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    Default What Is Your Favorite DC Story (or the best) By Decade?

    I would like to hear from DC experts or those well-versed in company lore!

    What is the best (or your fav) DC Comics story By Decade?

    30's-2010's

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    Best is too subjective unless ever respondent is using the same rubric to measure quality, so I will go with favorites. These are what I am going with right now; with few exceptions, they are all standalone single issue stories, but if I were asked to do this 20 times, I could probably come up with 20 different answers. However, I tried to pick stories that I adore and I feel are high quality and stand up to being read in any era.

    1930s-Batman vs. the Vampire Pt 1 and 2 (Detective Comics #31-32)

    1940s-The Fish-Men of Nyarl-Amen (Dr. Fate story in More Fun Comics #65)

    1950s-The Haunters from Beyond (1st Phantom Stranger story in Phantom Stranger #1 (1952 series, reprinted in DC 100 Page Super-Spectacular #4 which is where I encountered it)

    1960s-You Can't Pin a Medal on a Gorilla (Star Spangled War Stories #126)

    1970s-The Pact (New Gods #7)

    1980s-Tarry Till I Come Again (Secret Origins #10, one of 4 possible origins for the Phantom Stranger, followed closely by Footsteps another story in that issue)

    1990s-Final Rites (Spectre #62)

    2000s-DC The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke (New Frontier 1-6)

    2010s-A Time of Death...A Time of Life (Joe Kubert Presents #2)

    2020s-Superman Smashes the Klan

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    I'm a small time reader so I haven't read much, but I'll try:

    1930's - like @MRP - Batman vs. the Vampire (Detective Comics #31-32) - later used by Matt Wagner to write his "Batman and the Monster Men" and "Batman and the Mad Monk".
    1940's - I don't know the 40's
    1950's - I don't know the 50's
    1960's - Return of the Question (Mysterious Suspense #1)
    1970's -
    --- Swamp Thing (House of Secrets #92)
    --- The Untold Origin of the Justice Society (DC Special #29)
    --- Green Lantern/Green Arrow by Dennis O'Neil (Green Lantern #76-87, 89 + back-up Flash #212-219, 226)
    --- Batman & Manhunter (Detective Comics #437-443)
    1980's -
    --- Arkham Asylum: A serious house on a serious earth
    --- Camelot 3000
    --- The Question by Dennis O'Neil
    1990's -
    --- Lobo: The Last Czarnian (Lobo #1-4)
    --- Batman: Mad Love
    2000's -
    --- DC: The New Fontier (The New Fontier #1-6)
    --- Joker by Azzarello
    2010's -
    --- Batman: Impossible (Batman & Robin Annual #1)
    --- Superman smashes the Klan (Superman smashes the Klan #1-3)

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    Quote Originally Posted by jb681131 View Post
    --- Superman smashes the Klan (Superman smashes the Klan #1-3)
    Since it came out in 2020, I should have added this one as best of the 20's so far, but yeah it was in consideration for the '10s for me.

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    1970s - Justice League of America "No Man Escapes The Manhunters" (#140-143, 149-150)
    1980s - Legion of Super Heroes "The Great Darkness Saga" (#187-194)
    1990s - Kingdom Come (#1-4)
    2000s - Justice (#1-12)

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