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    Default What are DC's best comic stories?

    I'm currently planning a poll thread to determine DC's Best stories, and I'd like the forum's help in filling out the bracket.

    The stories you recommend can be in-continuity, they can be elseworlds, they can be show tie-ins, as long as they're comics, it's all good. Just give me the title of the story, and the issues it's told in. If you see that someone else has already recommended that story you want to recommend, be sure to give it a second. It'll help me narrow things down.

    I want to do a 48 story bracket, and so far I have found 32 stories to include. Here's what I've already got.

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    1. Crisis on Infinite Earths (Crisis on Infinite Earths #1-12)
    2. Infinite Crisis (Infinite Crisis #1-7)
    3. Final Crisis (Final Crisis #1-7, Superman Beyond #1-2, Final Crisis: Submit #1)
    4. All-Star Superman (All-Star Superman #1-12)
    5. The Death of Superman (Action Comics #684, The Adventures of Superman #497, Justice League America #69, Superman: The Man of Steel #18-19, Superman #74-75)
    6. Reign of the Supermen (Action Comics #687-691, The Adventures of Superman #501–505, Green Lantern #46, Superman #78–82, Superman: The Man of Steel #22–26)
    7. For the Man Who Has Everything (Superman Annual #11)
    8. What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way? (Action Comics #775)
    9. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow (Superman #423, Action Comics #583)
    10. Knightfall (Batman #491-497, Detective Comics #659-663)
    11. The Dark Knight Returns (The Dark Knight Returns #1-4)
    12. The Killing Joke (The Killing Joke #1)
    13. Batman Year One (Batman #404-407)
    14. A Death in the Family (Batman #426-429)
    15. Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
    16. Batman R.I.P (Batman #676-681)
    17. DC One Million (DC One Million #1-4, Green Lantern #1,000,000, Ressurection Man #1,000,000, Starman #1,000,000, Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1,000,000)
    18. The Multiversity (The Multiversity #1-2, The Society of Superheroes: Conquerors of the Counter World, The Just, Pax Americana, Thunderworld Adventures, Multiversity Guidebook, Mastermen, Ultra Comics)
    19. Seven Soldiers (Seven Soldiers #0-1, Shining Knight #1-4, The Guardian #1-4, Zatanna #1-4, Mister Miracle #1-4, Klarion #1-4, Bulleteer #1-4, Frankenstein #1-4)
    20. Flex Mentallo (Flex Mentallo #1-4)
    21. The Sinestro Corps War (Green Lantern #21-25, Green Lantern Corps #14-19, Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Special #1 )
    22. Blackest Night (Blackest Night #0-8)
    23. Gods and Mortals (Wonder Woman #1-7)
    24. The Flash of Two Worlds (The Flash #123)
    25. The Return of Barry Allen (The Flash #74-79)
    26. Terminal Velocity (The Flash #95-100)
    27. The Great Darkness Saga (Legion of Superheroes #290-294)
    28. The Judas Contract (Tales of the Teen Titans #42-44, Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #)
    29. The Terror of Trigon (New Teen Titans #1-5)
    30. New Frontier (DC: The New Frontier #1-6)
    31. 52 (52 #1-52)
    32. Watchmen (Watchmen #1-12)

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    How about LEGENDS?

    It was the first big Post Crisis gathering of heroes, it introduced The New Gods into the new continuity, gave us The Suicide Squad and all new Justice League, had Wonder Woman officially meet her peers...

    It had a good creative pedigree w. Ostrander, Wein and Byrne all contributing.

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    Batman: The Cult (#1 - #4)
    Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia
    JLA: A Leauge Of One
    Green Latern Rebirth (#1 - #6)

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    I would add to your list:
    Wonder Woman By Phil JimenezB
    JLA/TITANS: THE TECHNIS IMPERATIVE
    HOW HEAVEN'S LADDER
    FLASH BY MARK WAID
    WONDER WOMAN BY GREG RUCKA

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stanlos View Post
    I would add to your list:
    Wonder Woman By Phil JimenezB
    JLA/TITANS: THE TECHNIS IMPERATIVE
    HOW HEAVEN'S LADDER
    FLASH BY MARK WAID
    WONDER WOMAN BY GREG RUCKA
    You can't recomend whole runs.

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    New Krypton was one of my favorite Sagas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jcogginsa View Post
    You can't recomend whole runs.
    I thought those were books. Zoinks, Scoob! I will have look at the Amazon order list again

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    Green Lantern Rebirth: (1 - 6)
    Green Arrow Volume 3: (1-15) Kevin Smith and (16-21) Meltzer
    Green Lantern/Green Arrow (76 -100) Denny O Neil
    Huntress Cry for Blood: 1-4 Greg Rucka (Huntress, Batman, Question)
    Batman/Green Arrow; Poison Tomorrow
    Legion of Super Heroes (Levitz) 326-31 (there is some historic Darkseid stuff in Levitz run to)

    There is some other great stuff to, just don't know if they would be classics (Geoff Johns JSA) (Denny O Neil: Question) (Gail Simone: Birds of Prey) - I thought Dixon was a better plot writer, but she brought the characters to life.

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    Justice League of America (1970s) #139-146, 149-150 Steve Englehart, Dick Dillin - No Man Escapes the Manhunters
    Kingdom Come (1996) #1-4 and a bonus chapter in collections - Mark Waid, Alex Ross
    Batman: The Long Halloween (1996) #1-13 - Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale
    JSA (1999-2000) #1-15 - James Robinson, David Goyer, Geoff Johns - Justice Be Done, Darkness Falls, The Hunt for Extant
    Justice (2005-2007) #1-12- Alex Ross, Jim Krueger
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    Batman: Night Cries by Archie Goodwin and John Bolton
    The Dark Night: A Batman Story by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso
    Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Ruka and John H. Williams III
    Batwoman #0, #0-24 and Annual #1 by Williams and Blackman
    JLA by Morrison and Porter
    I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League #1-6 and I Still Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League #1-6 by DeMattis, Griffin, and McGuire
    Superman: Godfall by Micheal Turner

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    Quote Originally Posted by caj View Post
    Justice League of America (1970s) #139-146, 149-150 Steve Englehart, Dick Dillin - No Man Escapes the Manhunters
    Kingdom Come (1996) #1-4 and a bonus chapter in collections - Mark Waid, Alex Ross
    Batman: The Long Halloween (1996) #1-13 - Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale
    JSA (1999-2000) #1-15 - James Robinson, David Goyer, Geoff Johns - Justice Be Done, Darkness Falls, The Hunt for Extant
    Justice (2005-2007) #1-12- Alex Ross, Jim Krueger
    Good picks, classic JLA is a must, and I totally forgot about Kingdom Come and Justice.

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    Again, Whole runs are not eligible.

    If you want to recommend an entire run, recommend any story arc in it.

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    When I think of best stories, I usually think of single issue stories or maybe a two-parter, not an entire run or an extended story arc.

    D.C. used to do "Best of" reprints--

    First in the tabloid format LIMITED COLLECTORS' EDITION C-52 (1977) which reprinted "Night of the Reaper" (BATMAN 237), "The Demon Within" (HOUSE OF MYSTERY 201), "Doorway to the Unknown" (THE FLASH 148), "Dirty Job" (OUR ARMY AT WAR 241), "Firehair: The Stallion" (TOMAHAWK 136), "The Last Days of Superman" (SUPERMAN 156).

    Then in their digests which were called THE BEST OF DC [Blue Ribbon Digest]--however, there was usually a "Best of the Year" collection each year. The first of these was in issue 5 for 1979 and included stories from DC COMICS PRESENTS 10, ADVENTURE COMICS 466 (Deadman), JONAH HEX 24, SUPERMAN FAMILY 196 (Superboy), HOUSE OF MYSTERY 267, DETECTIVE COMICS 483 ("The Curse of Crime Alley"), G.I. COMBAT 213, SECRETS OF HAUNTED HOUSE 17 and ACTION COMICS 502 ("Fall and Rise of the Star-Child").

    The last of these digest selections was in issue 71 (and the last issue of that digest run) for 1985 stories. A few of the stories from that--"Mogo Doesn't Socialize," Rite of Spring," "Bits of (Ambush) Bugginess," and "Forever Blowing Bubbles."


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    "An Eye for an Eye" Legion of Super-Heroes #1-5

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
    When I think of best stories, I usually think of single issue stories or maybe a two-parter, not an entire run or an extended story arc.
    Jim

    If we're going to include single issue stories, I would definitely include:

    Justice League of America #200 (1981) - Gerry Conway, George Perez, & various artists - A League Divided


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