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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 8, 2017 11:12:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure why it was considered an anniversary issue but Love and Rocekts (2nd series) # 10 - # 60 overall, is one of my favorite physical comics. Just a big, fat, volume of good stuff. And the Bros. talk about THEIR favorite comics for pages and pages at the end.. nice to know that Little Lulu is a huge influence on one of the most important Indy comics of all time.
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Post by berkley on Aug 9, 2017 0:20:28 GMT -5
I'm not sure why it was considered an anniversary issue but Love and Rocekts (2nd series) # 10 - # 60 overall, is one of my favorite physical comics. Just a big, fat, volume of good stuff. And the Bros. talk about THEIR favorite comics for pages and pages at the end.. nice to know that Little Lulu is a huge influence on one of the most important Indy comics of all time. You don't mean this Love and Rockets #10, do you? I get mixed up with all these different L&R series after the first one. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 9, 2017 1:05:46 GMT -5
I can't choose between 'em so it's a three-way tie between JLA #200, Batman #400 (which is where my collection of that title ends), and Detective #500, with an honorable mention for Brave & Bold #200. Cei-U! None of the Marvel anniversary issues can hold a candle to this mighty triumverate, if'n you axe me! They all look good, I must say, even to someone who, like myself, isn't really that into the DC characters. Just a real good idea to get so many top-notch artists together for those issues, I wonder why Marvel never tried anything similar. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 9, 2017 4:05:07 GMT -5
Oh, geez. Can't believe I forgot to mention one of my personal favorites (and one of the first of these I had): Showcase #100. A wonderfully fun story written by two Pauls, Kupperberg and Levitz, with art by Staton and Giordano, that, among other things, has at least a cameo appearance by pretty much every character that ever featured in Showcase. It's kind of like Crisis on Infinite Earths, except told in a single issue without anybody dying and a happy end.
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 9, 2017 7:35:24 GMT -5
This one was pretty sweet.   |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 9, 2017 7:40:41 GMT -5
What kind of crappy wedding makes its guests stand through the ceremony? What, they don't have folding chairs in the 30th Century?
Cei-U!
I summon the sore feet!
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 9, 2017 7:50:58 GMT -5
Even as a reader who dislikes Superman, I'm still tempted to get that one for the artwork. Personally, I thought the writing was very good, but the art was, of course, uneven, being done by some many hands. Some of it I loved, some of it I really disliked. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 9, 2017 7:52:36 GMT -5
This one was pretty sweet. I was thinking of mentioning this one, too. Great issue, but when it comes to anniversary issue, I lean towards the double sized issue, especially the ones with a cover that seems "special" I love this issue, but the cover just seems like another Superboy and the Legion cover. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 9, 2017 7:54:21 GMT -5
Detective Comics #627 was a ridiculous anniversary to celebrate, but they really did it in style, collecting every telling and retelling of Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics #27, and having both Batman creative teams at the time add one of their own. And, yup, I reviewed that one too  The funny thing is, Detective #626 is the one that they should have celebrated. Assuming that Batman has been in every issue since #27, then #626 would have been his 600th appearance. |
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Post by MDG on Aug 9, 2017 8:59:10 GMT -5
Oh, geez. Can't believe I forgot to mention one of my personal favorites (and one of the first of these I had): Showcase #100. I used to own the cover for that--I think my friend still has the splash. Here's my sentimental favorite:   This was also mentioned:  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 9, 2017 15:04:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure why it was considered an anniversary issue but Love and Rocekts (2nd series) # 10 - # 60 overall, is one of my favorite physical comics. Just a big, fat, volume of good stuff. And the Bros. talk about THEIR favorite comics for pages and pages at the end.. nice to know that Little Lulu is a huge influence on one of the most important Indy comics of all time. You don't mean this Love and Rockets #10, do you? I get mixed up with all these different L&R series after the first one. Yes. And they're on like, the FOURTH freaking series now? It really is not easy to keep track. And even the reprints have been reformatted in a least three different ways - So every story from the first couple series was reprinted in 3 volumes that look completely different. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 15:17:49 GMT -5
there are two *covers* that immediately came to mind as favorites for me: (cover only, not necessarily the story inside tho love that Flash story)   |
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 9, 2017 16:24:39 GMT -5
What kind of crappy wedding makes its guests stand through the ceremony? What, they don't have folding chairs in the 30th Century? Cei-U! I summon the sore feet! Happens more often than you think.  |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Aug 9, 2017 17:46:13 GMT -5
Dress designed by Will Smith?  That guy does it all |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 9, 2017 21:48:09 GMT -5
Most of these selections have been huge gala events. For some issues that celebrated quietly but with something special, I submit the following: 1. Action Comics 241. June, 1958. 20th Anniversary of Superman's Action 1 debut. First Appearance of Arctic Fortress and start of the Silver Age for Superman.  2. World's Finest 94. May/June, 1958. Also coinciding with Superman's 20th Anniversary is the origin of The Superman-Batman team. Not only the tale of how the two met, but how a human being such as Batman could prove to be of vital importance to the most powerful man on Earth.  3. Action Comics 300. May, 1963. Superman Under a Red Sun. Just a great story about a powerless Superman stuck in a time period after the human race has died out. A robotic Perry White is his only companion as Superman makes a lonely trek towards his Fortress in a last ditch effort to save himself.  4. Detective Comics 267. May, 1959. The first appearance of Bat-Mite. I'm not even sure if DC knew this issue marked the 20th anniversary of Batman's debut in Detective Comics, but as it's the closest Batman and Robin ever came to having a child, I think it makes a nice anniversary present.  5. Detective Comics 327. May, 1964. Although Shaxper is right in pointing out that these -27 issues don't actually mark centennial cornerstones for Batman's various anniversaries (in this case, Tec 326 would delineate Batman's 300th appearance in Tec) it does land right on the 25th anniversary of Batman's May, 1939 debut in Detective Comics 27 so it is, in fact, an Anniversary Issue in the truest sense of the word. Still no major fanfare (the cover doesn't even depict this issue's big reveal), but this is the first appearance of Batman's New Look. It's also the start of Carmine Infantino's tenure on the title and therefore the first time someone drew Batman off-model in his own title. Up until then, every artist had to look at least somewhat Bob Kane-ish. Not so here.  |
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That guy does it all