro]

My personal favorites include:

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980)
All-Star Squadron (1981)
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (1982)
The Fury of Firestorm (1982)
Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (1983)
The Omega Men (1983)
Thriller (1983)
Vigilante (1983)
Atari Force (1984)
Infinity, Inc. (1984)
Jemm, Son of Saturn (1984)
Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985)
The Outsiders (1985)
Booster Gold (1986)
Electric Warrior (1986)
The Question (1986)
Watchmen (1986)
Silverblade (1987)
Animal Man (1988)
Checkmate (1988)
COPS (1988)
Doc Savage (1988)
Doctor Fate (1988)
Green Arrow (1988)
Manhunter (1988)
The New Guardians (1988)
Starman (1988)
Wanderers (1988)
The Huntress (1989)
L.E.G.I.O.N. (1989)
The Phantom (1989)
The Shadow Strikes (1989)

[LifeIsILL]

Legion
Omega Men
Jonah Hex
Animal Man
New Teen Titans
Swamp Thing
Firestorm


Were by far the best books

[Electricmastro]

New Teen Titans

Agreed. Might even be one of their best runs actually.

[DrNewGod]

My vote is ALL OF THEM! 1979-1986 really was DC's glorious moment.

But and f I have to choose one, All-Star Squadron !

[My Two Cents]

I loved reading most of what D C and
Marvel was putting out in the 80’s
To the point I had to reluctantly
Stop buying books because of
Cost and space and reading time.
Especially miss the magic of
All Star Squadron and
New Teen Titans and Legion
Of Super Heroes

[K7P5V]

I always looked forward to every new issue of Super Powers:

[iron chimp]

Watchmen
Swampthing
Doom patrol
Shade the changing man

[Lee Stone]

New Teen Titans (regular and Baxter)
Legion of Super-Heroes (regular and Baxter)
Batman and the Outsiders
Outsiders
Infinity, Inc.
Justice League of America
Justice League International/America
Justice League Europe
Firestorm
Blue Devil
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
Mister Miracle
Huntress
Atari Force
Omega Men
Arion
Arak
Warlord
Amethyst
Legends
Teen Titans Spotlight
Crisis on Infinite Earths (despite the ending, this was the most epic story of the '80s)
Secret Origins
All-Star Squadron
Doom Patrol
Swamp Thing
Dr. Fate
Question
Green Arrow
L.E.G.I.O.N.
Best of DC Digest
Blue Ribbon Digest
World's Finest (when it was a Dollar Comic and featured more than just Batman and Superman)
Wonder Woman (while Huntress was running in back-ups)
Wonder Woman by Perez
Who's Who and the '87 & '88 Updates, and the '89 Annuals
Who's Who in the Legion
Who's Who in Star Trek
Star Trek

[Vampire Savior]

Steve Englehart Green Lantern and The Green Lantern Corps
All Amethyst comics.
John Byrne Man of Steel, Action Comics, and Superman
Alan Grant Detective Comics
Batman: Year One
Detective Comics Blind Justice arc by Sam Hamm and Denys Cowan.
George Perez Wonder Woman

Probably some other stuff I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. I think the 80s is my favorite time for comics in general. More so the mid 80s to the early 90s.

[Electricmastro]

Steve Englehart Green Lantern and The Green Lantern Corps
All Amethyst comics.
John Byrne Man of Steel, Action Comics, and Superman
Alan Grant Detective Comics
Batman: Year One
Detective Comics Blind Justice arc by Sam Hamm and Denys Cowan.
George Perez Wonder Woman

Probably some other stuff I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. I think the 80s is my favorite time for comics in general. More so the mid 80s to the early 90s.

Yep, a lot of great material that I previously didn't even mention.

[MRP]

Arak, Son of Thunder
Chaykin's Shadow
Sandman
Grell's Green Arrow
Moore's Swamp Thing
Perez's Wonder Woman
Moench's Spectre
Giffen/DeMatteis' Justice League
Gotham by Gaslight
O'Neill & Cowan's Question
Batman: Year One
Watchmen
Dark Knight Returns
Wolfman/Perez Titans
Wolfman/Colan Night Force
Camelot 3000
Shadow War of Hawkman
Sword of the Atom
Talos of the Wilderness Sea by Kane/Strnad
Wolfman/Perez History of the DC Universe
Blackhawk (Evanier & Spiegle)
Who's Who in the DC Universe
Nathaniel Dusk I and II
Warlord
DC Science Fiction Graphic Novels
The Hunger Dogs
Matt Wagner's Demon
Evanier & Rude's Mister Miracle Special
Elvira's House of Mystery
Legends
Secret Origins #10 (4 origins of the Phantom Stranger)
Englehart & Rogers Madame Xanadu one-shot

and a whole lot more I am not thinking of at the moment.

-M

[Sutekh]

Fortunately, y'all have posted such excellent lists, I can hop through them and remember old favorites that I might have forgotten, otherwise, like Swamp Thing or Sword of the Atom or Camelot 3000! Thanks for that!

Anywho, top faves;

New Teen Titans
Legion of Super-Heroes
Swamp Thing
Watchmen

then;
All-Star Squadron
the Aquaman mini by Craig Hamilton (1986)
Arion, Lord of Atlantis
Batman and the Outsiders
Camelot, 3000
Green Arrow, the Longbow Hunters
Infinity, Inc.
Legends
Man of Steel
Sword of the Atom
Who's Who in the DC Universe
Crisis on Infinite Earths (like Lee Stone, I liked it at the time, and only later realized how badly it damaged some of my favorite properties, like the Legion of Super-Heroes, and All-Star Squadron/Justice Society, none of whom have really recovered)

I would put Booster Gold up there, too, but I didn't actually get into him, back in the day.

The '90s had a few gems as well. Birds of Prey, Superboy (& the Ravers), Peter David's Young Justice.

[Sam]

Little surprised no on has mentioned Suicide Squad yet.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

I started reading comics in 1992 so there are no doubt big gaps in my '80s knowledge but here are the few that are real standouts for me.

Those that redefined superhero comics:

Watchmen
Dark Knight Returns
Batman Year One

Proto-Vertigo:

Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Animal Man by Grant Morrison
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
V For Vendetta by Alan Moore

Top-notch superhero comics:

Justice League/ International/ America/ Europe
Superman by Alan Moore
Superman Triangle era

Still more for me to check out, undoubtedly, but I do find that quite a lot of comics from this period suffer from Claremont-itis: overly wordy, clumsy and exposition-heavy dialogue. I do miss the flowery third-person narration from some of these comics, though. Moore, Morrison and Gaiman were particularly good at it.

[Jim Kelly]

This is too hard. However, I find that in any given year there was usually at least one title that kept me interested enough that I could go on being a comic book consumer. This wasn't easy in the 1980s, because I was in the navy and then at university and then looking for work, moving houses many times over, with not much money to show for it (the huge credit card debt I had accumulated by the next decade proves this out).

So to be fair, let me look at Mike's Amazing World and see which comic was my favourite on the Newsstand for each August in the 1980s.

1980--THE NEW TEEN TITANS
1981--THE FLASH
1982--LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
1983--THRILLER
1984--GREEN LANTERN
1985--INFINITY INC.
1986--'MAZING MAN
1987--SWAMP THING*
1988--WASTELAND
1989--JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE

*Note: 1987 was the hardest year to choose, because there were several titles that were about equal in my affections that year. I didn't expect that--but I do remember, living in Edmonton at the time, there was a guy who was trying to drive his brother-in-law out of business. He hated his brother-in-law who owned a comic book shop, so this guy rented an office in Old Stratcona and you would walk up to that place on the second floor and there were just tables stacked up with comic books and you would pick whatever you wanted and he sold them to you for little money. So that accounts for how I was able to afford so many comics in 1987, even though I had no space for them in my small bachelor suite and it's not like I was earning much money at my jobs.