What was your favorite series from DC in the 80's?

[Shadowcat]

I’m in a pre-Crisis mood right now, so my answers will be all Pre-Crisis, minus one series.

New Teen Titans
Legion of Superheroes
Wonder Woman (especially the Conway/Thomas runs)
Batman/Tec (from Conway through Moench)
All-Star Squadron
Bates’ Flash, from issues 270 up until the Trial. Slept on run, and one of the first long form soap operatic series in the pre-Crisis era.
Green Lantern by Wolfman through Wein
Action Comics by Wolfman/Kane
DC Comics Presents
Justice League of America
The Aquaman story running through Adventure Comics

But Perez’s Wonder Woman is my absolute favorite.

[Denirac]

New Teen Titans
The Flash (Post Crisis)
Hellblazer
Saga of the Swamp Thing
The Question

Also:
V for Vendetta
Watchmen

[j9ac9k]

I was a Marvel guy back in the day, but I did love:
-- The Vigilante
-- The Question
(and I later went back and read)
-- Legion of Super-Heroes

[DevilBat66]

The New Teen Titans

The Legion of Super-Heroes

The Fury of Firestorm

The Blue Devil

Green Arrow


Top 5 runs of the 80's for me and 3 of my Top 10 overall.

[Jekyll]

The 80's were probably one of the best times to be a Ray Palmer fan. You had the fantastic Sword of The Atom mini series in 1983 which lead into The Power of The Atom series around 85 or 87.

[astro@work]

New Teen Titans
Legion of Super Heroes
Infinity, Inc.
All Star Squadron

[K7P5V]

I was a Marvel guy back in the day, but I did love:
-- The Vigilante
-- The Question
(and I later went back and read)
-- Legion of Super-Heroes

Me too. The majority of titles I bought were Marvel, but I do remember collecting a few DC:

- Super Powers (the first two from Kirby, the third from Infantino)
- Swan/Schaffenberger's M.A.S.K.
- Phil Foglio's Plastic Man

(titles I picked up later)

- New Teen Titans
- All-Star Squadron
- Cary Bates' Flash
- Morrison's Animal Man
- The Question
- Cosmic Odyssey

[bretmaverick2]

New Teen Titans. Infinity, Inc. All-Star Squadron. Suicide Squad.

These were my go to books in the 80s!

[married guy]

New Teen Titans
Green Arrow
The Flash

[MajorHoy]

New Teen Titans
Green Arrow
The Flash

You may wish to clarify which run(s) - pre-CoIE Barry or post-CoIE Wally? Maybe both?

[Shadowcat]

I’m in a pre-Crisis mood, so all of my choices will be from this time frame. I’m going to try to steer away from the obvious choices (NTT & LoSH), at least for my top 5. They’re good, and certainly some of my favorites, just want to diversify my list.

Wonder Woman by Conway, Thomas, Mishkin, and Newell
Green Lantern: by Wolfman, Wein, and Englehart
Omega Men: by Slifer and Giffen
All-Star Squadron by Thomas
DCCP: the Wein/Starlin, along with annual 3
LoSH: by Levitz and Giffen
Infinity Inc. by Thomas
Batman & ‘Tec by Conway and Moench and the third annual by Thomas and Kane
Flash: by Bates (the death of Iris being when I fell in love with the book. The post fallout years are some really underrated stuff)
NTT: Wolfman/Perez
Action Comics: by Wolfman
Supergirl: by Kupperberg

[Shadowcat]

I’m in a pre-Crisis mood right now, so my answers will be all Pre-Crisis, minus one series.

New Teen Titans
Legion of Superheroes
Wonder Woman (especially the Conway/Thomas runs)
Batman/Tec (from Conway through Moench)
All-Star Squadron
Bates’ Flash, from issues 270 up until the Trial. Slept on run, and one of the first long form soap operatic series in the pre-Crisis era.
Green Lantern by Wolfman through Wein
Action Comics by Wolfman/Kane
DC Comics Presents
Justice League of America
The Aquaman story running through Adventure Comics

But Perez’s Wonder Woman is my absolute favorite.

Lol 2 years later, and the lists are exactly the same.

[superduperman]

Watchmen

Batman Year One

V for Vendetta

Anything Earth 2

New Teen Titans

DKR

Longbow Hunter

Sandman

[Dr. Ellingham]

To many, the 80's was an era of unparalleled creativity at DC. From horror to science fiction to fantasy to westerns to regular superhero stories, you could find pretty much anything you wanted during that era. As such, I wanted to see what everyone loved from this period.

Well said.

For me there's Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, and then there's everything else.

But lots of great series, many of which have never been collected in trades - Nathaniel Dusk, Conway/Broderick Firestorm, the Conway/Perez Satellite JLA, the early/mid-80s Batman/Detective, Green Arrow, Green Lantern series, etc.

Post-Crisis, I was a fan of the Bates/Broderick Captain Atom series. And JLI was nice.

[shadow6743]

Alan Moore's Swamp Thing just borrowed it from the library and finished it in two days. After that it would be George Perez Wonder Woman run. I can think of a lot of 90s series I like but I really like these two books because I felt like they have aged well. I would have put New Teen Titans but I feel like the style of writing would be hard for some modern comic book fans to get into. It can be a bit wordy at times.