The Best of the Decade - 1980 through 1989

[Air Wave]

What are your favorite DC stories of the 1980's?

[Robotman]

Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing. Not just the best of the decade but one of the best comics DC has ever produced.

[jb681131]

What are your favorite DC stories of the 1980's?

Here is what I would choose:

1. 1980-96 - The New Teen Titans - The Saga by Marv Wolfman & George Perez - 11 vol. (ongoing) or 3 omni.
2. 1982-89 - V for Vendetta - the inspiering serie that follows an anarchist by Alan Moore - 3 omni.
3. 1984-86 - Saga of the Swamp Thing - When Alan Moore takes over Swamp Thing (1st American Comics for Moore) - 6 vol. or 1 omni.
4. 1986 - The Watchmen by Alan Moore - The Launching story of the Modern Age - 1 omni.
5. 1986 - The Dark Knight Returns - The Famous story by Frank Miller - 1 omni.
6. 1986 - Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? - Superman by Alan Moore - 1 vol.
7. 1985-86 - Crisis On Infinit Earths (aka COIE) - 1st massive event - 1 omni.
8. 1987 - DC: Legends - Follow-up to COIE, story in which the modern age Justice League and Suicide Squad are put in place - 1 vol.
9. 1987-89 - Justice League International - Direct follow-up to DC: Legends - 5 vol. or 1 omni.
10. 1987-89 - Suicide Squad by John Ostrander - Direct follow-up to DC: Legends - 8 vol.
11. 1987-92 - Wonder Woman by George Perez - 4 vol. (ongoing) or 3 omni.
12. 1986 - Batman: Year One - Origin Story by Frank Miller - 1 vol.
13. 1987 - Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunter - Start of a modern age darker Green Arrow - 1 vol.
14. 1987-90 - The Question by Denis O'Neil - The Charlton Comics detective - 6 vol.
15. 1988 - The Killing Joke - The popular Joker story by Alan Moore - 1 vol.
16. 1988-13 - Hellblazer - The story of John Constantine - 21 vol.
17. 1988-89 - Animal Man by Alan Grant - A now classic work - 1 omni.
18. 1989 - Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth - A strange and twisted take on Arkham and the Joker by Grant Morrison - 1 vol.

[superduperman]

No love for Sonic Disrupters?

[Vampire Savior]

Quite a bit of good stuff in this period.

Byrne's Superman stories.
Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld.
Steve Englehart's Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps.
Sword of the Atom.
Batman: Blind Justice.
Alan Grant Detective Comics.
George Perez's Wonder Woman.

I know I'm leaving out a lot of stuff, but that's what comes to mind for me right now.

[superduperman]

Anything by Alan Moore.
Batman: Year One.
Sandman
The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne. This is an Earth 2 story that's how Batman and Catwoman fell in love and got married. This is right up there with Year One for me as far as Batman stories go and it's long been forgotten

[Lee Stone]

New Teen Titans/New Titans
Legion of Super-Heroes
Outsiders
Infinity, Inc.
JLA
Firestorm
Blue Devil
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
JLI
All-Star Squadron
Atari Force
Omega Men
Arion
Warlord
Arak
Amethyst
Star Trek
Wonder Woman v1 (for Huntress)
Wonder Woman v2

[iron chimp]

Hawkworld by tim truman!

[Noodle]

I'm currently reading through Mike Grell's Green Arrow run (only have the last collection's worth to read) and I honestly have to say it's probably one of my favorite comic runs of all time at this point. A lot of people just bring up Longbow Hunters but his entire run is just fantastic.

Other ones I'd mention:

-The Question by O'Neil/Cowan
-Camelot 3000
-Batman: Year One

[Batman Begins 2005]

Batman: Year One.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
Batman: The Killing Joke.
Batman: A Death in the Family.
Watchmen.

[Avengers1986]

Byrne Superman/Action Comics/Adventures of Superman
Mike Barr/Alan Davis/Paul Neary Detective Comics
Batman 400-whenever Jim aparo left
Post Legends Flash
Justice League of America 250-254
Legends
Killing Joke

[j9ac9k]

Two others to add to the list:
- The Vigilante
- Dr Fate mini

[iron chimp]

Doom patrol and sandman just getting in under the wire starting at the end of the decade.

A classic era for Dc

[SJNeal]

The '80s arguably remain DC's strongest decade to date. There were simply too many good series/runs to list them all.

[caj]

As SJNeal said, too many to list. Here's my Top 5

Legion of Super Heroes - Levitz/Giffen heyday (#287-306)
Justice League of America - Conway/Dillin/Perez (#175-200)
Justice League International - Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire
New Teen Titans - Wolfman/Perez (#1-50, 1-5 Baxter)
All Star Squadron - Thomas/Buckler/Ordway & others