Most important/best story lines of all time in DC?

[gimpboy76]

Is there a website that is dedicated to collecting the most popular story lines from Golden Age forward? The closest I've found is this list from a few years back. http://io9.com/5477274/the-75-books-...th-anniversary I'd like to read a lot of these older stories as they become available on Comixology but I don't have the time or money to read every single comic DC has ever created.

[Lexrules]

To name a few.

The Death of Superman
Batman: Knightfall
The Death of Iris West
Batman: A Death in the Family
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
Legion of Superheroes: The Great Darkness Saga

[gimpboy76]

Sorry to clarify, I'm really interested in reading a lot of the comics but not necessarily all of them so I'm looking for a site that tells you important runs. For instance, someone might say (and I'm just making these numbers up) to read Detective Comics #37-38, 62-67, Flash Comics #1-5, 13-15, etc. Basically I'm looking for the most famous storylines that are still referenced today, the classic stories, from the Golden Age on up, especially for the main JL and JSA. I understand that a lot of this is subjective, but I figured that there might be a site somewhere that collected this type of information.

[victorxd1999]

Sorry to clarify, I'm really interested in reading a lot of the comics but not necessarily all of them so I'm looking for a site that tells you important runs. For instance, someone might say (and I'm just making these numbers up) to read Detective Comics #37-38, 62-67, Flash Comics #1-5, 13-15, etc. Basically I'm looking for the most famous storylines that are still referenced today, the classic stories, from the Golden Age on up, especially for the main JL and JSA. I understand that a lot of this is subjective, but I figured that there might be a site somewhere that collected this type of information.

To my knowledge, there is no site like that. But a lot of us kknowa lot about the Dc so we could tell the classic stories and such. Here's a small list, others can make it bigger if they wish to.

Batman and Superman stories:
Superman Birthright
Superman Whatever happened to man of tomorrow?
All Star Superman
Man of Steel by Byrne
Batman Year One
Dark knight returns
Batman Long Halloween and Dark victory
Batman by Morrison
Batman by O'Neill

Elseworld/non dc universe stories:
Watchmen
Kingdom Come
The Golden Age
Sandman
Swamp Thing
And a lot of other pre-Vertigo runs

Other in universe classics:
New Teen titans Judas contract
Great Darkness saga
JLA rock of ages (and the rest of the run)
Crisis of Infinite Earths

I'm sure i'm forgetting some

[Tupiaz]

The most important issues are Action Comics 1 and Detective Comics 27.

[FlashingSabre]

I think he means specific important runs from the Gold and Silver Ages. I would be interested in that kind of thing myself.

[Tupiaz]

I think he means specific important runs from the Gold and Silver Ages. I would be interested in that kind of thing myself.

Well many stories was told in one issue back in day it wasn't until the late 60s/early 70s it got more normal to tell stories over several issues.

[GrandKaiser]

I think he means specific important runs from the Gold and Silver Ages. I would be interested in that kind of thing myself.

Most of them are collected in the DC Archives collection

[Arnoldoaad]

Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison

[nosinik]

Kingdom Come
The Dark Knight Returns
All-Star Superman
The Death and Return of Superman

[Thanos]

Hawkworld by Ostrander and Truman
The Longbow Hunters by Grell
Batman: Death in the family by Starlin
What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow by Moore

Those would be a few of my favorites.

[Jim Kelly]

25 Foundational DC Comics

• 1. ACTION COMICS No. 1 (June ’38)--Origin of Superman
• 2. DETECTIVE COMICS No. 33 (November ’39)--Origin of Batman
• 3. FLASH COMICS No. 1 (January ’40)--Origins of the Flash, Hawkman and Johnny Thunder
• 4. BATMAN No. 1 (Spring ’40)--First Joker and Catwoman stories
• 5. ALL STAR COMICS No. 3 (Winter ’40)--First Justice Society of America story
• 6. MORE FUN COMICS No. 73 (November ’41)--First Green Arrow and Aquaman stories
• 7. ALL STAR COMICS No. 8 (December ’41 - January ’42)--Starman and Dr. Mid-Nite join the JSA--First Wonder Woman story
• 8. DETECTIVE COMICS No. 235 (September ’56)--The First Batman--Dr. Thomas Wayne, Boss Lew Moxon
• 9. SHOWCASE No. 4 (September-October ’56)--Origin of the Flash
• 10. ADVENTURE COMICS No. 247 (April ’58)--The Legion of Super-Heroes
• 11. OUR ARMY AT WAR No. 81 (April ’59)--The Rock of Easy Co.
• 12. THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD No. 28 (February-March ’60)--First Justice League of America story
• 13. THE FLASH No. 123 (September ’61)--Flash of Two-Worlds--First Earth-Two story
• 14. MY GREATEST ADVENTURE No. 80 (June ’63)--The Doom Patrol
• 15 & 16. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Nos. 21 (August ’63) & 22 (September ’63)--First JLA/JSA team-up
• 17. SUPERMAN No. 167 (February ’64)--The Team of Luthor and Brainiac--Origin of Brainiac as an android
• 18. GREEN LANTERN No. 40 (October ’65)--Secret Origin of the Guardians
• 19. HOUSE OF MYSTERY No. 175 (July-August ’68)--First Cain story
• 20. GREEN LANTERN No. 76 (April ’70)--First Green Arrow team-up
• 21. HOUSE OF SECRETS No. 92 (June-July ’71)--Swamp Thing
• 22, 23 & 24. JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Nos. 100 (August ’72), 101 (September ’72) & 102 (October ’72)--JLA/JSA/Seven Soldiers of Victory
• 25. DC COMICS PRESENTS No. 26 (October ’80)--Superman & GL team-up--First New Teen Titans story--Cyborg, Raven Starfire intro

[colonyofcells]

There are many dc collections of greatest stories. I remember reading the greatest golden age stories, greatest 1950's stories, etc.