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

[green blogger]

I'll still go with Green Lantern...

[Torpedo]

In no particular order: Justice League, Booster Gold, Suicide Squad,...

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[Torpedo]

...and the Alan Grant / Norm Breyfogle run on Detective Comics, Doom Patrol, and the Sandman.

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[Billy Batson]

Which one?

The second volume.

[Midnighter]

JLI and Teen Titans.

[Nomads1]

Also a big fan of Bates and Weisman's Captain Atom. I greatly miss that character since the relaunch, particularly after the strong showing he had in Generation Lost.

Me too.

Peace

[Blackblood]

As a kid in a country were DC in the 80s had limited representation ( we had the entire Marvel stuff translated with thousands of devoted fanboys ) I will say only two titles.

DC Comics Presents with the perfect body work from Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Camelot 3000. Brian Bolland was a famous artist here from the 2000 AD magazine and still have many fans.

I have somewhere my Camelot 3000 issues with the larger size... We love very much here that saga.

[Dr. Poison]

All-Star Squadron gets my vote.

[LoneNecromancer]

I was going to mention these but I didn't because I consider them more as 90's books.

Yeah. But I'd also consider Helblazer that, it only started in like 1988...

So Moore's Swamp Thing for me.

[Billy Batson]

Yeah. But I'd also consider Helblazer that, it only started in like 1988...

It still had more issues during that period than some series these days.

[dancj]

Hellblazer's a fine call if you're talking about Delano's run. For me though it didn't really get good till Ennis started.

My votes:
Swamp Thing
Animal Man*
Doom Patrol*
Sandman
The Question
JL/JLI/JLA/JLE
Haywire*

Minis:
The Dark Knight Returns
Ronin
Watchmen
V for Vendetta*
Son of Ambush Bug
Doctor Fate (largely for Giffen's glorious artwork)



*Not sure how much of these are 80s or 90s

[Ebon]

New Teen Titans

[Billy Batson]

Animal Man*

18 issues.

Doom Patrol*

15.

Haywire*

All of it.

V for Vendetta*

All of it.
And JLA/JLE ran for some time in the 90's.

[basbash99]

Swamp Thing, for sure!

I was mostly a Marvel zombie in the 80s and didn't really look much at DC until 1985 or so. Even then, mostly I stuck to limited series or limited runs (Batman: Year 1 and Year 2, for instance). My perception (off though it may have been) was that Marvel was better for run-of-the-mill superheroics, while DC had some edgier/more mature stuff.

It helped when some creators whose work I had already enjoyed elsewhere did some DC stuff (Frank Miller, John Byrne, Matt Wagner, Jim Starlin).

Overall the 80s were a great decade for comics.

[Sansomon]

Batman Year One
Batman: The Dark Knight
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Camelot 3000
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
Ronin